University Senate Reports and Resolutions
(As of April 2012. In chronological order, most recent
first, since February 1998.)
- Response
to Charge S-1202, Separation of Rutgers Camden - Student Affairs
Committee - April 2012
- Response
to Charge S-1203, Separation of Rutgers Camden - Faculty and
Personnel Affairs Committee - April 2012
- Response
to Charge S-1016, Academic Freedom and Faculty Participation in
University Governance - Faculty and Personnel Affairs Committee -
April 2012
- Response
to Charge S-1003, Academic Calendar, Part 2 - Academic Standards,
Regulation and Admissions Committee - April 2012
- Response
to Charge S-1104, Online Teaching Evaluations, and Best Practices in
Evaluation of Teaching Performance - Instruction, Curricula and
Advising Committee - March 2012
- Response
to Charge S-0909A, University College - Student Affairs Committee -
March 2012
- Response
to Charge A-0812A, Part 2, Evaluation of Upper Administration -
Faculty and Personnel Affairs Committee - March 2012
- Response
to Charge A-0906B, Commencement Dates - Academic Standards,
Regulations and Admissions
Committee - January 2012 [President
McCormick's Response]
- Response
to Charge S-0807A, Add/Drop - Academic Standards, Regulations and
Admissions
Committee - January 2012 [President
McCormick's Response]
- Response
to Charge S-1105, Recording of Lectures/Presentations -
Instruction, Curricula and Advising Committee -
January 2012 [President
McCormick's Response]
- Response
to Charge S-1005, Alma Mater - Student Affairs Committee -
November 2011
- Response
to Charge CI-1106, Input to the Code of Student Conduct -
Academic Standards, Regulations and Admisssions Committee - October
2011 [President
McCormick's Response]
- Response
to Charge A-1102A, Proposal for a New School of Nursing-Camden -
University Structure and Governance Committee - April 2011
- Response
to Charge S-0914, All-Funds Budgeting Integration - Budget and
Finance Committee - April 2011
- Response
to ChargeS-0917, Application of the "Ten-Year Rule" in Promotions to
Full Professor - Faculty and Personnel Affairs Committee - April
2011
- Response
to Charge S-0912, Online Courses in Masters and Professional Degree
Programs - Research, and Graduate and Professional Education
Committee - April 2011
- Response
to Charge A-0906A (Formerly A-0906), Academic Calendar, Commencement
Dates, Updated - Academic Standards, Regulations and Admissions
Committee - April 2011
- Response
to Charge S-1015, Online Education at Rutgers - Instruction,
Curricula and Advising Committee - April 2011
- Response
to Charge S-1009, NRC Rankings of Graduate Programs [Note:
Report is for information only.] -
Research, and Graduate and Professional Education - April 2011
- Response
to Charge S-1014 to Review New Brunswick Student Senate Membership
- University Structure and Governance Committee - March 2011
- Follow-Up
Report on January 2010 Senate ASRAC Response
to Charge S-0807, Add/Drop Period - Academic Standards, Regulations
and Admissions Committee - March 2011
- Response
to Charge S-1007, Academic Reappointment/Promotion Form 1A -
Faculty and Personnel Affairs Committee - February 2011
- Response
to Charge S-0915, Conducting Staff Senator Elections - University
Structure and Governance Committee - February 2011
- Response
to Charge S-0712, Enhanced Shared Governance, and University Senate
- University Structure and Governance Committee - January 2011
- Response
to Charge S-1006, Staggered Terms for Staff Senators - University
Structure and Governance Committee - January 2011
- Response
to Charge 1010, New
Academic Integrity Policy and Procedures
for Adjudicating Alleged Nonseparable Violations of Academic Integrity -
Academic Standards, Regulations and Admissions Committee [Follow this
link to the current Academic
Integrity Policy] - January 2011 [President
McCormick's Response]
- Response
to Charge S-1011 on Endorsing the New
Brunswick Faculty Council's Faculty Retirement Survey -
Faculty and Personnel Affairs Committee - November 2010
- Response
to Charge S-0911, Faculty Orientation Programs - Faculty and
Personnel Affairs Committee - October 2010 (Report for Information
Only; No action taken.)
