RAMAPO COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY Anisfield School of Business Unit Council Minutes February 4, 2015 ASB 135

Dean Chakrin called the meeting to order at 1:00PM

1. APPROVAL OF MINUTES The minutes of the January 21 meeting were approved.

2. INTELLECTUAL CONTRIBUTIONS Dean Chakrin reported on intellectual contributions since the January 21 Unit Council meeting

3 REAPPOINTMENT APPLICATIONS The ASB Reappointment/Tenure Committee reviewed the applications for 2nd and 3rd year reappointments. The following candidates for 2nd Year Reappointment were approved:

Changhee Lee, Assistant Professor of Accounting Bobby Saldivar, Assistant Professor of Marketing Malavika Sundararajan, Assistant Professor of Management

The Committee did not recommend reappointment for the one 3rd Year Reappointment candidate.

4. FAEC – S. Eisner  Faculty were asked to complete the survey regarding a new Gen Ed requirement.  A new task force will be created to assess the impact of the interim schedule

5. SAC – J. Cabrera  An additional goal has been added to ASB’s Assessment Plans for this year – MBA Global Perspective  Core course outlines need to be updated

6. ANNOUNCEMENTS Susan Eisner, chair of the ASB Faculty Mentoring Program, has organized a Teaching Roundtable for February 18 from 2:30-4pm in ASB 323. The topic is Hybrid/Blended Classrooms.

Gladys Torres-Baumgarten spoke about the new Study Abroad opportunity in Peru.

Gladys also announced that there are two faculty service positions available – International Education and Study Abroad committees. 1 Yongbum Kim reminded the UC about Scholars Day. Faculty who have hired student Research Assistants should encourage them to submit their work.

Stephen Larson said that Writing Intensive courses will be reviewed in the Fall.

Sridevi Shivarajan announced that the FRC is sponsoring a workshop on academic advisement on February 11 from 11am-12pm in E216.

Kathy Zeno, representative on the Diversity Action Committee, reminded the UC that Arun Ghandi will give his keynote address at today’s Diversity Convocation.

Meeting adjourned at 2:30PM Minutes submitted by Deirdre Lynch

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