RUTGERS, THE STATE
UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY
UNIVERSITY SENATE MINUTES
Regular
Meeting of the University Senate
DATE: September
16, 2005
TIME AND PLACE: 1:10 p.m., Multipurpose
Room, Rutgers Student
Center,126
College Avenue,College
Avenue Campus
MEMBERS PRESENT: Adarkwa, Alger, Allender, Ambar,
Apfel, Atmeh, Axelrod,
Banerjee, Bartosek, Bernstein, Blimling, Bodnar, Boikess, Borisovets,
Boyd,
Boylan, Brazier, Breton, Cannon, Caprio, Capuano, Chabal, Cohen, Coit,
Colaizzi, Cole, Colin, Cotter, Curtis, Darien, DeLisi, DeLuca, E.
Dennis, R.
Dennis, Deutsch, Dhillon, Downs, Dutta, Elkholy, C. Ellis, N. Ellis,
Farrell,
Fishbein, Friedrich, Furmanski, Gaunt, Gigliotti, Gillett, Gimbar,
Goodman,
Gould, Greenhut, Hall, Hallmark, Hankins, Hart, Herbst, Herrera,
Hughes,
Hyndman, Jackson, Johnson, Kagan, Kalelkar, Kanj, Kavanagh, Kennedy,
Kirby,
Kirschner, Klein, Klepac, Kokini, Krenos, Labib, Languna-Diaz, LaSala,
Lashley,
Leath, Lee, Leichenko, Liepmann, Lipman, MacArthur, Maher, Mandelbaum,
Marchetta, Markert, Markowitz, Marsh, Martin, Mauroff, McCabe,
McCormick,
McKay, McKeever, Melwani, Messer, Meyer, Miller, Mohammed, Mulcahy,
Muller, Ng,
Norville, Obayashi, Ocone, O’Connell, O’Connor, Ontell, Oren, Palmon,
Panayotatos, Portilla, Potenza, Puniello, Rabiner, Samuel Rabinowitz,
Reed,
Schaich, Schorr, Scott, Shah, C. Simmons, P. Simmons, Simon, Smith,
Soren,
Spiegel, St. John,
Sukhdeo, Tittler, Turpin, Van Til,
Vodak, Whang, Whitfield, Winterbauer, Wyhopen, Young, Zhitkevich
EXCUSED:
Arias, Barbarese, Barone,
Bay, Bell, Bellany, Boehmer, Carr,
Diner,
Edwards, Fincher, Guo, Hmelo-Silver, J. Jones, R. Jones, Livingston,
Mayer,
Ozbay, Sidney Rabinowitz, Schein, Schock, Sherman,
Solomon, Turner, Volk, Wang
ABSENT: Aladdin,
Amirahmadi,
Bravo, Butler,
Deprez, Fleming, Gyenfie, John, Leontiades,
Nelson, Poyznyer, Rubin, Ruiz, R. Simmons, Snyder, Spat, Stark, Stroud, Tuckman, Williams, Zaborszky
ATTENDANCE SUMMARY: Faculty: Of 89 total:
65 present (73%), 16 excused (17%),
9 absent (10%); Students: Of 55 total:
40 present (73%), 5 excused (9%), 10 absent (18%); Administrators: Of
37 total:
31 present (86%), 4 excused (11%), 2
absent (3%); Alumni: Of 6 total:
5 present (83%), 1 excused (17%)
View Senate
attendance
record for this year
PRESIDING
OFFICER: Martha Cotter,
Chairperson
CHAIRPERSON’S REPORT:
Chairperson Cotter welcomed Senators,
guests, and all participants. She
introduced: Ken Swalagin, Executive
Secretary of the Senate; Jillian Curtis, Parliamentarian; Sam
Rabinowitz, Vice
Chair of the Senate; and Linda Mickelsen, Senate administrative
assistant. Chairperson Cotter also
introduced the
Senate’s standing-committee chairs, and gave a brief preview of some
issues to
be addressed by the Senate and its committees this year, including: the report and recommendations of the Task
Force on Undergraduate Education, the University’s copyright and
academic
integrity policies, and the status of full-time non-tenure-track
faculty.
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 Second Annual Address to the University Community, the
text of which
has been posted online at http://president.rutgers.edu/address05_speech.shtml.
A question-and-answer period followed, during which
President McCormick responded to questions on issues largely
relating to the report of the Task
Force on Undergraduate Education, but which also included:
Rutgers’ efforts to aid victims of Hurricane
Katrina; study-abroad opportunities; plans for College Avenue, Busch
and
Livingston Campuses; the overall size of Rutgers University, and of its
student
body; the cost of gasoline, and Rutgers’ mileage reimbursement policy;
and
others.
ADJOURNMENT: There
being no further business before the
University Senate, Chairperson adjourned
the meeting at 4:30 p.m.
Kenneth Swalagin
Secretary of the University Senate