RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY
OF NEW JERSEY
UNIVERSITY SENATE
MINUTES: Regular Meeting of the University
Senate
DATE: February 16, 2018
TIME AND PLACE: 1:10 p.m., Multipurpose Room,
Camden Campus Center, Camden Campus
MEMBERS PRESENT: Ahmed, Arezzi, Bagniewski,
Barbarese, Bhatnagar, Bhuyan, Boikess, Borisovets, Bugel, Chang,
Chayko, Chulak, Civile, Craig, Dana, D'Anna, Dane, Dasari, DiVito, Dreyer,
Emmons, Fagan, Fellenz, Field, Fitzgerald-Bocarsly, Gillett, Goldfarb,
Haddon, Hartman, Joergensen, A. Johnson, Junboonta, E. Kane, Keddis,
Krapivin, Kustka, Langer, LaPointe, Leavy, B. Lee, Lindboe, Linz,
Maloney, Mammis, Manyaga, Markert, Matto, K. Murphy, Nash, Norville,
O'Brassill-Kulfan, Oleske, Oliver, O'Neill, Owens, Pappas, Parsa, M.
Patel, K. Powell, Puhak, Rabinowitz, Rivera, Ross, Saltzman, Schwartz,
Serrano, Settles, Shapses, Sheflin, Sinn, Spiegel, Takhistov, Tharney,
Thompson, Thomson, Toney-Boss, Tracey, Tsakalakos, Van Stine,
Warburton, Wilde, Winkler, Zapata, Ziessler
EXCUSED:
Battle-Brown, Barchi, Bekdash, Bora, Boruchoff, Bradley,
Bridgeman, Burley, Cummings, DeFilippis, Denham-Barrett,
Esposito, Filippelli, Fox, Gould, Graber, Gross, Honeycutt, Joseph, C.
Kane, Kelly, Kettle, Langsam, C. Lee, LoGrippo, Lulla, Lutz, Mazurek,
McKeever, Miller, Nitzsche, Padgett, Pandey, Pantazis, Pardlo, Shivane
Patel, Patrick, Patton, Phadke, Pichugin, Pintar, Resnick,
Rothpletz-Puglia, Samant, Schneider, Scoloveno, Shah, Soto, Zurlo
ABSENT: Abayhan, Alidou, Ardeshna, Artun,
Balaguru, Barone, Blanchett, Brunson, Bubb, Cahill, Cantor, Chen,
Coiro, Collins, Conway, Covington, Desphande, Dettloff, Dixon,
Drachtman, Dutta, Eastman, Eaton, Eisenstein, Eng, Farmbry, Farris,
Feldman, Fletcher, Gabriel, Ganesh, Ghate, Ghesani, Goh, Gonzalez,
Goodman, Gower, Greenberg, Halkitis, Hatefi, Heckscher, Hernandez,
Holzemer, Iannini, Ivanovski, R. Johnson, Kasichainula, Khattab, Kukor,
Lasala, Levy, Lei, Lewis, Lindenmeyer, Lugg, Mahon, March, Marchetta,
Marchick, Masiello, Minsky, Moran, B. Murphy, Novelli, Pagan, A. Patel,
Suja Patel, Ponzio, C. Potter, J. Potter, H. Powell, Pradhan, Roberts,
Robinson, Sanchez, Schiavo, Sen, Sheridan, Shinbrot, Siddiqui,
Stauffer, Steinberg, Strom, Szatrowski, Thomas
ATTENDANCE SUMMARY:
Faculty: Of 110 total: 47 present (43%),
33 excused (30%), 30 absent (27%); Students:
Of 48 total: 21 present (44%), 10 excused (21%), 17
absent (35%); Administrators: Of 40
total: 3
present (7.5%), 2 excused (5%), 34 absent (85.5%); Staff:
Of 18 total: 10 present (56%), 4
excused (22%), 4 absent (22%); Alumni:
Of 6
total: 4 present (67%), 1 excused (16%), 1 absent (16%)
View Senate
Attendance Record for this academic year
CALL TO ORDER, DETERMINATION OF
QUORUM, AND CHAIRPERSON’S REPORT - Peter Gillett, Chair
Senate Chair Peter Gillett called the meeting to order at 1:14 p.m. in
the
Camden Campus Center Multipurpose Room, Camden Campus. He welcomed
everyone to the Camden Campus and thanked Chancellor Phoebe Haddon and
her staff for hosting
and for
providing lunch. He also gave a progress report on the Executive
Secretary of the Senate search.
SECRETARY'S REPORT
- Mary Mickelsen, Interim Executive Secretary
- Agenda: The meeting's agenda was
approved by the Senate as distributed.
- Minutes: The Minutes of the January
19, 2018 Senate Meeting were
approved as distributed by the Interim Executive Secretary.
- Communications: The
following communication was presented to the Senate:
COMMITTEE
REPORTS
Faculty
and Personnel Affairs Committee (FPAC) Response to Charge S-1707 on
Stipend or Course Release Payment for PTL Senators - Joseph Markert
and Alexander Settles, FPAC Co-chairs
The FPAC was charged as follows: Consider
the role of part-time lecturers (PTLs) in shared governance at Rutgers,
investigating policies at other Big Ten institutions as well as the
unique circumstances at Rutgers University. Make recommendations
regarding adequate participation with appropriate incentives.
FPAC Co-chairs Joseph Markert and
Alexander Settles
presented
and summarized the FPAC's Response to Charge S-1707 on Stipend or
Course Release Payment for PTL Senators. There was no
debate, and the resolution carried unanimously.
CAMDEN
CHANCELLOR'S REPORT - Camden Chancellor Phoebe Haddon
Camden
Chancellor Phoebe Haddon presented the Camden Chancellor's
Report. The
presentation on that report is
linked above. Haddon then
responded to questions, or heard comments, on the report and related
issues.
ADMINISTRATIVE
REPORT - Senior Vice President for
Academic Affairs Barbara Lee
Senior Vice President Lee presented an Administrative Report
that included comments on:
Lee then responded to
questions, or heard comments, on the above subjects, as well as the
implementation of criminal background checks for new hires and the
recent wage increase for student employees.
SENATE EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEE
REPORT - Senate Vice Chair Jon Oliver reported on the February 2, 2018 meeting
and activities of the Senate Executive Committee.
REPORTS
OF THE REPRESENTATIVES TO BOARDS OF GOVERNORS AND TRUSTEES:
Senator Samuel Rabinowitz, Faculty Representative to the Board of
Governors, reported on the January 29 and February 7, 2018 Board of
Governors
meetings. Senator Robert Schwartz, Faculty Representative to the
Board of Trustees, reported that there had been no Board
of Trustees meeting since the previous Senate meeting.
CAMPUS FACULTY AND STUDENT LIAISON
REPORTS:
Senator Perry Dane, Camden Faculty Council Chair,
reported
on that group's recent plans and activities. Camden Student Senator
Michael Van Stine reported on
recent Camden student plans and activities. Senator Sanjib Bhuyan, New
Brunswick Faculty Council Chair, reported
on that
group's plans and their January 26, 2018 meeting. Senator Viktor
Krapivin, New
Brunswick Student
Member
of the Senate Executive Committee, reported on New Brunswick student
governing association activities. Senator Patricia
Fitzgerald-Bocarsly, RBHS Faculty Council Chair, reported on their
recent plans and activities to include the launch of their new
website.
ADJOURNMENT:
The meeting
adjourned
at 2:29 p.m.
Minutes Written and Submitted by,
Mary Mickelsen
Interim Executive Secretary of the University Senate