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Friday
Apr 26th
10:00 am

Senate Organizational Meeting

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Friday, April 19th 2024

RUTGERS UNIVERSITY SENATE
MEETING AGENDA
Friday, April 26, 2024, 10:00 a.m. via Zoom

https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/94226017684?pwd=RTJYUzFDbWp4M3dqSGRnVnNCV1Rwdz09

FIRST MEETING OF THE 2024-2025 UNIVERSITY SENATE
ANNUAL MEETING AGENDA FOR THE ELECTION OF
2024-2025 SENATE LEADERSHIP POSITIONS

CALL TO ORDER AND DETERMINATION OF A QUORUM – Adrienne Simonds, Chair

REPORT OF THE SECRETARY – Vicki Hewitt, Senate Executive Secretary

REPORT OF THE NOMINATING PANEL – Adrienne Simonds, Nominating Panel Chair

SLATE OF NOMINEESSlate of Nominees and Candidate Statements

Nominations for all positions, except for Chair and Vice Chair, will be accepted from the floor.

ONLINE VOTING at https://senate.rutgers.edu/election/2024-25-senate-leadership-election/

ADJOURNMENT OF THE ANNUAL MEETING

RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY
UNIVERSITY SENATE

MINUTES: Organizational Meeting of the University Senate

DATE: April 26, 2024

TIME AND PLACE: 10:00 a.m., Remote via Zoom

MEMBERS PRESENT: F. Ahmed, B. Ahmed, Allen, Anderson, Andrews, Apel, Askew, Bachmann, Doug Baker, Bhuyan, Boikess, Sai Boppey, Borie-Holtz, Borisovets, Boswell, Boucher, Bowe, Boxer, Bridgeman, Brown, Cahill, Caponegro, Carney-Waterton, Chen, Choron, Clarke, Collick, Conway, Cooper, Curchitser, Dai, Dane, Davis, DeMatteo, Diaz-Tena, Dock, Eastman, Ebert, Esposito, Everett, Fatahzadeh, Fenker, Figueira, Foster, Fulton, Giraud, Godoy, Gong, Gower, Grachan, Green-Mercado, Guo, Gurbuzbalaban, Gursoy, Haberl, Haley, Haviland, Hewitt, Hoffman, John, Kaplan, Kayyal, Keates, Kettle, Khan, Kiss, Knievel, Ladell, Lee, Lescht, Lutz, Maeng Brown, Maerhofer, Maganti, Maliga, Mao, Markowitz, Matise, McCarthy, McKeever, Moghe, P. Morton, C. Morton, Murphy, Nucci, O’Connor, O’Halloran, Oberle, Olivera, Osorio-Fernandez, Parsa, S. Patel, A. Patel, K. Patel, Perez, Pichugin, Pierce, Pontes, Quincy, Rabinowitz, Ramachandran, Ramirez Polo, Rapciewicz, Rentzel, Robles, Rodriguez, Rokerya, Rossman-Murphy, Roth, Salas-de la Cruz, Sayde, Schroth, Schwartz, Senger, Sergel, Serrano, Sese, Shaw, Shinbrot, Silva, Simonds, Sloan-Power, Smart, Smith, Muriel Soler, Sonnenberg, Spiegel, Strom, Suh, Szatrowski, Truschke, Volino, White, Williams, Williams, Wirtenberg, Wolfe, Yusuf, Özel

