1. Chairperson’s Report

• Draft standing-committee attendance warning letter for faculty, to be sent to continuing faculty Senators who did not attend at least half of last year’s assigned committee meetings

• Executive Committee Minutes of June 7, 2002
• Communications:
• Memorandum from President Francis Lawrence, dated June 12, 2002, regarding the Senate’s Resolution on Best Practices in Assessment of Teaching, referencing the advice of Drs. Monica Devanas and Gary Gigliotti of the Teaching Excellence Center on this subject.  Senate Report/Recommendations on Best Practices in Assessment of Teaching, as revised and submitted May 2002.
• Memorandum from University Vice President for Academic Affairs Joseph Seneca, dated July 10, 2002, regarding Deans’ Evaluations

• Administrative Report

• Chairs’ Caucus:  Introduction and General Discussion of Standing Committee Operations and Charges.  Review of Senate Committee Guide, Standing Charges, and Pending Charges
• Selection of co-chair for Academic Standards, Regulations and Admissions Committee - Last year’s co-chair, Roger Cowley, us unable to continue due to departmental chair responsibilities
• Selection of co-chair for Faculty Affairs and Personnel Committee - Last year’s co-chair, Barbara Lee, is not willing to continue this year.  Also, co-chair Paul Leath will be on sabbatical in the spring, and unable to serve.
• Draft Charge to Academic Standards, Regulations and Admissions Committee on Drop/Add Period Review:  "Review the past year of add/drop changes approved by the April 2001 Senate.  Evaluate add/drop-period changes as they affect graduate students.  Consider whether the graduate add/drop period should differ from that in place for undergraduates.  Report to Senate Executive Committee by January 2003."
• Draft Charge to Student Affairs Committee (submitted by T. DeRosa): "Review and provide recommendations on policies regarding the use of athletic facilities as rain sites or venues for non-athletic events (such as use of the Louis Brown Athletic Center (the RAC) as a rain site for RutgersFest and other similar University-wide events).  What athletic facilities are usually made available for non-athletic events?  How do these facilities tend to meet (or fail to meet) the needs of these events?  How do peer institutions with similar facilities share their resources?  Provide advice as to how these facilities can be best utilized by the University community at large.  This charge should be coordinated with Dean Pamela Johnston of the Office of Student Involvement and Ghada Endick, Director of Rutgers College Programs in the Office of Student leadership, Involvement and Programs, who have collected information on the use of athletic facilities at peer institutions.  Report to Senate Executive Committee by November 2002."
• Draft Charge to Faculty Affairs and Personnel Committee and/or Student Affairs Committee (submitted by T. DeRosa): "Examine the issue of faculty placement of textbook orders and its affect on book buyback prices.  Examine data on number of students utilizing University bookstores for textbook purchasing, differences in percentage of orders placed in advance by the end of the Spring and Fall semesters, differences in book buyback prices between books ordered in advance and those not, and effects of the timing of textbook orders on bookstore inventory and wholesale ordering issues.  Review or suggest University policy in this area and provide recommendations on methods of encouraging more advanced placement of textbook orders.  Report to Senate Executive Committee by November 2002 or January 2003."

• President’s State of the University Address
• Presentations of the Standing Committee Chairpersons

Enrollment Committee:  [See June 7, 2002 Executive Committee Minutes, Section #5, “Old Business”]

• Appointment of administrative co-chair
• Selection of faculty co-chair
• Vacancy for one Camden student member
• Discussion of possible re-selection of student members, per Senator DeRosa’s June 2002 comment to the Executive Committee that students did not have sufficient time to select members after some of those originally selected left Rutgers at the end of last academic year

8. Adjournment