RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY
OF NEW JERSEY
UNIVERSITY SENATE
MINUTES: Regular Meeting of the University
Senate
DATE: March 24, 2017
TIME AND PLACE: 1:10 p.m., Multipurpose Room,
College Avenue Student Center, New Brunswick Campus
MEMBERS PRESENT: Alizadeh, Anaele, Ardeshna,
Artun, Balaguru, Barbarese, Barchi, Bekdash, Benford, Boikess,
Borisovets, Boruchoss, Bradshaw, Bugel, Chandler, Chang, Chayko,
Collins, Cotter, Craig, Cutler, Dana, Dane, Dasari, Davis, Desai,
Deshpande, Detloff, DiVito, Dreyer, Edwards, Fitzgerald-Bocarsly, Fox,
Gillett, Glover, Goh, Gursoy, Hart, Heckscher, D. Hughes, Huselid,
Jackson, A. Johnson, Joo, Joseph, Kalan, Kelly, Kelshikar, Kouraeva,
Krapivin, Kustka, Krutyansky, LaPointe, Lattime, Lee, Jane Lewis, Levy,
Linz, Lutz, Maloney, Marchetta, Marchick, Markert, Markosian, Mazurek,
Miranti, Moran, Moseray, Norville, O'Connell, Okada, Oleske, Oliver,
O'Neill, Otto, Pagan, Pandey, Pappas, Pirrello, C. Potter, Powell,
Puhak, Rabinowitz, Rivera, Romanchuk, Roth, Rothpletz-Puglia,
Rozenberg, Salazar, Saltzman, Samant, Schneider, Scoloveno, C. Scott,
K. Scott, Serrano, Settles, Shapses, Sheflin, Shinbrot, Soto, Spiegel,
Sulley, Szatrowski, Taillefer, Thomson, Thompson, Thornton, Toney-Boss,
Torres, Van Stine, Wakim, Wagner, Zurlo
EXCUSED: Bhuyan,
Bridgeman, Burley, Edward, Esposito, Field, Flores, Gould,
Junboonta, Mammis, McKeever, Mouradian, A. Patel, Pintar,
Schwartz, Shinn, Stepleton, Winkler
ABSENT: Barone, Brunson, Bubb, Butterfield,
Cahill, Calabrese, Cantor, Carrasco, Charles, Chen, Clark, Corio,
Collado-Garrido, Conway, Cooper, Covington, Delnevo, Diaz, Dizon,
Drachtman, Eastman, Eisenstein, Farmbry, Farris, Feldman, Fletcher,
Gabriel, Ganesh, Goodman, Goswami, Gower, Gross, Haddon, Hayton,
Holzemer, J. Hughes, Iannini, Jaffry, Janniger, Joergensen, D. Johnson,
R. Johnson, Kaptan, Kukor, Kuzma, Langer, Lei, Leibman, Jan Lewis,
Lindenmeyer, Lugg, Mahon, March, Marcone, Martinez, Meck, Nasr,
Nissen, Paneque, Parmar, Parvathaneni, D. Patel, K. Patel,
Ponzio, J. Potter, Robinson, Salmond, Santana, Schiavo, Scotto,
Settimo, Shapiro, Sheehan, Singh, Stauffer, Strom, Thomas, Upadhyay,
Van Ryzin, Wang, Wasserman
ATTENDANCE SUMMARY:
Faculty: Of 101 total: 69 present (68%),
10 excused (10%), 22 absent (22%); Students:
Of 48 total: 23 present (48%), 5 excused (10%), 20
absent (42%); Administrators: Of 42
total: 6
present (14%), 0 excused (0%), 36 absent (86%); Staff:
Of 17 total: 11 present (64%), 3
excused (17%), 3 absent (17%); Alumni:
Of 4
total: 4 present (100%), 0 excused (0%), 0 absent (0%)
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Attendance Record for this academic year
PRESIDING OFFICER: Peter Gillett, Chair
CALL TO ORDER, DETERMINATION OF A QUORUM, AND
CHAIR’S REPORT - Peter Gillett,
Chair
Senate Chairperson 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. Gillett's Chair's
Report
included comments on:
- appointment of the 2017-18 Senate Nominating Panel, to be chaired
this year by Senator Ann Gould;
- his recent email to Senators regarding attendance; and
- a summary of the meeting agenda.