MEMBERS EXCUSED: None

MEMBERS ABSENT: Abdelfattah, Adamo, Adya, Ameri, Amjad, Anderson, Anderson Eloy, Ardeshna, Barbarello Andrews, Barone, Bond, Carpenter, Chama, Chiricolo, Cuitiño, Cundiff, DiGiovanni, Easley , Eaton, Edwards, Everts, Fang, Fedorko, Feldman, Firat, Flynn, Geary, Giermanski, Gnanaprakasam, Graham, Granadeiro, Griffin, Halkitis, Hisham Hamawy, Henderson, Hennessy, Holloway, Inman, Javanmard, R. Johnson, M. Joseph, Kahng, Rachel Kaye, Lawson, Lee, Lehman, Lei, Lemish, Mattis, Mazurek, Mbadugha, McCarthy, Morales, Murtha, Donna Nickitas, V. Patel, I. Perez, Pimentel, Pintar, Purcell, Ramchandani, Reshamdalal, Robson, Ruocco, Saltzman, Santos Mendoza, Sarath, Savage, Schafer, Schnetzer, Searcy, Shafik, Shah, M. Shapiro, S. Shapiro, Shobut, Syed, Takhistov, Tewfik, Tillis, Tirino, Torres, Usman, Wade, Wagner, Weiss, Wong, Yang, Zhang, Zhou

CALL TO ORDER AND DETERMINATION OF A QUORUM – Adrienne Simonds, Chair

Chair Simonds called the first meeting of the 2024-25 Rutgers University Senate to order at 10:23 a.m.

SECRETARY’S REPORT – Vicki Hewitt, Executive Secretary

REPORT OF THE NOMINATING PANEL – Adrienne Simonds, Nominating Panel Chair

Nominating Panel Chair Adrienne Simonds gave a brief overview of the nomination and election process.

Chair Simonds announced candidates for all positions, calling for nominations from the floor in each category except for Chair and Vice Chair, as mandated by USGC report S-1501.

After nominations were completed, including those made from the floor, the resultant slate of candidates was:

Chair: Lucille Foster, Newark Staff; Ted Szatrowski, Rutgers Business School: Undergraduate NB (F)

Vice Chair: Adrienne Esposito, New Brunswick Staff; Robert Schwartz, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences At-Large (F); Ted Szatrowski, Rutgers Business School: Undergraduate NB (F)

Executive Committee Camden Faculty: David Salas-de la Cruz, Camden At-Large (F)

Executive Committee New Brunswick Faculty: Robert Boikess, School of Arts and Sciences-NB (F); Anna Haley, School of Social Work (F); Tuğrul Özel, New Brunswick At-Large (F); Troy Shinbrot, School of Engineering (F)

Executive Committee Newark Faculty: Paul Boxer, School of Arts and Sciences – Newark (F); Ted Szatrowski, Rutgers Business School: Undergraduate NB (F)

Executive Committee RBHS Faculty: Geza Kiss, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (F); Monica Roth, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences At-Large (F); Kevin Schroth, RBHS Centers, Bureaus and Institutes (F); Robert Schwartz, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences At-Large (F)

Executive Committee Full-Time Faculty At-Large: Robert Boikess, School of Arts and Sciences-NB (F); Geza Kiss, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (F); Tuğrul Özel, New Brunswick At-Large (F); Monica Roth, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences At-Large (F); Robert Schwartz, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences At-Large (F); Troy Shinbrot, School of Engineering (F); Ted Szatrowski, Rutgers Business School: Undergraduate NB (F)

Executive Committee Lecturer Faculty: Heather Pierce, Lecturer-New Brunswick (F)

Executive Committee Alumni: Rachel Maeng Brown, Alumni Association; Houshang Parsa, Alumni Association

Executive Committee Staff: Wendy Rodriguez, New Brunswick Staff

Executive Committee Camden Student: Nyla Boswell, School of Business-Camden (S); Joseph Lescht, Camden College of Arts and Sciences (S)

Executive Committee New Brunswick Student: Christopher Godoy, School of Arts and Sciences-NB (S); Kush Patel, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (S)

Executive Committee Newark Student: Ángel Muriel Soler, School of Arts and Sciences – Newark (S); Tiffany Olivera, Graduate School-Newark (S)

Executive Committee RBHS Student: Emily Brown, School of Public Health (S)

Board of Governors Faculty Representative: Heather Pierce, Lecturer-New Brunswick (F); Wendy Purcell, School of Public Health (F); Robert Schwartz, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences At-Large (F)