- Response
to Charge S-0811, Changes to Academic Reappointment/Promotion
Instructions - Faculty and Personnel Affairs Committee - October
2010
- Partial
Response to Charge S-1003, Fall 2011 Academic Calendar - Academic
Standards, Regulations and Admissions Committee - October 2010 [President
McCormick's Response] [Executive
Vice President Furmanski's Universitywide Transmittal of the Revised
Calendar]
- Response
to Charge S-0902, Senate Speakers, Discussions, Forums - University
Structure and Governance Committee - October 2010
- Response
to Charge S-1003, Fall 2010 Academic Calendar - Academic Standards,
Regulations and Admissions Committee - April 2010 [President
McCormick's Response]
- Response
to Charge S-0910, Accessibility of Student Services - Student
Affairs Committee - April 2010
- Response
to Charge S-0905, Academic Integrity Policy - Academic Standards,
Regulations and Admissions Committee - April 2010 [President
McCormick's Response]
- Response
to Charge S-0913, Opportunity Disparities between Part- and Full-Time
Master's and Professional Degree Programs - Research, and Graduate
and Professional Education Committee - March 2010
- Response
to Charge S-0908, Proposal to Increase Staff Membership on the Senate
- University Structure and Governance Committee - March 2010 [President
McCormick's Response]
- Response
to Charge A-0812, Part I, Evaluation of Deans - The report was
supplemented by two appendices: Appendices II
(Faculty Survey Template) and III
(Staff Survey Template) - Faculty and Personnel Affairs Committee -
March 2010 [President
McCormick's Response]
- Response
to Charge S-0803, Rutgers Emergency Communication Processes -
Budget and Finance Committee - March 2010
- Response
to Charge S-0807, Add/Drop Period - Academic Standards, Regulations
and Admissions Committee - January 2010 [President
McCormick's Response]
- Response
to Charge A-0906, Commencement Dates - Academic Standards,
Regulations and Admissions Committee - January 2010 [President
McCormick's Response]
- Response
to Charge S-0805, Senate Representation by Full-time, Non-tenure-track
Faculty - University Structure and Governance Committee - January
2010 [President
McCormick's Response]
- Response
to Charge S-0903, Senate Committee Charge Response Limits -
University Structure and Governance Committee - January 2010 [President
McCormick's Response]
- Response
to Charge S-0801, Employee Professional and Personal Development -
Faculty and Personnel Affairs Committee - January 2010
- Response
to Charge S-0806, Hybrid Courses and Model of Teaching -
Instruction, Curricula and Advising Committee - October 2009 [President
McCormick's Response] [See also September 2010 Announcement
of "Teaching in an Online Environment" Series from Monica Devanas,
CTAAR.]
- Response
to Charge S-0802, Policies on Participation in Blood Drives -
Student Affairs Committee - October 2009 [President
McCormick's Response]
- Response
to Charge S-0901, Academic Freedom for Contingent Faculty - Faculty
and Personnel Affairs Committee - May 2009
- Response
to Charge S-0804, Dealing with Psychological Emergencies - Faculty
and Personnel Affairs Committee - May 2009 [President
McCormick's Response]
- Response
to Charge S-0713, Weekend Exams - Academic Standards, Regulations
and Admissions Committee - May 2009
- Response
to Charge S0707, Fundraising - Budget and Finance Committee - May
2009 [President
McCormick's Response]
- Response
to Charge S-0709, InterCampus Shuttle Service - Budget and Finance
Committee - March 2009
- Response
to Charge A-0810, Including Senior Vice President for Finance and
Administration as Administrator Senator - University Structure and
Governance Committee - March 2009 [President
McCormick's Response]
- Response
to Charge S-0605, Admissions and Financial Aid Assessment -
Academic Standards, Regulations and Admissions Committee - March 2009 [President
McCormick's Response]
- Response
to Charge S-0705-2, Full-time Tenure- and Non-tenure-track Appointments
- Faculty Affairs and Personnel Committee - February 2009 (Report for
Information only; No vote, No action taken.)
