UNIVERSITY
SENATE
Executive
Committee
A G E
N D A
September
4, 2015 - 1:10 p.m.
1. Chair’s Report
2. Secretary’s Report
3.
Administrative
Liaison
- Administrative
Report – Barbara Lee, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs
4.
Review of Daily Targum Concept Plan for Spring
2016 Referendum
5. Standing
Committees
Review of Standing Committee Membership/Rosters [Anthony Tamburello, RBHS Staff Senator, has
agreed to chair the Research, and Graduate and Professional Education
Committee.]
Reports:
Instruction,
Curricula and Advising Committee (ICAC) Response
to Charge S-1413 on Selection Process for Software Packages or Services
of Significant
Instructional Impact – Natalie
Borisovets, ICAC Chair
The
ICAC was charged as follows: Using
the most
recent Pearson contract as a case in point, review the process by which
large
contracts that have the potential to seriously affect curricular or
academic
areas of the University are awarded. How are final
bidders
selected, and by what criteria are choices made? How are specifications
determined for components/needs? How do we ensure that faculty
preferences and
pedagogical priorities are included in the consideration of such
packages?
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.
University
Structure and Governance Committee Response
to Charge S-1410 on Honorary Degree and Commencement Speaker Selection
Processes – Jon Oliver and Robert Puhak, USGC Co-chairs
The
USGC was
charged as follows: Formulate
details of
processes to be used to facilitate the proposal submitted to President
Barchi
on Charge S-1405 on Procedures for Selecting Commencement Speakers and
Honorary
Degree Recipients.
Issues/Proposed Charges:
Proposed Charge to Academic Standards,
Regulations and Admissions Committee (ASRAC) on Academic (and Holiday)
Calendar for
All RBHS Units - Suggested by Matthew Miller, Assistant RBHS
Registrar
This proposed charge was discussed at the June 2015 Executive
Committee, at which it was agreed that the Academic
Standards, Regulations and Admissions Committee would decide what
should be done with the issue. ASRAC Chair Martha Cotter suggests the
following language for the charge:
Consider the academic calendars of the
various units of RBHS and how they differ from one another and from the
academic calendar of legacy Rutgers. Make proposals for reconciling the
different calendrs where possible, and for incorporating the RBHS
calendar(s) in the official Rutgers academic calendar.
Determination
of which numbers of faculty lines should be
used for Senate entitlement calculations. Numbers
received in the past from the
administration have included only state-funded lines. RBHS and possibly
other
units include many faculty not on state
lines.
From
Robert Boikess, as “a matter of interest for the
Senate,” on flawed
evaluations of faculty teaching
From
James Oleske, RBHS:
1. I
believe that the medical residents that our faculty
supervise, teach and direct for three to seven year
periods of residency training, should be considered graduate/post
graduate
students of Rutgers and after completion of their residency training
programs
considered Rutgers Alumni.
2.
I would ask for the continued and strong support of the
RGPEC in advocating for the continued support of library services in
the maintenance
for repository/collections that support literature searches and access
for
faculty, residents and students. In particular I am concerned about any
support
reduction of the Smith library servicing the Newark campus of
NJMS/Rutgers.
3.
There have been several negative consequences due to the
separation of the university hospital in Newark NJ from Rutgers NJMS
that
threatens the education and clinical training goals for students,
residents and
faculty at Rutgers NJMS.
6. University Senate Agenda
September 18, 2015 Senate Meeting:
- Regular
Senate meeting with President Barchi's
"President's Address" early in the agenda, followed by a
question-and-answer period
- Newly
tenured faculty reception at Faculty Caucus
7.
Old Business
Update on Open Access Policy
Implementation
[See October 2012 Senate
Report on Charge S-1107, Publication Repository. Policy
effective September 1, 2015.] – Jane Otto
8.
New Business
Jon
Oliver
suggests inviting to an Executive Committee meeting: Kim Pastva,
Interim Secretary of the University; Kenneth Cop (on public safety),
Executive
Director of Police Services.
9. Adjournment