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Mar 22nd
1:00 pm
Agenda Distributed On
Friday, March 15th 2024
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY SENATE
MEETING AGENDA
Friday, March 22, 2024, 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 February 16, 2024 Meeting Minutes
- Administrative Response
- Response to S-2315: University Vision Benefits
- Policy Update
- Communications
- 2024-2025 Senate Calendar
- Call for Nominations for 2024-2025 Senate Elections – deadline Fri. April 19
- PTL and Staff elections
- Nomination Deadlines: Staff – March 22, PTL – March 24
- Voting Open: Staff – March 28-April 3, PTL – April 6-April 12
- Results Announced: Staff – April 9, PTL – April 16
- Reminder about the Senate Social – Fri. April 12, 12:00 – 2:00 p.m.
- 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
NEWARK CHANCELLOR REPORT – Nancy Cantor, Chancellor, Rutgers University-Newark
RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF STAFF REPRESENTATION ON UNIVERSITY GOVERNING BOARDS – Submitted by Senator Heather Pierce, Lecturer-New Brunswick, Faculty
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.
Ad Hoc Committee on Senate Officer Compensation
Michael Joseph and Suja Patel, Co-Chairs
Report on S-2312: Senate Officer Compensation
The ad hoc committee was charged as follows:
To provide guidelines for appropriate compensation for Senate officers and other Senators whose duties as Senators represent a significant fraction of their university obligations. The resources for such compensation should be provided in a manner that does not create conflicts of interest. Procedures for such compensation already in place at some of our peer aspirant universities may serve as useful models.
University Structure and Governance Committee
Perry Dane and Kevin Schroth, Co-Chairs
Report on S-2202-1: Honors College Student Senators (Information Only)
The USGC was charged as follows:
Investigate and recommend how Honors College Students from each campus can best be represented in the Senate. The creation of the Honors Colleges on each campus has created a new unit and community that students live, learn and participate in within the University. Student entitlements to the Senate are based on their academic association and Honors College Students can participate based on those associations if elected via their student governing associations. However, since student Senators are not specifically elected from the Honors College they may not be able to properly represent the needs of the Honors College community.
Academic Standards, Regulations and Admissions Committee
Lucille Foster and Robert Schwartz, Co-Chairs
Report on S-2324: Investigate Sunsetting of Academic Credit Across Campuses and Review Any Proposed Changes
The ASRAC was charged as follows:
Review how course credits earned at Rutgers can be sundowned across all Rutgers campuses, recognizing many students are unable to complete a desired academic degree in the usual time sequence. Report and explain the rationale for any proposed changes and offer possible recommendations concerning changes to policy of earned credit toward graduation, with consideration of potential complexities with respect to professional/graduate studies that are externally accredited.
Ad Hoc Committee on Develop Nomination Procedures for a Senate Representative for the Policy Approval Committee
Lucille Foster and Kerry Hennessy, Co-Chairs
Report on S-2327: Develop Nomination Procedures for a Senate Representative for the Policy Approval Committee
The ad hoc committee was charged as follows:
To develop nomination procedures for a Senate Representative for the Policy Approval Committee for addition to the Senate Handbook. As part of the new policy approval process, the University Senate is entitled to a representative on the University-wide Policy Approval Committee. As the Policy Approval Committee begins meeting in February 2024, the current representatives to the Board of Governors will serve as interim representatives to the Policy Approval Committee in the meantime.
OLD BUSINESS
Senate Handbook Change – Name of the Nominating Panel
Budget and Finance Committee
Abdelrahman Ibrahim and Carolyne White, Co-Chairs
Report on S-2302: Budgetary Considerations Underlying Potential Merger of the RBHS Subunits Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and New Jersey Medical School into One Medical School
The BFC was charged as follows:
Investigate any relevant financial issues that will emerge if there is a proposed merger of RWJMS and NJMS. Make necessary recommendations to the Senate.
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
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: March 22, 2024
TIME AND PLACE: 1:10 p.m., Remote via Zoom
MEMBERS PRESENT: Abusah, Allen, C. Anderson, K. Anderson, Andrews, Apel, Ardeshna, Askew, Aubry, Axelsson, Ayorinde, Barbarello Andrews, Bhavaraju, Bhuyan, Boikess, Boison, Borie-Holtz, Borisovets, Boucher, Boxer, Cahill, Campbell, Cantor, Caponegro, Carpenter, Chang, Charles, Chiricolo, Choron, Ciolek, Clarke, Collick, Cooper, Cuitiño, Dai, Dane, Davis, Desir, Dinnall, Dock, Easley , Eastman, Ebert, Esposito, Everett, Everts, Fatahzadeh, Fedorko, Figueira, Foster, Fulton, Gahlawat, Giermanski, Giraud, Godoy, Gower, Graham, Granadeiro, Griffin, Gursoy, Hisham Hamawy, Haviland, Hayes, Hennessy, Hewitt, Ibrahim, Javanmard, Kahng, Kaplan, Kelly, Kettle, Khan, Knievel, Kustka, LaMorte, Lamorgese, Lawson, Lee, Lutz, Maeng Brown, Marchetta, Markowitz, Mattis, Mazurek, Mbadugha, McCarthy, McKeever, Meshoyrer, Moghe, Morales, Morton, Murphy, Nucci, O’Connor, O’Halloran, Oberle, Olivera, Orelus, Osorio-Fernandez, Parsa, S. Patel, Pichugin, Pierce, Pintar, Purcell, Rabinowitz, Robson, Rodriguez, Rossman-Murphy, Roth, Salas-de la Cruz, Saltzman, Sayde, Schwartz, Scott, Searcy, Sergel, Shapiro, Shaw, Shinbrot, Siederer, Simonds, Sloan-Power, Smart, Smith, Sonnenberg, Spiegel, Suh, Tewfik, Thompson, Torres, Truschke, Weiss, White, Winters, Wirtenberg, Wolfe, Yusuf, Zhang, Zhou, Özel
