Meeting of the Faculty Senate
Approved Minutes
November 13, 2017

The meeting was called to order at approximately 11:25 a.m., with FASC Senate President Julie Still presiding.  There are 33 Senators, including 5 senators-at-large.  Twenty-one senators were present.

  1. A motion was made to approve the minutes of October 9, 2017. The motion was Voting record: 21 ayes, 0 opposed, 0 abstention.
    1. With the adoption of the Resolution at the last meeting, a webpage dedicated to Resolutions and Reports adopted by the FASC Senate has been created. Maria will notify the Communications Office (Mike Sepanic) and ask that it be disseminated.  
  2. Joe Schiavo, Associate Dean for Faculty of Arts and Sciences announced the coming of a name change for the College. Initiated by Newark and for the sake of consistency within the University, there will be name change to the Schools of Arts and Sciences within the University.  Likely to take effect in Fall 2018, with the change of stationary and such, the new name(s) will be School of Arts and Sciences-Camden (-New Brunswick; -Newark).  All other properties remain the same. 
  3. The following courses were presented by the APC for approval:

 

Courses presented for approval by APC to Faculty Senate

November 13, 2017

Voting Record

(21 voting members present)

 

Dept

Course #

Course Title

Credit Value

New/ Revision

Aye

Nay

Abstention

Chemistry

50:160:480

Forensic Chemistry

3

NEW

21

0

0

Chemistry

50:160:482

Forensic Chemistry lab

1

NEW

21

0

0

Criminal Justice

50:202:318

Cyber Terrorism

3

NEW

19*

0

2

Criminal Justice

50:202:370

Mass Incarceration, Reentry and Justice

3

NEW

19

1

1

Criminal Justice

50:202:470

Prisoner Reentry:  Legal Solutions

3

NEW

19

1

1

Forensic Science

50:412:495

Special Topics in Forensic Science

3

NEW

21 a

0

0

Forensic Science

50:412:496

Special Topics in Forensic Science

3

NEW

21 b

0

0

Physics

50:750:322

3D Printing

3

NEW

18

1

2

 

  1. Conditional approval pending the revision of the course description to remove “Western”.
  2. Conditional approval pending the revision of the course description to correct “specialist” to “specialized”.

 

NOTES: Jennifer Thiel had previously agreed to contact the Registrar about loading onto Degree Navigator all newly approved courses for the Master Course List. Department chairs were encouraged to follow up with the Registrar and Advising to confirm that courses have been added, edited, or removed.

  1. New Business: No new business to present

 

NOTE:  Please send any agenda items for our next meeting (December 12 – IN FINE ARTS BUILDING, ROOM 110) to Jim Brown.  Julie will not be here for the December meeting.

 

A motion was made and unanimously approved to adjourn. The meeting was adjourned at 12:00 p.m.

 

Present: Andrew Abeyta, Craig Agule, Ross Allen, Margery Amdur, Kate Anderson ,Joseph Barbarese, James Boucher, Melanie Bowers, James Brown, Wayne Glasker, Julianne Griepenburg, Osama Hamed, Jean-Louise Hippolyte, Aaron Hostetter, Guy Kortsarz, George Kumi, Christopher Lim, Rufan Luo, Emily Marker, Susan Miller, Beth Rabinowitz, Jillian Sayre, Shauna Shames, Julie Still

Absent (Senators): Paul Bernstein, Nawaf Bou-Rabee, Stacia Gilliard Matthews, Angelica Gonzales, Joan Mazelis, Silvia Perez-Cortes, Bill Saidel, Amy Salvage

Optional and noted (University Senators): Joseph Barbarese (present), Joseph Schiavo (present), Daniel Bubb (absent), Elizabeth Demaray (absent), Howard Marchitello (absent), Yuchung Wang (absent), Babu Dasari (absent)

Present (Invited Guests): Joseph Schiavo, Bill Whitlow, Jennifer Thiel

 

 

Drafted by Maria Buckley, 11/16/2017
Submitted by Wayne Glasker, Faculty Senate Secretary