Rutgers University Senate Executive Committee Agenda, December 1, 2017

UNIVERSITY SENATE

Executive Committee

A G E N D A

December 1, 2017 - 12:00 noon
Cook Student Center Room 202 ABC, Cook Campus

AGENDA

1. Chair’s Report - Peter Gillett, Senate Chair

2. Secretary’s Report - Ken Swalagin, Executive Secretary of the Senate

Approval of Agenda
Approval of Minutes of November 3, 2017 Senate Executive Committee Meeting
Communications:

President Barchi's Response to Senate Response to Charge S-1404 on Revisions to University Policy Library
The following policies were recently updated and posted to https://policies.rutgers.edu/.

40.2.16 - Banking Relationship Policy https://policies.rutgers.edu/40216-currentpdf-0
30.1.1 - Safety Policies and Guidelines https://policies.rutgers.edu/3011-currentpdf-0
30.3.2 - Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act https://policies.rutgers.edu/3032-currentpdf-0
30.3.3 - Missing Student Notification https://policies.rutgers.edu/3033-currentpdf-0

[This item was mistakenly omitted from the previous meeting agenda.] Response/Links from Michael Van Stine regarding last-month's discussion of free speech/hate speech, and the Supreme Court of the United States position thereon
RBHS Chancellor Brian Strom asks that his chancellor's report to the Senate be rescheduled from December 8, 2017 to January 19, 2018

3. Administrative Report - Barbara Lee, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs

4. Old Business

Issue of ASRAC's continuing work on Charge S-1602, on Policies on Excused Student Absences for Religious Observance - Robert Schwartz and Matthew Winkler, ASRAC Co-chairs

The ASRAC has been charged as follows:

Policies on Excused Student Absences for Religious Observance: Consider Rutgers policies on excused student absences for religious observance, and make recommendations on how best to revise those policies in light of the increasing diversity of the Rutgers student body.

Schwartz said at the previous Executive Committee meeting that the ASRAC has not been allowed to meet with Rutgers attorneys on this charge, and that they are unable to proceed with work on this charge without that consultation. The Executive Committee directed that this be placed on this agenda under "Old Business." In the interim, ASRAC Co-chair Robert Schwartz submitted the response that appears below under "Committee Reports."

5. Committees/Panels

Charge Deadline Requests:

The University Structure and Governance Committee requests the following extensions of charge deadlines:

S-1501 to February 2018 [Due to Executive Committee January 23, 2018]

Eligibility, Nomination, and Election of Senate Leadership and Board Representatives: Consider and make recommendations on the eligibility of candidates, and the nomination process and schedule for election of Senate officers, Executive Committee members, and board representatives. Respond to Senate Executive Committee by June 2017. [Issued January 2015. Reissued June 2015, April 2016, March 2017]

S-1605 to February 2018 [Due to Executive Committee January 23, 2018]

Size and Composition of the Senate, Reviewed: As mandated in the December 2012 Senate Response to Charge S-1201, on Senate Size and Composition, reconsider the size and composition of the Senate. Respond to Senate Executive Committee by December 2017. [Issued April 2016. Reissued March 2017]

S-1607 to April 2018 [Due to Executive Committee April 3, 2018]

Senate Committee Structure Review: Consider and make recommendations for modifying the Senate's standing committee structure and standing charges. Respond to Senate Executive Committee by December 2017. [Issued June 2016.]

Committee Reports:

Budget and Finance Committee Chair Menahem Spiegel wants to present the BFC's Annual Report on the University Budget at the January 2018 Senate meeting.

Faculty and Personnel Affairs Committee (FPAC) Response to Charge A-1709 on Proposal to Improve Evaluation of Teaching at Rutgers - Joseph Markert and Alexander Settles, FPAC Co-chairs

The FPAC has been charged as follows:

Review the Proposal on a Program to Improve How Rutgers Evaluates Teaching, as well as input received from the Senate's Instruction, Curricula and Advising Committee (ICAC, Charge A-1708), and make appropriate recommendations.

Academic Standards, Regulations and Admissions Committee (ASRAC) "Preliminary Response" to Charge S-1714 on Enforcing the Academic Integrity Policy (Request for modification of the charge) - (Submitted by Robert Schwartz) Robert Schwartz and Matthew Winkler, ASRAC Co-chairs

The ASRAC has been charged as follows:

Review the current status of the educative and adjudication processes of the Offices of Student Conduct regarding infractions of the University Academic Integrity Policy. Identify areas of concern, and provide appropriate recommendations. Include in deliberations input received on this issue from the Senate's Student Affairs Committee (Charge S-1713).

Academic Standards, Regulations and Admissions Committee (ASRAC) Response to Charge S-1602 on Policies on Excused Student Absences for Religious Observance - (Submitted by Robert Schwartz) Robert Schwartz and Matthew Winkler, ASRAC Co-chairs

The ASRAC has been charged as follows:

Consider Rutgers policies on excused student absences for religious observance, and make recommendations on how best to revise those policies in light of the increasing diversity of the Rutgers student body.

Academic Standards, Regulations and Admissions Committee (ASRAC) Request for Reconsideration of President Barchi's Response to Senate Resolution on Charge S-1609 on Revisions to the Rutgers Academic Integrity Policy - Robert Schwartz and Matthew Winkler, ASRAC Co-chairs

When submitting this item, Schwartz wrote:

"At our committee meeting of November 10, 2017, members of ASRAC discussed our disappointment with President Barchi's response to the Senate resolution of 1/20/2017 on revisions to the Rutgers academic integrity policy and voted unanimously to request the Executive Committee to ask the President to reconsider his response. Our request, together with the rationale for it, is given in the attached memo, which was skillfully crafted by longtime ASRAC Chair Martha Cotter with a little help from my co-chair Matt Winkler, Bob Boikess, and myself."

6. Other Business

Briefing on OIT Technology Master Plan - Adrienne Esposito

7. University Senate Agenda

December 8, 2017 Senate Meeting:

Meeting to be held in New Brunswick
Briefing on OIT Technology Master Plan - Adrienne Esposito

8. Adjournment