RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY
UNIVERSITY SENATE
 
 
MINUTES                                Organizational Meeting of the University Senate
 
DATE                                        May 2, 2008
 
TIME AND PLACE                10:30 a.m., Multipurpose Room, Rutgers Student Center, 126 College Avenue, College Avenue Campus, New Brunswick
 
MEMBERS PRESENT:  Agarwal, Allender, Anand, Appiah-Kumi, Barone, Beachem, Bhuyan, Blimling, Boikess, Borisovets, Boylan, Brush, Bumby, Busia, Caprio, Chann, Ciklamini, Cohick, Cooke, Cotter, Cowen, Diamond, Dutta, Ellis, Figueira, Fishbein, Friedrich, Galili, Gao, Gill, Gillett, Gomes, Gonzalez-Palmer, Roe Goodman, Gould, Greaux, Greenhut, Guo, Gursoy, Hanebrink, Hey, Hicks, Husein, Hyndman, Kalelkar, Kanj, Kaplan, Kemeny, Kind, Kowler, Leath, Lee, Levine, Levinson, Li, Loh, Lynch, Mariscal, Markert, Markowitz, McArdle, McCormick, McKeever, Molloy, Muse, Nolfi, Norville, Nycz, Oliver, Picarelli, Pignatiello, Pinchuk, Pottick, Prekopa, Rabinowitz, Rhee, Rockland, Rodgers, Roth, Rudrapatrua, Sass, Schantz, Schnetzer, Sharp, Sheflin, P. Simmons, Simon, Spiegel, G. Stein, J. Stein, Stevens, Stone, F.. Thompson, K. Thompson, Tittler, Tomassone, Traxler, Vodak, Walters, West, Wozunk, Wyhopen, Yakal-Kremski, Yares, Yip, Zullo
 
EXCUSED:  Alger, Ashraf, Blumenthal, Bodnar, Brooks, Buckley, Carr, Covey, DeLisi, Finegold, Friedrich, Gale, Gimenez, Robert Goodman, Graycar, Heckscher, Hussein, Janes, Leonard, LoSasso, Meyer, Miller, Minsky, Palis, Panayotatos, Perrone, Rudman, Schramke, R. Simmons, Szatrowski, Toney-Boss, Vitello, Wang, White, Yeagle
 
ABSENT:  Abercrombie, Adam, Barrett, Brown, Bubb, Cizewski, Cooper, Creese, Cruzan, Deutsch, Diner, Edwards, Foley, Gaunt, Gliserman, Goldman, Grant, Habib, M. Hall, S. Hall, Holcomb, Holzer, Hughes, Katz, Kerkhof, Kern, Klein, Kociol, Koza, Lashley, Lehne, Lintakoon, Lomiguen, Marsh, Messer, Mistry, Niederman, Pedersen, Rankin, Rocafort, Solomon, Stauffer, Weinstock-Gallagher, Williams, Winterbauer
 
ATTENDANCE      Faculty:  Of 93 total:  57 present (62%), 18 excused (19%), 18 absent (19%)
SUMMARY            Students:  Of 47 total:  31 present (66%), 6 excused (13%), 10 absent (21%)
                                 Administrators:  Of 30 total:  6 present (20%), 8 excused (27%), 16 absent (53%)
                                 Alumni:  Of 6 total:  4 present (67%), 2 excused (33%), 0 absent
                                     Staff:  Of 10 total:  8 present (80%), 1 excused (10%), 1 absent (10%)
   
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PRESIDING OFFICER:   Samuel Rabinowitz, Chairperson

CALL TO ORDER AND DETERMINATION OF A QUORUM: Chairperson Rabinowitz called the first meeting of the 2008-2009 Rutgers University Senate to order at 10:49 a.m. in the Multipurpose Room, Rutgers Student Center, 126 College Avenue, College Avenue Campus, New Brunswick. He introduced himself, Parliamentarian Ryan Cooke, and Senate Secretary Ken Swalagin.

REPORT OF THE SECRETARY - Ken Swalagin, Executive Secretary of the University Senate
PRIVILEGE OF THE FLOOR: Privilege of the floor was granted to Nominating Panel Chairperson Victor Greenhut, a member of the 2007-08 and 2008-09 Senates.
 
