RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY
UNIVERSITY SENATE

MINUTES: Regular Meeting of the University Senate

DATE: January 25, 2019

TIME AND PLACE: 1:10 p.m., Multipurpose Room, College Avenue Student Center, College Avenue Campus

MEMBERS PRESENT: Acosta, Ahmed, AlexanderFloyd, Alizadeh, Ardeshna, Aubert, Avallone, Awan, Balaguru, Barbarese, Barchi, Bhuyan, Boikess, Bora, Borisovets, BrewsterBauzyk, Bridgeman, Chunn, Cotter, Cummings, Cummings, Dasari, DeFabiis, DeFilippis, DiLalo, Dowlin, Dreyer, Ebert, Esposito, Fellenz, Field, Filippelli, Gillett, Giraud, Gould, Gower, Graber, Gursoy, Han, Hartman, Honeycutt, Hunter, Jarrin, Joergensen, Johnson, Junboonta, Kabia, Kaminskas, Kane, Kane, Kashalikar, Kettle, Kustka, Langer, LaPointe, Lema, Lewis, Lindboe, LoGrippo, Maglione-Rico, Mahajan-Cusack, Mammis, Marchetta, Markert, Marsic, Matto, McKeever, Murphy, Murphy, Nickitas, Norris, Norville, O'Brassill-Kulfan, O'Connor, Oleske, Oliver, Pandey, Pappas, Parrish, Parsa, M. Patel, S. Patel, Perez, Peyrek, Pichugin, Pinto-Figueroa, Porumbescu, Pradhan, Puar, Rabinowitz, Ravichandran, Raza, Rivera, Rothpletz-Puglia, Sanchez, Schwartz, Sen, Serrano, Sesti, Shah, Shapses, Shinbrot, Silver, Soto, Spiegel, Steinberg, Stopyra, Szatrowski, Tharney, Thompson, Thompson, Thuravil, Tracey, Trees, Tsakalakos, Van Stine, Vidal, Wilde, Yang, Zhang, Ziessler

EXCUSED: Abbasi, Atkins, Brunson, Bugel, Cole, D'Anna, Dane, Denham-Barrett, Emmons, Everett, Fagan, Goldfarb, Gonzalez, Goodman, Gross, Guo, Heckscher, Hunter-Fratzola, Kaye, Kelly, Kurtas, Langsam, Lee, Maloney, Mancini, Menifield, Miller, Paskhover, B. Patel, Powell, Puhak, Rosen, Saltzman, Shah, Song, Takhistov

ABSENT: Alidou, Alvarez, Artun, Barone, Bekdash, Butler, Butterfield, Cahill, Cantor, Carson, Carty, Chinn, Collins, Conway, Covington, Craig, Dettloff, Eastman, Eaton, Eisenstein, Estriplet, Farmbry, Farris, Feldman, Ganesh, Ghesani, Greenberg, Haddon, Halkitis, Hatefi, Holzemer, Iannini, Johnson, Kukor, Lei, Lindenmeyer, Little, Lombardi, Lopez, Lugg, Lutz, Mahon, Mansukhani, March, Masiello, Mazurek, MenaSegovia, Molloy, O'Neill, Pagan, Pardlo, Patton, Piotrowski, Ponzio, Potter, Potter, Rajan, Raval, Schiavo, Schneider, Shapiro, Sheridan, Stauffer, Strom, Struble, White, Williams

ATTENDANCE SUMMARY:   Faculty: Of 116 total: 68 present (59%), 21 excused (18%), 27 absent (23%); Students: Of 42 total: 25 present (60%), 8 excused (19%), 9 absent (21%); Administrators: Of 40 total: 5 present (13%), 5 excused (13%), 30 absent (75%); Staff: Of 19 total: 16 present (84%), 2 excused (11%),  1 absent (5%); Alumni: Of 6 total: 5 present (83%), 0 excused (0%), 1 absent (17%)
View Senate Attendance Record for this year

CALL TO ORDER, DETERMINATION OF A QUORUM, INTRODUCTION OF COMMITTEE CHAIRS AND CHARGES, AND CHAIR’S REPORT - Peter Gillett, Chair

Senate Chair Peter Gillett called the meeting to order at 1:10 p.m. in the Multipurpose Room of the College Avenue Student Center, College Avenue Campus, New Brunswick. He welcomed all to the first meeting of 2019 and highlighted the Administrative Report by President Barchi and then explained the process for the Committee of the Whole Discussion on the University Senate's Approach to Shared Governance at Rutgers, which were to happen later in the agenda.

REPORT OF THE SECRETARY - Mary Mickelsen, Executive Secretary 

ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT - Robert L. Barchi, President of the University

President Barchi presented an Administrative Report that included comments on: 

Gillett summarized the format and time limits for President Barchi's question and answer period. The President then responded to such topics as:

COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE DISCUSSION - Jon Oliver, Senate Vice Chair

The University Senate's Approach to Shared Governance at Rutgers

William Field, SAS-NB Faculty Senator, moved that the Senate enter committee of the whole. Gillett explained the procedure for committee-of-the-whole discussions. Field's motion was then seconded, and carried. Gillett appointed Jon Oliver as acting chair, and went to the Senate floor to participate in the discussion. There was considerable discussion on the issue, after which Gillett moved that the Senate rise from committee of the whole. His motion was adopted, and he resumed the chair

COMMITTEE REPORTS

University Structure and Governance Committee (USGC) Response to Charge S-1605: Size and Composition of the Senate, Reviewed - Jon Oliver, USGC Chair

The USGC has been charged as follows: 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 the Senate Executive Committee by October 2018.

USGC Chair Jon Oliver presented and summarized the USGC's Response to Charge S-1605 on Size and Composition of the Senate, Reviewed. Oliver then read the related resolutions, then answered questions which included the following:

After much discussion, for and against, the resolution was then voted on and failed.

At 3:40 Michael Van Stine called a point of order regarding the time limit for the meeting. Gillett then responded with a motion to extend the meeting for 1 hour to complete Senate business. The motion failed. All remaining business will be conducted at the February 15 meeting being held in Newark.


ADJOURNMENT 

The meeting adjourned at 3:44 p.m.