Meeting Minutes #244

Members Present: Akin, Berthiaume, Bhuyan, Boikess, Castellano, Curchitser, Faga, Flahive-DiNardo, Gajic, Gasman, Gliserman, Greenfield, Hirschfield, Linardopoulos, Longo, Mathew, McKeever, Mullen, Ozel, Paul, Pichugin, Rendsburg, Ryan, Sanchez, Shapses, Szatrowski, Thompson, Tsakalakos,  Womack

Non-Members Present: Martha Cotter (Parliamentarian), Thomas Stephens, (NCAA Faculty Representative)

1. Call to Order – Tugrul Ozel, New Brunswick Faculty Council (NBFC) Chair

Chair Ozel called the meeting to order at 1:10 PM on Friday, April 23, 2021 remotely via Zoom.

2. Approval of the Agenda

The agenda was approved.

3. Approval of the Minutes of the March 12, 2021 Meeting

The minutes were approved with the understanding that several typos would be corrected.

4. Chair’s Report – Tugrul Ozel

Chair Ozel welcomed everyone to the meeting and presented the following updates in the NBFC Chair report:

  • The University Senate voted to recommend inclusion of the Rutgers Faculty Councils in the University Policy Library at the Senate meeting on March 26, 2021. Subsequently, President Holloway informed the Senate that he is in full support of this change and instructed his administration to commence the formal process of acknowledging the Faculty Councils in the University Policy Library. Chair Ozel thanked everyone involved in this effort from the NBFC on behalf of all the faculty council chairs.
  • The NBFC will hold elections for the officers to serve in the 2021-2021 academic year. The nominees for NBFC Officers for 2021-2022 were introduced. 
  • Chair Ozel informed the NBFC that Statements of Nominees for NBFC Officers for 2021-2022 are available on the NBFC website. 

5. Administrative Report – Chancellor Christopher Molloy

Chancellor Molloy and Provost Conway sent their apologies for not being able to attend  the meeting due to some other commitments.

6.   Guest – Thomas Stephens, NCAA Faculty Representative
 

Thomas Stephens, the NCAA Faculty Representative, presented his annual report stating that Rutgers Athletics is doing well and student athletes are healthy and safe.

7.  Committee Reports

Student Affairs – Haym Benaroya and Emily Greenfield, Co-chairs

Faculty and Personnel Affairs – Francois Berthiaume, Chair

Budget, Planning and Infrastructure – Tom Figueira and Ryan Womack, Co-chairs

  • The committee is continuing to discuss the financial status of the New Brunswick campus and the University. It will have some suggestions to make but needs further budgetary and fiscal information from the Chancellor's office.

Athletic Affairs – Ken McKeever, Chair

  • The committee is continuing to discuss athletics affairs at the University but did not have anything to report at the time.

Academic Affairs – Bob Boikess and Marybeth Gasman, Co-chairs

  • The committee is continuing to discuss various aspects of the evaluation of teaching. It will have a number of suggestions to make but needs additional information.   

8.  New Business

  • Sanjib Bhuyan and Paul Hirshfield proposed the Resolution on Honoring Tugrul Ozel and thanked Chair Ozel for his earnest and committed leadership over the past two years 2019-2021. The resolution was approved..

9. Old Business

There was no old business.

10. Adjournment

Chair Ozel adjourned the meeting at 3:15 PM.

Written and submitted by

Martha Cotter, NBFC parliamentarian and substitute recording secretary