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Oct 20th
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Agenda Distributed On
Friday, October 13th 2023
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY SENATE
MEETING AGENDA
Friday, Oct. 20, 2023, 1:10 p.m. via Zoom
https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/94226017684?pwd=RTJYUzFDbWp4M3dqSGRnVnNCV1Rwdz09
CALL TO ORDER, DETERMINATION OF A QUORUM, AND CHAIR’S REPORT – Adrienne Simonds, Chair
REPORT OF THE SECRETARY – Vicki Hewitt, Senate Executive Secretary
- Approval of the Agenda* (including time limits)
- Approval of the September 22, 2023 Meeting Minutes
- Policy Updates
- Communications
- Executive Committee Vacancy: Student Representative, RBHS
- Reminder to log in to the Senate website for attendance and voting access.
ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT – Prabhas Moghe, Executive Vice President, Academic Affairs
CAMDEN CHANCELLOR REPORT – Antonio Tillis, Chancellor, Rutgers University-Camden
DISCOVERY ADVANTAGE PRELIMINARY REPORT AND DISCOVERY ADVANTAGE SYNOPSIS REPORT – Kathleen Scott, Discovery Advantage Chair
OLD BUSINESS
INTRODUCTION OF, AND COMMENTS BY, STANDING COMMITTEE CHAIRS
RESOLUTION TO RE-INSTATE A STANDING COMMITTEE ON EQUITY, DIVERSITY, AND INCLUSION – Submitted by Senator Ronald Quincy, School of Graduate Studies, Faculty
Whereas Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, as a member of the BIG TEN Academic Alliance; and whereas 12 of the current 14-member institutions have standing committees on Diversity, Inclusion, Equity; or similar designations;
And whereas the four institutions that are joining the BIG TEN in 2024 (University of California Los Angeles/UCLA; University of Southern California/USC; University of Washington; and University of Oregon; all have such standing committees on DEI;
And whereas, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey is only one of two of the current 14 (and 2024 18)BIG TEN member institutions that does not currently have a full standing DEI committee of the University Senate;
And whereas Rutgers in the past decades had a standing DEI Committee, but disbanded it, and decentralized the DEI functions;
And whereas the landscape related to DEI in the United States, In New Jersey, and within the Rutgers University community, is ever evolving;
And whereas there is a fundamental imperative to have a committee, diversely representative of the university community, to have a keen focus, commitment, and understanding of the opportunities and challenges impacting Rutgers University –to fully advance each of the Rutgers core philosophical pillars—which include Equity & Diversity;
Therefore, be it resolved that the Rutgers University Senate, during the first meeting of the Senate for academic year 2023-2024, deliberate to re-instate a full standing committee on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (or a more appropriate alternative title that best describes the charge for this committee).
COMMITTEE REPORTS/RESOLUTIONS: The report will be presented/summarized by the committee chair, then will be discussed, and acted upon by the Senate. Substantive amendments to these reports should be given to the Senate secretary in writing prior to or at the time the amendment is moved.
Budget and Finance Committee
Report on S-2307 RCM Detailed Recommendations
Abdelrahman Ibrahim and Carolyne White, Co-Chairs
The BFC was charged as follows:
Examine and propose detailed recommendations for implementing two central elements of the 1/20/2023 Senate-approved resolution on S2010-1: “transparency” and “shared governance” in University budget preparation and reporting.
NEW BUSINESS**
SENATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE REPORT – Lucille Foster, Senate Vice Chair
REPORTS OF THE REPRESENTATIVES TO BOARDS OF GOVERNORS AND TRUSTEES
REPORTS OF CAMPUS FACULTY AND STUDENT LIAISONS
ADJOURNMENT
*Note: Addition of items to the Agenda requires a two-thirds vote (Senate Handbook, Article III, Agenda). There is an overall time limit of 3 hours for Senate meetings. Specific time limits are set for questions and debate, not for presentation of reports (Senate Handbook, Article III, Procedures). After approval, extension of time limits requires a two-thirds vote.