MEMBERS EXCUSED: Abdelfattah, Adamo, Bachmann, Bridgeman, Edelstein, Haley, Kahanda, Keates, Kiss, Ladell, Levine, Prihoda, Ramachandran, Serrano, Takhistov, Volino
MEMBERS ABSENT: Adya, Ameri, Amjad, Anderson Eloy, Ariwoola, Barone, Blanchett, Bond, Chama, Conway, Copeland, Cundiff, Di Bella, DiGiovanni, Ditching, Eaton, Edwards, Fang, Feldman, Flynn, Fortson, Fox, Geary, Giberson, Glenn, Gong, Guo, Guo, Habeb, Halkitis, Henderson, Hernandez, Holloway, Inman, Johnson, Joseph, Kamen, Kaye, Kolben, Lehman, Lei, Leibman, Lemish, Levin, Lildhar, Manzini, Matta, Mayers, Merisier, Murtha, Nickitas, Paiste, Papakonstantinou, K. Patel, Priya Patel, Perez, Quincy, Samaan, Santos Mendoza, Sarath, Savage, Schnetzer, Schroth, Shafik, Shapiro, Shobut, Strom, Szatrowski, Tillis, Tirino, Vito, Wade, Wagner, White, Whitehead, Yang
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 reminded senators to submit nominations for the upcoming Senate leadership elections. She announced Senator Borisovets would serve as Deputy Parliamentarian for the March Senate meeting. She also reminded senators the Senate Social will be held on April 12.
SECRETARY’S REPORT – Vicki Hewitt, Executive Secretary
- Agenda: The meeting agenda was approved, with the addition of one item of New Business.
- Minutes: The minutes of the Feb. 16, 2024 Senate meeting were approved as distributed by the Executive Secretary.
- Administrative Response
- Response to S-2315: University Vision Benefits
- Policy Updates
- Communications
- 2024-2025 Senate Calendar
- Call for Nominations for 2024-2025 Senate Elections – deadline Fri. April 19
- Staff and Lecturer elections
- Nomination Deadlines: Staff – March 22, Lecturer – March 24
- Voting Open: Staff – March 28-April 3, Lecturer – April 6-April 12
- Results Announced: Staff – April 9, Lecturer – April 16
- Reminder about the Senate Social – Fri. April 12, 12:00 – 2:00 p.m.
- 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:
- Open access agreement with Elsevier
- Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice has developed a Rutgers Researchers on Race database
- “Meet the Moment with Humanity” Campaign
- Newark City of Learning Collaborative
- Rutgers Weight Management Center of Rutgers New Jersey Medical School (NJMS)
- Prof. Naa Oyo Kwate wins 2024 Best Book Award in Urban Affairs
- Strategic Research and Academic Alliance with Army DevCom
- Grants Awarded to Investigate the Spread of Tobacco Disinformation
- eIRB+ expected to launch this spring
- Prof. Ousseina Alidou named Kluge Chair at the Library of Congress
- TODAY Show Book Club Pick – We Must Not Think of Ourselves by Prof. Lauren Grodstein
- Student awards and fellowships
- Alumni AI Movement in South Africa
- Hall of Distinguished Alumni Inductees
- 2024 Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders
- University Finance and Administration Town Hall on March 26
- Administrative responses to Senate reports
EVPAA Moghe then answered questions submitted in advance via the Qualtrics form:
- Problems with bus routes to Busch campus
- RCM budget model
- Turnaround times for hiring
- Recruiting and retaining nursing faculty
- CourseAtlas and academic scheduling
- Reimbursement of outside graduate fellowships
- Staff affected by integration with RWJBarnabas
- Location of RBHS Chancellor’s office
EVPAA Moghe then answered questions on the following topics:
- How RCM cost pools are allocated to units and schools
- Providing for technology needs of lecturers
- Including staff highlights in the administrative report
NEWARK CHANCELLOR REPORT – Nancy Cantor, Chancellor, Rutgers University-Newark
Chair Simonds presented a resolution honoring Chancellor Cantor. The resolution passed with unanimous consent.
RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF STAFF REPRESENTATION ON UNIVERSITY GOVERNING BOARDS – Submitted by Senator Heather Pierce, Lecturer-New Brunswick, Faculty
Senator Pierce presented this resolution to the Senate. The resolution was adopted.
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.
Ad Hoc Committee on Senate Officer Compensation
Michael Joseph and Suja Patel, Co-Chairs
Report on S-2312: Senate Officer Compensation
The ad hoc committee was charged as follows:
To provide guidelines for appropriate compensation for Senate officers and other Senators whose duties as Senators represent a significant fraction of their university obligations. The resources for such compensation should be provided in a manner that does not create conflicts of interest. Procedures for such compensation already in place at some of our peer aspirant universities may serve as useful models.
Senator Patel presented this report and recommendations to the Senate. A motion was made to amend the recommendations to remove the option of a course release. The motion was lost.
A motion was made to amend the recommendations to provide a choice of course equivalent in cash, course release, or course credit. A motion was then made to refer the report back to the ad hoc committee. The motion was adopted.
ADJOURNMENT
A motion to extend the meeting by 30 minutes was lost. The meeting adjourned at 4:03 p.m.
Minutes prepared by:
Vicki Hewitt, Executive Secretary of the University Senate
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