RUTGERS,
THE
DATE: September
30, 2005
MEMBERS PRESENT: Allender, Atmeh, Axelrod, Bartosek, Blimling, Bodnar, Boikess, Borisovets, Boylan, Brazier, Butler, Caprio, Capuano, Chabal, Cohen, Coit, Colaizzi, Cole, Colin, Cotter, Curtis, DeLisi, DeLuca, Dhillon, Dutta, C. Ellis, Farrell, Fincher, Fishbein, Fleming, Furmanski, Gigliotti, Gillett, Gimbar, Gould, Hall, Hallmark, Hart, Heckscher, Hmelo-Silver, Hyndman, Johnson, Kagan, Kalelkar, Kanj, Kavanagh, Kennedy, Kirby, Kokini, Krenos, Laguna-Diaz, LaSala, Lashley, Leath, Liepmann, Lipman, MacArthur, Markert, Markowitz, Martin, Mauroff, Mayer, McCabe, McCormick, McKay, McKeever, Messer, Miller, Mulcahy, Muller, Ng, Norville, Obayashi, Ocone, O’Connell, O’Connor, Ozbay, Palmon, Panayotatos, Potenza, Puniello, Rabiner, Samuel Rabinowitz, Sidney Rabinowitz, Reed, Rubin, Ruiz, Schaich, Schein, Scott, P. Simmons, Simon, Smith, Soren, Spiegel, St. John, Sukhdeo, Tittler, Vodak, Volk, Wang, Williams, Winterbauer, Wyhopen, Zhitkevich
EXCUSED: Arias,
Barone, Bay, Bell, Bellany, Carr, Darien, Deutsch, Diner, Downs,
Friedrich,
Gaunt, Goodman, Guo, Jackson, R. Jones, Labib, Lee, Leichenko,
Livingston,
Maher, Mandelbaum, Marchetta, Marsh, Mohammed, Oren, Portilla, Schock,
Sherman,
C. Simmons, Stroud, Turpin, Van Til, Whitfield, Zaborszky
ABSENT: Adarkwa, Aladdin, Alger, Ambar, Amirahmadi, Apfel, Banerjee, Barbarese, Bernstein, Boehmer, Boyd, Bravo, Breton, Cannon, E. Dennis, R. Dennis, Deprez, Edwards, Elkholy, N. Ellis, Greenhut, Gyenfie, Hankins, Herbst, Herrera, Hughes, John, J. Jones, Kirschner, Klein, Klepac, Melwani, Meyer, Nelson, Ontell, Poyznyer, Schorr, Shah, R. Simmons, Snyder, Solomon, Spat, Stark, Tuckman, Turner, Whang, Young
8 excused (14%), 18 absent (33%); Administrators: Of 36
total: 16 present (44%), 7 excused (20%), 13 absent (36%);
Alumni:
Of 6 total: 4 present (67%),
2 excused (33%), 0 absent
View Senate
attendance record
for this year
PRESIDING OFFICER: Martha Cotter, Chairperson
REPORT OF THE SECRETARY:
ADMINISTRATIVE
REPORT: President McCormick, noting that his September 16
Annual
Address had been comprehensive, thanked the Senate and all other
participants
for their discussion and comments on the recommendations and report of
the Task
Force on Undergraduate Education. He said that his next
Administrative
Report will include comments on campuses and facilities, as well as any
emerging news from
Instruction,
Curricula and Advising Committee – Natalie Borisovets, Chair
- Response
to
Charge S-0318, Use of Course Management Systems
Original Charge S-0318: Examine
the
various types of online instructional software (courseware) being
utilized by
departments and units at
Senator Borisovets summarized the Instruction, Curricula and Advising Committee (ICAC) report on Charge S-0318, on Use of Course Management Systems. She said that new data had been incorporated into this revised report since it was first introduced in April 2005. Following discussion, the Senate adopted the report, which included the following recommendations:
1.
2. Both knowledgeable faculty and those not currently using course management systems should involved in the selection process, and should be given the opportunity to specify the features they would deem necessary for any CMS that they would be likely to use.
3. OIT should consider the above faculty needs as
they work on the development of the
4. Implementation of any primary course
management system should follow the
5. Until such time as there is sufficient evidence that the chosen course management system can appropriately handle 100 percent online courses, eCollege should continue to be used for fully web-delivered courses.
6. Until such time as there is a perceived
impetus to change, Blackboard should continue to be used as the primary
University Structure and Governance Committee – Gary Gigliotti, Chair; Kathleen Scott, Former Co-chair - Resolution: Support for Chair of the University Senate
Senator
Scott, who co-chaired the University Structure and Governance Committee
when
this resolution was first introduced at the
April 2005
Senate meeting, summarized the resolution. Senator Panayotatos
moved the
following amendment/addition: “The University Senate believes
that
it would enhance the role of shared governance and, especially, it
would send a
strong message to all levels that service is indeed appreciated, if
FASIP, P4P
or other appropriate rewards were given at the president’s level to
individuals providing significant service to the university through the
Senate.” The motion was seconded, and adopted by the
Senate.
The Senate then adopted the full resolution, as amended, as follows:
Finding: The
Report of the Joint Commission on
University Governance in June 1979 recommended that the Chair and other
responsible officers of the University Senate receive support in order
to
encourage them to seriously carry out their important duties. This
issue has
been adopted twice by the Senate in the past. The University Structure
and
Governance Committee agrees with this
recommendation.
Recommendation:
Recognizing the increased responsibilities of
the Senate Chair, and to improve the effectiveness of the Senate’s
operations, we recommend to the President that the central
administration
provide additional support to the Senate. If the Chair of the Senate is
a
faculty member, that person’s department should receive relief which
allows the department to provide one course release to the faculty
member. If
the Chair of the Senate is a student, there should be a provision for
students
to receive elective or independent course (or internship) credit for
their
service to the Senate through arrangements with an appropriate
department.
Appropriate relief should be made if the Chair is a representative of
other
constituencies of the Senate. The University Senate believes that it
would
enhance the role of shared governance and, especially, it would send a
strong
message to all levels that service is indeed appreciated, if FASIP, P4P
or
other appropriate rewards were given at the president’s level to
individuals providing significant service to the university through the
Senate.
COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE: Discussion of Report of Task Force on Undergraduate Education
Chairperson Cotter outlined the procedures for
committee-of-the-whole discussion, noting that no motions or voting
will be in
order during this portion of the meeting, and that speakers are asked
to speak
for no longer than two minutes, and to speak only once until all others
waiting
to speak have been heard. In regard to the Senate’s action on the
Task Force Report, which is primarily a
Charges
which had been issued to the Senate’s standing committees were
distributed and reviewed.
Thirty
speakers made comments from the floor. At 3:27 p.m., Acting Chair
Rabinowitz asked if there were any other comments. There were
none.
Senator Scott then rose and moved the Senate out of committee of the
whole.
ADJOURNMENT:
On motion and duly seconded, the meeting adjourned at 3:30 p.m.