UNIVERSITY
SENATE
Executive
Committee
A G E
N D A
AGENDA
1. Chair’s Report - Peter Gillett,
Senate Chair
2. Secretary’s Report
- Mary Mickelsen, Interim Executive Secretary of the Senate
3.
Administrative Report -
Barbara Lee, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs
4. Schedule
of Senate and Executive Committee Meetings, Academic Year 2018-19
5.
Committees/Panels
Committee Report:
Identify
specific grant cost issues that negatively impact the University's
mission to conduct research across disciplines, and actively engage in
its students in that research, including but not limited to:
tuition, fringe rate, Facilities and Administrative costs ("F&A,"
formally known as indirect costs), support services, and negotiated
vendor contracts. Identify and engage stakeholders, and make
recommendations.
Issues and Proposed Charges:
Proposed
Charge to Instruction, Curricula, and Advising Committee (ICAC) on How
OIT and Other Offices Solicit and Integrate Feedback - Submitted
by Jon Oliver
Proposed
Charge: Investigate and make recommendations on how OIT and other
offices solicit and integrate feedback from all constituencies at
Rutgers to ensure the optimal purchase and use of information systems.
Rationale:
The university has seen major changes to its procurement and
enterprise resource planning systems over the past 3 years. This
trend is continuing with the study and implementation of a new human
resource and student information systems. The Office of
Information Technology (OIT) has also undertaken multiple studies and
working groups investigating cloud information systems, storage, and
research computing to name a few. While all of these significant
changes have had various stakeholder participation study, not all have
included all university constituencies.
Proposed
Charge to Instruction, Curricula, and Advising Committee (ICAC) on
Online and Hybrid Course Support - Submitted by Jon Oliver
Proposed
Charge: Investigate and consider how online and hybrid courses
are supported at Rutgers. How are courses created and delivered
and how are faculty supported. What tools, licensed software
technologies are used for the best content delivery?
Proposed
Charge to Instruction, Curricula, and Advising Committee (ICAC) on A
Policy Relating to Student Posting of Faculty-Owned Documents -
Submitted by Peter Gillett
Proposed
Charge: Investigate and make recommendations on University
Policies relating to students' posting of syllabi, slides, tests,
examinations, and other professor-created documents to sites such as
Course Hero. This compromises both copyright, and instructors'
ability to manage and control the effective use of the materials they
create.
6.
New Business
Issue Raised by Newark Faculty Council
Chair, Jane Gilman,
regarding holding more Senate meetings on the Newark Campus.
The
following is an email sent to Senator
Robert Puhak from Chairwoman
Gilman on February 12, 2018:
The Newark
Faculty Council discussed its interaction and connection with the
University
Senate at today's meeting.
I am writing to
ask whether as one of the Newark representatives to the Senate,
you
are willing
to ask the Senate (i) to hold more meetings in Newark. Instead of one
out of
nine yearly meetings, perhaps the Senate could hold at least two
of them
in Newark and (ii) to arrange for Newark representatives to participate
via
Skype in Senate meetings. If there were place dedicated to Skype for
Newark
faculty, that would be an improvement to the current situation. If this
arrangement were of interest to Camden faculty, they should be
included, of
course. A similar Skype arrangement for Senate committees would also be
desirable.
Request
for a Presentation on "Bargaining for the Common Good" at the
March 23 Senate Meeting - Submitted by Robert Boikess
The
following is an email sent to Senate
Executive Committee Member Robert Boikess from David
Hughes, VP of the Rutgers AAUP-AFT Faculty Union on February 25, 2018:
As
you well know, the union contracts of 24 bargaining units
– covering 20,000 Rutgers workers – expire on 1 July
2018. The coalition
of these unions is requesting to make a presentation to the plenary of
the
University Senate on 23 March. In the context of the negotiations
beginning in March, we would like to share our proposals of
“bargaining for the
common good.” Those proposals include:
Reduced health insurance
premiums and greatly
expanded accessibility to health insurance for all university employees:
Collective bargaining
rights for all university
employees;
Tuition benefits for
all university employees;
A minimum wage of
$15 for all university
employees;
A
tuition freeze for students.
The
presentation would allow us to seek input from the
largest representative body of the University community, surely a
worthwhile
process. The presenters would be:
Premelia
Toney-Boss, Corresponding Secretary, AFSCME Local 1761;
David
M. Hughes, Vice-President, Rutgers AAUP-AFT.
I would be grateful if you could pass this
request along to the Executive Council of the Senate. Feel free
to share the message in its entirety.
7.
University Senate Agenda
March
23, 2018 Senate Meeting:
- Meeting to be held in New Brunswick
- New Brunswick Chancellor's Report - Debasish Dutta, New
Brunswick Chancellor
8.
Adjournment