CALL TO ORDER, DETERMINATION OF A
QUORUM, AND CHAIRPERSON’S REPORT - Martha Cotter, Chairperson
REPORT OF THE SECRETARY
ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT - President Richard
L. McCormick
- Questions and Answers, 10 minutes
COMMITTEE REPORTS (Carried from April 22, 2005
Regular Senate Meeting)
Instruction, Curricula and Advising Committee, Response
to Charge S-0318, Use of Course Management Systems (click this
link to read the
Report
Summary) - Natalie Borisovets, Chair [Discussion: 10 minutes]
Original Charge: Examine the various types of online
instructional
software (courseware) being utilized by departments and units at
Rutgers. What are the consequences of using a growing number of
different courseware products (sometimes even within an individual
course) for faculty, staff and students? Determine whether Rutgers
should decide upon and use a standard courseware product.
University Structure and Governance Committee, Resolution:
Support for the Chair of the University Senate - Gary
Gigliotti, Chair (Joseph Blasi and Kathleen Scott, 2004-05 Co-chairs)
[Discussion: 10 minutes]
COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE, Discussion of Report
of Task Force on Undergraduate Education
Faculty Affairs and Personnel Committee, Response
to Charge S-0407, Faculty Reporting Processes - Ann Brooks
Gould and Paul Panayotatos, Co-chairs [This report is for information only.
No Senate action is required at this time.] [Discussion: 5
minutes]
Original Charge: Investigate, consider, and
make recommendations for streamlining and making easier the processes
involved in faculty reporting of teaching, scholarship and service.
Consider compatibilities between the Annual Faculty Survey and Form 1A,
cross-document copy-and-paste capability, and availability of data for
reformatting for insertion into other electronic documents.”
OLD BUSINESS
NEW BUSINESS
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE - Samuel Rabinowitz,
Vice Chairperson
REPORT OF THE REPRESENTATIVES TO BOARDS OF GOVERNORS AND TRUSTEES
CAMPUS FACULTY LIAISONS
ADJOURNMENT
*Note: Addition of items to the Agenda requires a two-thirds
vote. There is an overall time limit of 2-1/2 hours for Senate
meetings. Specific time and limits are set for questions and debate;
not for presentation of reports. After approval, extension of time
limits requires a two-thirds vote.
Remaining 2005-06 University
Senate Meetings
[Meetings are in New
Brunswick, unless otherwise noted.]
October 21, 2005 (Camden
Campus Report – IN CAMDEN)
November 18, 2005
December 9, 2005
January 20, 2006 (New
Brunswick Campus Report)
February 24, 2006 (Newark Campus Report
– IN NEWARK)
March 24, 2006
April 28, 2006