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Dec 12th
1:00 pm
Agenda Distributed On
Friday, December 5th 2025
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY SENATE
MEETING AGENDA
Friday, December 12, 2025, 1:10 p.m. via Zoom
https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/93812643735?pwd=xQEV9zFYgE3VlO1qcAES5cfcRAm760.1
CALL TO ORDER, DETERMINATION OF A QUORUM, AND CHAIR’S REPORT – Lucille Foster, Chair
REPORT OF THE SECRETARY – Morgan Smith, Senate Administrative Assistant
- Approval of the Agenda* (including time limits)
- Approval of the November 21, 2025 Senate Meeting Minutes
- Policy Updates
- Follow up has been conducted to ensure Senator participation with policy review processes
- Communications
- Reminder to log in to the Senate website for attendance and voting access
- Email Morgan Smith regarding attendance and committee activities
NEW BRUNSWICK CAMPUS REPORT – Francine Conway, Chancellor, New Brunswick (1:20 – 1:50 p.m.)
ALTERNATIVE ROUTE TO POLICY CHANGES RESOLUTION – USGC, Co-chairs Wendy Purcell and Patricia Morton (1:50 – 2:00 p.m.)
SENATOR ELECTIONS TIMELINE RESOLUTION -USGC, Co-chairs Wendy Purcell and Patricia Morton (2:00 – 2:10 p.m.)
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.
Committee Report and Recommendations
Instruction, Curricula, and Advising Committee/ Student Affairs Committee-Senator Natalie Borisovets (ICAC), Taryn Cooper (Former ICAC), Senator Lisa Siebenaler Easley (SAC), Senator Consuella Askew (SAC) (2:10 – 2:25 p.m.)
Report on S-2330-1 Expanding Access to University Libraries Across Campuses
ICAC and SAC were jointly charged as follows:
Investigate current University library hours across all campuses. Determine if those hours are adequately meeting student needs (access to collections; access to study spaces; access to technology) on each campus. Make recommendations as appropriate.
OLD BUSINESS
NEW BUSINESS**
SENATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE REPORT (2:25 – 2:30 p.m.) – Wendy Purcell, Vice Chair
REPORTS OF THE REPRESENTATIVES TO BOARDS OF GOVERNORS AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES (2:30 – 2:40 p.m.)
REPORTS OF CAMPUS FACULTY AND STUDENT LIAISONS (2:40 – 2:50 p.m.)
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 2025-26 University Senate Meetings
All meetings are on Zoom
January 23, 2026
February 20, 2026
March 27, 2026
April 24, 2026 – Organizational Meeting of the 2025-2026 Senate
April 24, 2026 – Last Meeting of the 2025-2026 Senate
RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY
UNIVERSITY SENATE
MINUTES: Regular Meeting of the University Senate
DATE: December 12, 2025
TIME AND PLACE: 1:10 p.m., Remote via Zoom
PRESENT: Agyemang, Alam, K. Anderson, C. Anderson, Anderson Eloy, Andrews, Apel, Ardeshna, Asch, Askew, Bachmann, Doug Baker, Barbarello Andrews, Bhuyan, Borie-Holtz, Boxer, Bridgeman, Brigham, Brown, Carney-Waterton, Chintala, Choron, Clarke, Collick, Cortez, Crooks, Dane, Dastjerdi, Dixit, Dock, Easley , Economou, Emmons, Everett, Everts, Fatahzadeh, Fenker, Flynn, Fortuna, Foster, Gittelman, Godoy, Gong, Gordy, Grachan, Granadeiro, Greenbaum, Gurbuzbalaban, Gursoy, Haberl, Haley, Hatefi, Haviland, Hayes, Hecht-Colsoy, Hennessy, Hoffman, Horan, Householder, Hussain, Ivasyuk, Javanmard, Jordan-McKinney, Kaback, Kelly, Kettle, Kilmurray, Kiss, Knievel, Kustka, LaMorte, Ladell, Limata, Lutz, Maeng Brown, Maerhofer, Maganti, Mao, Markowitz, Mbadugha, McCarthy, McKeever, Morales, P. Morton, C. Morton, Murphy, Ntiwunka-Ifeanyi, O’Connor, Oberle, Oliver, Oluwadare, Paris, V. Patel, G. Patel, S. Patel, Pentecost, Pichardo, Pichugin, Pierce, Pintar, Purcell, Quevado, Reynolds, Robles, Rodriguez, Rossman-Murphy, Russ, Salas-de la Cruz, Saleh, Samavat, Santos Mendoza, Schafer, Schwartz, Scott, Searcy, Sergel, Shah, Shaikh, Shinbrot, Salman Sirajee, Sloan-Power, Smith, Sorbat, Spiero, Sriram, Stimson, Stubin, Suh, Szatrowski, Takhistov, Tirino, Torres, Wagner, White, Wirtenberg, Y. Zhang, Zhou, Zwick, Özel
EXCUSED: Boison, Borisovets, Cooper, DeMatteo, Fang, Giraud, Green-Mercado, Keates, Khan, Lobman, Maliga, Parna, Ramenzoni, Saltzman