Board of Governors Student Representative: Nyla Boswell, School of Business-Camden (S); Safanya Searcy, School of Criminal Justice (S)

Board of Trustees Faculty Representatives: Robert Boikess, School of Arts and Sciences-NB (F); James Boucher, Camden At-Large (F); Carol Lutz, School of Graduate Studies (F); Tugrul Ozel, New Brunswick At-Large (F); Wendy Purcell, School of Public Health (F); Robert Schwartz, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences At-Large (F)

Board of Trustees Undergraduate Student Representative: Nyla Boswell, School of Business-Camden (S); Brielle Fedorko, School of Arts and Sciences-NB (S)

Board of Trustees Graduate Student Representative: Assa John, Graduate School-Camden (S); Nusrath Yusuf, School of Graduate Studies (S)

Members of the Policy Approval Committee: Faizan Ahmed, New Brunswick Staff; James Boucher, Camden At-Large (F); Siatta Davis, Camden Staff; Assa John, Graduate School-Camden (S); Carolyne White, Graduate School-Newark (F)

RESULTS OF THE 2024-25 ELECTIONS:

Chair: Lucille Foster, Newark Staff

Vice Chair: Adrienne Esposito, New Brunswick Staff

Executive Committee Camden Faculty: David Salas-de la Cruz, Camden At-Large (F)

Executive Committee New Brunswick Faculty: Anna Haley, School of Social Work (F)

Executive Committee Newark Faculty: Paul Boxer, School of Arts and Sciences – Newark (F)

Executive Committee RBHS Faculty: Kevin Schroth, RBHS Centers, Bureaus and Institutes (F)

Executive Committee Full-Time Faculty At-Large: Monica Roth, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences At-Large (F); Geza Kiss, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (F)

Executive Committee Lecturer Faculty: Heather Pierce, Lecturer-New Brunswick (F)

Executive Committee Alumni: Rachel Maeng Brown, Alumni Association

Executive Committee Staff: Wendy Rodriguez, New Brunswick Staff

Executive Committee Camden Student: Joseph Lescht, Camden College of Arts and Sciences (S)

Executive Committee New Brunswick Student: Christopher Godoy, School of Arts and Sciences-NB (S)

Executive Committee Newark Student: Tiffany Olivera, Graduate School-Newark (S)

Executive Committee RBHS Student: Emily Brown, School of Public Health (S)

Board of Governors Faculty Representative: Heather Pierce, Lecturer-New Brunswick (F)

Board of Governors Student Representative: Safanya Searcy, School of Criminal Justice (S)

Board of Trustees Faculty Representatives: Wendy Purcell, School of Public Health (F); Robert Boikess, School of Arts and Sciences-NB (F)

Board of Trustees Undergraduate Student Representative: Brielle Fedorko, School of Arts and Sciences-NB (S)

Board of Trustees Graduate Student Representative: Nusrath Yusuf, School of Graduate Studies (S)

Members of the Policy Approval Committee: James Boucher, Camden At-Large (F); Siatta Davis, Camden Staff

ADJOURNMENT

The meeting adjourned at 12:23 p.m.