- Response
to Charge S-0710, Tuition Remission for Part-Time Lecturer Faculty
- Faculty Affairs and Personnel Committee - November 2008 [President
McCormick's Response]
- Response
to Charge S-0107, Referendum Guidelines Review and Recommended
Revised Referendum Guidelines - University Structure and Governance
Committee - November 2008 [President
McCormick's Response] [President
McCormick's Follow-up Response]
- Response
to Charge S-0704, Senate Committee Structure - University Structure
and Governance Committee - November 2008 [President
McCormick's Response]
- Response
to Charge S-0708, Student Charter Trustee Nominations and Elections
- Student Affairs Committee - May 2008 [President
McCormick's Response] [Follow-Up] [President
McCormick's Follow-up Response]
- Response
to Charge S-0705, Contingent Faculty Proposal - Faculty Affairs
and Personnel Committee - May 2008 [President
McCormick's Response]
- Response
to Charge S-0703, Intersession -
Instruction, Curricula and Advising Committee - May 2008 [President
McCormick's Response]
- Response
to Charge S-0408, Academic Integrity Policy Review - Academic
Standards, Regulations and Admissions Committee - May 2008 [President
McCormick's Response]
- Response
to Charge S-0701, Part-time and Full-time Non-tenure-track Faculty Role
in Shared Governance - University Structure and Governance
Committee - March 2008 [President
McCormick's Response]
- Response
to Charge S-0504, All-Funds Budgeting - Budget and Finance
Committee, January 2008 [President
McCormick's Response]
- Response
to Charge S0603, Senate Membership-New Brunswick - University
Structure and Governance Committee - January 2008 [President
McCormick's Response]
- Response
to Charge S-0607, Sale of Examination and Desk Copies of Textbooks
- Instruction, Curricula and Advising Committee - December 2007 [President
McCormick's Response]
- Response
to Charge S-0414, Student Fees - Budget and Finance Committee -
April 2007 [President
McCormick's Response]
- Response
to Charge S-0602, Course-Textbook Reserve Requirement -
Instruction, Curricula and Advising Committee - April 2007 [President's
Response]
- Response
to Charge S-0604, Shared Governance - University Structure and
Governance Committee - April 2007
- Response
to Charge S-0702 (formerly S-0406), Tolerance and Sensitivity -
Student Affairs Committee and Equal Opportunity Committee - April 2007 [President
McCormick's Response]
- Response
to Charge S-0415, Faculty Retirement Incentives - Faculty Affairs
and Personnel Committee - March 2007 [President
McCormick's Response]
- Response
to Charge S-0608, Merger Proposals - University Structure and
Governance Committee - March 2007 [President
McCormick's Response]
- Partial
Response to Charge S-0603, Senate Membership, New Brunswick
- University Structure and Governance Committee - February 2007
[President
McCormick's Response]
- Response
to Charge S-0208, Safety Issues - Budget and Finance Committee,
February 2007 [President
McCormick's Response]
- Report
and Recommendations in Response to Charge S-0606, Targum - Student
Affairs Committee - January 2007 (Report for Information Only; No vote,
No action taken.)
- Report and
Recommendations on Charge S-0502, Status of full-time,
Non-tenure-track, Non-clinical Faculty - Faculty Affairs and
Personnel Committee - December 2006 [President's
Response]
- Response
to Charge S-0411, Content of Student Transcripts - Academic
Standards, Regulations and Admissions Committee - October 2006 (No
action taken, No changes to the status quo were recommended)
- Response
to Charge S-0313, Availability of Syllabi during Add/Drop
- Instruction Curricula and Advising Committee - October 2006 [President's
Response]
- Report
on Addition of Plus/Minus Grades to Default Grading System -
Academic Standards, Regulations and Admissions Committee - April 2006
(Report for Information Only; No action taken.)
- Report
and Resolution in Response to Charge A-0601, Proposal
for Establishment of a School of Public Affairs and Administration at
Rutgers-Newark - April 2006 [President's
Response]
- Recommendations
in Response to Task Force on Undergraduate Education Report -
Executive Committee, for the University Senate - February 2006 -
- President McCormick's February 1, 2006 e-mail to the Rutgers
Community regarding "Update on
Undergraduate Education Report" - Text of
President McCormick's March 7, 2006 E-mail to the Rutgers-New
Brunswick/Piscataway Community regarding "President's Recommendations
for Transforming Undergradate Education" -
- Status
Report and Resolution
in Response to Charge S-0413, FAIR v. Rumsfeld Appeal - Equal
Opportunity Committee - October 2005 [President's
Response]
- Response
to Charge A-0312, Endorsement of Draft University Copyright Policy
- Academic Standards, Regulations and Admissions Committee - October
2005 [President's
Response]
- Response
to Charge S-0401, Faculty and Student Board of Governors Membership
- University Structure and Governance Committee - October 2005 [President
McCormick's Response] [Follow-Up] [President
McCormick's Follow-up Response]
- Response
