RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY
OF NEW JERSEY
UNIVERSITY SENATE
MINUTES: Regular Meeting of the University
Senate
DATE: October 14, 2016
TIME AND PLACE: 1:10 p.m., Multipurpose Room,
College Avenue Student Center, New Brunswick Campus
MEMBERS PRESENT: Alizadeh, Anaele, Ardeshna,
Arezzi, Artun, Barbarese, Barchi, Bekdash, Boikess, Borisovets,
Bridgeman, Bugel, Burley, Calabrese, Carrasco, Chandler, Chang, Chayko,
Collado-Garrido, Collins, Cotter, Cutler, Dana, Dane, Dasari, Davis,
Desai, DiVito, Dreyer, Durham, Edward, Fagley, Flores, Fox,
Gillett, Goh, Goswami, Gould, Grant, K. Gursoy, M. Gursoy, Hart,
Heckscher, Huselid, Jackson, Jaffry, Janniger, Joergensen, A. Johnson,
Joo, Joseph, Junboonta, Kaptan, Kalan, Kelly, Kelshikar, Kouraeva,
Krapivin, Krutyansky, Langer, LaPointe, B. Lee, Leibman, Jane Lewis,
Linz, Lugg, Lutz, Mammis, Marchetta, Marchick, Markert, Mazurek,
Morrell, Mouradian, Nasr, Nissen, Norville, O'Connell, Okada, Oleske,
Oliver, O'Neill, Otto, Pagan, Paneque, Pappas, Parmar, A. Patel, D.
Patel, Pintar, Pirrello, C. Potter, Puhak, Rabinowitz, Rivera,
Romanchuk, Roth, Rothpletz-Puglia, Salazar, Saltzman, Samant, Santana,
Schwartz, Scoloveno, C. Scott, K. Scott, Serrano, Settimo, Settles,
Shapses, Shapiro, Sheehan, Sheflin, Spiegel, Stepleton, Szatrowski,
Thomas, Thomson, Thompson, Toney-Boss, Torres, Van Stine, Wakim, Wang,
Winkler, Zurlo
EXCUSED: Balmer,
Bhuyan, Boruchoff, Bradshaw, Brunson, Bubb, Chatham, Conway, Craig, Diaz, Edwards,
Esposito, Field, Fitzgerald-Bocarsly, Gross, Hayton, Killingsworth,
Kustka, Levy, Maloney, McKeever, Meck, Moran, Powell, Schneider, Sharp, Shinn,
Soto, Takacs, Upadhyay, Wagner
ABSENT: Balaguru, Barone, Benford, Blanchett,
Butterfield, Cahill, Cantor, Charles, R. Chen, Y. Chen,
Coiro, Cooper, Covington, Delnevo, Dimatulac, Dixon, Drachtman,
Eastman, Eisenstein, Farmbry, Farris, Feldman, Fletcher, Gabriel,
Ganesh, Goodman, Gower, Haddon, Holzemer, Holzer, D. Hughes, J. Hughes,
Iannini, R. Johnson, Kukor, Kuzma, Lattime, K. Lee, Lei, Jan
Lewis, Lindenmeyer, Mahon, March, Marcone, Martinez, Meyer, Miranti,
Nehring, Pandey, K. Patel, Ponzio, J. Potter, Robinson, Rozenberg,
Salmond, Schaden, Schiavo, Scotto, Shinbrot, Singh, Stauffer, Strom,
Sulley, Taillefer, Thornton, Wasserman
ATTENDANCE SUMMARY:
Faculty: Of 108 total: 71 present (66%),
17 excused (16%), 20 absent (18%); Students:
Of 49 total: 33 present (67%), 5 excused (10%), 11
absent (22%); Administrators: Of 40
total: 3
present (7%), 5 excused (13%), 32 absent (80%); Staff:
Of 18 total: 15 present (83%), 2
excused (11%), 1 absent (6%); Alumni:
Of 6
total: 4 present (67%), 1 excused (17%), 1 absent (17%)
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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. He welcomed all
attendees to the final Senate meeting of Rutgers' 250th anniversary
year. Gillett's Chair's Report included comments on:
- his recent attendance at the Big Ten Academic Alliance
Leadership Conference in Michigan;
- a summary of the activities of the University Commencement
Panel;
- the status of the proposal to form a new School of Graduate
Studies in New Brunswick; and
- a report he prepared, and which is currently being
considered by the Executive Committee, on parliamentary procedure,
which he hopes will become an element of the Senate Handbook.
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
September 23, 2016 Senate Meeting
were
approved as distributed by the Executive Secretary.
- Communications - The
following communications were presented by the Executive Secretary:
- The November 11 Senate meeting will be held in Camden.
Round-trip bus transportation from New Brunswick will be provided for
Senators. Additional information will be emailed to all Senators before
the meeting.
