RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY
OF NEW JERSEY
UNIVERSITY SENATE
MINUTES: Regular Meeting of the University
Senate
DATE: September 22, 2017
TIME AND PLACE: 1:10 p.m., Multipurpose Room,
College Avenue Student Center, New Brunswick Campus
MEMBERS PRESENT: Abayhan, Ardeshna, Balaguru,
Barbarese, Barchi, Battle-Brown, Bekdash, Bhuyan, Boikess, Booth, Bora,
Borisovets, Bugel, Chayko, Chulak, Conway, Cotter, Craig, Cummings,
Dalton, Dana, Dasari, Davis, Denham-Barrett, Deshpande, DiVito, Dixon,
Eaton, Esposito, Fagan, Fellenz, Field, Filippelli,
Fitzgerald-Bocarsly, Ghate, Ghesani, Gillett, Goh, Goodman, Graber,
Greenberg, Gross, Heckscher, Honeycutt, Ivanovski, Joergensen, A.
Johnson, Joseph, Kabia, Kane, Kay, Kelly, Kettle, Khattab, Koelb,
Kothari, Krapivin, Kustka, Leavy, LaPointe, Lasala, B. Lee, C. Lee,
Levy, Lindboe, Linz, LoGrippo, Lulla, Lutz, Maloney, Majumdar, Mammis,
Manyaga, Marchetta, Marconi, Markert, Matto, McKeever, Miller, Molello,
Moran, Mun, B. Murphy, K. Murphy, Nitzsche, Norville, Novelli,
O'Brassill-Kulfan, Oleske, Oliver, Owens, Pantazis, Pappas, Parsa, A.
Patel, Sivane. Patel, Suja Patel, Patrick, Patton, Phadke, Pichugin,
Pintar, Ponzio, C. Potter, K. Powell, Pradhan, Puhak, Reinfelder,
Resnick, Roberts, Ross, Rothpletz-Puglia, Salazar, Samant, Sanchez,
Schwartz, Scoloveno, Sen, Serrano, Settimo, Settles, Shah, Shapses,
Sheflin, Shinbrot, Shinn, Siddiqui, Soto, Spiegel, Steinberg,
Szatrowski, Takhistov, Tasneem, Thompson, Thomson, Toney-Boss, Tracey,
Tsakalakos, Van Stine, Walters, Warburton, Wilde, Winkler, Zurlo
EXCUSED: Bridgeman,
Bubb, Burley, Collins, Coyne, Dane, DeFilippis, Dreyer, Dutta, Emmons,
Fox, Goldfarb, Gould, Hartman, Hatefi, Langer, Lugg, O'Neill, Pandey,
Pardlo, Rabinowitz, Rivera, Saltzman
ABSENT: Alidou, Alizadeh, Artun, Barone,
Benford, Blanchett, Boruchoff, Brunson, Cahill, Cantor, Chen, Coiro,
Covington, Dettloff, Drachtman, Eastman, Eisenstein, Eng, Farmbry,
Farris, Feldman, Fletcher, Gabriel, Ganesh, Gonzalez, Gower, Haddon,
Hernandez, Holzemer, Iannini, R. Johnson, Kasichainula, Kukor, Lei,
Lewis, Lindenmeyer, Mahon, March, Marchick, Masiello, Mazurek, Minsky,
Pagan, Parvathaneni, Petrucci, J. Potter, V. Powell, Robinson, Schiavo,
Schneider, Stauffer, Strom, Thomas, Van Ryzin,
ATTENDANCE SUMMARY:
Faculty: Of 110 total: 78 present (71%),
17 excused (15%), 15 absent (14%); Students:
Of 48 total: 38 present (79%), 2 excused (4%), 8
absent (17%); Administrators: Of 38
total: 9
present (24%), 1 excused (3%), 28 absent (73%); Staff:
Of 18 total: 13 present (72%), 2
excused (11%), 3 absent (17%); Alumni:
Of 6
total: 5 present (83%), 1 excused (17%), 0 absent (0%)
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Attendance Record for this academic 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 present
to the first Senate meeting of the 2017-2018 academic year, especially
those present for the first time. He thanked all Senators for their
service to shared governance at
Rutgers, and noted that the highlight of the meeting would be President
Barchi's administrative report. Gillett then introduced himself, Senate
Vice Chair and Parliamentarian Jon Oliver,
Senate
Executive
Secretary Ken Swalagin, and Senate Administrative Assistant Mary
Mickelsen. He then spoke about his role as Chair, as well as the roles
of the Senate Executive Committee and standing committees, as well as
the University Commencement Panel and Chancellors' Commencement
Committees. Lastly, he reminded the Senate that live webstreaming of
Senate proceedings would begin with this meeting, on a trial basis.
ADMINISTRATIVE
REPORT - Robert L. Barchi, University President
Gillett summarized the format and time limits for President Barchi's
administrative report. University President Robert Barchi presented an
administrative report,
summarizing a full-text version which has been posted online
here.
Gillett then expounded on the format and process for the
question-and-answer period. President Barchi then responded to
questions his report and other Rutgers-community issues.
REPORT OF THE SECRETARY - Ken
Swalagin, Executive Secretary
ELECTION
OF NEWARK STUDENT MEMBER OF THE
SENATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
- Because no eligible
candidates for Newark student member of the Senate Executive
Committee were nominated during the April 2017 election, an election to
fill that position was conducted at this meeting. Gillett conducted
the election. Again, there were no nominees. The election will be
repeated at the next Senate meeting.
COMMITTEE REPORTS
Academic
Standards, Regulations and Admissions Committee (ASRAC) Response
to
Charge S-1509 on Default
17-Year Academic Calendar - Matthew Winkler and Robert
Schwartz, ASRAC Co-chairs, with Martha Cotter, Former ASRAC Co-chair
ASRAC Co-chairs Matthew Winkler and Robert Schwartz were at the
podium, and were joined from the floor by Martha Cotter, who co-chaired
the ASRAC for many years prior to her recent retirement. Schwartz gave
a brief introduction, and Winkler then presented and summarized the
ASRAC's Response to Charge S-1509 on a Default 17-Year Academic
Calendar. Schwartz then read the related resolution. There was no
debate, and the resolution carried unanimously.
INTRODUCTION
OF STANDING COMMITTEES
AND THEIR CHAIRS - Gillett introduced the standing
and ad hoc committee
chairs, who then spoke briefly about their committees' activities and
plans.
OLD
BUSINESS:
There was no old business.
NEW BUSINESS: There was no new
business.
SENATE
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE REPORT - Senate Vice Chair Jon Oliver
reported on the September
8, 2017 [link goes to draft meeting minutes] Senate Executive
Committee
meetings.
REPORTS
OF REPRESENTATIVES TO BOARDS OF GOVERNORS AND TRUSTEES:
Senator Anish Patel, Student Representative to the Board
of Governors, reported on the June 15 and July 19 Board
of Governors
meetings. Senator Menahem Spiegel, Faculty
Representative
to the Board of Trustees, reported on recent Board
of Trustees meetings.
REPORTS
OF CAMPUS FACULTY AND STUDENT LIAISONS: Camden Student Senator
Michael
Van Stine reported on recent plans and activities
of Camden student governing associations. New Brunswick Student
Senator Viktor Krapivin reported
on recent plans and activities of New Brunswick student governing
associations. Faculty Senator Sanjib Bhuyan, New Brunswick
Faculty Council Chair, reported that the New Brunswick Faculty Council
would meet the following week, and was planning a Teaching Conference.
ADJOURNMENT:
The meeting adjourned at 3:31 p.m.