1. Chairperson’s Report

2. Secretary’s Report

• Executive Committee Minutes of October 5, 2001 [http://senate.rutgers.edu/ec100501.html]
• Question regarding scheduling of next year’s State of the University Address:  Docket for first Senate meeting in New Brunswick, or second Senate meeting in Newark?
• Communications:
• Memorandum from Joseph J. Seneca, University Vice President for Academic Affairs, dated October 29, 2001, regarding the Senate's Resolution on FASIP Disclosure [http://senate.rutgers.edu/jjsfasip.html]
• E-mail from Senator John Gillis to Kathleen Scott, dated October 30, 2001, requesting information on policy guidelines for use of administrative e-mail listserv.
• E-mail from Senator Clint Daniels, dated October 30, 2001, asking if a copy of the Facilities Master Plan for Livingston Campus is "available to the general student body for review and comments."

• Administrative Report

Committee Report:  Equal Opportunity Committee, Liza Saniefard and Pheroze Wadia, Co-chairs
Subject:  Endorsement of Equal Marriage Resolution  [http://senate.rutgers.edu/equalmar.html]

Potential Charges:

• To Budget and Finance Committee on Senator Rudy Bell’s question regarding how Summer Session revenues are distributed.

• To Budget and Finance Committee regarding the committee’s own list of potential action areas for the year.  Committee Co-Chair Michael Hamm asks, “Would you please review this list and let us know 1) that the items are appropriate for our committee, and, if so, 2) make any formal charges that need to be made?”  The list includes the following topics:
• Safety issues
• Access to recreational space parking and transportation
• Facilities Master Plan review
• Enrollment trends and how to manage
• Potential budget cuts and budgets
• Investment policy

• Budget and Finance Committee requests extension of deadline on Charge S-0111, “Examine and report on tuition and fee increases at other public AAU institutions…”  Charge prompted by Senator Avram Fechter's August 2001 e-mail on this issue.  Original deadline November 2, 2001.

• Regarding Senator John Gillis’s question regarding what policy guidelines are in place for use of Administrative_Email, especially concerning sports promotion.

• Status of CAPS Proposal

• 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.  Dr. Seneca's memo is listed above under "Communications."  The original Committee Report and Resolution are also online.

• 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.

Discussion of a program described by Corinne Webb to the Academic Coordinating Council, which is proposed to offer students “who are otherwise inadmissible” admission to a community college, and Rutgers as a transfer student after completing an AA degree, with the proviso that they must take certain courses and maintain a certain average.

7. November 30 Senate Meeting Agenda

• Camden and Newark Campus Reports