RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY
OF NEW JERSEY
UNIVERSITY SENATE
MINUTES: Regular Meeting of the University
Senate
DATE: November 11, 2016
TIME AND PLACE: 1:10 p.m., Multipurpose Room,
Camden Campus Center, Camden Campus
MEMBERS PRESENT: Ardeshna, Arezzi, Artun, Barchi,
Bhuyan, Boikess, Borisovets, Bubb, Bugel, Cahill, Cotter, Craig, Dana,
Dane, Dasari, Davis, Desai, Dehspande, Diaz, DiVito, Dreyer, Durham,
Esposito, Fagley, Field, Fitzgerald-Borcarsly, Gillett, Goh, Gower,
Gross, K. Gursoy, Hart, Joergensen, A. Johnson, Junboonta, Kelly,
Kelshikar, Kouraeva, Krapivin, Kuskta, LaPointe, Lattime, B. Lee, Levy,
Linz, Maloney, Mammis, Markert, Markosian, Meck, Moran, Mouradian,
Nissen, Norville, Oleske, Oliver, O'Neill, Otto, Pandey, Pappas, A.
Patel, D. Patel, Pirrello, Puhak, Rabinowitz, Rothpletz-Puglia,
Rozenberg, Salazar, Saltzman, Scoloveno, K. Scott, Serrano, Settimo,
Settles, Shapses, Sheflin, Shinn, Soto, Spiegel, Sulley, Taillefer,
Thomson, Thompson, Thronton, Torres, Van Stine, Zurlo
EXCUSED: Alizadeh,
Bekdash, Boruchoff, Bradshaw, Bridgeman, Brunson, Calabrese, Carrasco,
Chandler, Chang, Chayko, Y. Chen, Collins, Edward, Edwards, Eisenstein,
Fox, Goswami, Gould, M. Gursoy, Haddon, Huselid, Jackson, Jaffry, Joo,
Joseph, Kaptan, Kalan, Killingsworth, Krutyansky, Langer, Jane Lewis, Lugg, Lutz,
Marchetta, Mazurek, McKeever, Morrell, Moseray, Nasr, O'Connell, Okada, Pagan,
Pintar, Ponzio, Roth, Samant, Santana, Schwartz, C. Scott, Shapiro,
Sharp, Stepleton, Takacs, Toney-Boss, Wakim, Winkler
ABSENT: Anaele, Balaguru, Balmer, Barbarese,
Barone, Benford, Blanchett, Butterfield, Cantor, Charles, R. Chen,
Coiro, Collado-Gerrido, Conway, Cooper, Covington, Cutler, Dixon,
Drachtman, Eastman, Frambry, Farris, Feldman, Fletcher, Flores,
Gabriel, Ganesh, Goodman, Grant, Hayton, Heckscher, Holzemer, Holzer,
D. Hughes, J. Hughes, Iannini, Janniger, R. Johnson, Kukor, Kuzma,
K. Lee, Lei, Leibman, Jan Lewis, Lindenmeyer, Mahon, March,
Marchick, Marcone, Martinez, Miranti, Paneque, Parmar, C.
Potter, J. Potter, Powell, Rivera, Robinson, Romanchuk, Salmond,
Schaden, Schiavo, Schneider, Scotto, Sheehan, Shinbrot, Singh,
Stauffer, Strom, Szatrowski, Thomas, Upadhyay, Wang, Wasserman
ATTENDANCE SUMMARY:
Faculty: Of 107 total: 51 present (48%),
31 excused (29%), 25 absent (23%); Students:
Of 49 total: 21 present (43%), 13 excused (27%), 15
absent (31%); Administrators: Of 40
total: 5
present (12.5%), 3 excused (7.5%), 32 absent (80%); Staff:
Of 17 total: 8 present (47%), 7
excused (41%), 2 absent (12%); Alumni:
Of 5
total: 3 present (60%), 1 excused (20%), 1 absent (20%)
View Senate
Attendance Record for this academic year
CALL TO ORDER, DETERMINATION OF
QUORUM, AND CHAIRPERSON’S REPORT - Peter Gillett, Chair
Senate Chair Peter Gillett called the meeting to order at 1:10 p.m. in
the
Camden Campus Center Multipurpose Room, Camden Campus. He welcomed
everyone to the first Senate meeting after Rutgers' 250th anniversary
celebrations, at which he represented the Senate at the previous day's
bell-ringing ceremony. He thanked Chancellor Phoebe Haddon for hosting
and for
providing lunch, and explained that the Chancellor's Report would be
given on her behalf by Provost Michael Palis because Haddon was unable
to attend the meeting. He also reported that the University
Commencement Panel will meet on December 2, and that the deans'
responses to Senate questions on the School of Graduate Studies
proposal would be ready for the Senate's standing committees on
December 9, with the expectation that the proposal itself will be on
the Senate's January 2017 agenda.
SECRETARY'S REPORT
- Ken
Swalagin, Executive Secretary
- Agenda: The meeting's agenda was
approved by the Senate as distributed.
- Minutes: The Minutes of the October
14, 2016 Senate Meeting were
approved as distributed by the Executive Secretary.
- Communications: The
following communication was presented to the Senate:
- Senior
Vice President for Academic Affairs Barbara Lee's response to a
question raised after President Barchi's October administrative report
to the Senate. The question from Senator Van Stine was about the
progress of the University's participation in the Sailor Marine Corps
American Council on Education Registry Transcript (SMART) program for
processing transfer credits for military coursework.
