UNIVERSITY SENATE
Executive Committee
A G E N D A
April 10, 2015 - 1:10 p.m.
1. Chair's Report - Ann Gould,
Senate Chair
2. Secretary’s Report - Ken Swalagin,
Senate Executive Secretary
3.
Administrative Report - Robert Barchi, University President
4. Standing Committees
Committee
Reports:
Research, and Graduate and Professional
Education Committee (RGPEC) Response
to Charge S-1207 on Support for International Students [Survey
used to collect data for this report]- RGPEC
Chair Jane Otto
The RGPEC has been charged as follows:
Charge S-1207, Support for International Students: "
Investigate
and make recommendations with regard to
core university support for international students and postdocs,
particularly
in the area of visas." [Interim
Report for information only issued
November 2014.]
Issues/Proposed
Charges:
Proposal
to Reorganize the School of Public Health (RSPH) - Submitted by
Jasjit Ahluwalia, RSPH Dean Designate, and Brian Strom, RBHS Chancellor
[Supporting documents were emailed to Executive Committee members, and
will be distributed in hardcopy at the meeting.]
Potential Charge to Budget and Finance Committee (BFC) on Office of
Information Technology Responsiveness - Submitted by Charles
Heckscher, BFC Member - Senator Heckscher wrote, in part, "
My
department has asked me to voice a concern about
the way the computer outage was handled a couple of weeks ago --
especially the
lack of any information at all for over 48 hours. Many faculty
struggled individually
to figure out what was going in that time and to work out how to reach
their
students."
New Brunswick Faculty Council (NBFC)
Resolution on Shared Governance - Submitted by Robert
Boikess, Senator and NBFC Committee Chair
Proposed Charge to Instruction, Curricula and Advising Committee on
Class Attendance Recordkeeping Requirements for Students Receiving
Federal Funds - Suggested by Fran Bouchoux, Interim Senior Vice
President, on behalf of Enterprise Risk Management - A rationale for
this charge was requested of Dr. Bouchoux at the March Executive
Committee meeting. It has not yet been received. Ken Swalagin is
pursuing the matter.
5. Commencement Speaker
and Honorary Degrees Committee - Leslie Fehrenbach has issued a
call for nominations for commencement speakers and honorary degree
candidates. The nominations will be sent to Ken Swalagin as they come
in. The Executive Committee members, and board representatives may
constitute the Senate group that will review the nominations. See the Senate
report on this issue for how the committee is constituted, and the
interim process to be used.
6. Nominating Panel
- Ken Swalagin has issued to all Senators a call for self-nominations
to Senate leadership, Executive Committee member, and board
representative positions. It may be necessary to suggest others to be
asked if they are interested in running for those positions if there
aren't enough self-nominations. Robert Puhak has volunteered to
co-chair the Nominating Panel, as he did last year. This
year's Nominating Panel charge is online.
7. Old
Business
Questions
from Senate Committees related to the Division
of Graduate Studies Proposal, and Overview of
Graduate School - New Brunswick, and GSBS Overview -
Submitted by Kathleen
Scotto, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Dean, and Jerome Kukor,
Graduate School - New Brunswick Dean. The questions have been sent to
Deans Scotto and Kukor.
Proposed
Charge on Modifying Academic
Calendar and Exam Times for Online Courses,
submitted by James Massachaele, Executive Vice Dean of SAS-NB via email
as follows:
"I
write in my capacity as Executive Vice-Dean of SAS to ask the Senate to
consider a proposal for making an adjustment to the University's exam
schedule.
A number of faculty in SAS have asked for an improved process for
scheduling
final exams in online courses. Currently the University makes no
provision for
this. Many faculty who teach online courses feel that in-person final
exams are
the best way to ensure the integrity of the exam. To make the
scheduling of
final exams for online courses more effective, we propose that the
University
set aside and advertise certain time slots as standard exam times for
online
courses. You can find details
of the proposal on the attached document. Please
let me know if you need more detail or if there is a different avenue I
need to
pursue to have the proposal considered by the Senate."
This matter was discussed at the
January Executive Committee meeting,
where it was suggested that ASRAC Chair Martha Cotter would consult
with Instruction, Curricula and Advising Committee (ICAC) Chair Natalie
Borisovets to determine how this issue may fit in with ICAC discussions
on exam space and facilities, and online course exams. The issue was
discussed again at the February meeting, at which Academic
Standards, Regulations, Admissions Committee Co-chair Martha Cotter and
Instruction, Curriculum and Advising Committee Chair Natalie Borisovets
were present. Cotter and Borisovets agreed to draft a charge on the
matter,
which will come to the Executive Committee. It was again discussed in
March 2015. Borisovets will draft a charge to be issued to the ICAC on
related work the ICAC is already doing.
8. New Business
9.
University
Senate Agenda for May 1, 2015
- Begins with first "Organizational Meeting" of next-year's
Senate, at which the Senate will elect next year's Senate chair, vice
chair, Executive Committee members, and board representatives.
- Second portion of the meeting is last meeting of this year's
Senate.
- Enterprise Risk Management presentation carried over from last
month's Senate agenda
- Nicole Medrozo, Deputy Chief of Enterprise Risk and
Compliance, and Fran Bouchoux, Interim Senior Vice President of
Interim Senior Vice President and Chief Enterprise Risk, Ethics
and Compliance Officer
10. Adjournment