RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY
OF NEW JERSEY
UNIVERSITY SENATE
MINUTES: Regular Meeting of the University
Senate
DATE: September 23, 2016
TIME AND PLACE: 1:10 p.m., Multipurpose Room,
College Avenue Student Center, New Brunswick Campus
MEMBERS PRESENT: Alizadeh, Anaele, Arezzi, Artun,
Balmer, Barbarese, Barchi, Bekdash, Bhuyan, Boikess, Borisovets,
Boruchoff, Bradshaw, Bridgeman, Burley, Carrasco, Chandler, Chang,
Chatham, Chayko, Collado-Garrido, Collins, Cotter, Craig, Cutler, Dana,
Dane, Dasari, Davis, Desai, DiVito, Dreyer, Edward, Edwards,
Eisenstein, Esposito, Fagley, Field, Fitzgerald-Bocarsly, Flores, Fox,
Gillett, Goswami, Gould, Gower, Grant, K. Gursoy, M. Gursoy, Heckscher,
D. Hughes, Huselid, Iannini, Jackson, Jaffry, Janniger, A. Johnson,
Joo, Joseph, Junboonta, Kaptan, Kelly, Kelshikar, Kouraeva, Krapivin,
Kustka, Krutyansky, LaPointe, B. Lee, Leibman, Jane Lewis, Levy, Linz,
Lutz, Maloney, Marchetta, Markert, Miranti, Moran, Norville, O'Connell,
Okada, Oleske, Oliver, O'Neill, Otto, Pagan, Pappas, Parmar, A. Patel,
D. Patel, Pintar, Pirrello, Powell, Puhak, Rabinowitz, Rivera,
Rothpletz-Puglia, Salazaar, Saltzman, Samant, Santana, Schwartz,
Scoloveno, C. Scott, K. Scott, Serrano, Settimo, Settles, Shapses,
Shapiro, Sharp, Sheflin, Shinn, Soto, Spiegel, Stepleton, Sulley,
Szatrowski, Taillefer, Thomas, Thomson, Thompson, Thornton, Toney-Boss,
Torres, Upadhyay, Van Stine, Wakim, Wang, Winkler, Zurlo
EXCUSED: Bugel,
Butterfield, Calabrese, Y. Chen, Conway, Delnevo, Diaz,
Dimatulac, Durham, Fletcher, Goh, Gross, Hayton, Joergensen,
Kalan, Killingsworth, Langer, Marchick, Marcone, Mazurek,
McKeever, Meck, Morrell, Nissen, Paneque, K. Patel, Ponzio, Roth,
Schneider, Sheehan, Takacs, Wagner
ABSENT: Ardeshna, Balaguru, Barone, Benford,
Blanchett, Bubb, Cahill, Cantor, Charles, R. Chen, Coiro, Cooper,
Covington, Dixon, Drachtman, Eastman, Farmbry, Farris, Feldman,
Gabriel, Ganesh, Goodman, Haddon, Hart, Holzemer, Holzer, J.
Hughes, R. Johnson, Kukor, Kuzma, Lattime, K. Lee, Lei, Jan Lewis,
Lindenmeyer, Mahon, March, Martinez, Meyer, Mouradian, Nehring, Pandey,
C. Potter, J. Potter, Robinson, Romanchuk, Rozenberg, Salmond, Schaden,
Schiavo, Scotto, Sharma, Shinbrot, Singh, Stauffer, Strom, Wasserman
ATTENDANCE SUMMARY:
Faculty: Of 108 total: 72 present (67%),
18 excused (17%), 18 absent (17%); Students:
Of 50 total: 34 present (68%), 7 excused (14%), 9
absent (18%); Administrators: Of 39
total: 5
present (13%), 3 excused (8%), 34 absent (79%); Staff:
Of 18 total: 15 present (83%), 3
excused (17%), 0 absent (0%); 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,
and thanked all Senators for their service to shared governance at
Rutgers. He introduced himself, Senate Parliamentarian Jon Oliver,
Senate
Executive
Secretary Ken Swalagin, and Senate Administrative Assistant Mary
Mickelsen. He then summarized recent Senate activities, and asked for
additional responses to a recent call for volunteers to participate in
the Senate's University Commencement Panel process. He also spoke about
a pending proposal to create a School of Graduate Studies in New
Brunswick, his plan to propose adding a parliamentary summary to the
Senate Handbook, and his participation in an upcoming Big Ten Academic
Leadership Conference.