to Charge S-0407, Faculty Reporting Processes - Faculty Affairs and
Personnel Committee - October 2005 [President
McCormick's Response]
- Response
to Charge S-0318, Use of Course Management Systems -
Instruction, Curricula and Advising Committee - September 2005 [President's
Response]
- Resolution:
Support for Chair of the University Senate -
University Structure and Governance Committee - September 2005 [President's
Response]
- Senate
Bylaws Review (Part 2, Senate Handbook) - University Structure and
Governance Committee - April 2005
- Report
on the Proposals to make the Clinical Track available to the Graduate
School of Applied and Professional Psychology, and to establish a new
track of Professional Practice Faculty in Both Business Schools and the
Mason Gross School of the Arts - Faculty Affairs and Personnel
Committee - April 2005 [President's
Response] [President
McCormick's Follow-Up Response]
- Faculty
Role in Undergraduate Student Recruitment and Admissions - Academic
Standards, Regulations and Admissions Committee - April 2005 [President
McCormick's Response]
- Report
on Possible Conflict of Interest in Assignment of Textbooks -
Instruction, Curricula and Advising Committee - March 2005 [President's
Response]
- Academic
Calendar, Commencement Dates - Academic Standards,
Regulations and Admissions Committee - March 2005
- Modification
of University Calendar for Academic Year 2009-2010 - Academic
Standards, Regulations and Admissions Committee - March 2005
- Senate
Bylaws Review, and Election Procedures for At-Large and PTL/Annual
Appointee Senators - University Structure and Governance Committee
-February 2005
- Report
on E-mail Privacy - Faculty Affairs and Personnel Committee -
November 2004 [President's
Response]
- Report/Recommendations
on Faculty Departmental Voting Rights - Faculty Affairs and
Personnel Committee - November 2004 [President's
response]
- Mid-Semester
Course Assessment - Instruction, Curricula and Advising Committee -
April 2004 [President's
Response]
- Report/Recommendations
Regarding Asian-American Student Initiative - Equal Opportunity
Committee - April 2004 [President's
Response]
- Academic
Calendar Change, 2005 Commencement Date - Academic Standards,
Regulations and Admissions Committee - April 2004 [President's
Response]
- Resolutions
Concerning Educational Priorities - University Structure and
Governance Committee - April 2004 [President's
Response]
- Resolution
on Medium, April 22, 2004 Edition - Full Senate - April
2004 [President's
Response]
- Knight
Express Card Report Review - Student Affairs Committee - March
2004 [President's
Response]
- Winter
Session Review - Instruction, Curricula and Advising Committee -
March 2004 [President's
Response]
- Evaluation
of Administrators, Review - Faculty Affairs and Personnel Committee
- March 2004 [President's
Response]
- Resolution
on FAIR v. Rumsfeld, and to Implement Fully Rutgers University Policy
on Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action - Equal
Opportunity Committee - February 2004 [President's
Response]
- Recommendations
on Honor Cords Worn with Academic Regalia - Student Affairs
Committee - February 2004
- Report and
Recommendations on Use of Electronic Applications for Admission -
Academic Standards, Regulations and Admissions Committee - February
2004 [President's
Response]
- Endorsement
of the Coalition on Intercollegiate Athletics (COIA) Framework -
Academic Standards, Regulations and Admissions Committee - February
2004 [President's
Response]
- Report
and Recommendations on Modification of University Calendar for Academic
Years 2004-2005 and 2011-2012 - Academic Standards, Regulations and
Admissions Committee - February 2004 [President's
Response]
- Report
on Governance of the Proposed Research University System -
University Structure and Governance Committee - November 2003 [President's
Response]
- Contract
with the Governor on Higher Education - University Structure and
Governance Committee - October 2003 [President's
Response]
- Procedures
for Chair Appointments by Deans - Faculty Affairs and Personnel
Committee - October 2003 [President's Response]
- Status
Report Minus Grades and Graduate Add/Drop Period - Academic
Standards, Regulations and Admissions Committee - May 2003
- Textbook
Buyback - Student Affairs Committee - May 2003 [President's
Response]
- Student
Advising - Instruction, Curricula and Advising Committee - May
2003 [President's
Response]
- Resolution in
Appreciation of Student Participation in March 6, 2003 Trenton Rally
Protesting Proposed State Budget Cuts - Executive Committee - March
2003 [President's
Response]
- Use of Athletic
Facilities for Non-Athletic Events - Student Affairs Committee -
March 2003 [President's
Response]
- Status of
Affirmative Action - Equal Opportunity Committee - March 2003
[President's
Response]
- Report
and Resolution in Opposition to Proposed and Continued Budget Cuts, and
in Support of Excellence in Higher Education in New Jersey-
Executive Committee - February 2003 [President's
Response]
- Report and
Resolution on the Status of Hispanic and Latino Faculty and
