RAMAPO COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY

Anisfield School of Business

Unit Council Minutes

February 3, 2016

ASB 136

Gladys Torres-Baumgarten, standing in for Dean Chakrin, called the meeting to order at 12:00 PM.

1. APPROVAL OF MINUTES

The minutes of the January 20 meeting were approved.

2. INTELLECTUAL CONTRIBUTIONS

Gladys reported on the intellectual contributions since the January 20 meeting.

3. REAPPOINTMENT APPLICATIONS

The ASB Reappointment/Tenure Committee recommended the following for third year reapppointment

Changhee Lee, Assistant Professor of Accounting

Bobby Saldivar, Assistant Professor of Marketing

Malavika Sundararajan, Assistant Professor of Management

4. UPDATE AND DECISION ON MS IN ACCOUNTING – C. Crawford and

K. Norton

Connie and Karen presented the proposal for the Master of Accounting program. The Unit Council voted in favor of this proposal.

5. ALL-COLLEGE COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS

·  Jim Woodley was elected to the President’s Advisory Committee

·  Changhee Lee was elected to TLTR

·  Mark Skowronski, Bobby Saldivar, and Alex Olbrecht were put forth to serve on the Academic Integrity Board

·  Susan Eisner was elected to serve on FAEC for another term

6. LIBRARY RENOVATIONS TASK FORCE UPDATE – R. Nunez and S. Shivarajan

Rick and Sridevi presented the draft of the Library plans and asked for feedback before the LRTF’s presentation at the next FA Forum.

7. ARC – T. Rakotobe-Joel

Course approvals are being finalized.

8. SCHEDULING TASK FORCE – M. Sabrin

The committee is discussing making changes to the current class schedule.

9. SCHOOL ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE – G. Torres-Baumgarten

There will be an assessment retreat on March 2.

10. ASB QUALITY STEERING COMMITTEE (composed of ASB Full Professors)

The committee put together a survey to get feedback from all faculty on what they would like to see in a new dean and presented the results.

11. ANNOUNCEMENTS

Yongbum Kim announced that Scholars Day applications are due February 29 and gave an update on the application process.

Sridevi Shivarajan announced the upcoming FRC sessions.

Meeting adjourned at 2:00pm

Minutes submitted by Deirdre Lynch

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