EXCUSED:  Abbas; Acosta; Alizadeh; Bekdash; Bora; Bridgeman; Chunn; Craig; Cummings; Cummings; DeFabiis; Denham-Barrett; Dettloff; Ebert; Esposito; Fagan; Fellenz; Goldfarb; Goodman; Gould; Graber; Gross; Guo; Gursoy; Han; Hartman; Heckscher; Honeycutt; Junboota; Kaminskas; Kane; Kelly; LaPointe; Lema; Lindboe; Lutz; Mahajan-Cusack; Maloney; McKeever; Mena-Segovia; Menifield; Miller; Murphy; O'Neill; Pardlo; Parrish; Patel; Peyrek; Pinto-Figueroa; Piotrowski; Powell; Raval; Rosen; Rothpeltz-Puglia; Sanchez; Shah; Shah; Trees; Ziessler

ABSENT:   Alidou; Alvarez; Artun; Awan; Balaguru; Barbarese; Barchi; Barone; Brunson; Butler; Butterfield; Cahill; Cantor; Chinn; Collins; Conway; Cotter; Covington; D'Anna; DeFilippis; Dowlin; Eastman; Eaton; Eisenstein; Estriplet; Farmbry; Farris; Feldman; Filippelli; Gabriel; Ganesh; Ghesani; Gower; Greenberg; Halkitis; Hatefi; Holzemer; Iannini; Johnson; Kettle; Kettler; Kukor; Langer; Langsam; Lei; Lindenmeyer; Lombardi; Lopez; Lugg; Mahon; Mansukhani; March; Marchetta; Masiello; Mazurek; Molloy; Murphy; O'Brassill-Kulfan; O'Connor; Pagan; Pandey; Paskhover; Patel; Patton; Pichugin; Ponzio; Porumbescu; Potter; Potter; Pradhan; Rajan; Schiavo; Schneider; Sen; Shapiro; Shapses; Sheridan; Shinbrot; Silver; Song; Stauffer; Steinberg; Strom; Szatrowski; Tsakalakos; Vidal; Williams; Yang; Young

ATTENDANCE  SUMMARY : Faculty: Of 117 total: 38 present (32%), 33 excused (28%), 45 absent (38%); Students: Of 37 total: 19 present (51%), 16 excused (43%), 7 absent (19%); Administrators: Of 40 total: 3 present (8%), 5 excused (13%), 33 absent (82%); Staff: Of 17 total: 12 present (71%), 4 excused (24%), 3 absent (18%); Alumni: Of 6 total: 4 present (67%), 1 excused (17%), 1 absent (16%
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CALL TO ORDER, DETERMINATION OF QUORUM, AND CHAIRPERSON’S REPORT - Peter Gillett, Chair

Senate Chair Peter Gillett called the meeting to order at 1:33 p.m. in the Camden Campus Center Multipurpose Room, Camden Campus. He welcomed everyone to the Camden Campus and thanked Chancellor Phoebe Haddon and her staff for hosting and for providing lunch. He asked Senators, despite the later start time due to the extension of standing committees, to attempt not to finish later than usual. He also, made the following points:

• the status of the Dean's Evaluation Committees and the need to revisit how to solicit Senate recommendations in the future; and
• the Big Ten Academic Alliance - Academic Governance Conference in Iowa City, specifically his discussions with other universities on their use of electronic voting devices and at which level these governing bodies influence university decision making;
• discussions in the Senate Office regarding the use of clickers to register attendance and voting;
• the problem in crafting amendments on the floor of the Senate;
• the role of the Senate in shared governance and what that means - working together to share governance with the administration vs. constituencies coming together to represent their own viewpoints in silos;
• the wish to encourage current student and faculty organizations to represent those constituencies in their own right and the Senate to be more than a vehicle for amplifying them;
• encouraging the members of the Senate to come together as one voice and work with the administration to foster positive change for the university in its entirety.

REPORT OF THE SECRETARY - Mary Mickelsen, Executive Secretary 

• Agenda: The meeting's agenda, including time limits, was approved by the Senate.
• Minutes: The Minutes of the October 19, 2018 Senate Meeting were approved as distributed by the Executive Secretary.
• Communications: The following communications were presented by the Executive Secretary
  • President Barchi's Amended Response to Charge A-1603: Evaluation of Administrators Part II: Evaluation of Chancellors and the Process for the Evaluation of Chancellors
  • Chancellor Haddon's Response to Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, Barbara Lee's request for follow-up on President Barchi's responses to Senate reports.
  • Call for 2019 Student Charter Trustee Nominations - Undergraduate Position - by the Rutgers University Secretary

ELECTION OF ALUMNI MEMBER OF THE SENATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Jennie Owens, elected to serve as the 2018-19 Alumni Member of the Senate Executive Committee at the April 27, 2018 Organizational Meeting, has resigned her seat citing scheduling conflicts. In accordance with University Policy 50.2.1 Section F, the Senate Executive Committee at its November 2 meeting, nominated Houshang Parsa as Jennie's replacement, which he has accepted.

Chair Gillett asked if there were any nominations from the floor, which there were none. The Senate was asked to vote utilizing their voting cards. Senator Parsa was elected as the Alumni Member of the Senate Executive Committee with 1 opposition.

COMMITTEE REPORTS  

Faculty and Personnel Affairs Report on the Partnership Process between RWJ Barnabas, Rutgers University, and the Rutgers University Faculty- Farid Alizadeh and Joseph Markert, Co-Chairs of FPAC

• the dedication of the Weeks Hall of Engineering
• Sen. Cory Booker's visit to Rutgers announcing legislation he is proposing to extend the GI bill for student veterans;
• Rutgers University has been ranked #3 by Military Times as 2019 Best for Vets Colleges;
• Vivian Stringer's 1000th coaching victory - nearly 1/2 being at Rutgers and the 100% graduation rate of her players for the 2nd year in a row;
• the success of the first Academic Health Symposium held on October 30, 2018
• Former Rep. Gabby Giffords speach marked the kick-off of the EJBSPPP Gun Violence Research Center; and
• President Barchi's letter (co-signed by President Christopher Eisgruber, Princeton University and Chancellor Rebecca Blank, University of Wisconsin-Madison), to US Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, calling her to protect transgender student's rights under Title IX, and reject the recent proposed changes to the memo.