RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY
OF NEW JERSEY
UNIVERSITY SENATE
MINUTES: Regular Meeting of the University
Senate
DATE: December 8, 2017
TIME AND PLACE: 1:10 p.m., Multipurpose Room,
College Avenue Student Center, New Brunswick Campus
MEMBERS PRESENT: Ahmed, Alidou, Ardeshna,
Balaguru, Barbarese, Bekdash, Bhatnagar, Bhyuan, Boikess, Booth, Bora,
Borisovets, Bradley, Bridgeman, Bugel, Burley, Chulak, Collins, Cotter,
Craig, Cummings, Dana, Dasari, DeFilippis, Denham-Barrett, Deshpande,
Dettloff, DiVito, Dreyer, Eaton, Eisenstein, Emmons, Esposito, Fagan,
Field, Filippelli, Fitzgerald-Bocarsly, Fox, Gillett, Goh, Gould,
Gower, Graber, Greenberg, A. Johnson, Joseph, Junboonta, Kabia, Kane,
Kelly, Kettle, Krapivin, Kustka, Langer, Leavy, B. Lee, C. Lee,
LoGrippo, Lulla, Lutz, Maloney, Mammis, Markert, Masiello, Mazurek,
McKeever, Miller, Molello, Moran, K. Murphy, Nitzsche, Norville,
O'Brassill-Kulfan, Oleske, Oliver, Owens, Padgett, Pantazis, Pappas,
Parsa, M. Patel, Shivane Patel, Suja Patel, Patrick, Patton, Phadke,
Pichugin, Pintar, C. Potter, Pradhan, Puhak, Roberts, Rothpletz-Puglia,
Salazar, Samant, Schwartz, Scoloveno, Sen, Serrano, Settles, Shah,
Shapses, Sheflin, Shinbrot, Shinn, Siddiqui, Soto, Spiegel, Steinberg,
Takhistov, Tharney, Thompson, Thomson, Toney-Boss, Tracey, Tsakalakos,
Van Stine, Warburton, Winkler, Ziessler, Zurlo
EXCUSED: Barchi,
Battle-Brown, Civile, Dane, D'Anna, Fellenz, Goldfarb, Gross, Hartman,
Heckscher, Honeycutt, Koelb, Kothari, Langsam, LaPointe, Linz, Manyaga,
Marchetta, Matto, O'Neill, Rabinowitz, Rivera, Ross, Schneider,
Strom, Wilde
ABSENT: Abayhan, Alizadeh, Artun, Barone,
Blanchett, Boruchoff, Brunson, Bubb, Butterfield, Cahill, Cantor,
Chayko, Chen, Coiro, Conway, Covington, Dixon, Drachtman, Dutta,
Eastman, Eng, Farmbry, Farriss, Feldman, Fletcher, Gabriel, Ganesh,
Ghate, Ghesani, Gonzalez, Goodman, Haddon, Halkitis, Hatefi, Hernandez,
Holzemer, Iannini, Ivanovski, Joergensen, R. Johnson, Kasichainula,
Khattab, Kukor, Lasala, Levy, Lei, Lewis, Lindboe, Lindenmeyer, Lugg,
Mahon, Majumdar, March, Marchick, Minsky, B. Murphy, Novelli, Pagan,
Pandey, Pardlo, A. Patel, Petrucci, Ponzio, J. Potter, K. Powell, V.
Powell, Reinfelder, Resnick, Robinson, Saltzman, Sanchez, Schiavo,
Settimo, Sheridan, Stauffer, Szatrowski, Tasneem, Thomas, Van Ryzin,
Walters
ATTENDANCE SUMMARY:
Faculty: Of 110 total: 69 present (63%),
14 excused (13%), 27 absent (24%); Students:
Of 51 total: 26 present (51%), 6 excused (12%), 19
absent (37%); Administrators: Of 41
total: 7
present (17%), 3 excused (7%), 31 absent (76%); 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%)
View Senate
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 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 said that this would
be the third webstreamed Senate meeting. He also described a meeting he
and Vice Chair Jon Oliver had with standing committee chairs in the
morning on December 1, just prior to the Senate Executive Committee
meeting.
REPORT OF THE SECRETARY -
Ken
Swalagin, Executive Secretary
COMMITTEE
REPORT
Faculty
and Personnel Affairs Committee (FPAC) Response to Charge A-1709 on Proposal to
Improve Evaluation of Teaching at Rutgers (and Supplementary
Materials for FPAC Response to Charge A-1709)- Joseph Markert and
Alexander
Settles, FPAC Co-chairs
FPAC Co-chairs
Alexander Settles and Joseph Markert summarized their
committee's response to Charge A-1709 on a Proposal to Improve
Evaluation of Teaching at Rutgers. (Click here
for related PowerPoint slides.) Markert read the report's resolution.
The report was discussed at length. Robert Puhak's motion to amend
Recommendation 10 to read "Instructors and departments should be
regularly reminded that they have the option to: i) add questions that
might be particularly relevant for that course or that department to
the survey; and ii) utilize a mid-semester course assessment" was
seconded and discussed. The motion carried. Viktor Krapivin's motion
motion to strike Recommendation 11 was seconded and discussed. During
the discussion, procedural arguments were made, and a ruling by the
Chair was challenged. The Chair's ruling was upheld. The motion to
amend failed on a recount. A motion to recess to discuss the previous,
failed amendment, and another motion for a friendly amendment, failed
to achieve seconds. Adeel Ahmed moved to recess for three minutes to
discuss the entire resolution as a whole in an unmoderated caucus. The
motion was seconded, but failed. Gillett then read the resolution in
its entirety, as amended, which then carried with six opposed.
ADMINISTRATIVE
REPORT - Barbara Lee, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs
Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Barbara Lee presented
an administrative
report, which included comments on subjects including:
Lee then responded to questions, or heard comments, on the above
topics, as well as:
- administrative resources provided to promote, and adjudicate
violations of, academic integrity; and
- inclusion of Rutgers School of Law in the Middle States process.
OTHER BUSINESS
Briefing
on OIT Technology Master Plan - Adrienne Esposito, Staff
Senator
Member of the Executive Committee
Staff Senator Adrienne Esposito presented a briefing on the Office of
Information Technology Master Plan, and responded to questions thereon.
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 December
1, 2017 Senate Executive
Committee
meeting.
REPORTS
OF REPRESENTATIVES TO BOARDS OF GOVERNORS AND TRUSTEES: There
were no reports from board representatives.
REPORTS
OF CAMPUS FACULTY AND STUDENT LIAISONS: New Brunswick Student
Senator Viktor Krapivin spoke about parliamentary procedure, how
everyone can be heard, and the legitimacy of the Senate. Faculty
Senator Sanjib Bhuyan, Chair of the New Brunswick Faculty Council,
reported on plans and recent activities of that group. Faculty Senator
Patricia Bocarsley, Chair of the RBHS
Faculty Council, reported on plans and recent activities of that group.
ADJOURNMENT:
Gillett extended best wishes to all for the upcoming holidays. The
meeting adjourned at 3:24 p.m.
Minutes Written and Submitted by,
Ken Swalagin
Executive Secretary of the University
Senate