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Friday
Feb 7th
12:00 pm

Executive Committee Meeting

Zoom

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

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

Report on S-2325: Explore the Current Virtual Senate Meeting Format and Develop Best Practices and Meeting Format Recommendations

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 schoolsFPAC 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

Adjournment

No minutes have been recorded for this meeting.

Present Senators

Robert Boikess Paul Boxer Emily Brown Adrienne Esposito Lucille Foster Christopher Godoy Anna Haley Geza Kiss Tiffany Olivera Heather Pierce Wendy Purcell Wendy Rodriguez Monica Roth David Salas-de la Cruz Kevin Schroth Adrienne Simonds

Excused Senators

Brielle Fedorko

Absent Senators

Rachel Maeng Brown Safanya Searcy Nusrath Yusuf