Position Title: Member, Rutgers University Senate
Senate Websites:
http://senate.rutgers.edu/
https://senate.rutgers.edu/about-the-senate/join-the-senate/
Senate Charge:
The University Senate is a university-wide deliberative body which includes faculty, student, staff, alumni and administrator members. The Senate advises the president on a broad range of issues of importance to Rutgers, establishes minimum standards respecting admission, scholarship and honors, regulates formal relationships among academic units within the University, and recommend norms for teaching loads, and establishes the University calendar. The full roster is ~250 members.
Information on Senate bylaws (including relevant University Regulations), committees, agendas, minutes, current issues and projects, and other topics can be found on the Senate website at: http://senate.rutgers.edu/. The website is updated regularly.
Recognition and Benefits:
- Opportunity to bring the voices of the Rutgers community to the President and administration
- Opportunity to interact with others at Rutgers outside of your department
- Service to Rutgers is one consideration for promotion and merit evaluations
Committee Commitment and Meetings:
- Three-year term
- The Senate meets monthly during the academic year to consider matters of general University interest, and to make recommendations to the University administration on those matters.
- Attendance at all full Senate and committee meetings is the primary responsibility of each senator, and is essential to the successful operation of the Senate. All who accept election to the Senate are expected to arrange a schedule that does not conflict with Senate meetings.
- Senate meetings are held monthly during term, always on Fridays, and almost always beginning at 1:10 p.m. (The last meeting of the academic year, in April or May, occasionally begins in the morning.) Whenever possible, Senate meetings are scheduled for the third Friday of the month, but there are occasional exceptions. The schedule of Senate meetings is published on the Senate website in March for the following academic year.
- Senate members do their work in Senate committees
- Attending full-Senate meetings is only one-third of the job
- To learn more about serving on University Senate: https://senate.rutgers.edu/about-the-senate/join-the-senate/
Newly Elected Senate Members:
*per University Policy 50.2.1, 6.B; SAS is entitled to 18 Faculty Senators
- Andrea Morera – Biology and Biochemistry
- Debra Keates – English Writing Program
- Edward McCrossin – Philosophy
- Jedediah Pixley – Physics and Astronomy
- Javier Robles – Kinesiology and Health
- Laurent Vera – Mathematics
- Paul O'Keefe – Geography
- Sijian Wang – Statistics
- Victoria Abraira - Keck Center
- Charles Haberl – African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures
- Dana Luciano – English
- Erin Kelly – English Writing Program
- John Maerhofer – English Writing Program
- Julie Fylnn – English Writing Program
- Laura Ramirez – Spanish and Portuguese
- Martha Haviland – DLS, Undergraduate Instruction
- Robert Scott – Anthropology
- Sara Campbell – Kinesiology and Health