Faculty Senate Meeting April 21, 2011

Faculty Senate Meeting April 21, 2011

Agenda I. Call to Order and Roll Call - James Martin, Secretary • Approval of March 17, 2011 meeting minutes • Campus Reports and Responses IV. Reports of Standing and Special Committees V. Old Business VI. New Business and Announcements VII. Adjourn

Agenda I. Call to Order and Roll Call - James Martin, Secretary • Approval of March 17, 2011 meeting minutes http://facultysenate.mst.edu/documents/fsminutes/2011/FS.Minutes.03.17.11.pdf • Campus Reports and Responses IV. Reports of Standing and Special Committees V. Old Business VI. New Business and Announcements VII. Adjourn

Agenda I. Call to Order and Roll Call - James Martin, Secretary • Approval of March 17, 2011 meeting minutes III. Campus Reports and Responses IV. Reports of Standing and Special Committees V. Old Business VI. New Business and Announcements VII. Adjourn

Agenda Campus Reports and Responses • President’s Report K.M.Isaac • Administrative Reports J.Carney • K.Wray • Staff Council Report Stacy Jones for J.Singleton • Student Council M.Schwartz • Council of Graduate Students V.Gandikota

President’s ReportApril 21, 2011 Faculty Senate Meeting April 21, 2011

President’s Report April 21, 2011 • Chancellor search • The open forum was well attended with good participation by several faculty members • Based on nominations from the faculty, RP&A selected a list of nominees that was forwarded to the President’s office • Committee is expected to meet on April 29 • RP&A is continuing to discuss revising bylaws to define and formalize the role of the Department Chairs Council (DCC). A document is being drafted in consultation with DCC.

President’s ReportApril 21, 2011 • IFC • Presidential search is on track • There is strong push for domestic partner benefits • on the other 3 campuses. Subcommittee formed to • keep it on the front burner • Faculty rights and responsibilities/civility/collegiality. • Faculty wants this addressed as an employee issue • Best to resolve problems at the lowest level • Do not let problems escalate • Actions like letters of reprimand will have • great effect

Office of Academic Affairs • Curriculum • Completed review of MOU with Federal University of Ceara (Brazil) for exchange program in Sustainable Drinking Water Studies • Professional Science Master’s degree under review. • Working on ABET accreditation for Cooperative Engineering program with MSU (civil and electrical engineering degrees).

Office of Academic Affairs • Faculty Activities • Completed review of two department-level non-tenure track faculty policies. • Third Year Review meetings in progress.

Global Learning • Non-credit operations are continuing to expand. • A group of students from Italy are currently enrolled and taking face to face courses covering various aspects of Systems Engineering at the Engineering Education Center in St. Louis. • General Motors student-employees are taking on-line courses in a variety of topics including: • Introduction to the Coating System (Paint Chemistry) • Contamination Control • Statistical Process Control & Data Analysis • Introduction to Programmable Logic Controllers • Meetings are currently underway with Caterpillar to determine the disciplines of interest to them.

Office of Undergraduate Studies Upcoming Events: • April 22, 2011– Earth Day, this is the 10th Annual Rolla event hosted by Missouri S&T Opportunities for Undergraduate Research Experiences (OURE) • 120 applications received for the 2011-12 OURE and & OURE Fellows applications 7th Annual Undergraduate Research Conference • There were 66 students that participated in the conference with 56 projects. The list of winner can be found here: http://ugs.mst.edu/ugrc.html

Office of Undergraduate Studies Student Design & Experiential Learning Center • New building nearing completion with expected move in to start middle of May • Richard Dalton has completed OSHA training allowing the SDELC to offer OSHA approved 10 and 30 hour safety courses in general industry and construction. Courses to be offered soon. • GM has graciously renewed their corporate support for the SDELC for next year and have included six $1,000 scholarships to support the student team leaders. • FIRST FTC State Championship was a huge success • Engineer’s Week exhibit at the St. Louis Science Center supported by MSPE was well received including the streaming video from campus of the FIRST FTC State Championship

Office of Graduate Studies • Chancellor’s Fellows Research Poster Awards Ceremony held on March 16, 2011. • Continued to reduce the number of graduate pending applications files. • Presented a hot topic discussion on Financial Survival Strategies at the Annual Mid-West Association of Grad Schools meeting (April 1, 2011) • Completed 70+ thesis/dissertation format checks in the Spring 2011 session.

Office of Sponsored Programs • FY11 activities through the end of March and a year-over-year comparison are as follows: • Proposals awarded in total dollars: $34.3M (down 12.3%) • Number of proposals awarded and amendments: 225 (down 9.6%) • Proposals submitted in total dollars: $95.1M (down 0.9%) • Number of proposals submitted: 388 (up 2.7%) • Research expenditures: $35.3M (up 6.2%) • F&A recovered: $5.4M (up 2.1%) • Number of active awards: 618 (up 0.5%)

Enrollment Management • On-track to meet FY12 Enrollment Targets • Fall 2011 Freshman Class Projections 1130 to 1177 (1170 in fall 2011) 274 Females (24%), 857 Males (76%) 914 Freshman Engineering 262 Out-of-State (23%), 891 Missouri residents (77%) 3.849 Ave. high school GPA at application date 27.9 Ave. ACT composite score (upper 10%) at application 5 perfect scores admitted to date • Enrollment cap decisions after May 14

Updated National Interest in Engineering 1.4 M ACT tested high school seniors in 2009-10

Census Data Supports Downward Trend in High School Graduates 2011-2017

Agenda I. Call to Order and Roll Call - James Martin, Secretary • Approval of March 17, 2011 meeting minutes III. Campus Reports and Responses • Reports of Standing and Special Committees A. RP&A B. Library and Learning Resources C. ITCC D.Curriculum V. Old Business VI. New Business and Announcements VII. Adjourn

Grievance pilot program: • Rejected at last FS meeting. Concerns which were expressed: • Size of panel too small, influence of manipulated swing votes could become too significant • Not enough data to evaluate pilot program • FS officers and other faculty met with UM System and IFC representatives. RP&A feels that these concerns were adequately addressed as follows: • Pilot program allows for two parallel panels. Our campus would have the option of using both for all hearings and thereby effectively increase the size of the panel. • It was also pointed out that the oversight committee plays a much more important role than assumed so far in our deliberations.