REPORT OF THE NOMINATING PANEL: Nominating Panel Chairperson Victor Greenhut thanked the Nominating Panel members, then presented the report of the Nominating Panel.
 
Senator Greenhut gave a brief overview of the nominating and election process. He said that candidates for positions which are uncontested are not be required to make statements in support of their candidacies, but may do so if they wish.
 
Senator Greenhut then announced candidates for Senate chairperson, vice chairperson, Executive Committee members, and board representatives, calling for nominations from the floor in each category. PTL Senator Richard Gomes withdrew his candidacy for Executive Committee part-time lecturer/annual appointee faculty member. Student Senators Yonaton Yares and John Stein withdrew or declined their nominations for Executive Committee New Brunswick student member. Faculty Senator Victor Greenhut pointed out that his name, which had been omitted in error, should also appear in the Board of Trustees Faculty Representative category. In addition to the persons nominated by the Nominating Panel, Student Senator Michel Pignatiello was nominated from the floor for Executive Committee Newark student member, and Student Senator Benjamin Hicks was nominated from the floor for Board of Trustees Graduate Student Representative.
 
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: Daniel Bubb, At-Large, Camden (F)
 Faculty Members of the Executive Committee, Newark: Natalie Borisovets, Libraries, Newark (F)
Faculty Members of the Executive Committee, New Brunswick: Ann Gould, SEBS (F); Victor Greenhut, GS-NB (F); Paul Panayotatos, Engineering (F); Jan Dutta, SAS-NB (F)
Faculty Members of the Executive Committee, At-Large: [A runoff election 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: Maxim Kind, GS-Camden (S)
Newark Student Member of the Executive Committee: Michel Pignatiello, School of Law-Newark (S)
New Brunswick Student Member of the Executive Committee: Candice Greaux, SAS-NB (S)
Alumnus Member of the Executive Committee: Raymond Bodnar, Alumni Federation
Staff Senator Member of the Executive Committee: Tricia Nolfi, Staff-NB; Gayle Stein, Staff-NB
Faculty Representative to the Board of Governors: Martha Cotter, Graduate School-NB (F)
Student Representative to the Board of Governors: Ryan Cooke, SAS-NB (S)
Faculty Representative to the Board of Trustees: Victor Greenhut, GS-NB (F); Menahem Spiegel, RBS-N/NB (F); Mark Vodak, Cook/SEBS (F)
Undergraduate Student Representative to the Board of Trustees: Kyle Yakal-Kremski, Engineering (S); Daniel McArdle, CCAS (S); Eric Kaplan, SAS-NB (S)
Graduate Student Representative to the Board of Trustees: Alex Kemeny, School of Law-Camden (S); Benjamin Hicks, GS-NB (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 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 2008-09 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, At-Large NB, Faculty
 
Balance of Executive Committee:
Raymond Bodnar, Alumni Federation, Alumnus
Natalie Borisovets, Libraries, Faculty (Newark)
Daniel Bubb, At-Large, Camden, Faculty
Ann Gould, SEBS, Faculty
Candice Greaux, SAS-NB, Student
Victor Greenhut, SAS-NB, Faculty
Maxim Kind, GS-Camden, Student
Tricia Nolfi, New Brunswick Staff
Paul Panayotatos, Engineering, Faculty
Michael Pignatiello, School of Law-Newark, Student
Karen Thompson, Part-time Lecturer, New Brunswick, Faculty
 
Representatives to Board of Governors:
Ryan Cooke, SAS-NB, Student
Martha Cotter, GS-NB, Faculty
Samuel Rabinowitz, School of Business-Camden, Faculty, ex officio
 
Representatives to Board of Trustees:
            Menahem Spiegel, RBS-N/NB, Faculty
            Mark Vodak, SEBS, Faculty
            Eric Kaplan, SAS-NB, Undergraduate Student
            Alex Kemeny, School of Law-Camden, Graduate Student
 
 
ADJOURNMENT: At 11:42 a.m., Chairperson Rabinowitz adjourned the Organizational Meeting.
 
   
Kenneth Swalagin
Executive Secretary of the University Senate