U. Senate Executive Committee Agenda, October 21, 2011

UNIVERSITY SENATE
Executive Committee

A G E N D A
October 21, 2011 - 1:10 p.m.

1. Chairpersons' Report

2. Secretary’s Report

Approval of Agenda
Approval of Minutes of September 9, 2011 Senate Executive Committee Meeting
Communications:
- Email from Richard L. Edwards, Interim Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, postponing Decanal Review of Dean Christopher Malloy, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy
- Response from Ken Swalagin, Executive Secretary of the University Senate, to Request to Lengthen Winter Break this Academic Year [Note: The email to which this replies contains some personal information from the sender, and is therefore not being posted. It will be summarized by Ken Swalagin at the meeting.]

3. Administrative Liaison

Administrative Report - Richard L. McCormick, President

4. Standing Committees

Committee Reports:

Student Affairs Committee Response to Charge S-1005 on Alma Mater - The SAC had been charged as follows:

Explore and make suggestions for possible revisions to the current Rutgers University Alma Mater, "On the Banks of the Old Raritan." Consider the Student Caucus rationale suggesting the need for this charge.

Issues/Proposed Charges:

Proposal and Charge to Research, and Graduate and Professional Education Committee (RGPEC), submitted by RGPEC Co-chair Gayle Stein, on publication repository:

Examine the possibility of a Rutgers-specific, centrally driven publication repository for published papers and books. Provide data about similar services at peer and aspirant universities.

5. University Senate November 4, 2011 Agenda

Meeting to be held in Newark, and will include:

Newark Campus Report - Steven Diner, Chancellor
Bus to/from Camden/New Brunswick will be chartered.
Funding for lunch?

6. Old Business

Student Self-Reporting Absence Application - Barry Qualls, Vice President for Undergraduate Education

7. New Business

Discussion of Deans' Evaluation Scheduling and Progress - Robert Goodman, SEBS Executive Dean

8. Adjournment