REPORT OF THE SECRETARY - Ken
Swalagin, Executive Secretary
- Agenda: The
meeting's agenda,
including time limits, was approved by the Senate.
- Minutes: The Minutes of the
April 29, 2016 Senate Organizational/Election Meeting
were
approved as distributed by the executive secretary.
- Communications: The
following communication was presented by the executive secretary:
- The full
schedule of this year's Senate meetings is online, and the schedule
of remaining meetings for this academic year is appended to the bottom
of these agendas. Swalagin asked all Senators to add the dates to their
calendars.
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, or heard comments, on
subjects included in his report, as well as:
- Rutgers' Acceptable
Use Policy for Information Technology Resources;
- class sizes, and faculty hiring;
- RBHS infrastructure problems, and needed facilities maintenance;
- the need to increase alumni involvement;
- the recent closing of The Alley, and related tailgating issues;
- the possibility of adding a voting student representative to the
Board of Governors;
- RU Connect, Microsoft Office 365, and their use for official
University business;
- improved efficiency from bus schedule changes;
- funding for dental clinics;
- declining law-school applications, and the effects of the recent
merger of Rutgers' law schools;
- Newark parking;
- in-state and out-of-state GPAs, and admissions; and
- integration of PTLs into the Rutgers community and professional
life.
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 2016 election, an election to
fill that position was conducted at this meeting. Swalagin conducted
the election. Edmund Janniger, a student at the School of Public
Affairs and Administration, had previously nominated himself for the
position. There were no nominees from the floor. Senator Janniger being
the
only nominee, he was declared Newark student member of the Senate
Executive Committee by acclamation.
INTRODUCTION
OF STANDING COMMITTEES
AND THEIR CHAIRS - Gillett introduced the standing
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 Robert Puhak
reported on the June
3, 2016 and September
9, 2016 [links go to meeting minutes] Senate Executive Committee
meetings.
REPORTS
OF REPRESENTATIVES TO BOARDS OF GOVERNORS AND TRUSTEES:
Senator
Samuel Rabinowitz, Faculty Representative to the Board of
Governors, and Anish Patel, Student Representative to the Board
of Governors, reported on the June 15 and July 20 Board
of Governors
meetings. Senators Menahem Spiegel and Asha Samant, Faculty
Representatives
to the Board of Trustees, and Akeen Anaele, Undergraduate Student
Representative to the Board of Trustees, reported on the June 15 and September
9, 2016 Board
of Trustees meetings.
REPORTS
OF CAMPUS FACULTY AND STUDENT LIAISONS: Faculty Senator Samuel
Rabinowitz, a member of the Camden Faculty Council, reported on that
group's recent plans and activities. Camden Student Senators Michael
Van Stine and Christopher Shinn reported on recent plans and activities
of Camden student governing associations. Newark Student Senator Edmund
Janniger reported on recent plans and activities of Newark student
governing associations. Faculty Senator Martha Cotter, a member of the
New Brunswick Faculty Council, reported on that group's recent plans
and activities. New Brunswick Student Senator Viktor Krapivin reported
on recent plans and activities of New Brunswick student governing
associations. Faculty Senator Patricia Fitzgerald-Bocarsly, RBHS
Faculty Council Chair, reported that the RBHS Faculty Council had not
yet met this academic year.
ADJOURNMENT:
The meeting adjourned at 3:33 p.m.
Minutes written and submitted by:
Ken Swalagin
Executive Secretary of the University Senate