RUTGERS UNIVERSITY SENATE
MEETING AGENDAS
Friday, April 29, 2016, 10:30 a.m.
and 1:10 p.m.
Busch
Student Center, Multipurpose Room
Busch Campus, Piscataway
FIRST MEETING OF THE 2016-2017 UNIVERSITY SENATE:
ANNUAL MEETING AGENDA FOR THE ELECTION OF 2016-17 OFFICERS, EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEE MEMBERS, AND BOARD REPRESENTATIVES:
CALL TO ORDER, DETERMINATION OF A QUORUM - Ann Gould, Senate
Chairperson
REPORT OF THE SECRETARY:
REPORT OF THE NOMINATING PANEL - Robert Puhak and Jon Oliver,
Nominating Panel
Co-chairs
Charge
to the Nominating Panel
Slate of
Nominees Follow this link to read the candidates' campaign
statements in alphabetical
order by candidates' names. or statements
by position on the ballot.
STATEMENTS OF THE NOMINEES
VOTING AND COLLECTION OF BALLOTS - There will be runoff elections for
Chair, Vice Chair, and any contested Campus Faculty Member of the
Executive Committee categories (to populate the At-Large Faculty Member
of the Executive Committee category)
ADJOURNMENT OF THE ANNUAL MEETING
[Election results, if available, will be announced during the Regular
Senate meeting, which follows this meeting's adjournment. Results will
also be posted on the Senate website by Monday, May 2.]
LAST MEETING OF THE 2015-2016 UNIVERSITY SENATE
[Begins at 1:10 p.m., following caucuses]:
PLEASE PRINT
OUT AND BRING WITH YOU ANY DOCUMENTS TO WHICH YOU MAY WANT TO REFER
DURING THE MEETING. ONLY THE AGENDA (AND THE BALLOTS FOR THE
ELECTION) AND VOTING CARDS WILL BE DISTRIBUTED IN HARDCOPY AT
THE MEETING.
REGULAR MEETING AGENDA OF THE 2015-16
UNIVERSITY SENATE:
CALL TO ORDER, DETERMINATION OF A QUORUM, AND CHAIRPERSON’S
REPORT - Ann Gould, Chairperson
REPORT OF THE SECRETARY:
COMMITTEE REPORTS:
Each report will be presented/summarized by the committee chairs, then
will be discussed and acted upon by the Senate. PLEASE REVIEW THESE
REPORTS BEFORE COMING TO THE MEETING.
[Old Business] Instruction,
Curricula and Advising Committee (ICAC) Revised
Response
to Charge S-1504 on Determination of Student Participation -
Natalie Borisovets, ICAC Chair
[Previous Response
to Charge S-1504 on Determination of Student Attendance]
This
report was postponed from two previous Senate meetings. Because the original version is what was
postponed, that is linked above because that is what is before the
Senate at this time. The revised version linked prominently above is
what will be substituted for Senate action by the ICAC at this meeting.
The
ICAC was charged as follows:
Develop
guidelines that would allow units
and individual instructors to comply with U.S. Department of Education
requirements that Rutgers keep records for students receiving federal
financial aid that substantiate students' participatory attendance in
the classes for which they are registered.
Faculty
and Personnel Affairs Committee (FPAC) Response to Charge S-1409 on
Greater Integration of Contingent Faculty in the Rutgers Community
and Appendix
A- Ann Gould, FPAC Co-chair, and Karen Thompson, PTL Member of the
FPAC
The FPAC was charged as follows: Given
the ever increasing use of contingent faculty (NTT and PTL) at Rutgers
and nationally, consider ways to integrate these faculty fully into the
University community. Identify other institutions that have been
successful in providing such rights and privileges to their contingent
faculty, and propose measures to emulate them. In particular, consider
ways to afford contingent faculty the security necessary to be more
active participants in shared governance, as well as more visible
members of the community.
Faculty
and Personnel Affairs Committee (FPAC) Response to Charge A-1603 on
Evaluation of Administrators, Part II: Evaluation of Chancellors -
Ann Gould and Joseph Markert, FPAC Co-chairs
The FPAC was charged as follows: Given the joint
Rutgers-UMDNJ integration and changes in administrative structure,
reconsider
the process recommended by the University Senate in 2012 for evaluation
of
upper administrators, now with a focus on evaluating chancellors.
ADMINISTRATIVE
REPORT - Barbara Lee, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs
NEW BUSINESS
[Note: Article IV.A. of the Senate
Bylaws
states,
"All new matters shall be
referred to committee before coming to the Senate (unless extenuating
circumstances apply, as indicated under section
C.4..." Also, the Senate
Executive Committee has authorized committee-of-the-whole discussions
under New Business as appropriate, and time permitting.]
SENATE EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEE
REPORT - Peter Gillett, Senate Vice Chair
REPORTS OF THE
REPRESENTATIVES TO BOARDS OF GOVERNORS AND TRUSTEES
REPORTS OF CAMPUS FACULTY AND STUDENT LIAISONS
ADJOURNMENT
[Note: Article IV.A. of the Senate Bylaws
states,
"All new matters shall be
referred to committee before coming to the Senate (unless extenuating
circumstances apply, as indicated under section
C.4..."]
*Note: Addition of items to
the Agenda requires a two-thirds vote. There is an overall
time limit of 2-1/2 hours for Senate meetings. Specific
time limits are set for questions and debate, not for presentation of
reports. After approval, extension of time limits requires
a two-thirds vote.