RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY
OF NEW JERSEY
UNIVERSITY SENATE
MINUTES: Regular Meeting of the University
Senate
DATE: April 28, 2017
TIME AND PLACE: 11:30 p.m., Multipurpose Room,
Busch
Student Center, Busch Campus
MEMBERS PRESENT: Anaele, Ardeshna, Artun,
Balaguru, Barbarese, Bekdash, Bhuyan, Boikess, Borisovets, Bridgeman,
Bugel, Carraso, Chandler, Collins, Cotter, Craig, Dana, Dane, Dasari,
Desai, deshpande, DiVito, Dixon, Dreyer, Eisenstein, Esposito, Ferrara,
Field, Fitzgerald-Bocarsly, Fletcher, Fox, Gillett, Glover, Gould,
Gross, Gursoy, Jackson, Joergensen, A. Johnson, Joseph, Junboonta,
Kelly, Kelshikar, Krapivin, Kustka, Krutyansky, Langer, Lattime, Linz,
Lugg, Lutz, Mammis, Jarchetta, Marchick, Markert, Markosian, Mazurek,
McKeever, Moseray, Mouradian, Oliver, O'Neill, Pappas, Pintar, Puhak,
Rabinowitz, Rivera, Roth, Rothpletz-Puglia, Salazar, Saltzman, Samant,
Schwartz, Scoloveno, Settimo, Settles, Shapses, Sheflin, Shinn, Soto,
Spiegel, Stepleton, Thomson, Thompson, Toney-Boss, Van Stine, Wagner,
Wang, Winkler
EXCUSED: Barchi,
Boruchoff, Brunson, Burley, Chayko, Davis, Dettloff, Hart,
Heckscher, Kaptan, Kalan, LaPointe, Levy, Maloney, Miranti,
Nissen, Okada, Oleske, Otto, Pagan, Parvathaneni, Pirrello, Ponzio,
Powell, Rozenberg, Schneider, C. Scott, K. Scott, Shinbrot,
Torres, Zurlo
ABSENT: Alizadeh, Barone, Benford, Blanchett,
Bradshaw, Bubb, Butterfield, Cahill, Calabrese, Cantor, Chang, Charles,
Chen, Coiro, Collado-Garrido, Conway, Cooper, Covington, Cutler,
Delnevo, Diaz, Drachtman, Eastman, Edward, Edwards, Farmbry, Farris,
Feldman, Flores, Gabriel, Ganesh, Goh, Gonzalez, Goodman, Goswami,
Gower, Grant, Haddon, Hayton, Holzemer, D. Hughes, J. Hughes, Huselid,
Iannini, Jaffry, Janniger, D. Johnson, R. Johnson, Joo, Kouraeva,
Kukor, Kuzma, Lee, Lei, Leibman, Jan Lewis, Jane Lewis, Lindenmeyer,
Mahon, March, Marcone, Martinez, Meck, Moran, Nasr, Norville,
O'Connell, Paneque, Pandey, Parmar, A. Patel, D. Patel, K. Patel, C.
Potter, J. Potter, Robinson, Romanchuk, Salmond, Santana, Schiavo,
Scotto, Serrano, Shapiro, Sheehan, Singh, Stauffer, Strom, Sulley,
Szatrowski, Taillefer, Thomas, Thornton, Upadhyay, Van Ryzin, Wakim,
Wasserman
ATTENDANCE SUMMARY:
Faculty: Of 103 total: 57 present (55%),
19 excused (18%), 27 absent (26%); Students:
Of 50 total: 18 present (36%), 5 excused (10%), 27
absent (54%); Administrators: Of 42
total: 0
present (0%), 4 excused (9.5%), 38 absent (90%); Staff:
Of 16 total: 12 present (75%), 2
excused (12.5%), 2 absent (12.5%); Alumni:
Of 4
total: 2 present (50%), 1 excused (25%), 1 absent (25%)
TIME AND PLACE: 1:10 p.m., Multipurpose Room, Busch
Student Center, Busch Campus
MEMBERS PRESENT: Alizadeh, Anaele, Ardeshna,
Balaguru, Barbarese, Bekdash, Benford, Bhuyan, Boikess, Borisovets,
Bridgeman, Bugel, Carrasco, Chandler, Collins, Cotter, Craig, Dana,
Dane, Dasari, Desai, Deshpande, DiVito, Dixon, Dreyer, Esposito,
Gerrara, Field, Fitzgerald-Bocarsly, Fletcher, Fox, Gillett, Glover,
Gould, Gower, Gross, Gursoy, D. Hughes, Jackson, Joergensen, A.
