Faculty Meeting of New Jersey Institute of Technology
Wednesday, February 26, 2013
2:30 - 4:00 p.m. Campus Center Atrium
Presiding: Walid Hubbi, Chair of Faculty Council
AGENDA
I.
Convening of Meeting
II.
Approval of Minutes of the December 4, 2013 Faculty Meeting
III.
Faculty Council report:
a.
b.
c.
d.
Dr. Walid Hubbi
Implementation of transparency on teaching load (resolution passed on 12/4/2013)
Sabbatical policy.
Shared governance: The Board of Trustees has approved the proposed Shared
Governance resolutions with modifications. The modifications include (a document
was emailed that includes the combined resolutions with tracking of changes in
red):
1. The faculty Senate reports to the Provost rather than the Provost and the
President.
2. Added language about the authority of the BOT.
Election of Senators to the Faculty Senate: The Faculty Council was asked to
arrange the election of the twenty five (founding) faculty members of the faculty
senate.
Motion: “To authorize the Faculty Council to arrange the election of the founding twenty
five senators for the Faculty Senate.”
e.
Elections of seven faculty members to the University Senate.
Motion: “To authorize the Faculty Council in cooperation with the administration to
arrange the election of seven faculty members for the University Senate as specified in
the University Senate Constitution, electronically or otherwise.”
IV.
Report by the President
V.
Approval of Bachelor of General Studies (The proposal and the consultant report were
attached by email).
VI.
New business:
VII.
President Joel Bloom
a.
Motion proposed by Professor Yehoshua Perl "To nullify the Section 4.1.4 of the
New NJIT Academic Plan dealing with research scholarship and teaching,( This
section basically mandates 3 course teaching load, for faculty not receiving current
funding ).” This motion was discussed by the FC and the FC voted against this
motion with 2 for and 11 against.
b.
Please email me if you wish to propose issues.
Adjournment
A meeting of the Faculty of New Jersey Institute of Technology was held on Wednesday,
December 4, 2013 with the following representation from the departments:
Eligible
Votes
Present
Administration
13
4
Bio Medical Engineering
11
5
7
1
Chemical, Biological & Pharmaceutical Engineering
15
3
Chemistry & Environmental Sciences
12
2
Civil & Environmental Engineering
24
5
College of Architecture & Design
22
5
Computer Science
26
10
Electrical & Computer Engineering
24
11
Engineering Technology
10
2
Federated History
6
2
Humanities
11
5
Information Systems
7
2
Information Technology
1
1
Mathematical Sciences
40
11
Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
23
3
Physics
17
9
School of Management
20
6
Total
281
87
Biological Sciences
Minutes of the Faculty Meeting of the New Jersey Institute of Technology
December 4, 2013
Presiding: Dr. Walid Hubbi - Chair of the Faculty Council
I.
Convening of the Meeting
Dr. Walid Hubbi
At 2:40 pm the chair noted that a quorum was not present and therefore the meeting could
not be called to order. Instead it was agreed to talk about agenda items that do not require
a vote. The meeting was convened at 2:48, after the Provost’s presentation, when there
appeared to be a quorum present.
II.
III.
The minutes of the May 8, 2013, faculty meeting were seconded and approved by
acclamation.
Report from the Provost – Dr. Fadi Deek
The Provost discussed the 2020 Vision of Strategic Planning Initiative 2015 – 2020. The
focus is on Education and Research, and he urged the Faculty to participate. The plan
was worked on by 70 faculty members who came up with a transitional set of rules. The
initiative after much discussion was, however, not voted on.
IV.
Report from the President – Dr. Joel Bloom
The President thanked all who worked on Shared Governance, including Fadi Deek,
Priscilla Nelson and Richard Sher. The focus will be to make Shared Governance
successful. Some amendments were presented to SG. There was discussion about
the deans’ and chairs’ role in academic decisions. The Board of Trustees meeting is
scheduled for February 6, 2014. The President stressed the need to focus on
excellence. The President discussed the need for economic development and has
Facilities for this will be created. We need to expand our event facilities since we now
have 10,000 students. Other issues presented included parking facilities, which are
adequate now but will not be in the future, and collaboration with Rutgers University
and its new Chancellor, Nancy Cantor from Syracuse University. She is prepared to
honor all previous agreements and increase the collaboration between the two schools.
V.
Motion about Transparency and Scheduling- Dr. Walid Hubbi
A motion was made that the teaching schedule of every faculty member should show
justification for the teaching load and that any deviation below or above the norm
should be made available for any faculty member to review. An amendment was
proposed to take out the reference to the deviation above or below the norm, so that the
motion should read that the teaching schedule of every faculty member should show
justification for the teaching load and be available for any faculty member to review.
Amendment was seconded and passed
VI.
Motion about Sabbatical Policy
A motion to approve the sabbatical document was made and seconded. The motion
states that normally it is expected that the administration will honor the
recommendation of the Sabbatical Committee and that the majority of those
recommended will be approved by the administration. There was much discussion
about who should be awarded a sabbatical. There was a motion to call the
question. An amendment was proposed to remove the word “majority”. The
amended motion states that normally it is expected that the administration will
honor the recommendation of the Sabbatical Committee and that those
recommended will be approved. The amended motion was seconded and passed.
VII.
New Business – Dr. Walid Hubbi
A motion was made to nullify the Academic Plan of NJIT until it is approved by the
Faculty. There was not a quorum. The motion was not passed.
VIII. Adjournment
The meeting was adjourned at 3:45 pm.
Dr. Tamara Gund - Secretary