UNIVERSITY
SENATE
Executive
Committee
A G E
N D A
AGENDA
1. Chair’s Report - Peter Gillett,
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.
Old Business
Issue of ASRAC's continuing work on Charge
S-1602, on Policies on Excused Student Absences for Religious
Observance - Robert Schwartz and Matthew Winkler, ASRAC
Co-chairs
The
ASRAC has been charged as follows:
Policies
on Excused Student Absences for Religious Observance: Consider Rutgers
policies on excused student absences for religious observance, and make
recommendations on how best to revise those policies in light of the
increasing diversity of the Rutgers student body.
Schwartz
said at the previous Executive Committee meeting that the ASRAC has not
been allowed to meet with Rutgers attorneys on this charge, and that
they are unable to proceed with work on this charge without that
consultation. The Executive Committee directed that this be placed on
this agenda under "Old Business." In the interim, ASRAC Co-chair Robert
Schwartz submitted the response
that appears below under "Committee Reports."
5.
Committees/Panels
Charge Deadline Requests:
The University Structure and Governance Committee requests the
following extensions of charge deadlines:
- S-1501 to February 2018 [Due to
Executive Committee January 23, 2018]
- Eligibility,
Nomination, and Election of Senate Leadership and Board Representatives:
Consider and make recommendations on the eligibility of candidates, and
the nomination process and schedule for election of Senate officers,
Executive Committee members, and board representatives. Respond to
Senate Executive Committee by June 2017. [Issued January 2015.
Reissued June 2015, April 2016, March 2017]
- S-1605 to February 2018 [Due to Executive Committee January 23,
2018]
- Size
and Composition of the Senate, Reviewed: As
mandated in the December 2012 Senate Response to Charge S-1201, on Senate Size and
Composition, reconsider the size and composition of the
Senate. Respond to Senate Executive Committee by December 2017. [Issued
April 2016. Reissued March 2017]
- S-1607 to April 2018 [Due to Executive Committee April 3, 2018]
- Senate
Committee Structure Review: Consider
and make recommendations for modifying the Senate's standing committee
structure and standing charges. Respond to Senate Executive Committee
by December 2017. [Issued June 2016.]
Committee Reports:
Budget and Finance Committee Chair
Menahem Spiegel wants to present the BFC's
Annual Report on the University Budget at the January 2018
Senate meeting.
The ASRAC 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. Include in deliberations input received on this issue
from the Senate's Student Affairs Committee (Charge S-1713).
The ASRAC has been charged as follows:
Consider Rutgers
policies on excused student absences for religious observance, and make
recommendations on how best to revise those policies in light of the
increasing diversity of the Rutgers student body.
When
submitting this item, Schwartz wrote:
"At
our committee meeting of November 10, 2017, members of
ASRAC discussed our disappointment with President Barchi's response to
the
Senate resolution of 1/20/2017 on revisions to the Rutgers academic
integrity
policy and voted unanimously to request the Executive Committee to ask
the
President to reconsider his response. Our request, together with the
rationale
for it, is given in the attached memo, which was skillfully crafted by
longtime
ASRAC Chair Martha Cotter with a little help from my co-chair Matt
Winkler, Bob
Boikess, and myself."
6.
Other Business
Briefing
on OIT
Technology Master Plan -
Adrienne Esposito
7.
University Senate Agenda
December
8, 2017 Senate Meeting:
- Meeting to be held in New Brunswick
- Briefing on OIT Technology Master Plan - Adrienne Esposito
8.
Adjournment