Meeting Agenda of September 30, 2016
New Brunswick Faculty Council
Agenda for Meeting #211
September 30, 2016, 1:10 PM
Brower Commons Rooms ABC
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Call to order
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Approval of the agenda
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Approval of the minutes of the meeting of April 22, 2016 (meeting #210)
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Administrative report: Chancellor Richard Edwards
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Invited guest: Antonio Calcado (Executive Vice President for Strategic Planning and Operations & COO)
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Chair's report
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Update on Evaluation of Teaching (Mark Killingsworth)
- 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
- 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)