SECRETARY'S
REPORT
- Ken
Swalagin, Executive Secretary
- Agenda: The meeting's agenda was
approved as distributed by the Executive Secretary.
- Minutes: The Minutes of the February
17, 2017 Senate Meeting were
approved as distributed by the Executive Secretary.
- Communications: The
following communications were presented by the Executive Secretary:
OLD BUSINESS
Student Affairs Committee (SAC) Revised Response to Charge
S-1305 on Smoke-Free Rutgers - Viktor Krapivin and Samuel Rabinowitz, SAC Co-chairs
Student Affairs Committee Co-chairs Viktor Krapivin presented the SAC
revised response to Charge S-1305 on Smoke-Free Rutgers. The report had
been presented at the November 2016 Senate meeting, where it was sent
back to the SAC for revision. Krapivin summarized the report and read
the resolution, which was then adopted by the Senate.
COMMITTEE REPORTS/RESOLUTIONS
Senate
Executive Committee Resolution
Endorsing the March for Science -
Robert Boikess, Executive Committee Member, presenting on behalf of the
Executive Committee
Senate Executive Committee Member Robert Boikess, on behalf of the
Executive Committee, presented a Resolution Endorsing the March for
Science, which was discussed and adopted unanimously.
Budget and Finance Committee (BFC)
Annual Report on the Rutgers University Budget - Menahem
Spiegel, BFC Chair
Budget and Finance Committee Chair Menahem Spiegel, and BFC Member
Charles Heckscher presented the Annual Report on the Rutgers University
Budget, and responded to questions, or heard comments relating to the
report.
Committee-of-the-Whole Discussion on
Free Speech and Academic Freedom
Senate Parliamentarian Jon Oliver assumed the chair while
Gillett went to the Senate floor to participate in the
committee-of-the-whole discussion on free speech and academic freedom.
The Senate moved to committee-of-the-whole on Michael Van Stine's
motion. A lengthy discussion ensued, after which Gillett successfully
moved that the Senate rise from committee-of-the-whole, and resumed the
chair.
ADMINISTRATIVE
REPORT
- Robert Barchi, University President
University President Robert Barchi presented
an administrative report, commenting on topics including:
- his appreciation for the discussion on free speech and academic
freedom, and for the Budget and Finance Committee's report on the
Rutgers budget, as well as administrative efforts in both areas;
- student achievements and awards;
- athletic teams' recent victories;
- increased national rankings of the newly merged Rutgers School of
Law; and
- the federal budget.
Barchi then responded to questions, or heard comments, on the above
subjects, as well as:
- Cornerstone issues;
- administrative support for student governing associations;
- budget transparency;
- his response to the Senate report on contingent faculty;
- athletics funding and the Big Ten;
- Rutgers' acceptable use policy, and related email privacy issues;
and
- potential for a student policy library.
PRESENTATION
ON PUBLIC SAFETY - Kenneth Cop, Executive Director of Police
Services
Executive Director of Police Services Kenneth Cop presented a report on
public safety at Rutgers, and responded to related questions.
[The meeting time was extended to 4:10 p.m.]
SENATE EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEE
REPORT - Senate Vice Chair Robert Puhak reported on the March 3,
2017 meeting and activities of the Senate Executive Committee.
REPORTS
OF THE REPRESENTATIVES TO BOARDS OF GOVERNORS AND TRUSTEES:
There had been no Board of Governors
meeting since the previous Senate meeting. Senator Asha
Samant, Faculty Representative
to the Board of Trustees, reported on the March 8
Board of Trustees meeting.
REPORTS OF CAMPUS FACULTY AND STUDENT
LIAISONS:
Senator
Viktor Krapivin, New
Brunswick
Student
Member
of the Senate Executive Committee, reported on New Brunswick student
governing association activities.
ADJOURNMENT:
Gillett reminded the Senate that the next Senate meeting would be held
at the Busch Student Center. The meeting adjourned
at 4:10 p.m.
Minutes Written and Submitted by,
Ken Swalagin
Executive Secretary of the University Senate