CALL TO ORDER, DETERMINATION OF A QUORUM, AND CHAIRPERSON’S REPORT
  -  Paul Panayotatos, Chairperson

REPORT OF THE SECRETARY

• Approval of Agenda* (including time limits)
• Approval of Minutes of February 21, 2003
• Communications:
• Call for Nominations for 2003-04 University Senate Officers
• NJ State Legislators’ responses to the Senate’s February 2003 Report and Resolution on Proposed Reduction in State Funding.  (Text of cover letter sent to Governor McGreevey and all NJ State Legislators transmitting the Report and Resolution)
• Memorandum from Gary A. Gigliotti, Director, Teaching Excellence Center, and Monica A. Devanas, Director, Faculty Development and Assessment Programs, to Senate Executive Committee, dated March 7, 2003, regarding Update on Student Instructional Rating Survey items:  1) Instruction, Curricula and Advising Committee, Response to Charge S-0008, to "Review and report on the feasibility/desirability of posting student instructional rating data online" and 2) Faculty Affairs and Personnel Committee, Charge S-0109, “Best Practices in Assessment of Teaching.”

COMMITTEE REPORTS

• Equal Opportunity Committee, Thomas DeRosa and Pheroze Wadia, Co-chairs

Report on Charge S-0305, Status of Affirmative Action
 
Original Charge:  Consider and report on the status of Affirmative Action at Rutgers and in the United States.

• Student Affairs Committee, Tahirah Cooper and Matthew Ramsay, Co-chairs

Report on Charge S-0212, Use of Athletic Facilities for Non-Athletic Events
 
Original Charge:  Review and provide recommendations on policies regarding the use of athletic facilities as rain sites or venues for non-athletic events (such as use of the Louis Brown Athletic Center (the RAC) as a rain site for RutgersFest and other similar University-wide events).  What athletic facilities are usually made available for non-athletic events?  How do these facilities tend to meet (or fail to meet) the needs of these events?  How do peer institutions with similar facilities share their resources?  Provide advice as to how these facilities can be best utilized by the University community at large.  This charge should be coordinated with Dean Pamela Johnston of the Office of Student Involvement and Ghada Endick, Director of Rutgers College Programs in the Office of Student leadership, Involvement and Programs, who have collected information on the use of athletic facilities at peer institutions.
 
• Executive Committee, Paul Panayotatos, Chair, and Samuel Rabinowitz, Co-chair

Resolution in Appreciation of Student Participation in March 6, 2003 Trenton Rally Protesting Proposed State Budget Cuts

NEW BUSINESS

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE  -  Samuel Rabinowitz, Vice Chairperson

• February 7, 2003 minutes
• Report on meeting of March 7, 2003
• Questions and Answers:  5 minutes

CAMPUS FACULTY LIAISONS

ADJOURNMENT