COMMITTEE
REPORTS
Student
Affairs Committee (SAC) Response to Charge S-1305-2 on Smoke-Free
Rutgers - Viktor Krapivin and Samuel Rabinowitz,
SAC Co-chairs
The SAC had been charged as
follows: Examine
the desirability, feasibility, impact and means of evolving into a
smoke-free
Rutgers.
Two supporting documents were linked to
the SAC response:
SAC Co-chair Samuel Rabinowitz began the summary of his committee's
report and recommendations on Charge S-1305-2, on Smoke-Free Rutgers.
He then read the elements of the resolution. He said that RBHS Newark
had decided independently that it would become tobacco-free on November
17, 2016. SAC Co-chair Viktor Krapivin arrived at the podium, and asked
that the question (the elements of the resolution) be split. Gillett
responded that a motion to split the question could be made once the
resolution was moved. Following brief discussion, Senator Christopher
Shinn moved to separate the elements of the resolution into 1 and 2,
then 3 through 6. Krapivin seconded the motion, which was then adopted.
The first resolution, now consisting of elements 1 and 2, was
discussed. On motion and duly seconded, element 1 was amended to change
"which" to "that," then becoming: "Rutgers University institute a
smoke-free policy that also
prohibits the use of electronic cigarettes." Senator Daniel Bubb
questioned presence of a quorum. Gillett declared a quorum was present.
Following additional discussion, Gillett read the first resolution,
consisting of elements 1 and 2, as amended. On card vote, the
resolution failed with 31 in favor, and 39 opposed.
Gillett then read the second resolution, consisting of elements
originally numbered 3, 4, 5 and 6, and now numbered 1, 2, 3 and 4 in
this second resolution. Following additional discussion, the following
changes were made to the resolution:
- The second sentence in element 1 (originally 3) was deleted,
making that element: "There be immediate movement of the smoking urns
away from the entrances of buildings to a location at least 30 feet
away in order to ensure compliance with the current smoking policy."
- Element 3 (originally 5) was deleted. The deleted element had
read: "The Rutgers Police Department and other enforcement
organizations be empowered to issue citations and enforce the
smoke-free policy at Rutgers University."
Discussion of the second resolution continued until Krapivin suggested
that the report and resolution be postponed indefinitely, or that a new
charge be issued on the matter. On motion and duly seconded, the report
and resolution were sent back to the Student Affairs Committee.
Executive
Committee (EC) Resolution with Background on Three-Plus-One Programs
- Peter Gillett, EC Chair, and Robert Puhak, EC Vice Chair; Natalie
Borisovets and Martha
Cotter, EC Members and Resolution Authors
Senators and Executive Committee Members Natalie Borisovets
(Instruction, Curricula and Advising Committee Chair) and Martha Cotter
(Academic Standards, Regulations and Admissions Committee Co-chair)
presented the Executive Committee's Resolution with Background on
Three-Plus-One Programs. Cotter explained that this issue was raised
during the
October 2016 Senate meeting, and that the Senate Executive Committee
had discussed it
at some length on
October 28 in Newark, and had considered it sufficiently time-sensitive
to present it to the Senate in this manner instead of first going
through a standing committee. The resolution was adopted by the Senate
without debate.
CAMDEN
CHANCELLOR'S REPORT - Camden Provost Michael Palis
Camden
Chancellor Phoebe Haddon was not present at the meeting. Camden Provost
Michael Palis presented a Camden Chancellor's Report on her behalf. The
presentation on that report is
linked above. Palis then
responded to questions, or heard comments, on the report and related
issues.
ADMINISTRATIVE
REPORT - University President Robert
Barchi
University President Robert Barchi presented an Administrative Report
that included comments on:
- appreciation for military veterans and
their service, and for those at Rutgers who provide services to
veterans;
- the previous day's conclusion of Rutgers'
250th anniversary;
- recent and ongoing construction projects;
- the Cornerstone Project implementation;
- athletics;
- reports from major committees, including
the Committee on Instructional Technology, and the Committee on
Enslaved and Disenfranchised Populations in Rutgers History;
- ongoing New Brunswick Chancellor search; and
- the recent stabbing incident at the Rutgers
Business School in Piscataway.
Barchi then responded to
questions, or heard comments, on the above subjects, as well as
concerns of minority students relative to recent national political
developments.
SENATE EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEE
REPORT - Senate Vice Chair Robert Puhak reported on the October 28, 2016 meeting
and activities of the Senate Executive Committee.
REPORTS
OF THE REPRESENTATIVES TO BOARDS OF GOVERNORS AND TRUSTEES:
Senator Anish Patel, Student Representative to the Board of
Governors, reported on the November 1, 2016 Board of Governors
meeting. Senator Menahem Spiegel, Faculty Representative to the
Board of Trustees, reported that there had been no Board
of Trustees meeting since the previous Senate meeting.
CAMPUS FACULTY AND STUDENT LIAISON
REPORTS:
Senator Perry Dane, Camden Faculty Council Chair,
reported
on that group's recent plans and activities. Camden Student Senator
Michael Van Stine reported on
recent Camden student plans and activities. Senator Sanjib Bhuyan, New
Brunswick Faculty Council Vice Chair, reported
on that
group's plans and recent meeting. Senator Viktor Krapivin, New
Brunswick Student
Member
of the Senate Executive Committee, reported on New Brunswick student
governing association activities.
ADJOURNMENT:
The meeting
adjourned
at 3:07 p.m.
Minutes Written and Submitted by,
Ken Swalagin
Executive Secretary of the University Senate