Meeting of the Faculty Senate
Approved Minutes
February 26, 2018
The meeting was called to order at approximately 11:25 a.m., with FASC Senate President Julie Still presiding. There are 38 Senators, including three officers, five senators-at-large, five senators on sabbatical, and two vacant positions (senators-at-large). Of the 29 voting members, 20 were present. A quorum was met.
- Julie Still introduced the Director of Robeson Library, Regina Koury. Unfortunately, her scheduled did not permit her to stay for this meeting and but Regina hopes to be invited to a future meeting.
- A motion was made to approve the minutes of January 29, 2018, requesting the typos and grammatical errors be fixed. The motion was Voting record: 16 ayes, 0 opposed, 0 abstentions.
- Jennifer Thiel, Assistant Dean, CCAS Academic Advising, requested approval of the list of candidates for October graduation. Voting record: 16 ayes, 0 opposed, 0 abstentions.
- Courses presented by the APC for approval by the Senate:
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Courses presented for approval by APC to Faculty |
Voting Record |
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Dept |
Course # |
Course Title |
Credit Value |
New/ Revision |
Aye |
Nay |
Abstention |
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Fine Arts |
50:082:381 |
Japanese animation |
3 |
NEW |
19 |
0 |
1 |
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Biology |
50:120:498 |
Co-op in Biology |
3-12 cr |
NEW |
20 |
0 |
0 |
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English and Communication |
50:192:101 |
Introduction to Communication |
3 |
NEW |
20 |
0 |
0 |
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English and Communication |
50:192:200 |
Public Speaking |
3 |
NEW |
19 |
0 |
1 |
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Mathematical Science |
50:640:110 |
The Joy of Math |
3 |
NEW |
20 |
0 |
0 |
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Fine Arts |
50:700:204 |
Music and Language |
3 |
NEW |
16 |
4 |
0 |
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English |
50:350:104 |
College Reading and Writing (Note: APC has not yet approved this course; wants feedback from Senate, first.) |
3 |
NEW |
See “4a” below for notes on discussion. |
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- Bill FitzGerald as Director of the Writing Program explained the course is being created for EOF/BTG students to be offered only during the summer for 5 weeks where students will focus on writing and learning how to construct college-level essayistic responses. The course does not a replace English 101 or 101L (required for graduation). This course will not be remedial and is not a substitute nor a requirement for 101 or 101L, but is necessary to help students advance for college-level reading and writing. The course, although under the English Department, will benefit the students across all curriculum/departments in helping to improve their reading abilities. The credits from this course will serve as “elective” credits. The APC requested this course come to the Senate for discussion and had the following concerns: Is there a content drift between 099 and this course? Bill explained that 099 was still primarily a writing course and does not exist anymore, but was replaced by 101L, where the focus is mainly writing; Is this course required for the EOF/BTG students? This course will be an option for the mandatory courses EOF students are required to take as part of EOF program. The credits earned will count as elective credits toward the graduation requirement (120 credits). A discussion ensued about grading and/or offering as a Pass/Fail option. If a student should fail this proposed course, since it is not a requirement for 101/101L so it would not hold the student back or cause any additional financial burdens or time to the academic career. Many Senators echoed further discussion and support to offer this course to the general student body. At this time, Bill suggested that after the pilot course offering (summer 2018), the Senate could revisit this suggestion A straw vote was taken to benefit the conversation still to be had by the APC committee in helping them decide on this course proposal before submitting to the Senate for approval : STRAW voting record: 19 ayes, 0 opposed, 1 abstention. APC will act as expeditiously as possible and get back to Julie and Bill FitzGerald with their vote.
- A motion was made and seconded to form a subcommittee and/or task force for an “across-curriculum” course for the general student body. Bill FitzGerald said there may be a Committee already headed by Jane Siegel (SACJ) regarding reading/writing at the college-level. Julie Still will reach out to Jane and report back to the Senate at the March meeting.
- Tom Ryan was invited to talk to the group about the possibility and ability to delete recorded classes (captures). Tom explained deletion of recorded classes is possible, on a “delete on request” option and deletions are immediately scheduled. The department, RCIT, does back-ups of the captures called Snapshots, which are about 2 weeks out. After that 2-week period, RCIT can then delete and it will be gone from the system. NOTE: RCIT is bound to turn over any/all videos requested from University Council, even if said recording is scheduled for deletion. Moving forward, the RCIT department will be contacting instructors at the end of each semester who have recordings over 1 year old if they want to keep the recording. If there is no response, the recording will be deleted on identified date. Caveat: If you send you video to Kaltura Integration a video-playback system within Sakai, we cannot delete the recording as it is on a different system and is cloud-based. Rutgers’ does not maintain that system, but the University does own the files. One would have to contact Kaltura for their deletion process. The demand to request recordings by students is high. The videos are “housed” on a unique URL, however students with access to that URL may find a way duplicate that video and publicize it.
- Wayne Glasker, as a member of the General Education Committee, presented the revision to the learning goals to the General Education category, United States in the World. The proposal is to revise the existing goals to force the goals to include the role of the United States within the rest of the world. Voting record: 16 ayes, 0 opposed, 0 abstentions.
The meeting adjourned at 12:18 p.m.
Present: Andrew Abeyta, Craig Agule, Ross Allen, Kate Anderson, Paul Bernstein, James Boucher, Kate Cairns, Wayne Glasker, Angelica Gonzales, Julianne Griepenburg, Osama Hamed, Michael Hayes, Aaron Hostetter, Guy Kortsarz, George Kumi, Christopher Lim, Rufan Luo, Emily Marker, Kirsten Nussbaumer, Silvia Perez-Cortes, Beth Rabinowitz, Julie Still.
Absent (Senators): Margery Amdur (sabbatical), Joseph Barbarese, Nawaf Bou-Rabee, Melanie Bowers, James Brown (sabbatical), Jean-Louise Hippolyte (sabbatical), Joan Mazelis, Susan Miller, Susan Mokhberi, Bill Saidel, Amy Savage, Jillian Sayre (sabbatical), Shauna Shames (sabbatical), Richard Stansfield.
Optional and noted (University Senators): Joseph Barbarese (absent), Joseph Schiavo (absent), Daniel Bubb (absent), Elizabeth Demaray (absent), Howard Marchitello (absent), Yuchung Wang (absent), Babu Dasari (absent) Jean-Louise Hippolyte (sabbatical).
Present (Invited Guests): Mary Beth Daisey, Jennifer Thiel, Tom Ryan, Regina Koury, Bill FitzGerald.
Drafted by Maria Buckley, 03/02/2018
Submitted by Wayne Glasker, Faculty Senate Secretary