Johnson, Joo, Joseph, Junboonta, Kelly, Kelshikar, Jouraeva, Krapivin,
Kustka, Krutyansky, Lee, Linz, Lutz, Maloney, Mammis, Marchetta,
Marchick, Markert, Markosian, McKeever, Moseray, Norville, O'Connell,
Oliver, O'Neill, Pappas, Pintar, Puhak, Rabinowitz, Rivera, Roth,
Rothpletz-Puglia, Salazar, Saltzman, Samant, Schwartz, Scoloveno,
Settimo, Settles, Shapses, Sheflin, Shinn, Soto, Spiegel, Stepleton,
Szatrowski, Thomson, Thompson, Toney-Boss, Van Stine, Wakim, Wagner,
Wang, Winkler
EXCUSED: Barchi,
Boruchoff, Brunson, Burley, Chayko, Davis, Dettloff, Hart, Heckscher,
Kaptan, Kalan, LaPointe, Levy, Miranti, Nissen, Okada, Oleske,
Otto, Pagan, Parvathaneni, Pirrello, Ponzio, Powell, Rozenberg,
Schneider, C. Scott, K. Scott, Shinbrot, Torres, Zurlo
ABSENT: Arun, Barone, Blanchett, Bradshaw, Bubb,
Butterfield, Cahill, Calabrese, Cantor, Chang, Charles, Chen, Corio,
Collado-Garrido, Conway, Cooper, Covington, Cutler, Delnevo, Diaz,
Drachtman, Eastman, Edward, Edwards, Eisenstein, Farmbry, Farris,
Feldman, Flores, Gabriel, Ganesh, Goh, Gonzalez, Goodman, Goswami,
Grant, Haddon, Hayton, Holzemer, J. Hughes, Huselid, Iannini, Jaffry,
Janniger, D. Johnson, R. Johnson, Kukor, Kuzma, Langer, Lattime, Lei,
Leibman, Jan Lewis, Jane Lewis, Lindenmeyer, Lugg, Mahon, March,
Marcone, Martinez, Mazurek, Meck, Moran, Mouradian, Nasr, Paneque,
Pandey, Parmar, A. Patel, D. Patel, K. Patel, C. Potter, J. Potter,
Robinson, Romanchuk, Salmond, Santana, Schiavo, Scotto, Serrano,
Shapiro, Sheehan, Singh, Stauffer, Strom, Sulley, Taillefer, Thomas,
Thornton, Upadhyay, Van Ryzin, Wasserman
ATTENDANCE SUMMARY:
Faculty: Of 103 total: 56 present (54%),
19 excused (18%), 28 absent (27%); Students:
Of 50 total: 19 present (38%), 5 excused (10%), 26
absent (52%); Administrators: Of 42
total: 3
present (7%), 3 excused (7%), 36 absent (86%); Staff:
Of 16 total: 12 present (75%), 2
excused (12.5%), 2 absent (12.5%); Alumni:
Of 4
total: 3 present (75%), 1 excused (25%), 0 absent (0%)
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Attendance Record for this academic year
PRESIDING OFFICER: Peter Gillett, Chair
CALL TO ORDER, AND CHAIRPERSON'S REPORT - Peter Gillett,
Chair
Senate Chair Peter Gillett called the last regular meeting of the
2016-17
University Senate to order at 11:30 a.m., after
adjournment of the 2017-18 Senate organizational (election) meeting,
and before the
lunch break.
He explained that Senators would need to sign in again after the lunch
break. He said it was his pleasure to serve as chair during the past
year, and thanked all for their support. He then extended best wishes
to those not returning.
SECRETARY'S REPORT
- Ken Swalagin, Executive Secretary of the
Senate
- Agenda: The meeting agenda was
presented by the executive secretary, who asked for its approval.
