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Feb 7th
12:00 pm
Agenda Items Due On
Noon on Wednesday, February 5th 2025
Agenda Distributed On
Wednesday, February 5th 2025
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY SENATE
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
MEETING AGENDA
Friday, February 7, 2025, 12:00 p.m. via Zoom
https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/99068164783?pwd=VHV1YUphLzJmWVgrUDM0VGcyUE01Zz09
Chair’s Report– Lucille Foster, Senate Chair
Secretary’s Report– Vicki Hewitt, Senate Executive Secretary
- Approval of Agenda
- Approval of the January 10, 2025 Senate Executive Committee Minutes
- Communications
- President Holloway’s Report on University Finances: Fri. Feb. 14 from 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
- Budget Town Hall: Thu. March 13 from 1:00 – 2:30 p.m.
Administrative Report – Prabhas Moghe, Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs (12:05 – 12:20 p.m.)
USGC Draft Open Letter to the EC (12:20 – 12:30 p.m.)
Federal Grant Funding Freeze Small Group Selection (12:30 – 12:40 p.m.)
Standing Committees/Panels
Committee Report and Recommendations (12:40 – 12:50 p.m.):
Instruction, Curricula, and Advising Committee – Natalie Borisovets and Taryn Cooper, Co-Chairs
Report on S-2301-1: Science Communication Efforts at Rutgers University
The committee was charged as follows:
Review efforts in science communication initiatives across the University and provide recommendations for any measures and limitations to raise awareness of the current limitations in the field of science communication across the entire Rutgers research community.
Committee Report and Recommendations (12:50 – 1:00 p.m.):
Budget and Finance Committee – Thomas Figueira and Troy Shinbrot, Co-Chairs
Trends in Rutgers Budget Priorities and Allocations
Committee Report and Recommendations (1:00 – 1:10 p.m.):
Information Technology Committee – Katie Anderson and Timothy Knievel, Co-Chairs
The committee was charged as follows:
Review the existing Senate meeting format and existing Senate Handbook meeting procedures and develop recommendations in support of virtual meetings.
Open Charge Request (1:10 – 1:15 p.m.):
FPAC requests that S-2115-1: Academic Freedom be revised or discharged.
Status Report on Senate Charge 2115-2: Academic Freedom
Note this was also charged to SAC.
Open Charge Request (1:15 – 1:20 p.m.)
FPAC requests the charge language of S-2333: Cost Cutting and Budget Deficits be updated to:
Pending BFC‘s investigation into outcomes of cost cutting measures that are being imposed on departments by their schools, FPAC will investigate departments’ responses with particular focus on manifestations and impacts on faculty and staff.
Note this was also charged to BFC and ICAC.
Old Business
None
New Business (1:20 – 1:30 p.m.)
University Senate February 21 Agenda (1:30 – 1:35 p.m.)
- Resolution on Chat Settings During Senate Meetings
- Review of Draft Bylaws
- Draft Article IV (information only)
Adjournment