UNIVERSITY SENATE
Executive Committee
AGENDA
January 7, 2005 - 1:10 p.m.
1. Chairperson’s Report
2. Secretary’s Report
• Executive Committee Minutes
of November 5, 2004
• Communications:
- Senator Nicole Smith has resigned from the Senate, citing academic
responsibilities. Secretary Swalagin will solicit volunteers, nominations
and/or recommendations for Senate parliamentarian and Student Affairs Committee
chair.
3. Administrative Liaison
• Administrative Report
4. Standing Committee Reports and Potential Charges
• Request for Charge Deadline Extension:
The University Structure and Governance Committee request that the deadline
on Charge S-0409 (Consider adding specific responsibility for graduate
and professional education issues to the Senate’s committee structure)
be extended from February to March 24, 2005.
• Potential Charge to Faculty Affairs and Personnel
Committee: Proposed charge: Consider the Draft Resolution
to Endorse the American Association of University Professors’ policy statement
“Contingent Appointments and the Academic Profession” and to Recognize
the AAUP’s continuing efforts to protect the academic profession, including
those members of the profession with contingent appointments. Make
recommendations regarding appropriateness for adoption by the Rutgers University
Senate, and/or modifications to be made before full-Senate consideration.
Respond to Senate Executive Committee by February 18, 2005. The
resolution accompanied an e-mail from Karen
Thompson, Staff Representative, Part-time Chapter of the Rutgers Council
of AAUP Chapters.
• Potential Charge to Committee on University
Structure and Governance Committee Resolution on Facilitating Senate Participation
in Committee Meetings Through The Use of Modern Teleconference Technology:
The USGC had passed by consensus and submitted to the Executive Committee
the following resolution: “We believe that the University needs a
reliable and stable video and telephone conferencing system in order to facilitate
the participation of Senators from multiple campuses in Senate business.
The preponderance of meetings in New Brunswick is a powerful disincentive
for participation from members on the Newark and Camden campuses. The
Route 18 construction will exacerbate this problem and heighten the need.
These barriers create a situation where an inordinate amount of time must
be spent getting to Senate meetings. We would like to request that
Chuck Hedrick look into this and report back to the Senate. The use
of this technology in the committee’s meeting on October 19th illustrates
the usefulness of the idea and its possible payoff.” Secretary Swalagin
was instructed to draft a charge on this resolution for the January 2005
Executive Committee meeting, at which a committee will be selected to receive
the charge. Proposed charge: Review the resolution on facilitating
Senate participation through teleconference technology, and make recommendations
and/or additions as appropriate. Report to Senate Executive Committee
by February 11, 2005.
• Potential Charge to Equal Opportunity Committee
proposed by Senator Adam Cooper on FAIR v. Rumsfeld. Proposed charge:
Draft a recommendation on how the university should respond to the November
29, 2004 decision of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals regarding
the case of FAIR v. Rumsfeld. Consider the issue in light of University Senate
resolution on FAIR v. Rumsfeld, and to Implement Fully Rutgers University
Policy on Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action, adopted February
2004. View President
McCormick's response to the Senate's resolution on FAIR v. Rumsfeld.
• Potential Charge to Committee regarding Senator
Adam Cooper's Resolution in
Opposition to the Nomination of George Zoffinger to the Rutgers University
Board of Governors: The resolution introduced by Senator Cooper
on the Senate floor in October, and which was docketed for potential charging
to committee at this meeting, was tabled by the Executive Committee in November
2004 until the January 2005 Executive Committee meeting. Mr. Zoffinger
was appointed to the Board of Governors December 13, 2004, and has resigned
his position as Devco chair (but remains on Devco’s board), per a Home News
Tribune article.
5. January 21, 2005 University Senate Meeting Agenda
• New Brunswick Campus Report - Executive Vice
President for Academic Affairs Philip Furmanski
• 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
6. Old Business
• Follow-up on the Senate's October 2000 report on
Use of Social Security Numbers as Student Identification Numbers:
At its October 1, 2004 meeting, the Executive Committee asked Secretary
Swalagin to write to President McCormick forwarding the Senate report on use of Social
Security numbers as student identification numbers in anticipation
of a review of progress made on this issue at this meeting. The memo
sent to President McCormick notes that the Executive Committee will
review the response
of Mike McKay, Vice President for Information Technology, to Senator
Scott's request for an update, and that the Executive Committee may request
an administrative update on the issue at a subsequent meeting.
7. New Business
8. Adjournment