THOUGHTS ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
CHARGE, AND REVIEW AND CONSIDERATION OF OTHER CHARGES RELATED TO
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND REUNIFICATION OF MEDICAL SCHOOL
From Paul Panayotatos, Senate Chair, January 2011
I agree
that we have to discuss where this charge goes. I still think B&P
because by the time FPAC gets to this we would need to consider the
compatibility with RWJ. In other words, are the IT systems in the two
institutions compatible? This would be a charge for Budget and Finance.
We actually need to rethink many of our pending charges and issue new
ones with respect to the proposed reunification of RU and RWJ. Here are some more thoughts:
- What
would shared governance look with the influx of faculty, students,
administrators, staff and alumni from RWJ? If we retained the current
representation formulas how would that affect the size of the senate?
- What
are the issues of academic freedom that might need to be revisited? How
will the tenure and promotion standards be unified? Do we need to amend
form 1a? How about clinical faculty? Are the rules for clinical faculty
that exist at RU adequate for a medical school environment?
- How does the MD degree fit with our other professional degrees?
- What
are the standards of admission for both undergraduate and
graduate/professional programs at RWJ? The senate is supposed to set
these standards at RU.
- How
are issues such as registration, add-drop, advising, the academic
calendar etc. being handled now at RWJ and what would be needed to
bring everything together?
Here are some charges considered back when we were looking at the Vagelos plan:
- Review
the effects of a possible merger on integrated system-wide units such
as Libraries and Computing. Possible areas of focus might be:
resources; the effect on instruction; and the effect on research.
- Review the effects of a possible merger on non-biomedical programs.
- Identify what conditions would need to be met for the addition of a medical school to positively impact the current Rutgers educational mission in terms of the undergraduate and graduate curriculum; advising; and undergraduate and graduate research.
- Identify what areas would need to be addressed in
order to completely integrate the interinstitutional graduate and undergraduate
programs that are currently partially integrated. Consider the implications for
full-scale integration.