**Note: The Senate Handbook, Article IV, 1 states, “All new matters shall be referred to committee before coming to the Senate (unless extenuating circumstances apply, as indicated in Article III, Agenda, 3 above).”]
Remaining 2023-24 University Senate Meetings
All meetings are on Zoom
November 17, 2023
December 8, 2023
January 19, 2024
February 16, 2024
March 22, 2024
April 26, 2024 – Organizational Meeting of the 2024-2025 Senate
April 26, 2024 – Last Meeting of the 2023-2024 Senate
RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY
UNIVERSITY SENATE
MINUTES: Regular Meeting of the University Senate
DATE: October 20, 2023
TIME AND PLACE: 1:10 p.m., Remote via Zoom
MEMBERS PRESENT: Adamo, Adya, Allen, K. Anderson, C. Anderson, Andrews, Apel, Ardeshna, Ariwoola, Askew, Aubry, Axelsson, Ayorinde, Bachmann, Barbarello Andrews, Bhavaraju, Boikess, Boison, Borie-Holtz, Borisovets, Boucher, Boxer, Bridgeman, Cahill, Campbell, Caponegro, Carpenter, Chama, Chang, Charles, Choron, Clarke, Collick, Cooper, Dai, Dane, Davis, Desir, Dinnall, Dock, Eastman, Esposito, Everts, Fang, Fatahzadeh, Figueira, Foster, Gahlawat, Giberson, Giermanski, Giraud, Godoy, Gong, Gower, Graham, Granadeiro, J. Guo, G. Guo, Gursoy, Haley, Haviland, Hayes, Henderson, Hennessy, Hewitt, Hong, Ibrahim, Javanmard, Kamen, Kaplan, Keates, Kelly, Kettle, Khan, Kiss, Knievel, Kustka, LaMorte, Ladell, Lawson, Lehman, Li, Losada, Maeng Brown, Markowitz, Manzini, Marchetta, Mbadugha, McKeever, Merisier, Moghe, Morales, Murphy, O’Connor, O’Halloran, Oberle, Osorio-Fernandez, Parsa, Patel, Pierce, Poole, Prihoda, Purcell, Quincy, Rabinowitz, Ramachandran, Rodriguez, Rossman-Murphy, Roth, Salas-de la Cruz, Saltzman, Samaan, Santos Mendoza, Sayde, Schwartz, Scott, Searcy, Sergel, Shinbrot, Siederer, Simonds, Sloan-Power, Smith, Sonnenberg, Spiegel, Swamy, Szatrowski, Takhistov, Tewfik, Thompson, Tillis, Tirino, Torres, Truschke, Wagner, White, Winters, Wirtenberg, Wolfe, Yusuf, Zhou, Özel
MEMBERS EXCUSED: Amin, Fedorko, Hernandez, Hong, Kahng, Kolben, Lamorgese, Olivera, Paiste, Schroth, Serrano, Shaw, Siederer, Smart, Volino, White
MEMBERS ABSENT: Abuliak, Ameri, Amjad, Eloy, Barone, Bhuyan, Blanchett, Bond, Cantor, Chiricolo, Ciolek, Conway, Copeland, Cuitiño, Cundiff, DiGiovanni, Easley , Eaton, Edelstein, Edwards, Everett, Feldman, Flynn, Fox, Fudge, Fulton, Garcia, Geary, Griffin, Habeb, Halkitis, Hamawy, Holloway, Inman, Irizarry, Johnson, Joseph, Kahanda, Kaye, Kazi, Lee, Lei, Leibman, Lemish, Levin, Levine, Lutz, Matta, Mazurek, McCarthy, Meshoyrer, Morton, Murtha, Nickitas, Nucci, Orelus, Papakonstantinou, Perez, Pichugin, Pintar, Raheel, Robson, Sarath, Savage, Schnetzer, Shafik, M. Shapiro, S. Shapiro, Sharma, Shobut, Strom, Suh, Tare, Torres, Van Ryzin, Van Stine, Vito, Wade, Weiss, Whitehead, Zhang
CALL TO ORDER, DETERMINATION OF A QUORUM, AND CHAIR’S REPORT – Adrienne Simonds, Chair
Chair Simonds called the meeting to order at 1:11 p.m. She asked the Senate for a moment of silence to honor former senator Joseph Markert.
