RUTGERS UNIVERSITY SENATE
CALL TO MEETING
Friday, October 23, 2009, 1:10 p.m.
Morning Committee Meetings, Noon Luncheon and Caucuses, and the 1:10 p.m. Senate Meeting will be held in the Camden
Campus Center
Click
here to view Camden Campus map and Travel Directions
Click here to view
information on NJ Transit River LINE train between Trenton and Camden
TRANSPORTATION AND PRE-MEETING TIMETABLE:
9:00 a.m. - New Brunswick and Newark Senators board charter bus
for Camden - Lot 98B, College Farm Road, near Environmental
and Natural Resource Sciences Building on the Cook Campus. (Senators
without Rutgers-New Brunswick parking permits who wish to park in Lot 98B
must obtain a special permit from the Senate Office.)
9:15 a.m. sharp - Bus departs from Cook Campus.
10:30 a.m. (approximately) - Bus arrives in Camden.
10:30 a.m. to 12:00 noon - Standing Committee meetings.
12:00 noon to 12:50 p.m. - Lunch, and Faculty, Student and Staff Caucuses.
(Rooms to be announced prior to meeting.)
1:10 p.m. - Call to Order in the Multipurpose Room, Camden Campus Center, Camden Campus.
Immediately Post-Adjournment (Time Permitting): Campus Tour with Chancellor Pritchett.
After the Tour Ends - Board charter bus for return trip.
Bus
departs Camden Campus promptly 10 minutes after the tour ends.
A G E N D A
PLEASE PRINT OUT AND BRING WITH YOU ANY DOCUMENTS TO WHICH YOU MAY WANT TO REFER DURING THE MEETING. ONLY THE AGENDA AND VOTING CARDS WILL BE DISTRIBUTED AT THE MEETING.
CALL TO ORDER, DETERMINATION OF A QUORUM, AND CHAIRPERSON’S REPORT
- Samuel Rabinowitz, Chairperson
REPORT OF THE SECRETARY - Kenneth Swalagin,
Secretary
-
Approval of Agenda* (including time limits)
- Approval
of Minutes of May 1, 2009 Senate Organizational Meeting
- Approval
of Minutes of September 25, 2009 Senate Meeting
- Communications:
- Executive Committee acted on Senate's behalf in changing 2010
Commencement date: The Senate Executive Committee, at its meeting on
September 4, 2009, acted on behalf of the Senate in changing the
university commencement date for 2010 from Tuesday, May 18 to Sunday,
May 16 at 1:00 p.m. to accommodate the Jewish holiday of Shavuot. The
action was taken in partial response to a request from Secretary
of the University Leslie Fehrenbach that the University Senate change
the University Commencement dates on the academic calendar for 2010
and beyond. [Click these links to view Ms.
Fehrenbach's July 27, 2009 letter and its attachment.]
Senate bylaws allow the Executive Committee to act on the Senate's
behalf in urgent matters. The Senate's Academic Standards, Regulations
and Admissions Committee has been charged with considering the
remainder of the request to change commencement dates, which is based
on other scheduling and logistical considerations outlined in Ms.
Fehrenbach's request.
- Draft
Expulsion Clemency Policy to be added tothe University
Code of Student Conduct, and Vice President for Student Affairs
Blimling's explanatory
cover email.
Dr. Blimling briefed the Senate Executive Committee on this issue at
the September 4, 2009 Executive Committee Meeting. Click this link to
view a related excerpt from the September 2009 Executive Committee minutes.
ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT - President Richard L. McCormick
CAMDEN CAMPUS REPORT - Camden Chancellor Wendell Pritchett
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Synopsis of Report
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Questions and Answers: 10 minutes
COMMITTEE REPORTS [Note: A discussion time limit of 15 minutes has been set for each committee report listed below.]
Student
Affairs Committee (SAC) Response to Charge S-0802, Policies on Participation in Blood
Drives - Kevin Wild and Samuel Rabinowitz, SAC Co-chairs
Instruction, Curricula and Advising Committee (ICAC) Response to Charge S-0806, Hybrid Courses and Model of Teaching - Natalie Borisovets, ICAC Chair
OLD BUSINESS
NEW BUSINESS
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE - Paul Leath, Vice Chairperson
REPORTS OF REPRESENTATIVES
TO BOARDS OF GOVERNORS AND TRUSTEES
CAMPUS FACULTY LIAISONS
ADJOURNMENT
CAMDEN CAMPUS TOUR
*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 limits are set for questions and debate, not for presentation of reports. After
approval, extension of time limits requires a two-thirds vote.
Remaining
2009-10 University Senate Meetings
[Unless otherwise noted, meetings
are held on Fridays in the Multipurpose Room, Rutgers Student Center, College Avenue Campus in New
Brunswick.]
December 4, 2009
January 29, 2010
(New Brunswick
Campus Report)
February 26, 2010
(Newark Campus Report – IN NEWARK)
March 26, 2010
April 30, 2010 (Will convene at 10:30 or 11:00 a.m.)