Administrators- Equal Opportunity Committee - February 2003 [President's
Response]
- Initial
Response to the Report of the New Jersey Commission on Health Science,
Education, and Training - Executive Committee and University
Structure and Governance Committee - November 2002 [Board of Governors'
Response]
- Student Advising
Services - Instruction, Curricula, and Advising Committee -
November 2002 (Referred back to Committee)
- Resolution
in Appreciation of President Lawrence - Executive Committee -
October 2002 [President's
Response]
- Best Practices
in Assessment of Teaching - Faculty Affairs and Personnel Committee
- May 2002 [President's
Response] [President
McCormick's Follow-Up Response]
- Add/Drop Period
Review - Academic Standards, Regulations, and Admissions Committee
- April 2002
- College of
Applied and Professional Studies - University Structure and
Governance Committee - March 2002
- Parking and
Transportation Services - Student Affairs Committee - March 2002
- State of New
Jersey's Smoking Cessation Program - Student Affairs Committee -
March 2002
- Minus
Grades, Interim Report - Academic Standards, Regulations and
Admissions Committee - January 2002
- Tuition Increases
- Budget and Personnel Committee - January 2002
- Healthcare
Insurance for Graduate Students - Faculty Affairs and Personnel
Committee - December 2001 [President's Response]
- New Jersey
National Guard Tuition-Remission Program - Executive Committee -
November 2001
- Equal Marriage
Resolution - Equal Opportunity Committee - November 2001
- Committee to
Advance Our Common Purposes Curriculum Task Force Report Review -
Instruction, Curricula and Advising Committee and Equal Opportunity
Committee - May 2001
- Minimum Grade
Point Average - Academic Standards, Regulations and Admissions
Committee - April 2001 [President's Response]
- Part-Time
Lecturers Representation in the Senate - University Structure and
Governance Committee - April 2001 [President's Response]
- Review of
Add/Drop Trial Change, and Recommendations on Permanent Change -
Academic Standards, Regulations and Admissions Committee - April 2001
- Enrollment, and
Quality of Life and Education at Rutgers - Academic Standards,
Regulations and Admissions Committee, with Input from Student Affairs
Committee - April 2001
- Evaluation of
Administrators by Faculty and Students - Faculty Affairs and
Personnel Committee - April 2001 [President's and
University Vice President for Academic Affairs' Responses]
- Plus and Minus
Grades, Law School-Camden - Academic Standards, Regulations and
Admissions Committee - March 2001
- Posting Student
Instructional Rating Data to the Web - Instruction, Curricula, and
Advising Committee - March 2001 [President's Response]
- FASIP Awards,
Making Public the Recipients and Amounts of - Faculty Affairs and
Personnel Committee - March 2001 [University Vice
President for Academic Affairs' Response] [President
McCormick's Follow-Up Response]
- Teaching-Assistant
Training - Instruction, Curricula and Advising Committee - February
2001 [President's
Response]
- Workplace
Violence Policy - Faculty Affairs and Personnel Committee -
February 2001 [President's
Response]
- Fee Structure for
Full-Time University College Students - Budget Committee - January
2001 [President's
Response]
- Health Benefits
for Same-Sex Domestic Partners of Rutgers Employees and Retirees -
Equal Opportunity Committee - January 2001 [President's Response]
- Parental
Notification Policy - Student Affairs Committee - December
2000 [President's
Response]
- Resolution to
Change the (Add/Drop) Registration Period on a Trial Basis -
Executive Committee - November 2000 [President's
Response]
- Student
Financial Management and Credit-Card Debt - Student Affairs
Committee and Executive Committee - October 2000 [President's
Response]
- Social Security
Numbers as Student Identification Numbers - Executive Committee and
Student Affairs Committee - October 2000 [President's Response]
- Winter Session
- Educational Planning and Policy Committee - October 2000 [President's
Response]
- Access to
Majors - Educational Policy and Planning Committee - April 2000
- Credit-Card Debt
- Student Affairs Committee - April 2000 [President's
Response]
- TZ Grade -
Educational Policy and Planning Committee - March 2000 [President's
Response]
- School of
Business - Educational Policy and Planning Committee - March
2000 [President's
Response]
- University
Senate Committee Structure Revision - Committee on University
Governance, and Role, Composition and Function of the Senate - March
2000
- Senate
Revitalization Recommendations - Ad Hoc Senate Revitalization
Committee, and Committee on University Governance, and Role,
Composition and Function of the Senate - March 2000 [President's
Response]
- Alcohol Policy
- Student Affairs Committee - November 1999 [Acting Vice President
for Student Affairs' Update on Implementation]
- Asian Cultural
Center - Equal Opportunity Committee - May 1999 [President's
Response]
- Federally
Mandated Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation in ROTC Programs
- Equal Opportunity Committee - February 1998 [President's Response]