SECRETARY’S REPORT – Vicki Hewitt, Executive Secretary
- Agenda: The meeting agenda was approved, with the addition of two items of New Business.
- Minutes: The minutes of the Sept. 22, 2023 Senate meeting were approved as distributed by the Executive Secretary.
- Policy Update
- Communications
- There is a vacancy on the Executive Committee for an RBHS Student Representative. Please contact the Executive Secretary if you would like to be on the ballot for this position.
- Reminder to log in to the Senate website for attendance and voting access.
ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT – Prabhas Moghe, Executive Vice President, Academic Affairs
EVPAA Moghe provided the Administrative Report consisting of the following topics:
- Growth in sponsored awards to research faculty
- Renovations to the New Jersey Medical School Science Building in Newark
- Rutgers Research Council Awards program
- Philanthropy and fundraising updates
- Increasing the amount of solar power generated across the university
- Fiserv-Rutgers-Newark Program for Inclusive Innovation
- Scarlet Raptor’s Nest food pantry at Rutgers-Camden
- Discovery Advantage
- Rutgers University Libraries’ Open and Affordable Textbooks Program
- S. News and World Report rankings
- Community health and vaccinations
- Link to submit questions and comments for the Administrative Report
- President’s Stakeholder Address
- Conflict in the Middle East
- Small group meetings for senators with the President
- Sharing consultant reports with the University community
- Spending of strategic funds
- Payments to students from the Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund
- Per diem funds for students who participate in intercollegiate athletics
- Rutgers Scarlet Service Internship program
EVPAA Moghe then answered questions on the following topics:
- Financing the costs of renovations in Newark
- Administrative map of the University
- Presentation of the President’s Stakeholder Address on Zoom
- Concerns about small group meetings with senators and the President
- Mechanism to view questions submitted in advance for the Administrative Report
- Providing responses to Senate resolutions, including the Resolution of a Vote of No Confidence
- Request that the President meet with students at Newark and Camden concerning the conflict in the Middle East
- Pay equity
- Raises for postdocs with independent funding
- Role of shared governance in mergers of schools
CAMDEN CHANCELLOR REPORT – Antonio Tillis, Chancellor, Rutgers University-Camden
DISCOVERY ADVANTAGE PRELIMINARY REPORT AND DISCOVERY ADVANTAGE SYNOPSIS REPORT – Kathleen Scott, Discovery Advantage Chair
OLD BUSINESS
INTRODUCTION OF, AND COMMENTS BY, STANDING COMMITTEE CHAIRS
RESOLUTION TO RE-INSTATE A STANDING COMMITTEE ON EQUITY, DIVERSITY, AND INCLUSION – Submitted by Senator Ronald Quincy, School of Graduate Studies, Faculty
This resolution was adopted by the Senate.
COMMITTEE REPORTS/RESOLUTIONS
Budget and Finance Committee
Report on S-2307 RCM Detailed Recommendations
Abdelrahman Ibrahim and Carolyne White, Co-Chairs
The BFC was charged as follows:
Examine and propose detailed recommendations for implementing two central elements of the 1/20/2023 Senate-approved resolution on S2010-1: “transparency” and “shared governance” in University budget preparation and reporting.
Senator Shinbrot presented this report and recommendations to the Senate. The recommendations were amended as follows:
- The second bullet was amended to: “Major deviations from the budget shall be presented to the Senate in a timely fashion.”
- A bullet was added: “A copy of this report will be forwarded to the N.J. office of the attorney general.”
The amended recommendations were adopted.
NEW BUSINESS
The two items of New Business were postponed to the November Senate agenda.
ADJOURNMENT
The meeting adjourned at 4:19 p.m.
Minutes prepared by:
Vicki Hewitt, Executive Secretary of the University Senate
Present Senators
Excused Senators
Absent Senators
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