- President
Barchi's Response to Senate and Faculty and Personnel Affairs
Committee February 2015 Response
to Charge S-1313 on Travel and Business Expense Reimbursement (TABER)
- President
Barchi's Response to Senate and Academic Standards, Regulations and
Admissions Committee May 2015 Response
to Charge
S-1414 on Removing Barriers to the Education of Veterans
- Email
received September 28 from Felicia McGinty, Vice Chancellor for Student
Affairs, transmitting information regarding recent proposed changes to
the University Code of Student Conduct and the Policy on Alcohol and
Other Drugs, stating, in part, "I'm writing to share information
regarding
recent proposed changes to the University Code of Student Conduct and
the policy Alcohol and Other Drugs. I would be happy to visit with the
[Senate Executive] committee to discuss this or answer any questions
senators may have." Senate approval is not required for changes to the
Code, but the Senate must be informed. Changes to the Policy on Alcohol
and Other Drugs are included only because they address related issues.
Documents
transmitted:
Gillett then spoke about an
emerging issue that had been brought to his attention by an Email
from David Hughes to Senate Chair Peter Gillett et al., on NJ Higher
Education Affordability Study Commission Report recommendation of
three-plus-one programs. The issue had been discussed that morning in
the Faculty Caucus. Gillett said that it would be considered further at
the next Executive Committee meeting.
PRESENTATION
ON MIDDLE STATES
REACCREDITATION PROCESS - Senator Ann Gould, and
Senator and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Barbara Lee
presented a brief report on the Middle States reaccreditation process.
COMMITTEE REPORTS
Student
Affairs Committee (SAC) Response
to Charge S-1401 on Taking Courses on
Other Campuses/Intercampus Equivalency - Viktor Krapivin
and
Samuel Rabinowitz,
SAC Co-chairs
Student Affairs Committee Co-chairs
presented the SAC response to Charge S-1401 on Taking Courses on Other
Campuses/Intercampus Equivalency. Krapivin summarized the report, and
read the resolution. On motion and duly seconded, the Senate amended
Recommendation 2 to include language regarding determination of course
equivalency, and related periodic review, as follows:
"Any time an academic unit at a
particular campus evaluates and deems equivalent a course from a
different campus, that evaluation would be recorded in this service,
and future intercampus transfer students would automatically receive
equivalency subject to period review, as determined by the department."
The Senate then adopted the resolution as amended. [Note: The link
above goes to the response and resolution as amended and adopted by the
Senate.]
Preliminary
Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on Webstreaming Senate Meetings, and
Committee-of-the-Whole Discussion - Ann
Gould, Committee Chair
Ad Hoc Committee on Webstreaming Senate Meetings Chair Ann Gould
summarized the activities of her committee, as well as its preliminary
report. She then moved that the Senate enter committee of the whole.
Gillett explained the procedure for committee-of-the-whole discussions.
Gould's motion was then seconded, and carried. Gillett appointed Gould
as acting chair, and went to the Senate floor to participate in the
discussion. There was considerable discussion on the issue, after which
Gillett moved that the Senate rise from committee of the whole. His
motion was adopted, and he resumed the chair
ADMINISTRATIVE
REPORT
- Robert Barchi, University President
President Barchi presented
an administrative report, commenting on topics including:
Barchi then responded to questions, or heard comments, on the above, as
well as:
- allocation of tuition dollars to units;
- removing barriers to military veterans;
- New Brunswick parking;
- bicycle lanes and programs in New Brunswick;
- the NJ Higher
Education Affordability Study Commission Report recommendation of
three-plus-one programs; and
- bus and other traffic in New Brunswick/Piscataway.
EXTENSION OF MEETING TIME - The
overall meeting time limit of two and one half hours having expired,
the Senate voted to extend the time for 20 minutes.
SENATE EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEE
REPORT - Senate Vice Chair Robert Puhak reported on the September
30, 2016 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 October 7, 2016 Board of Governors
meeting. Senator Asha Samant, Faculty Representative
to the Board of Trustees, said that there had been no meeting of the
Board of Trustees since the previous Senate meeting.
CAMPUS FACULTY AND STUDENT LIAISON
REPORTS:
Senator Samuel Rabinowitz, a member of the Camden Faculty Council, said
that group had not met. Senator Michael Van Stine,
Camden Student Member of the Executive Committee, reported on
recent Camden student governing association plans, activities and
events. Senator Edmund Janniger, Newark Student Member of the Executive
Committee, reported on recent Newark student governing association
plans and activities. Senator Viktor Krapivin, New
Brunswick
Student
Member
of the Senate Executive Committee, reported on New Brunswick student
governing association activities and elections. Senator
Martha Cotter, a member of the New Brunswick Faculty Council
Chairperson, reported on that
group's September
30, 2016 meeting.
ADJOURNMENT:
The meeting adjourned
at 3:57 p.m.
Minutes Written and Submitted by,
Ken Swalagin
Executive Secretary of the University Senate