Proposed Charge on Responsibility Center
Management (RCM) and Allocation of
Faculty Lines - Submitted by Senator Karen Thompson
Karen
Thompson, PTL Member of the Executive Committee, summarized a
charge proposal emanating from the New Brunswick Faculty Council on RCM
and allocation of faculty lines. Thompson's rationale and
proposed charge were:
Rationale:
With student enrollment growing at Rutgers, and with Responsibility
Center Management (RCM) as our budgeting model, we increasingly notice
that departments no longer retain control over faculty lines and/or
have great difficulty obtaining a line when the enrollment and the
curriculum suggest a line is needed. Faculty in individual departments
who design courses/curricula are in the best position to determine the
need and allocation of lines.
Proposed
Charge: Investigate policies at Rutgers regarding allocation and
retention of faculty lines, especially in comparison with peer or
aspirant institutions. Consider how these policies have changed over
the years and to what extent faculty have been involved in the
decision-making process concerning line allocation. Make
recommendations about how to ensure that lines are preserved, grow as
enrollment does, and that decisions are based on academic priorities.
Respond to Senate Executive Committee by [insert deadline].
The proposed charge was discussed. It was decided that it would
be issued to the Budget and Finance Committee after its chair, Menahem
Spiegel, modifies the wording but retains the spirit of the charge. The
reporting deadline would be one year from date of issue.
[Barbara Lee left the meeting at 2:29 p.m.]
Distinguished Professor Job Title - Submitted by Senator
Kwangwon Lee: The following issue had been raised by Senator Kwangwon
Lee: "The Professor II title has been changed
to Distinguished Professor in 2013. However, Rutgers Directory does
not properly list faculty who have earned the Distinguished Professor
title. Instead of Distinguished Professor, the Directory still lists
Professor II, which is a term Rutgers no longer uses. 'Professor II'
designation appears in many places, including the Academic
Appointments Manual." Barbara Lee said she would deal with the
Academic Appointments Manual portion of the issue, but that the
directory part is probably the responsibility of University Human
Resources. [Note: After the meeting, Lee responded to both portions of
the issue.]
Charge Revision Request -
Submitted by Senator Joseph Markert, Faculty and Personnel Affairs
Committee (FPAC) Co-chair: FPAC requests deletion and resubmission of
Charge A-0812-3 to indicate a focus on chancellors only:
Evaluation
of Administrators, Part II: Evaluation of Chancellors: Reconsider the
process for evaluating upper administrators recommended by the
University Senate in 2012, focusing on a process for evaluating the
chancellors. Respond to the Senate Executive Committee by [insert
deadline].
This
issue was discussed, and it was decided, because the evaluation process
had already been adopted by the Senate, that FPAC Co-chair Ann Gould
would draft a resolution to go to the Senate to make the remaining
portion of the charge applicable to the chancellors.
Proposed Charge on Test-Optional Admissions
- Submitted by Senator Robert Boikess: "Dear EC Members, Perhaps it
might be appropriate for you to issue a charge related to 'test
optional admissions' in light of this new
information from today's [January 26, 2016] Inside Higher Ed." This
issue was discussed, and it was decided that ASRAC Chair Martha Cotter
would speak with Vice President for Enrollment Courtney McAnuff before
any charge is issued, to determine if test-optional admissions are
possible at Rutgers.
"There is no doubt that the presence of
NJPIRG on Rutgers campuses provides educational value. While the
students do express some concern about the eventual fate of the funds
provided by the student body and the formal wording of the proposed
resolution, NJPIRG is welcome to continue to work with the Rutgers
community."