Resolution On Test Optional Admissions

Background:

After some years of consideration in which the New Brunswick Faculty Council (NBFC) played a role, Rutgers-NB has put in place a test optional, holistic undergraduate admissions procedure. Given the well established biases of the SAT/ACT, this change is a welcome one. The movement away from required standardized testing in undergraduate admissions includes many schools across the United States. Some schools have even moved to not including standardized test results at all as part of the admissions process.

Therefore, be it resolved that the NBFC: 

1. * Commends the Division of Enrollment Management at Rutgers University–New Brunswick (EM–NB) for implementing a test optional, holistic undergraduate admissions procedure;
2. Requests that the Chancellor provide annual reports from EM-NB to understand the impact of the test optional approach to admissions on diversity, admission rate, and academic success.

*Note that the NBFC voted in a simple majority to pass an amendment to delete the first item of this resolution. Due to confusion in applying Robert's rules of order at the time the vote took place, the NBFC erroneously concluded that the vote had rejected the amendment, and subsequently voted to pass the resolution a shown above. The error was discovered approximately one month later. The NBFC decided not to revisit the whole process again, but rather to add this footnote.