PRESENT: MEMBERS:  Borisovets, Barone, Hirsh, Manhoff, Rabinowitz (Vice Chair), Saniefard, Scott (Chair), Sims, Swalagin (Executive Secretary)

EXCUSED:  Leath

ALSO ATTENDING:  Caprio (as CAPS Advisory Committee Co-chair), Cotter (NB Faculty Liaison), Lawrence (Administrative Liaison), James Miller (as CAPS Advisory Committee Co-chair), Redd (Graduate Student BOT Representative), Seneca (Administrative Liaison), Wozniak (Undergraduate Student BOT Representative)

The regular meeting of the University Senate Executive Committee was held on Friday, October 5, 2001 at 1:10 p.m. in the President’s Dining Room, Brower Commons, College Avenue Campus, the Chair and Secretary being present.

1. Chairperson’s Report
Chairperson Scott called the meeting to order.  Her brief comments included thanking President Lawrence for the new tuition-scholarship program to benefit families of victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks.

2. Secretary's Report
Minutes: Minutes of the September 7, 2001 Executive Committee meeting were approved as distributed by the Secretary.

Communications: The following communications were presented and acted upon as noted:

• September 14, 2001 Memorandum from President Francis L. Lawrence responding to Senate resolution in support of full health benefits for same sex partners of Rutgers employees and retirees. [Noted.] [http://senate.rutgers.edu/fllssdp2.html]
• September 2001 E-mail exchange between Barbara Bender, Graduate School-NB and Ken Iuso, University Registrar, forwarded to Kathy Scott, regarding Add/Drop Period for Graduate Students. [Noted, and considered later in the meeting during discussion of committee charges.] [http://senate.rutgers.edu/bender.html]
• Undated letter from Harriet Alonso, Associate Dean and Director, Center for Worker Education, City College of New York, acknowledging and expressing thanks for the Senate's resolution of support following the September 11 terrorist events. [Noted.] [http://senate.rutgers.edu/alonso.html]
• October 3, 2001 E-mail from Raphael Caprio, Vice President of Continuous Education and Outreach, to Kathy Scott transmitting Revised CAPS Proposal (Revised 10/1/01) [http://senate.rutgers.edu/caps1001.pdf] and CAPS Advisory Committee Interim Report [http://senate.rutgers.edu/capsrep2.pdf]. [Noted, and discussed later in the meeting as a separate item in the Administrative Report, and docketed for open-forum discussion at October 19 Senate meeting.]

3. Administrative Report
President Lawrence presented the administrative report, which included comments on: the new tuition-scholarship program for families of victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks; in consideration of the September 11 terrorist attacks, cancellation of a celebration and reception, scheduled for October 27, for donors upon the Capital Campaign reaching its halfway mark; as well as thanks for responses, and further comments, on the "capacity" issue and proposals presented during the State of the University Address.

Caps Advisory Committee Interim Report, and Revised Draft CAPS Proposal: Ray Caprio and James Miller, Co-chairs of the CAPS Advisory Committee, presented their committee’s October 2001 Interim Report and Revised Draft CAPS Proposal. Chairperson Scott complimented the high quality of the report and revisions to the proposal. The Executive Committee docketed for the October 2001 Senate meeting an open-forum discussion on CAPS, and considered details and logistics of that discussion.  Chairperson Scott will draft a separate e-mail on this open-forum for Secretary Swalagin to forward to the Senate as an adjunct to the meeting notice.  All members of the CAPS Advisory Committee will be invited to attend the meeting and respond to comments or questions from the Senate.

4. Old Business
The Executive Committee reviewed and acted upon three items from the June 2001 Executive Committee meeting, as follows:

• Student Financial Management and Credit-Card Debt: A committee, chaired by Dean Marie Logue, has been formed and charged with this topic.  Chairperson Scott will call Dean Logue, and will report to the Executive Committee at the November 2001 meeting.

• Disclosure of FASIP Awards: University Vice President Seneca offered to report on this subject, including whether departments have been informed of their options under the Senate’s resolution, at the November 2001 Executive Committee meeting.

• Wintersession: University Vice President Seneca will also report on this issue at the November meeting.  The Executive Committee asked that the report include information on Wintersession’s first two years, proposed modifications for the third year, and plans to incorporate Senate suggestions into the final year of the pilot program.

5. New Business
The committee discussed a September 2001 e-mail exchange between Barbara Bender, Graduate School-NB and Ken Iuso, University Registrar, which had been forwarded to Chairperson Scott, regarding the add/drop period. [http://senate.rutgers.edu/bender.html]   The e-mail asks that the recent changes to the add/drop period be revised in light of complaints from graduate students.  An existing draft charge to the Academic Standards, Regulations and Admissions Committee on review of the drop/add period will be revised to include this element, and will be issued.  The charge will request a report to the Executive Committee by March 2002.

6. October 19, 2001 Senate Meeting Agenda

• Administrative Presentation on the Capital Campaign
• Open-Forum Discussion on the Proposal to Establish the College of Applied and Professional Studies, Rutgers University

7. Adjournment
The meeting was adjourned at 2:25 p.m. by Chairperson Scott.

Kenneth Swalagin
Executive Secretary of the Senate