2007-2008

Of Current Interest

Special announcements, along with committee reports and supporting documents for the next meeting along with significant material from recent meetings will be posted here for easy reference.

• Following the discussion on the cost of textbooks at the meeting of March 4, 2005, a discussion page was started. Additional contributions to this forum are welcome (see instructions on the page for joining the discussion). This is an experimental feature; if it proves popular, methods to allow discussion without a moderated web page will be explored. There are currently 11 entries; the most recent one submitted on May 17, 2005 (another contribution, submitted earlier by an indirect path, was added on May 23, 2005). This forum has been moved to Sakai. Members of the University community may connect to the system, which provides support for both courses and projects, using a username on rci or eden. Once on Sakai, look for Cost of Textbooks in the list of Joinable sites
• The Task Force report contains several recommendations. To aid in evaluating recommendations on curriculum, here are charts of the requirements of other AAU universities prepared by Martin Gliserman.
• A letter from a student representative following up on a presentation at the March 31, 2006 meeting concerning the impact of proposed budget cuts.
• Here is the presentation on Curriculum Evaluation by Mukund V. Karwe at the November 3, 2006 meeting, and an additional document by Brent D. Ruben giving an overview of Assessment in the context of a university that was communicated to the Faculty Council by Executive Dean Robert Goodman, who is the chair of the reaccreditation committee of Rutgers University.
• Here is the Senate report on Best Practices in Assessment of Teaching mentioned by Paul Leath at the meeting of January 26, 2007.
• Here is the Current Enrollment Management report presented by Vice President Courtney McAnuff at the meeting on September 21, 2007.
• The following documents are available in connection with the discussion of PTL concerns on the agenda for May 09, 2008: the teaching at Rutgers document; the Q & A document; the Senate resolution; the response to the NBFC resolution.

• Schedule of Council meetings for 2007-08
• Minutes of the Faculty Council meetings

Membership and Committees

• Members of the Council listed by unit
• Members of the Council listed alphabetically
• Executive Committee of the Council
• Membership and Charges for the Committees of the Council
• NB Members of the President's Faculty Advisory Committee

Reports, Recommendations and Resolutions

• Current Resolutions, Recommendations, and Reports
• Resolutions, Recommendations, and Reports Approved by the Council in 2006-07
• Each of these pages has a link to the page of the preceding year allowing access to earlier documents.

Continuing Projects

• The Faculty Council sponsors an annual New Brunswick Faculty Council Conference on Teaching.

Other Links

• Bylaws of the Council
• Copyright Information from the Rutgers Libraries web page
• Dear Colleague Letters from the Council
  • Letter on Promotion Form 1a (b,c)
  • Letter on Individually Negotiated Retirement