Motion by RP&A: Whereas the position of interim chancellor is significant, the FS respectfully requests that the S & T faculty's opinion be considered in the selection of the interim chancellor.

Elections of FS officers: current nominated by RP&A Parliamentarian Mark Fitch Martin Bohner (sabbatical) Secretary James Martin Keith Nisbett (leaving S&T) President-Elect Michael Davis Nick Leventis President K.M. Isaac Michael Davis Past President Michael Schulz K.M. Isaac IFC representatives: traditionally Past President, President, President-Elect  Isaac, Davis, Leventis nominated MAFS representative: traditionally President-Elect with President being alternate  Leventis nominated with Davis as alternate

In accordance with the bylaws, the campus P&T committee • nominated two of its members to serve on the UM-wide P&T • committee. These nominations need to be approved by FS and • voted on by the General Faculty at the May 3 meeting. • The nominees are • Gerald Cohen • Ronald Bieniek

Agenda I. Call to Order and Roll Call - James Martin, Secretary • Approval of March 17, 2011 meeting minutes III. Campus Reports and Responses • Reports of Standing and Special Committees A.RP&A B. Library and Learning Resources C. ITCC D.Curriculum V. Old Business VI. New Business and Announcements VII. Adjourn

Faculty Senate MeetingApril 21, 2011

April 13, 2011 the ITCC deliberated on the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Act email records requests. We will develop a FAQ and stay on top of the situation. Note that we were ahead of the game by developing an Authorized Access Procedure that requests must go through. Please see our minutes. IT is requesting input on e-Learning initiatives. The ITCC responded by expanding the CLC Advisory Group to become the e-Learning Advisory Group. ITCC Report

Motion 1: “Historically, the ITCC was not consulted when policies pertaining to Web presence, Electronic Marketing, Web site creation, URL assignment, and associated reporting relationships were decided upon. The faculty reminds the administration that the ITCC is the right place to initiate and revise policy discussions pertaining to these matters. In view of rapidly changing technologies, policies such as these need to be reexamined.” Motion 2 "The ITCC recognizes that computer security problems are never guaranteed to be avoidable. Therefore we recommend that the university adopt a perspective of learning from problems rather than assigning blame. We also recommend that individuals with responsibilities for the protection of sensitive data seek the involvement of professionals to ensure that safety is provided. Furthermore, guidance to accomplish this should be provided to people with such responsibilities." We respectfully request that the Faculty Senate endorse both of these Motions. Motion

Agenda I. Call to Order and Roll Call - James Martin, Secretary • Approval of March 17, 2011 meeting minutes III. Campus Reports and Responses • Reports of Standing and Special Committees A.RP&A B. Library and Learning Resources C. ITCC D. Curriculum V. Old Business VI. New Business and Announcements VII. Adjourn

Curricula Committee ReportApril 21, 2011 • The Curricula Committee report includes: • 2 Degree Change (DC) forms • DC0381 – Minor modification of electives list for BS in EE • DC0383 – Create a BS in IT degree to be offered to the students at American National College in Sri Lanka only • 18 Course Change (CC) forms • 5 Experimental Course (EC) forms (informational only)

Curricula Committee ReportApril 21, 2011 • DC form 0383 merits individual attention and will therefore be presented separately • First, the Curricula Committee moves for the approval of all the other DC and CC forms in this report

Curricula Committee ReportApril 21, 2011 • DC form 0383 proposes a BS in IT degree program to be offered to the students of American National College in Sri Lanka only • The Curricula Committee has discussed this proposal at length and advises FS to discuss two general principles related to this proposal which raise concern but are beyond the scope of this committee as stated on the next slide

Curricula Committee ReportApril 21, 2011 (1) Should degree programs be created which are only offered in a local market (Sri Lanka)? (2) Should degree programs be created which are taught, completely or in majority, by non-S&T faculty (American National College faculty), even if said faculty are vetted by S&T? • If FS is in favor of both these principles, then the Campus Curricula Committee moves for approval of DC form 0383

Agenda I. Call to Order and Roll Call - James Martin, Secretary • Approval of March 17, 2011 meeting minutes III. Campus Reports and Responses • Reports of Standing and Special Committees A.RP&A B. Library and Learning Resources C. ITCC D. Curriculum V. Old Business VI. New Business and Announcements VII. Adjourn

Agenda I. Call to Order and Roll Call - James Martin, Secretary • Approval of March 17, 2011 meeting minutes III. Campus Reports and Responses • Reports of Standing and Special Committees A.RP&A B. Library and Learning Resources C. ITCC D. Curriculum V. Old Business VI.New Business and Announcements VII. Adjourn

Agenda Adjourn

Faculty Senate Meeting April 21, 2011