Minutes prepared by:
Vicki Hewitt, Executive Secretary of the University Senate

Present Senators

Faizan Ahmed Babar Ahmed Warren Allen Cori Anderson Rochelle Andrews Robert Apel Consuella Askew Gloria Bachmann Mark Doug Baker Sanjib Bhuyan Robert Boikess Mrudhula Sai Boppey Debra Borie-Holtz Natalie Borisovets Nyla Boswell James Boucher Anica Bowe Paul Boxer Mary Bridgeman Emily Brown Christine Cahill Mihaela Caponegro Jo-leo Carney-Waterton Eva Chen Rachel Choron Alison Clarke Charlie Collick Francine Conway Taryn Cooper Enrique Curchitser Wei Dai Perry Dane Siatta Davis Susan DeMatteo Nuria Diaz-Tena Malica Dock Lisa Easley  Wayne Eastman Gary Ebert Adrienne Esposito Brian Everett Mahnaz Fatahzadeh Sue Fenker Thomas Figueira Lucille Foster Abigail Fulton Ralph Giraud Christopher Godoy Jie Gong Michael Gower Jeremy Grachan Mayte Green-Mercado Zhixiong (James) Guo Mert Gurbuzbalaban Kemal Gursoy Charles Haberl Anna Haley Martha Haviland Vicki Hewitt Fred Hoffman Assa John Joshua Kaplan Fadi Kayyal Debra Keates John Kettle Rehan Khan Geza Kiss Timothy Knievel Ronald Ladell Geeny Lee Joseph Lescht Carol Lutz Rachel Maeng Brown John Maerhofer Kameswari Maganti Pal Maliga Zhengyu Mao Norman Markowitz Michael Matise Caitlin McCarthy Kenneth McKeever Prabhas Moghe Cory Morton Patricia Morton Kyle Murphy Mary Nucci James O'Connor Kimberly O'Halloran Jennifer Oberle Tiffany Olivera Arturo Osorio-Fernandez Houshang Parsa Anand Patel Kush Patel Suja Patel Karen Perez Alexander Pichugin Heather Pierce Nancy Pontes Ronald Quincy Sam Rabinowitz Rohit Ramachandran Laura Ramirez Polo Natalie Rapciewicz Emma Rentzel Javier Robles Wendy Rodriguez Sabeen Rokerya Lisa Rossman-Murphy Monica Roth David Salas-de la Cruz Mark Sayde Kevin Schroth Robert Schwartz Safanya Searcy Priscilla Senger Emily Sergel Carlos Serrano Richard Sese Taylor Shaw Troy Shinbrot Gema Silva Adrienne Simonds Elizabeth Sloan-Power Michael Smart Morgan Smith Ángel Muriel Soler Frank Sonnenberg Menahem Spiegel Brian Strom Nanjoo Suh Ted Szatrowski Jose Torres Audrey Truschke Lucio Volino Carolyne White Tiera Williams Payton Williams Jeana Wirtenberg Wojtek Wolfe Nusrath Yusuf Tuğrul Özel

Excused Senators

Dina Abdelfattah Lauren Adamo Monica Adya Mason Ameri Fauzan Amjad Katie Anderson Jean Anderson Eloy Anil Ardeshna Liza Barbarello Andrews Joseph Barone

Absent Senators

Johanna Bond Christopher Cafiero Nichelle Carpenter Eduardo Chama Antonio Chiricolo Alberto Cuitiño Jeffery DiGiovanni Adrienne Eaton Bart Everts Brielle Fedorko Cecile Feldman Sean Firat Linda Flynn Jason Geary Lauren Giermanski Vyshnavi Gnanaprakasam Dewanna Graham Andre Granadeiro John Griffin Perry Halkitis Adam Hisham Hamawy Taja-Nia Henderson Jonathan Holloway Arpana Inman Aalin Izhar Nora Jaber Mehdi Javanmard Robert Johnson Tara Jordan-McKinney Michael Joseph SungWoo Kahng Rachel Kaye Sehrish Khan Laura Lawson Richard Lehman Lei Lei George Leibowitz Dafna Lemish Jacqueline Mattis Monica Mazurek Nkechi Mbadugha Bill McCarthy Christine Morales Amy Murtha Donna Nickitas Anari Ormond Vir Patel Ilce Perez Annelys Pimentel John Pintar Wendy Purcell Neesha Ramchandani Sahil Reshamdalal Mark Robson Gianna Ruocco Cynthia Saltzman Gary Santos Mendoza Bharat Sarath Amy Savage Karina Schafer Domatius Shafik Chirag Shah Michael Shapiro Stuart Shapiro Sarah Shobut Christopher Span Marissa Syed Paul Takhistov George Tewfik Antonio Tillis Chloe Tirino Sarah Usman Juli Wade Mary Wagner Robert Weiss Matthew Wong Kaifeng Yang Yahong Zhang Zhongren (David) Zhou Michael Zwick

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