RUTGERS, THE STATE
UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY
UNIVERSITY SENATE
MINUTES: Regular
Meeting of the University Senate
DATE: February
24, 2006
TIME AND PLACE: 11:10
a.m., Labor Education
Center Auditorium,
Cook
Campus, New
Brunswick
MEMBERS PRESENT: Adarkwa,
Alger, Allender, Ambar, Atmeh, Axelrod, Barone, Bell, Bernstein,
Blimling,
Bodnar, Boikess, Borisovets, Boylan, Bravo, Breton, Cannon, Caprio,
Capuano,
Carr, Chabal, Cohen, Coit, Cole, Colin, Cooke, Cotter, Curtis, Darien,
DeLisi,
Deluca, E. Dennis, Dhillon, Dutta, Edwards, C. Ellis, N. Ellis,
Farrell, Finc,
Fincher, Fishbein, Forero, Furmanski, Gaunt, Gigliotti, Gillett,
Goodman,
Gould, Greenhut, Guo, Hall, Hallmark, Heckscher, Herrera, Hmelo-Silver,
Hughes,
Jackson, Jones, Kagan, Kalelkar, Kanj, Kavanagh, Kennedy, Kind, Klepac,
Kokini,
Krenos, Laguna-Diaz, LaSala, Lashley, Leath, Lee, Liepmann, MacArthur,
Mandelbaum, Marchetta, Markowitz, Marsh, Martin, Mauroff, McCormick,
McKay,
McKeever, Melwani, Messer, Miller, Mulcahy, Muller, Ng, Norville,
Obayashi, O’Connell,
O’Connor, Palmon, Panayotatos, Popper, Potenza, Puniello, Samuel
Rabinowitz,
Sidney Rabinowitz, Rankin, Reed, Rennie, Rubin, Schaich, Schorr, Scott,
R.
Simmons, Smith, Spero, Spiegel, St. John, Stroud, Tittler, Turpin, Van
Til,
Vera, Vodak, Volk, Whang, Whitfield, Williams, Winterbauer, Wyhopen,
Young
EXCUSED: Apfel, Banerjee,
Bellany, Colaizzi, Diner, Downs,
Elkholy, Feinberg, Friedrich, Johnson, Kirby,
Kirschner, Klein, Koza, Markert, McCabe, Meyer, Ocone, Oren, Ozbay,
Rabiner,
Schein, Schock, P. Simmons, Simon, Sukhdeo, Zaborszky
ABSENT: Aladdin,
Barbarese,
Bartosek, Boehmer, Brazier, Butler,
R. Dennis, Dent, Deutsch, Gimbar, Gyenfie, Hankins, Hart, Hyndman,
John, Labib,
Lipman, Livingston, Maher, Mohammed, Nelson, Niederman, Pittman,
Poyznyer,
Sherman, C. Simmons, Snyder, Solomon, Spat, Stauffer, Tuckman, Turner,
Wang
ATTENDANCE
Faculty: Of 88 total:
62 present (71%), 16 excused (18%), 10 absent (11%)
SUMMARY
Students: Of 54 total:
34 present (63%), 3 excused (6%), 17 absent (31%)
Administrators: Of 37 total:
23 present (62%), 8 excused (22%), 6 absent (16%)
Alumni: Of 6 total:
6 present (100%), 0 excused, 0 absent
View Senate
attendance record for this year
PRESIDING
OFFICERS:
Martha Cotter,
Chairperson; Samuel Rabinowitz, Vice Chairperson
CALL TO ORDER,
DETERMINATION OF A QUORUM, AND CHAIRPERSON'S REPORT: Tally
of Senators signed in having confirmed
presence of a quorum, Chairperson Cotter called the meeting to order at
11:25 a.m. She explained that the primary
item of
business on the day’s agenda would be the Senate’s response to the
recommendations contained in the Report of the Task Force on
Undergraduate
Education.
REPORT OF THE
SECRETARY: Agenda: The agenda was
approved as distributed by the Secretary.
Minutes: On motion and
duly seconded, the Minutes
of
the January 20, 2006 Senate meeting were approved.
SENATE FINAL RESPONSE
AND RECOMMENDATIONS RELATIVE TO THE REPORT OF THE TASK FORCE ON
UNDERGRADUATE
EDUCATION
With Vice Chairperson Rabinowitz acting as chair, Martha
Cotter, as chair of the steering committee which organized the report
on the
floor, moved the report. She explained
that the steering committee had consisted of the members of the Senate
Executive Committee, as well as most of the Senate’s standing-committee
chairs.
Cotter emphasized the need for the Senate to complete by the end of the
meeting
the finalization of its advice to President McCormick on the Task Force
on
Undergraduate Education (TFUE) recommendations. Asking the Senate to
remember
that these are not new issues, she specified the time limits as they
would
apply to the individual sections of the Senate’s report, as well as
those
applicable to individual speakers. She asked that the Senate entrust
revision
of the prose supporting the individual Senate recommendations (assuming
that
amendments to those recommendations would be adopted during the
meeting) to
reflect amendments to Secretary Swalagin and herself. She thanked all
those who
participated in the process of reviewing and advising on the TFUE.
Chairperson
Cotter then gave the chair to Vice Chair Rabinowitz, and began the
Senate’s
final action on its response to the TFUE.
Discussion of the Senate’s response to the TFUE continued
until 3:15 p.m. During that time, numerous amendments were adopted,
time limits
for action on individual sections of the report were extended in many
instances, and the Senate recessed briefly for lunch.
[NOTE from the Executive Secretary of
the University Senate:
I apologize for the following, drastic abbreviation of the Senate
minutes. The
series of motions which were ably and appropriately made by the
Senators was
impressive in its volume, and I have not included the detail in these
minutes.
Instead I ask your permission to present only the final result of the
discussion, and to preserve the detail in my notes only. If the Senate
does not
accept the minutes in this form, I will write the full record of
motions, to
the best of my ability, for publication. Thank you.]
Senate discussion and action resulted in the final
recommendations contained in the document attached to the master copy
of these
minutes, and which has been posted online at http://senate.rutgers.edu/senatetfueresponseadoptedfinal.pdf.
ADMINISTRATIVE
REPORT: President McCormick thanked
the
Senate for its work on this important issue. He said that he would
bring forth
his recommendations soon, and that they would be public, noting that,
although
he could not promise that all of the Senate’s recommendations would be
accepted, none of his recommendations would be surprising, as they will
come
from within the Rutgers community dialogs. He added that the
participatory and
consultative nature of the process would continue.
ADJOURNMENT: Secretary
Swalagin told the Senate that he
would post online later that day the Senate’s final recommendations to
the
TFUE, minus the supporting prose, which will take additional time to
revise. The
meeting then adjourned at 3:24 p.m.
Kenneth Swalagin
Secretary of the University Senate