UNIVERSITY SENATE

UNIVERSITY SENATE

Executive Committee

AGENDA

March 15, 2002 - 1:10 p.m.

1. Chairperson’s Report

2. Secretary’s Report

Executive Committee Minutes of February 15, 2002
Proposed Schedule of 2002-03 Senate and Senate Executive Committee meetings, and consideration of temporary suspension of Senate meetings on Newark or Camden Campus due to loss of funding for transportation due to budget cuts

Memorandum from University Vice President Seneca to Secretary Swalagin, dated February 18, 2002, responding to inquiry regarding University policy on monitoring employee e-mail
Memoranda to Provosts Samuels and Dennis, and to New Brunswick Deans, from University Vice President Seneca, dated February 28, 2002, regarding Committee to Advance Our Common Purposes Curriculum Task Force Recommendations
Memorandum from President Lawrence to Chairperson Scott, dated March 4, 2002, regarding University Healthcare Insurance for Graduate Students
Phone conversation with Shirley Everett of UVP Seneca’s office regarding faculty complaints about loss of two Saturday classes during Spring Break (docketed below under "Potential Charges")
E-mail from Thomas DeRosa, Student Senator, to Executive Committee, dated March 8, 2002, requesting Senate action on General Honors Program requirements (docketed below under "Potential Charges")

3. Administrative Liaison

4. Selection and Charge of Nominating Committee for April 2002 Election of Officers

5. Standing Committee Reports and Potential Charges

Committee Reports:

Student Affairs Committee, Michael Dimond and Todd Slawsky, Co-chairs

Subject: Report on Charge S-0201, Evaluation of the NJ Department of Health’s "Get Off Your Butts" Smoking Cessation and Prevention Program

Subject: Report on Charge S-0202A, Input to Budget and Finance Committee work on Charge S-0202 on Evaluation of Parking and Transportation Services

University Structure and Governance Committee, Joseph Blasi and Kathleen Scott, Co-chairs

Subject: Report on Charge A-0102, Review the Proposal to Establish Rutgers University College of Applied and Professional Studies (RU-CAPS). (Draft Proposal revised January 2002.)

Equal Opportunity Committee, Liza Saniefard and Pheroze Wadia, Co-chairs

Subject: Unnumbered charge from Senate floor January 25, 2002 regarding the Iranian faculty strike. From a March 7, 2002 e-mail from Pheroze Wadia to Ken Swalagin: “The Equal Opportunity Committee has ruled that the issue of a labor dispute does not fall within the purview of our committee and for that reason the committee is not the appropriate place wherein to formulate a resolution in the matter of the alleged Iranian Faculty Strike. This does not preclude any of our committee members gathering information on this matter and reporting it to the Executive Committee or the Full Senate.”

Potential Charges:

To Academic Standards, Regulations and Admissions Committee regarding loss of two Saturday classes due to scheduling of Spring Break
To Equal Opportunity Committee regarding Office Cleaners at Rutgers-Newark and the New Jersey Collective Bargaining Agreement (issue raised by nonsenators at March 1, 2002 Senate meeting). Senate Policy concerning the Collective Bargaining Process.
To Academic Standards, Regulations and Admissions Committee regarding General Honors Program requirements (per communication, above, from Senator DeRosa)

6. Old Business

Report on survey of administrative e-mail list moderators - Ken Swalagin

7. New Business

8. April 5 Senate Meeting Agenda

9. Adjournment