PRESENT: MEMBERS: Borisovets, Fechter, Kelly, Koehler, Rabinowitz (Vice Chair), Scott (Chair), Swalagin (Executive Secretary)

ALSO ATTENDING: Gaunt (University Librarian), Ishayik (Undergraduate Student BOT Representative), Panayotatos (New Brunswick Faculty Liaison), Parikh (Student BOG Representative)

EXCUSED: Barone, Leath, Walker-Andrews


The regular meeting of the University Senate Executive Committee was held on Friday, October 6, 2000 at 1:10 p.m. in the President’s Dining Room, Brower Commons, College Avenue Campus.

1. Chairperson’s Report

Chairperson Scott called the meeting to order. She reminded those present that all Executive Committee members are liaisons to standing committees. Regarding Senate meeting decorum, she requested that the seats previously arranged in a separate group in the back of the room be moved forward and added to the rest of the seating (Secretary Swalagin will institute the change), and asked Executive Committee members to lobby to keep order and to discourage off-topic conversations.

2. Secretary's Report

Minutes: Minutes of the September 8, 2000 Executive Committee meeting [ec090800.html] were approved as distributed by the Secretary.

Communications: The following communications were presented and acted upon as noted:

• Two reports from the Student Affairs and Executive Committees, with related resolutions, on Charge S-9802 (Use of Social Security Numbers as Student Identification Numbers) and S-9902 (Student Financial Management and Credit-Card Debt. [Addressed under "Standing Committee Charges and Administrative Requests," below.]
• Notice of an AAUP Governance Conference, to be held October 26-28, 2000, which conflicts with a Senate meeting. [Noted.]
• September 19, 2000 Memorandum from President Lawrence transmitting a list of 2000-01 Administrative Designees [designee.html] and Standing Committee Liaisons [liaisons.html], and requesting several changes in committee membership. [Addressed under "Standing Committee Charges and Administrative Requests," below.]
• Secretary Swalagin informed the Committee that Senator Peter Li had accepted the Executive Committee’s recommendation that he serve as the Senate member of the University Copyright Policy Review Committee, and that University Vice President Seneca and University Librarian Gaunt had been informed. [Noted.]

• The September 19, 2000 recommendation by President Francis L. Lawrence that Deans Arnold Hyndman and Carl Kirschner (both currently assigned to ASRA Committee) be added to the membership of the Student Affairs Committee was discussed. The committee felt that Deans Emmet Dennis (UC-NB) and Marie Logue (Rutgers College), both currently members of the Student Affairs Committee, work well with the committee, provide input from undergraduate deans’ perspectives, and will continue to do so. Deans Hyndman and Kirschner will remain on the ASRA Committee. Provost Roger Dennis was transferred to the Faculty Affairs and Personnel Committee as member and administrative liaison (with Provost Norman Samuels), per President Lawrence’s request.
• The following charge to the Faculty Affairs and Personnel Committee on FASIP awards, suggested by Ken Carlson at September 8 Executive Committee meeting, was issued as S-0006: "Explore the feasibility and desirability of making public the recipients and amounts of FASIP awards. Determine whether there are departmental, campus, or university-wide policies regarding disclosure of this information, and, if so, whether they are adhered to, if they are effective, and what responses are generated. Discuss and make recommendations on whether such disclosure should be general, or in response to specific requests for the information, and if the potential benefits or degree of interest justify a university-wide policy. Report due March 2001."
• Charge S-9902 to the Student Affairs Committee was revised as follows: "Explore the issues and problems associated with student financial management, which may include: understanding of the general principles of financial management; credit-card accumulation and use, and the short- and long-term implications thereof; controlling debt; reviewing personal credit reports; savings and retirement goals and awareness; and financial independence. Determine what university policies or programs exist to: provide opportunities for financial-management education; regulate or restrict marketing of, or solicitation for, credit cards on campus. Make recommendations for new or revised policies or programs to achieve those goals." The Student Affairs and Executive Committees’ report on this charge was reviewed and docketed for Senate action at the October 27, 2000 meeting.
• The Student Affairs and Executive Committees’ report on Charge S-9802, "Use of Social Security Numbers as Student Identification Numbers," was reviewed and docketed for Senate action at the October 27, 2000 meeting.

University Librarian and Senator Marianne Gaunt gave a presentation on Copyright. A question-and-answer period followed. The presentation was docketed on the Senate’s October 27, 2000 agenda.

6. Old Business

Instruction, Curriculum and Advising Committee Chair Natalie Borisovets summarized her committee’s review of, and report on, Charge S-9906, "Wintersession." Senator Borisovets will add a resolution to the report, and circulate the final draft to the Executive Committee via e-mail for approval and docketing on the Senate’s October 27, 2000 agenda.

7. Adjournment

The meeting was adjourned at 3:08 p.m. by Chairperson Scott.

 
Kenneth Swalagin
Executive Secretary of the Senate