ABSENT: Abdelfattah, Adya, Afanador, Ahammed, F. Ahmed, B. Ahmed, Ameri, Amjad, Anner, Arbuthnot, Barone, Behrmann, Berkowitz, Bond, Bredehoft, Burkheimer, Campbell, Carter, Chiricolo, Conway, Cotter, Cuitiño, Curchitser, Davis, DiGiovanni, Dinnall, Ebert, Feldman, Fine, Friedman, Georgiou, Gould, Gower, Graham, Griffin, Guo, Halkitis, Hisham Hamawy, Hart, Hussain, Johnson, Kaye, Kayyal, Ketankumar Patel, Khan, Khatal, La Vigne, Lam, Lawson, Lee, Lehman, Lei, Leibowitz, Lemish, Luciano, Mahajan, Mattis, Mazurek, McArdle, Moulton, Murtha, Nickitas, O’Connell, Pontes, Pradhan, Quincy, Rabinowitz, Ramachandran, Ramirez Polo, Reshamdalal, Robson, Rosa, Rosales, Rubin, Sarath, Sayde, Schroth, Scott, Shah, Shapiro, Smith-Jackson, Sow, Span, Spiegel, Starkweather, Strom, Syed, Tate, Tewfik, Tillis, Truschke, Van Ryzin, Vuppala, Wade, Weiss, Wolfe, Yang, H. Zhang
CALL TO ORDER, DETERMINATION OF A QUORUM, AND CHAIR’S REPORT – Lucille Foster, Chair
Chair Foster called the meeting to order at 1:10 p.m. Her opening remarks included developing additional time for emergency meetings by the Executive Committee so that the full Senate can participate in shared governance during a fast moving environment. Chair Foster wished a happy holiday season to the Senate.
SECRETARY’S REPORT – Morgan Smith, Senate Administrative Assistant
- Agenda: The meeting agenda was approved with the addition of one item for new business proposed by Senator Shinbrot: Resolution on Protection Against Threats & Harassment.
- Minutes: The minutes of the November 21, 2025 Senate Meeting Minutes were approved as distributed by the Executive Secretary without objections.
- Communications
- Reminder to log in to the Senate website for attendance and voting access
- Email Morgan Smith regarding attendance and committee activities
NEW BRUNSWICK CAMPUS REPORT – Francine Conway, Chancellor, Rutgers- New Brunswick
ALTERNATIVE ROUTE TO POLICY CHANGES RESOLUTION
USGC co-chair Wendy Purcell presented the resolution to the Senate. It was passed with one typo correction, without objection.
SENATOR ELECTIONS TIMELINE RESOLUTION
USGC co-chair Patricia Morton presented the resolution to the Senate. An amendment to remove a word was passed by unanimous consent. The resolution was passed as amended.
COMMITTEE REPORTS/RESOLUTIONS: The reports/resolutions were presented/summarized by the committee chair, then discussed, and acted upon by the Senate.
Instruction, Curricula, and Advising Committee/Student Affairs Committee- Senator Natalie Borisovets (ICAC), Taryn Cooper (Former ICAC Senator), Senator Lisa Siebenaler Easly (SAC), Senator Consuella Askew (SAC)
Report on S-2330-1 Expanding Access to University Libraries Across Campuses
ICAC and SAC were jointly charged as follows:
Investigate current University library hours across all campuses. Determine if those hours are adequately meeting student needs (access to collections; access to study spaces; access to technology) on each campus. Make recommendations as appropriate.
Senator Easley and Askew presented the charge and recommendations to the Senate. The recommendations were adopted.
OLD BUSINESS
None.
NEW BUSINESS
A motion to add a resolution for protection against threats & harassment to the agenda was adopted with unanimous consent.
Senator Shinbrot presented the Resolution on Protection Against Threats & Harassment to the Senate. The resolution was passed as amended.
SENATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE REPORT
Senator and Vice Chair Wendy Purcell reported on the December 5, 2025 Executive Committee meeting.
REPORTS OF THE REPRESENTATIVES TO BOARDS OF GOVERNORS AND TRUSTEES
Senator Schwartz reported on the Board of Trustees meeting. Chair Foster reported on the Board of Governors meeting.
REPORTS OF CAMPUS FACULTY AND STUDENT LIAISONS
The meeting reached its end time at 4:00 p.m. and there was a motion to adjourn without reports of the campus faculty and student liaisons.
ADJOURNMENT
The meeting adjourned at 4:01 p.m.
Minutes prepared by:
Taryn Cooper, Executive Secretary of the University Senate
Present Senators
Excused Senators
Absent Senators
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