RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY
UNIVERSITY SENATE
MINUTES: Regular Meeting
of the University Senate
DATE: September 25, 2009
TIME AND
PLACE: 1:10 p.m., Multipurpose
Room, Rutgers
Student Center, 126 College Avenue, College Avenue Campus,
New Brunswick
MEMBERS PRESENT: Akincigil, Agarwal, Alphonse,
Atkins, Barnett, Barone, Beachem, Bhuyan, Blumenthal, Bodnar,
Borisovets, Boylan, Bumby, Burrell, Cantarella, Ciklamini, B. Cooper,
Cotter, Cowen, Davidson, Del Rosario, DeLisi, Desai, Dholandas,
Diamond, Dighton, Diner, Dutta, Edwards, Ellis, Farmer, Farris,
Finegold, Fishbein, Furmanski, Gabriel, Gao, Ghetia, Gillett, Gomes,
Robert Goodman, Roe Goodman, Gould, Graziosi, Greenberg, Greenhut,
Gursoy, Hall, Heckscher, Heydt, Hicks, Hmelo-Silver, Hoffman, Holzemer,
Hudson, Hughes, Hyndman, Janes, Jermone-DeMilia, Jimenez, Kalelkar,
Kanj, Kaplan, Katz, Kaufman-Scarborough, Kerkhof, Kim, Klobucista,
Kornmehl, Kowler, Leath, Levine, Loftus, Ludescher, Luo, Markert,
Markowitz, Marsh, McArdle, McCormick, McKeever, McLean, Messer,
Mojaddedi, Molloy, Morton, Murray, Muse, Niederman, Norville, Nycz,
Oliver, Panayotatos, Patel, Pavlik, Pilotte, Pinchuk, Polack,
Pritchett, Rabinowitz, Rodgers, H. Roth, Sabo, Sahi, Saleh, Sass,
Schaffner, Schantz, Schement, Schnetzer, Schorr, Schramke, Schurman,
Shah, Sheflin, Simmons, Slavin, Smith, Solomon, Spath, Spiegel,
Stauffer, J. Stein, Stewart, Szatrowski, F. Thompson, K. Thompson,
Tomassone, Traxler, Tu, Tumer, Violette, Vodak, Wagner, Wang, Weiss,
Wild, Wilson, Winterbauer, Wu, Wyhopen, Yu, Zimmerman
EXCUSED: Abercrombie,
Boikess, Brooks, Bubb, Buckley, Carr, M. Cooper, Cosandey, Dougherty,
Figueira, Garcia, Gaunt, Gunkel, Guo, Hanebrink, He, Kukor, Lawton,
Levinson, Lewis, Lintakoon, Lynch, Minsky, Nolfi, Papathomas, Perrone,
Piotrowicz, Plummer, Rhee, G. Roth, Rudman, G. Stein, Stephan, Tansey,
Thomas, Tittler, Toney-Boss,
Veysey
ABSENT: Adam, Amirahmadi, Buch, Caprio, Creese, Farag,
Fehn, Goldman, Grant, Holzer, Leonard, Lomiguen, Matsuda, Miller,
Natarajan, Oyekoya, Rudrapatna, Sharp, Simon, Soomro, Waller, Williams, Yeagle
ATTENDANCE SUMMARY: Faculty: Of 97
total: 71 present (73%), 18 excused (19%), 8 absent (8%); Students: Of 50 total: 36 present (72%), 6 excused (12%), 8 absent (16%); Administrators: Of 41 total: 26 present (64%), 10 excused (24%), 5 absent (12%); Alumni: Of 6 total: 5 present (83%), 0 excused, 1 absent (17%); Staff: Of
10 total: 5 present (50%), 4 excused (40%), 1 absent (10%)
View Senate Attendance Record for this year
PRESIDING
OFFICER: Samuel Rabinowitz,
Chairperson
CHAIRPERSON’S REPORT:
Chairperson Rabinowitz called the meeting to order at
1:21 p.m. He welcomed everyone to the Senate meeting and to the
beginning of the fall semester. After introducing himself, he then
introduced
Senate Vice Chair Paul Leath, Senate Executive Secretary Ken Swalagin,
administrative assistant Linda
Mickelsen, and Senate Parliamentarian Nat Schaffner.
STANDING COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSONS' REPORTS: Chairperson
Rabinowitz introduced the chairs of the Senate's standing
committees, who gave brief reports on their respective committees and
their plans for the coming year. Senator Martha Cotter also announced
an Academic Integrity Conference, co-sponsored by the Senate, which was
scheduled for the following Friday on the Douglass Campus.
PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS QUESTION-AND-ANSWER PERIOD PROCEDURES: Chairperson Rabinowitz then
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 Rabinowitz introduced President McCormick, who took the lectern.
President McCormick then presented his Annual Address to the University
Community, the theme of which was “A Reprieve, Not a Pass.” The
text of the address has been posted online at http://www.president.rutgers.edu/address09.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 Rabinowitz adjourned the meeting at 3:06 p.m.
Kenneth Swalagin
Secretary of the University
Senate