Meeting Agenda of September 30, 2016

New Brunswick Faculty Council
Agenda for Meeting #211
September 30, 2016, 1:10 PM
Brower Commons Rooms ABC


  1. Call to order

  2. Approval of the agenda

  3. Approval of the minutes of the meeting of April 22, 2016 (meeting #210)

  4. Administrative report: Chancellor Richard Edwards

  5. Invited guest: Antonio Calcado (Executive Vice President for Strategic Planning and Operations & COO)

  6. Chair's report

  7. Update on Evaluation of Teaching (Mark Killingsworth)

  8. NBFC planning (Vice Chair Sanjib Bhuyan)
    • Proposed new meeting time for committees
    • Restructuring NBFC committees, their charges, and their membership: Hot topics and other important issues
      • Power outages and other emergencies with regard to faculty research
      • Searches for high-level administrators
      • Corporatization of the university
      • Faculty input on the admissions process
      • Teaching evaluation task force
      • NTT and PTL professionalization
      • Faculty input on classrooms and assessing the benefit/cost of active learning classrooms at Rutgers
      • Evaluation of the state of professional cheating at Rutgers
      • Academic integrity and the "sorry state of affairs" in that area on the New Brunswick campus
      • Additional “hot topics” from the floor
      • Update committee charges and memberships
  9. Adjournment

Next NBFC meeting (note venue)
October 21, 2016, Room 411 ABC, College Ave Student Center, 1 p.m.- 5 p.m.
(first hour devoted to committee meetings - bring your own lunch)