Viktor Krapivin moved to amend the agenda to add an emergency
resolution urging the Rutgers administration to actively support those
threatened by ICE. There was considerable debate on the matter,
including a challenge to the chair's ruling that it would not be added
to the already very crowded agenda, and that it could be brought back
at another time. By a vote of 38 to 24, the chair's ruling was upheld.
Krapivin persisted in debating the agenda. By a vote of 48 in favor, 15
opposed, the agenda was approved as distributed by the executive
secretary.
- Minutes: The March 24, 2017 Senate
Minutes were approved as
presented by the executive secretary.
- Communications: The
following communications were presented by the executive secretary:
COMMITTEE REPORTS
Ad
Hoc Committee on Senate-Meeting Web Streaming Response
to Charge S-1606 on Senate-Meeting Web Streaming -
Ann Gould, Ad Hoc Committee Chair
Ad Hoc Senate-Meeting Web Streaming Committee Chair Ann Gould
summarized her committee's response to Charge S-1606 on Senate-Meeting
Web Streaming. Viktor Krapivin moved to remand the report back to
committee to include a recording of individual Senators' votes. Debate
on the motion began, but lunch recess began at 12:00 noon, after a
motion to continue debate and shorten the lunch break failed to achieve
the required two-thirds vote.
Recess: The Senate recessed for
lunch, to reconvene at 1:10 p.m.
Reconvene: The Senate
reconvened at 1:10 p.m.
Ad
Hoc Committee on Senate-Meeting Web Streaming Response
to Charge S-1606 on Senate-Meeting Web Streaming
(Continued)-
Ann Gould, Ad Hoc Committee Chair
Debate continued on Charge S-1606 on Senate-Meeting
Web Streaming. Attempts were made to amend the report to require
specific numbers of cameras, and which procedures should be captured
and streamed. The question was called on whether to recommit the report
to committee. The motion to remand the report back to committee failed.
Tyrus Jackson moved the following amendment: "The camera will capture
the Senate body, the two subsidiary microphones, and the dais proceeds
on a trial basis." Gould pointed out that this was being recommended on
a trial basis, and that it could evolve after a trial period and
perhaps an additional committee charge. Others noted that the trial
period was for six months, after which the process could be
re-evaluated and modified. The question was called. The motion to amend
failed on card vote. The report on Charge S-1606 was then adopted by
the Senate in its original form.
RESOLUTION IN APPRECIATION OF MARTHA COTTER'S SENATE SERVICE:
Peter
Gillett read the following statement, which was presented to
Martha Cotter on an engraved clock, commemorating her upcoming
retirement:
"Rutgers,
The State University of New Jersey, and The Rutgers University Senate,
hereby present, with Gratitude, to Martha Cotter, In appreciation of
her 45 years of service to the Rutgers Community, decades as a Member
of the Rutgers University Senate, and years as a Senate Chair, and in
recognition of her many contributions to higher education and shared
governance at Rutgers.April 2017"
Student
Affairs Committee (SAC) Response to Charge S-1611 on Examination of
University Policy on Student Use of Drugs and Alcohol [Note: Link
goes to report as amended and adopted.] -
Viktor Krapivin and Samuel Rabinowitz, SAC Co-Chairs
SAC Co-chair Viktor Krapivin summarized his committee's response to
Charge S-1611 on Examination of University Policy on Student Use of
Drugs and Alcohol. Following some debate, Robert Puhak moved to
separate the seven elements of the resolution, to be considered
individually. The first "Be It Resolved" element was adopted. The first
numbered element under "Be It Further Resolved" (..."abandon the
recently introduced use of monetary fines as punishments for drug and
alcohol offenses") failed, and was removed. The remaining five elements
were adopted as presented.
