RUTGERS, THE STATE
UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY
UNIVERSITY SENATE MINUTES
Regular
Meeting of the University Senate
DATE: September
15, 2006
TIME AND PLACE: 1:10 p.m., Multipurpose
Room, Rutgers Student
Center,126
College Avenue,College
Avenue Campus
MEMBERS PRESENT: Adelman,
Alger, Allender, Ambar, Atmeh, Balwani,
Barone, Bhuyan, Blimling, Bodnar, Boikess, Borisovets, Bosch, Bosotov,
Boylan,
Bravo, Bubb, Bynes, Caprio, Carey, Cohick, Coit, Colaizzi, Cole, Cooke,
Copeland, Coppolo, Cotter, Cowen, Curtis, DeLisi, DeLuca, E. Dennis, R.
Dennis,
Deutsch, Dienst, Dutta, Edwards, Finegold, Fowler, Friedrich,
Furmanski,
Galili, Gaunt, Gigliotti, Gillett, Gonzalez-Palmer, Goodman, Gould,
Grant,
Greenhut, Hall, Harris, Heckscher, Hughes, Hyman, Hyndman, Jackson,
Johnson,
Jozefczyk, Kalelkar, Kern, Kirschner, Koza, Krenos, Languna-Diaz,
Larmony,
Leath, Lehne, Lipman, Marchetta, Markert, Markowitz, Marsh, Mauroff,
McCabe,
McCormick, McCoy-Carter, McKeever, J. Meyer, W. Meyer, Miller, Mulcahy,
Nayyar,
Ng, Niederman, Nolfi, Norville, Obayashi, Ozbay, Palmon, Patel,
Pittman,
Puniello, Quinn, Samuel Rabinowitz, Sidney Rabinowitz, Rankin, Rivera,
Robinson, Rockland, Sanders, Schaich, Schantz, Schorr, Scott, Shah, R.
Simmons,
Solomon, Sonariwo, Soyosa, Spiegel, Spotacco, St. John, Staples,
Stauffer,
Stein, Taulane, Tevis, Thompson, Tittler, Toney-Boss, Traxler, Venus,
Vera,
Vodak, Whitfield, Winterbauer, Wyhopen
EXCUSED: Bernstein,
Covey, Diner, Dixon-McInerney,
Eldreth, Gunderson, Guo, Kennedy, Klein, Lippert, Maher, McKay,
Oppenheim,
Oren, Panayotatos, Reiss, Rennie, Rollino, Schein, Schwab, Van Til,
Wagner,
Wallace, Williams, Wright
ABSENT: Alley,
Amirahmadi, Apfel, Barbarese, Bay,
Bellany, Busia, Carbone, Chabal, Creese, Duncan, Gimenez, Habib, Hart,
Kirby,
Kokini, Lashley, Levitsky, Livingston, Murthy, Ocone, Pedersen, Schock,
P.
Simmons, Simon, Sofer, Sukhdeo, Szatrowski, Urbaniak, Venzie, Wang
ATTENDANCE SUMMARY: Faculty: Of 86 total: 53 present (62%), 12
excused (14%), 21 absent (24%) ; Students: Of 49 total:
35 present (72%), 7 excused (14%), 7
absent (14%) ; Administrators: Of 34 total:
26 present (76%), 5 excused (15%), 3 absent (9%); Alumni: Of 6 total:
6 present (100%), 0 excused, 0 absent; Staff: Of 10 total:
9 present (90%, 1 excused (10%), 0 absent
View Senate
attendance
record for this year
PRESIDING
OFFICER: Martha Cotter,
Chairperson
CHAIRPERSON’S REPORT:
Chairperson Cotter introduced herself, and
welcomed Senators,
special guests, and all Rutgers-community attendees.
She noted that this was an unusual Senate meeting in that the
majority of the agenda would be dedicated to President McCormick's
Annual Address to the University Community. She noted that it was a
"historic day" for the Senate, in that it was the first Senate meeting
to include staff Senators.
Cotter introduced: all staff Senators, the Senate staff
and officers, and (later) Jillian Curtis, who is Senate
Parliamentarian.
Chairperson Cotter then
outlined the procedure for the
question-and-answer period which was to follow President McCormick’s
Annual
Address to the Community. The procedure
allowed anyone present to pose a question, with no preference given to
Senators, but questions were limited to one per person, and to one
minute or
less, with no follow-up.
PRESIDENT’S ANNUAL
ADDRESS TO THE UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY:
Chairperson Cotter introduced President McCormick, who took the
lectern. President McCormick then
presented his Annual Address to the University Community, the
text of which
has been posted online at http://president.rutgers.edu/address06_speech.shtml.
A question-and-answer period followed, during which
President McCormick responded to questions on a wide range of issues
from Senators and other members of the Rutgers community..
ADJOURNMENT: There
being no further business before the
University Senate, Chairperson adjourned
the meeting at 3:24 p.m.
Kenneth Swalagin
Secretary of the University Senate