Meeting of the Faculty Senate
Approved Minutes
April 28, 2021
The meeting was called to order at approximately 11:20 a.m.., with FASC Senate President Jim Brown presiding. There are 43 Senators, including one officer and five senators-at-large. Of the 43 voting members, 31 were present. A quorum was met.
- A motion to approve the minutes of March 31, 2021, was made. The motion to approve the minutes with the correction was Voting record: 31 ayes, 0 opposed, 0 abstention.
- Courses and Programs presented by Alex Roche Chair of the APC for approval by the Senate:
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Courses presented for approval by APC to Faculty Senate April 28, 2021 |
Voting Record |
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Department |
Course # |
Course Title |
Credit Value |
New/ Revision |
Aye |
Nay |
Abstention |
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Sociology, Anthropology, & Criminal Justice |
50:070:325 |
Anthropology of Global Health |
3 |
New |
31 |
0 |
0 |
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CCAS Dean’s Office |
50:090:101 |
First Year Rutgers Experience |
1 |
New |
31 |
0 |
0 |
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Chemistry |
50:115:422 |
Protein Structure and Function |
3 |
New |
31 |
0 |
0 |
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Mathematical Sciences |
50:640:120 |
Math and Music |
3 |
New |
31 |
0 |
0 |
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Mathematical Sciences |
50:640:199 |
Exploring Careers in Mathematical Sciences |
1 |
New |
31 |
0 |
0 |
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Social Work |
50:910:228 |
Understanding Interpersonal Violence |
3 |
New |
31 |
0 |
0 |
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Visual, Media, and Performing Arts |
50:965:240 |
The Art of Comedy |
3 |
New
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31 |
0 |
0 |
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Visual, Media, and Performing Arts |
50:965:252 |
Screenwriting I |
3 |
New |
31 |
0 |
0 |
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Visual, Media, and Performing Arts |
50:965:352 |
Screenwriting II |
3 |
New |
31 |
0 |
0 |
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- Planning Committee By-law Update
- Poll went out to faculty (no quorum met yet)
- Link resent to faculty members
- Adhoc Report
- -committee met to assess teaching costs and teaching & mentoring in excess of teaching loads
- Dean undertaking own efforts
- Second survey will be released
- Mentoring vs. teaching
- Significant gaps in information requests on Dean’s spreadsheet
- Concerns regarding steering committee taking on same roles as Faculty Senate
- Two phases
- Phase 1=teaching overloads (independent studies, dissertations, etc.)
- Phase 2=survey of data on other activities to be included in contractual relations
- Academic Integrity
- Meeting attended by Janae Tucker and Jane Siegel
- Extreme uptick in academic integrity violations
- Report released for Fall 2020-Spring 2021
- Total cases=115 (CCAS 78.9%)
- Request for additional training for students
The meeting adjourned at 12:19 p.m.
Present: Holly Blackford, Kendra Boyd, I-Ming Chiu, Jinglin Fu, Anthony Grasso, Julie Griepenburg, Rafey Habib, Osama Hamed, Nicole Karapangiotis, George Kumi, Debashis Kushay, Sara Leshen, Nathan Link, Paul Lisicky, Susan Miller, Susan Mokhberi, Tamara Nelson, Sylvia Perez-Cortes, Xingyun Qi, Suneeta, Ramaswami, Erin Robinson, Jovanna Rosen, Jillian Sayre, Dan Semenza, Marien Solesio, Zara Wilkinson, Anthony Wright; Officers: Jim Brown, Beth Rabinowitz
Absent (Senators): Margery Amdur, Courtney Cavanuagh, Marie Chevrier, Angelica Gonzalez, Haisheng Lii, Ira Roseman,
Explained Absent (Senators): Ross Allen, Paul Bernstein, James Boucher, Stass Shpanin ,
Senators-at-Large: (present) Rick Demirjian, Bart Everts
Senators-at-Large: (absent) Andrew Abeyta, Nathan Fried, Paul Jargowsky
Present (Invited Guests): Alex Roche
Drafted by Kelly Esterly, ________________________________