Meeting Agenda of April 1, 2011

New Brunswick Faculty Council
Agenda for Meeting #180
April 1, 2011


  • Call to Order – Ken McKeever, NBFC Chairman
  • Approval of Agenda and Minutes
  • Administrative Report - Philip Furmanski, Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs.
  • Report of the Libraries and Academic Resources Committee (Dan Fishman, Chair)
    "The Future of the New Brunswick Approval Plan, or, the Future of Monographs at Rutgers University Libraries” by Tom Izbicki (Interim Associate University Librarian for Collections) and Ryan Womack (Data and Economics Librarian and Chair of the New Brunswick Collections Group).
  • Action Items
    • from the Budget and Planning Committee (Robert Wilson, Chair):
      • Proposed revision of the section of NBFC by-laws regarding membership. 
    • from the Curriculum, Teaching, and Honors Committee (Paul Leath, Chair):
      • Proposal for Curriculum Committees to Approve Modes of Instruction
      • Proposal for Required Expanded Course Descriptions
  • Old Business
  • New Business
  • Adjournment