RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY
UNIVERSITY SENATE
MINUTES: Regular Meeting
of the University Senate
DATE: September 24, 2010
TIME AND
PLACE: 1:10 p.m., Multipurpose
Room, Rutgers Student Center, 126 College Avenue, College Avenue Campus,
New Brunswick
MEMBERS PRESENT: Abercrombie, Akincigil, Amirahmadi,
Atkins, Barone, Barraco, Beachem, Bhuyan, Binetti, Bittner, Bodnar,
Boikess, Borisovets, Breslaw, Bubb, Buch, Cachel, Caprio, Clarke, B.
Cooper, Cotter, Czaplicki, David, DiVito, Dougherty, Dutta, Edwards,
Ellis, Farmer, Farris, Fehn, Figueira, Finegold, Foglio, Furmanski,
Gabriel, Ganesh, Garcia, Gaunt, Gillett, Gomes, Goodman, Gould, Grant,
Greenberg, Greenhut, Gunkel, Gurfinkiel, Gursoy, Heckscher, Helgeson,
Herbert, Holzemer, Hudson, Hughes, Iraninejad, Janes, Jerome-DeMilia,
Jimenez, Kalelkar, Katz, Kheiralla, Kolasis, Le, Leath, Lerner, Levine,
Levinson, Lewis, Loftus, Lynch, Maher, Markert, Markowitz, Mazurek,
McCormick, McKay, McKeever, McLean, Messer, M. Miller, Milliman,
Minsky, Mojaddedi, Molloy, Muse, Narayan, Nayyar, Niederman, Nycz,
O'Connor, Oza, Panayotatos, Pero, Perrone, Pirrello, Potenza, Prowse,
Puhak, Rabinowitz, H. Roth, Sabo, Sahi, Samarakone, Schantz, Schnetzer,
Schrire, Shapiro, Sheflin, Simmons, J. Singh, Sandeep Singh, Saurabh
Singh, Smith, Solomon, Spath, Spellmeyer, Spiegel, Stauffer,
Stillwagon, Swartley-McArdle, Szatrowski, Szczesna, Tancs, K. Thompson,
Toney-Boss, Tu, Vargas, Vodak, Wagner, Wang, White, Wilson, Winkler,
Winterbauer, Won, Woolcott, Wu, Wyhopen. Yeagle, Yu, Zaki, Zimmerman
EXCUSED: Barnett, Boylan,
Carr, Cosandey, Creese, DeLisi, Dighton, Fishbein, Hill, Hmelo-Silver, Hyndman, Li,
Norville, Scher, Schorr, Spasojevic, Stein, F. Thompson, Violette
ABSENT: Bhanot, Blumenthal, Bruno, Clear, M. Cooper,
Diner, Fensterheim, Gao, Goldman, Guo, Hall,
Hanebrink, Hicks, Hoffman, Holzer, Kukor, Lawton, LoBalbo, Mann, Marsh,
J. Miller, Pritchett, G. Roth, Schement, Tansey, Weinstein, Yoon
ATTENDANCE SUMMARY: Faculty: Of 90
total: 68 present (76%), 11 excused (12%), 11 absent (12%); Students: Of 45 total: 34 present (75%), 3 excused (7%), 8 absent (18%); Administrators: Of 35 total: 24 present (69%), 1 excused (3%), 10 absent (28%); Alumni: Of 6 total: 5 present (83%), 1 excused (17%), 0 absent; Staff: Of
13 total: 12 present (92%), 1 excused (8%), 0 absent
View Senate Attendance Record for this year
PRESIDING
OFFICER: Paul Panayotatos,
Chairperson
CHAIRPERSON’S REPORT:
Chairperson Panayotatos called the meeting to order at 1:13 p.m. He
welcomed everyone to the Senate meeting, and summarized some Senate
history, as well as past accomplishments and planned activities. He
introduced Senate standing-committee chairs, calling upon each to rise
and make brief statements about their committee plans for the coming
academic year. The planned text of Chairperson Panayotatos's report and
comments can be found here.
PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS
QUESTION-AND-ANSWER PERIOD PROCEDURES: Chairperson Panayotatos's report
outlined the procedure for the question-and-answer period which was to follow
President McCormick’s Annual Address to the Community. The procedure, intended
to enable as many community members as possible to participate in the process,
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 Panayotatos
introduced President McCormick, who took the lectern. President McCormick then
presented his Annual Address to the University Community, the theme of which was
“Our Rutgers, Our Future.” The text of the address has been posted online at http://www.president.rutgers.edu/address10_speech.shtml.
A question-and-answer period followed, during which
President McCormick responded to questions from Senators and other members of
the Rutgers community on a wide range of
issues.
ADJOURNMENT: There being no further business before the University
Senate, Chairperson Panayotatos adjourned the meeting at 3:25
p.m.
Kenneth Swalagin
Secretary of the University Senate