Instruction,
Curricula, and Advising Committee (ICAC) Response to Charge S-1510 on
Student Teaching Evaluations, and Best Practices in Evaluation of
Teaching - Natalie Borisovets, ICAC Chair
ICAC Chair Natalie Borisovets summarized her committee's response to
Charge S-1510 on Student Teaching Evaluations, and Best Practices in
Evaluation of Teaching. The Faculty and Personnel Affairs Committee
(FPAC) had also participated in formulating this response, and its
co-chairs, Joseph Markert and Alexander Settles, were also presented at
the podium and participated in the presentation. Robert Puhak
successfully moved to separate the recommendations into: 1 through 8
together, and 9, 10, and 11 separately. Krapivin's motion to append an
additional element ("Be It Further Resolved that the University Senate
recommends the release of anonymized responses for all questions,
including open ended questions, on the SIRS survey to Rutgers
University students.") failed. The resolution, as separated, was then
voted on in two parts, both of which carried.
Motion to Extend the Meeting:
At 3:00 p.m., Gillett noted that the overall meeting time limit of 2.5
hours would expire in ten minutes, and asked for a motion to extend to
4:10 p.m. The motion was forthcoming, seconded, and adopted.
Faculty
and Personnel Affairs Committee (FPAC) Response to Charge S-1512 on
Staff Promotion and Salary Adjustment Policy - Joseph
Markert and Alexander Settles, FPAC Co-chairs
FPAC Co-chairs Alexander Settles and Joseph Markert summarized their
committee's response to Charge S-1512 on Staff Promotion and Salary
Adjustment Policy. Following brief discussion, the resolution was
adopted unanimously.
Academic
Standards, Regulations and Admissions Committee (ASRAC) Response to
Charge S-1506 on RBHS and Other Rutgers Academic Calendars -
Martha Cotter and Matthew Winkler, ASRAC Co-chairs
ASRAC Co-chairs Martha Cotter and Matthew Winkler summarized their
committee's response to Charge S-1506 on RBHS and Other Rutgers
Academic Calendars. Following brief discussion, the resolution was
adopted unanimously.
Academic
Standards, Regulations and Admissions Committee (ASRAC) Response to
Charge A-1610 on Change in Graduation Date for Students Completing
Degrees in the Summer - Martha Cotter and Matthew Winkler,
ASRAC Co-chairs
ASRAC Co-chairs Martha Cotter and Matthew Winkler summarized their
committee's response to Charge A-1610 on Change in Graduation Date for
Students Completing Degrees in the Summer. The resolution was
then adopted unanimously.
NEW BUSINESS: There was no new
business.
ADMINISTRATIVE
REPORT - Barbara Lee, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs
Senior Vice President for
Academic Affairs Barbara Lee
presented an Administrative Report
that included comments on:
- Martha Cotter's service to Rutgers
University;
- Rutgers Day;
- the recently issued Report
of the Academic
Unit Organization Committee;
- the March for Science, at which Rutgers was
well-represented;
- Deba Dutta, the new New Brunswick
Chancellor;
- creation of the School of Graduate Studies
as of July 1, 2017; and
- student achievements, including fundraising
events, awards (including Viktor Krapivin's receipt of a Goldwater
Scholarship), and athletics victories.
Lee then responded to questions, or heard comments, on the above
topics, as well as:
- threats to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA); and
- the Dental Clinic at Rutgers School of Dental Medicine.
SENATE EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEE
REPORT - Senate Vice Chair Robert Puhak did not report on
Executive Committee activities, but did make comments on social
justice, and noted that this was his last meeting as vice chair.
REPORTS
OF THE REPRESENTATIVES TO BOARDS OF GOVERNORS AND TRUSTEES:
Senator Samuel Rabinowitz, Faculty Representative to the Board of
Governors, praised Martha Cotter for her service to Rutgers, including
as Senate chair and board representative. He reported on the April 6,
2017 Board of Governors meeting, at which ASB-III, the current location
of the University Senate office, was approved to be repurposed and
occupied solely by the Division of Continuing Studies. Senator
Asha Samant, 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: There were no reports on campus faculty or student
shared governance bodies.
ANNOUNCEMENT OF ELECTION RESULTS:
Swalagin announced the results of the Senate election held that morning.
ADJOURNMENT:
Before adjourning, Gillett thanked Swalagin and Mary Mickelsen, the
Senate's administrative assistant. The meeting
adjourned
at 3:54 p.m.
Minutes Written and Submitted by,
Ken Swalagin
Executive Secretary of the University Senate