UNIVERSITY
SENATE
Executive
Committee
A G E
N D A
TIMETABLE:
9:30
a.m. – Board Academy charter bus for Newark in Lot 98B, College
Farm Road, near Environmental and Natural Resource Sciences Building on
the Cook Campus. [If
you’re driving, please see parking
and other
information below.]
Approximately
10:30 a.m. – Arrive in Newark at the Center for Law &
Justice, Berson Boardroom - Room 292, 123
Washington Street, for
coffee and to drop any belongings you don't wish to bring on the tour.
11:00
a.m. – Chief of Staff Peter Englot will lead us on a tour of the
Rutgers
Newark Campus, specifically Express
Newark.
12:00
noon – Lunch with Chancellor Cantor in the Berson Boardroom -
Room 292 at the
Center for Law and
Justice.
[Please note that valid ID is required to enter the building.]
1:00
p.m. – Executive Committee meeting begins at the lunch location.
Approximately
4:30 p.m. – Board charter bus for return trip to New Brunswick.
PARKING
IN NEWARK:
Mary
Mickelsen has made arrangements for reserved parking in Deck
3, 180 Washington Street in Newark.
Please
email Mary (mj@senate.rutgers.edu) your intention to reserve one of
these
parking spots so she may email you a flyer to place on your dash while
in the deck.
DRIVING
TO NEWARK:
Map
and directions for the Center for Law and Justice
AGENDA
1. Chair’s Report - Peter Gillett,
Senate Chair
2. Secretary’s Report
-
Mary Mickelsen, Interim Executive Secretary of the Senate
- Approval
of Agenda
- Approval
of Minutes of December 1, 2017 Senate Executive
Committee Meeting
- Communications:
- President
Barchi's
Response to Executive
Committee Statement and Resolution on Rutgers, a Safe and Welcoming
Environment
- President
Barchi's
Response to Executive
Committee Resolution
with Background on Three-Plus-One Programs
- The
following University Policies were recently updated or added:
- Robert Boikess has sent the following link relative to
discussions at the December Executive Committee meeting: https://www.jewishlinknj.com/community-news/middlesex/22160-rutgers-president-cites-academic-freedom-in-defense-of-anti-semitic-remarks
- Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Barbara Lee advises
that, related to the Senate's Response
to Charge S-1508 on Responsible Conduct of Research, Glenn Krell is
now in place as Rutgers Director of Research Integrity. This
information has been added as an update to the appropriate entry on the
Senate's "Reports" webpage.
- Lee has also forwarded the information on the book on free
speech mentioned by President Barchi at the December Executive
Committee Meeting:
It is
published by Yale University Press.
Free
Speech on Campus, by Erwin Chemerinsky and Howard
Gillman
Can free speech coexist with an inclusive campus
environment?
Hardly
a week goes by without another controversy over free
speech on college campuses. On one side, there are increased demands to
censor hateful,
disrespectful, and bullying expression and to ensure an inclusive and
nondiscriminatory learning environment. On the other side are
traditional free
speech advocates who charge that recent demands for censorship coddle
students
and threaten free inquiry. In this clear and carefully reasoned book, a
university chancellor and a law school dean-both constitutional
scholars who
teach a course in free speech to undergraduates-argue that campuses
must
provide supportive learning environments for an increasingly diverse
student
body but can never restrict the expression of ideas. This book provides
the
background necessary to understanding the importance of free speech on
campus
and offers clear prescriptions for what colleges can and can't do when
dealing
with free speech controversies.
Erwin
Chemerinsky is the founding dean, distinguished
professor of law, and Raymond Pryke Professor of First Amendment Law,
University of California, Irvine, School of Law.
Howard Gillman is chancellor and professor of law, political
science, and history, University of California, Irvine.
3.
Administrative Report -
Barbara Lee, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs
4.
