Meeting Agenda of December 10, 2010

New Brunswick Faculty Council
Agenda for Meeting #178
December 10, 2010


  1. Preliminaries
    • Call to Order – Ken McKeever, NBFC Chairman
    • Approval of Minutes
    • Approval of Agenda
    • Progress Reports – Joel Shapiro
      • on budget reports in response to our Salary Cut Resolution
      • on the Resolution on Packet Deadlines
  2. Administrative Report Philip Furmanski, EVPAA
  3. Proposed Charges to Committee
    • To charge the Faculty Affairs and Personnel Policy Committee with looking into the ratio of full-time to part-time faculty. Karen Thompson has new data, and our distribution does not seem in line with comparable institutions.
    • To charge the Curriculum, Teaching and Honors Committee with looking into guidelines and/or requirements for getting curriculum committee approval for "material" changes in how a course is taught
    • To charge the Curriculum, Teaching and Honors Committee with recommending a policy on requiring all instructors to post a syllabus for each course, and define what needs to be included therein
  4. Report on the AAUP meeting on Shared Governance – Paul Panayotatos
  5. Reconsider Salary Freeze in light of provided data
  6. Old Business
  7. New Business
  8. Adjournment