UNIVERSITY
SENATE
Executive
Committee
A G E
N D A
February
5, 2016 - 1:10 p.m.
1. Chair’s Report - Ann Gould,
Senate Chair
2. Secretary’s Report -
Ken Swalagin, Executive Secretary of the Senate
3.
Administrative Report -
Barbara Lee, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs
4. Standing
Committees
Reports:
Research,
and Graduate and Professional Education Committee (RGPEC) Response
to Charge S-1505 on Implementing ORCID Identifiers -
Anthony Tamburello, RGPEC
Chair
The
RGPEC was charged as follows: Investigate and make recommendations with
regard to an implementation of ORCID identifiers (i.e., issuing ORCID
IDs) at Rutgers. If deemed appropriate, make specific recommendations
for incremental implementation, for example, beginning with the
graduate schools. Identify benefits, processes, timeline, who would be
involved, and approximate costs.
University
Structure and Governance Committee (USGC) Response
to Charge S-1403 on Process for Unit Mergers or Other Structural Changes -
Jon Oliver and Robert Puhak, USGC
Co-chairs
The
USGC was charged as follows: Consider whether the University Senate
should establish a general procedure, timeline, template and process
for merging, dissolution or making structural changes to any University
unit. Consider how such a process could assist the University and units
in working in a deliberate, consultative and rational way so that all
issues, impacts, concerns and benefits can be properly considered on a
timely basis. Make recommendations on time limits and process.
Instruction,
Curricula and Advising Committee (ICAC) Response
to Charge S-1504 on Determination of Student Attendance -
Natalie Borisovets, ICAC Chair
The
ICAC was charged as follows: Develop guidelines that would allow units
and individual instructors to comply with U.S. Department of Education
requirements that Rutgers keep records for students receiving federal
financial aid that substantiate students' participatory attendance in
the classes for which they are registered.
Issues/Charges:
Proposed Charge on RCM and Allocation of
Faculty Lines - Submitted by Senator Karen Thompson:
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].
Distinguished Professor Job Title - Submitted 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."
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].
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."
5.
Old Business
Addition of Deadlines/Timeframe to Response
to Charge
S-1410 on Honorary Degree and Commencement Speaker Selection Process
per President
Barchi's Response
6.
New Business
NJPIRG Student Chapters Concept Plan
Review: NJPIRG Student Chapters submitted their
Concept Plan
and
audit
reports to the Senate office and directly to the Student Affairs
Committee during the first week of this semester, in preparation for a
Fall 2016 referendum. A
cover memo
was submitted later when Ken Swalagin requested it. The Student Affairs
Committee (SAC) met with NJPIRG representatives and discussed the
documents at the January 22 SAC meeting, and submits the following
response to the Executive Committee:
"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."
On January 26, Nick Jermer, a member of the Executive Committee of the
NJPIRG Students Board of Directors, sent a
"NJPIRG
Budget Shorthand" email directly to Ann Gould. The policy on
funding for special student organizations is online
here.
7.
University Senate Agenda
February 19, 2016 Senate Meeting:
- Camden
Chancellor's Report - Camden Chancellor Phoebe Haddon
- Special Election for RBHS Student Member of the Executive
Committee
8.
Adjournment