Committees/Panels
Committee Report:
Student
Affairs Committee (SAC) Response to Charge S-1713
on Procedures for Adjudicating Academic Integrity Policy Infractions - Viktor Krapivin &
Samuel Rabinowitz, SAC Co-Chairs
The SAC has been charged as follows:
Review
the current status of the educative and adjudication processes of the
Offices of Student Conduct regarding infractions of the University
Academic Integrity Policy. Identify areas of concern, and provide
appropriate recommendations. Provide a response which will be
forwarded to the Senate's Academic Standards, Regulations, and
Admissions Committee on this same issue (Charge S-1714).
Faculty
and Personnel Affairs Committee (FPAC) Response
to Charge S-1707on
Stipend or Course Release Payment for PTL Senators - Joseph Markert
and Alexander Settles, FPAC Co-Chairs
The FPAC has been charged as follows:
Consider the role of part-time
lecturers (PTLs) in shared governance at Rutgers, investigating
policies at other Big Ten institutions as well as the unique
circumstances at Rutgers University. Make recommendations regarding
adequate participation with appropriate incentives.
Issues/Proposed Charges:
Proposed Charge on Rutgers Identity in
Ratings Reports - Submitted
by Jon Oliver, Staff Senator
Proposed
Charge:
Consider
and make recommendations on how best to identify Rutgers in published
ratings of universities. Identify areas of concern, as well as
opportunities for improved or increased visibility and rankings.
Recommend rational processes to simplify existing complexities in
identifying various entities within Rutgers, The State University of
New Jersey.
Rationale:
Thompson-Reuters
recently released their 2017 ratings of the 100 most innovative
universities. Rutgers was listed as number 78. Unfortunately,
Thompson-Reuters lists our institutions as "Rutgers State University."
The Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID), ResearchGate, Google
Scholar, Academia all have multiple variations on the Rutgers name.
This confusion in the institutional name negatively imipacts on
searches and the visibility of the research that our faculty do and the
societal impact that we as an AAU R-1 university has. For Rutgers to
break in to the top tier of AAU institutions we must adopt a consistent
institutional name.
Proposed Charge on Employee Parking Costs
- Submitted
by Adrienne Esposito, Staff Senator
Proposed
Charge:
Examine
the existing RBHS and Rutgers legacy faculty/staff parking permit
charges. Review the disparities, and, where appropriate, make
recommendations for simplifying and normalizing the charges.
Rationale:
Several of my RBHS
team brought to my attention that they are paying considerably more for
parking at Rutgers than their Legacy Rutgers counterparts. RUDOTS
provided the following: "Legacy RU employees pay a different rate than
UMDNJ/RBHS employees... UMDNJ/RBHS pay .005 X their salary. Legacy RU
employees have a different sliding scale based on salary. Here
is a link to that." The different policies and rates result in RBHS
employees being charged approximately 40% more for their parking than
Legacy Rutgers employees. The policy should be consistent across all
employees, since the schools have "merged" since July of 2014 (3.5
years).
Proposed
Charge to University Structure and Governance Committee on Senator
Alternates -
Submitted by Sana Siddiqui, NJMS Student Senator
Proposed
Charge:
Explore
the feasibility of providing options for alternate student Senators,
particularly for the New Jersey Medical School.
Rationale:
The
curriculum at New Jersey Medical School is not conducive to having
students attend meetings, due to national standardized exams being held
on Fridays as well as clerkship schedules that are not up to our
discretion. As such, it has been difficult to attend Senate meetings
and even more difficult to attend committee meetings. It has been an
issue for our representatives over a few years. This impairs the
ability of our students to be involved with Senate proceedings as well
as be able to voice their suggestions or concerns. We propose the
position of a Senator Alternate, who may attend the committee and/or
Senate meetings in case that the Senator representative cannot attend.
The representative would be of a different class year. By providing the
option for an alternate, NJMS students can be more involved with the
Senate, and Rutgers University, over time.
5.
New Business
6.
University Senate Agenda
February
16, 2018 Senate Meeting:
- Meeting to be held in Camden
- Camden Chancellor's Report - Phoebe Haddon, Camden Chancellor
7.
Adjournment