• She asked the committee if there were any objections to her asking Michael McKay and Brian Rose to report at the March 11, 2005 Senate meeting on progress made toward discontinuing use of Social Security numbers as  student identification numbers.
• She has sent to Provost Diner a list of potential Newark faculty members for Dean Kennedy’s evaluation committee.
• Some standing committees are working well; others need encouragement to complete their charges.
• She was recently contacted by two Criminal Justice faculty who requested Senate intervention in regard to changes made to the Administration of Justice major, which was made an interdisciplinary FAS major.  They assert that the changes were so drastic that the Administration of Justice major has essentially been eliminated.  The Executive Committee, noting that this is not a University-wide issue, declined to issue a charge to a standing committee.  Instead, Chairperson Cotter will suggest to the concerned faculty that they submit this to the Executive Committee as a request for appeal.
  

• Student Senator Claudia Volk (Law-Newark) has agreed to co-chair the Student Affairs Committee, and Senator Nicole Smith will remain as co-chair.  [Noted.]
• The schedule of 2005-2006 Senate and Senate Executive Committee meetings was reviewed.  [Withdrawn until the next meeting.  Secretary Swalagin will revise the September meeting date if such change is requested by the President’s office.]
• List of Newark faculty members sent by Chairperson Cotter to Provost Diner as potential members of Dean Kennedy’s evaluation committee.  [Noted.]
•  Numbers of full- and part-time faculty, from EVP for Academic Affairs Furmanski  [Footnotes to be added to the document already posted online, and thereafter included as a communication to the full Senate.]
  

• the five-year review of Dean George Stauffer, Mason Gross School of the Arts, which is beginning;
• ongoing work, in collaboration with information technology staff, the University Registrar and others, to establish a complete, online University catalog, as well as a degree-audit system;
• status of the ongoing search for Vice President of Research and Graduate and Professional Education;
• status of the ongoing search for Student Ombudsperson, including comments on the nature and requirements of the position;
• the search for Vice President for Enrollment Management, which is about to begin; and
• naming of a Dean of Cook College, which is expected soon.
  

• student fees, the likelihood of an increase in those fees, the process by which those fees are changed, opportunities for discussion and input on increases, and efforts to simplify the currently complex fee structure;
• the state budget and Rutgers funding, a rumored $7.5 million state budget shortfall, funding for mandated salary increases, and concerns regarding the current fiscal year budget; and
• administrator Senator attendance, and their participation in the activities of Senate standing committees, on which President McCormick requested a report from Secretary Swalagin.
  

• David Cole, College of Engineering (now Rutgers College)
• Kara McKenna, Rutgers College
• Joshua R. Truppo, Cook College
• Curtis Williams, Camden College of Arts and Sciences
  

Examine the Intercollegiate Athletics fee paid by all Rutgers-New Brunswick undergraduates.  Determine whether this money is used only for varsity sports, as is intended, or if this money is also sometimes used for revenue-generating sports (for which this fee money is not intended).  Also, review the amount of student fee dollars used to fund club sports at Rutgers, and consider the disparity between the fee amounts.  Recommend best practices for the appropriate use of this fee money in light of these findings.  Respond to Senate Committee by March 24, 2005

Evaluate the desirability and feasibility of faculty retirement incentives, in particular of phased retirement plans such as the one that was being negotiated by the new Brunswick Faculty Council and the Lawrence administration in the mid-1990s and the one recently proposed by the AAUP under their Proposal for a Faculty Retirement Transition and Renewal Program.  Report to Senate Executive Committee by May 2005.

Consider the suggestion that faculty and student board representatives be elected by their respective caucuses of the Senate, rather than by the full Senate, as proposed in Senator Hoekzema’s Draft Resolution Supporting Caucus-Based Elections.  Solicit input from the Student Affairs Committee before making final recommendations on this charge.  Respond to the Senate Executive Committee by March 24, 2005.

• University Structure and Governance Committee Response to Charges S-0324, Senate Bylaws Review, and Charge S-0320, Election Procedures for At-Large and PTL/Annual Appointee Senators (Carried from January meeting after quorum was lost.)
• Newark Campus Report – Provost Steven Diner