RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY
UNIVERSITY SENATE

PRESIDING OFFICER:Samuel Rabinowitz, Chairperson

CALL TO ORDER AND DETERMINATION OF A QUORUM: Chairperson Rabinowitz called the first meeting of the 2009-2010 Rutgers University Senate to order at 10:40 a.m. in the Multipurpose Room, Rutgers Student Center, 126 College Avenue, College Avenue Campus, New Brunswick. He introduced himself, and welcomed new and returning Senators to the first meeting of the 2009-2010 Senate.

REPORT OF THE SECRETARY - Ken Swalagin, Executive Secretary of the University Senate

• Agenda: Secretary Swalagin corrected the agenda, noting that Candice Greaux, not Victor Greenhut, chairs this year's Nominating Panel. The agenda was then approved as amended.
• Committee Preferences:  Secretary Swalagin directed the Senate to online resources to guide Senators' choices of standing-committee membership preferences, including the committees' standing charges, pending charges, and a committee-preference form, and reminded everyone to send him their preferences.
• Schedule of 2009-2010 Senate and Executive Committee Meetings: Swalagin asked the Senate to add to their calendars the dates of next year's Senate meetings.

PRIVILEGE OF THE FLOOR: Privilege of the floor was granted to Nominating Panel Chairperson Candice Greaux, a member of the 2008-09 Senate.
 
REPORT OF THE NOMINATING PANEL: Nominating Panel Chairperson Candice Greaux presented the report of the Nominating Panel.
 
Ms. Greaux (who was a member of the 2008-2009 Senate, but not of the 2009-2010 Senate) gave a brief overview of the nominating and election process, as well as the runoff procedure for at-large faculty Executive Committee member elections. She said that candidates for positions which are uncontested are not required to make statements in support of their candidacies, but may do so if they wish.
 
Ms. Greaux then announced candidates for Senate chairperson, vice chairperson, Executive Committee members, and board representatives, calling for nominations from the floor in each category.
 
The nominations completed, the resultant slate of candidates was:
 
Chairperson (who serves ex officio as Representative to the Board of Governors): Samuel Rabinowitz, School of Business-Camden (Faculty)
Vice Chairperson: Paul Leath, SAS-NB (Faculty)
Faculty Members of the Executive Committee, Camden: Sherry Burrell, CCAS (F); Harriet Katz, Law-Camden (F)
Faculty Members of the Executive Committee, Newark: Natalie Borisovets, Libraries, Newark (F)
Faculty Members of the Executive Committee, New Brunswick: Leslie Fishbein, SAS-NB (F); Peter Gillett, RBS:N/NB (F); Ann Gould, SEBS (F); Victor Greenhut, GS-NB (F); Paul Panayotatos, Engineering (F)
Faculty Members of the Executive Committee, At-Large: [A runoff election was conducted for all full-time faculty members of the Executive Committee based on the above slate so that those nominees who did not prevail in the contested New Brunswick Faculty EC category could be placed in the at-large category.]
Part-Time Lecturer/Annual Appointee Faculty Member of the Executive Committee: Karen Thompson, PTL-NB
Camden Student Member of the Executive Committee: Paul Barnett, CCAS (S)
Newark Student Member of the Executive Committee: Kevin Wild, UC-Newark (S)
New Brunswick Student Member of the Executive Committee: Nat Schaffner, Engineering (S); Christina Schramke, SAS-NB (S); John Stein, SAS-NB (S)
Alumnus Member of the Executive Committee: Raymond Bodnar, Alumni Association
Staff Senator Member of the Executive Committee: Justine Herenandez Levine, Staff-NB; Tricia Nolfi, Staff-NB
Faculty Representative to the Board of Governors: Martha Cotter, Graduate School-NB (F)
Student Representative to the Board of Governors: Eric Kaplan, SAS-NB (S)
Faculty Representative to the Board of Trustees: Menahem Spiegel, RBS-N/NB (F); Mark Vodak, Cook/SEBS (F)
Undergraduate Student Representative to the Board of Trustees: Jonathan Nycz, SAS-NB (S); Josh Slavin, SAS-NB (S)
Graduate Student Representative to the Board of Trustees: Shashi Dholandas, School of Law-Camden (S); Daniel J. McArdle, GS-Camden (S)
 
Candidates who wished to do so were given time to make statements.
 
RUNOFF ELECTION FOR FACULTY MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: A runoff election was conducted for all full-time faculty members of the Executive Committee based on the above slate so that those nominees who did not prevail in the contested New Brunswick Faculty EC category could be placed in the at-large category. The ballots were collected and tabulated, and the results announced.
 
VOTING AND COLLECTION OF BALLOTS:  Voting for all positions other than chairperson was done on paper ballots prepared by the Secretary and distributed at sign-in only to voting members of the 2009-10 Senate.  Linda Mickelsen of the Senate Office collected and tabulated.
 
[Secretary’s Note: Election results were announced during the subsequent Senate regular meeting, and posted on the Senate website that evening, as follows:]
 
Chairperson:
            Samuel Rabinowitz, School of Business-Camden, Faculty
 
Vice Chairperson:
            Paul Leath, SAS-NB, Faculty
 
Balance of Executive Committee:
  Representatives to Board of Governors:
 
Representatives to Board of Trustees:
            Menahem Spiegel, RBS-N/NB, Faculty
            Mark Vodak, SEBS, Faculty
            Josh Slavin, SAS-NB, Undergraduate Student
            Shashi Dholandas, School of Law-Camden, Graduate Student
 
ADJOURNMENT: At 11:21 a.m., Chairperson Rabinowitz adjourned the Organizational Meeting.
 
   
Kenneth Swalagin
Executive Secretary of the University Senate