VII. Governance, 1968-1985

Summary: Typed and handwritten notes, clippings, minutes, Senate rules and proposals, drafts of James Begin writings, memos, reports, published articles, meeting notes, and court documents.

Documents the University Senate and other forms of university governance at Rutgers, and to a small extent governance at other institutions, with particular focus on the relationship between the governance system and faculty collective bargaining. Topics include the history and proceedings of the University Senate and Senate committees; the Senate's relations with the AAUP, the Rutgers administration and administration committees, Board of Governors, Department of Higher Education, and state legislature; Senate membership and organization, including the Senate reorganization of 1969-70; governance within the Rutgers-New Brunswick colleges and at Camden and Newark campuses; students and university governance; the University Assemblies on Planning in New Brunswick (1974); governance at New Jersey community colleges; and governance and collective bargaining at other colleges and universities.

Issues addressed in the Senate proceedings and other activities documented here include the academic calendar; resource allocation and Rutgers' academic program; grievance procedures; grading policies; the restructuring of Rutgers-New Brunswick (including the Federated Plan); equal opportunity; the carrying of guns by the campus patrol; faculty tenure, appointments, evaluation, and promotion; and sabbatical programs.