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Faculty Senate Meeting April 23, 2015

Faculty Senate Meeting April 23, 2015. Agenda. I . Call to Order and Roll Call - Barbara Hale, Secretary Approval of March 19, 2015 meeting minutes III. Campus Reports and Responses IV. Reports of Standing and Special Committees V. Old Business VI. New Business and Announcements

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Faculty Senate Meeting April 23, 2015

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  1. Faculty Senate Meeting April 23, 2015

  2. Agenda I. Call to Order and Roll Call - Barbara Hale, Secretary • Approval of March 19, 2015 meeting minutes III. Campus Reports and Responses IV. Reports of Standing and Special Committees V. Old Business VI. New Business and Announcements VII. Adjourn

  3. Agenda • Call to Order and Roll Call - Barbara Hale, Secretary • Approval of March 19, 2015 meeting minutesMeetingMinutes.March19.15 III. Campus Reports and Responses IV. Reports of Standing and Special Committees V. Old Business VI. New Business and Announcements VII. Adjourn

  4. Agenda • Call to Order and Roll Call - Barbara Hale, Secretary II. Approval of March 19, 2015 meeting minutes III. Campus Reports and Responses IV. Reports of Standing and Special Committees V. Old Business VI. New Business and Announcements VII. Adjourn

  5. Agenda III. Campus Reports and Responses A. President’s Report, M. Bohner • Administrative Reports • i) Chancellor’s Report, C. Schrader ii) Provost’s Report, R. Marley C. Staff Council Report, J. Boehm for S. Lewis D. Student Council, R. Jacobsen E. Council of Graduate Students, E. Ronchetto – NO REPORT

  6. President’s Report Faculty Senate Meeting April 23, 2015 President's Report

  7. Board of Curators Breakfast • Faculty Senate organized breakfast at the Board of Curators Meeting in Rolla, April 10. • Thanks to all Faculty Senators who have attended. • Thanks to Barbara Palmer who did a great job in organizing the breakfast. • Featured program was entitled “Hot Stuff at Missouri S&T: The Aesthetics and Technical Appeal of Glass”. • Presenters were Richard Brow, Erica Ronchetto, David Westenberg, Rachel Connell, Mary Reidmeyer, and Taylor Davis. President's Report

  8. Faculty Workload Policy • Last year, IFC presented a Faculty Workload Policy (FWP) document. • Provost has asked Deans to implement the FWP. • Deans have asked Departments to implement the FWP. • CEC seems to be slightly ahead of CASB with implementation of FWP. President's Report

  9. Bylaw Changes (Dean Search) • Taskforce recommends bylaw changes. • Members: Martin Bohner, Kate Drowne, David Enke, Gregory Gelles, Barbara Hale, Suzanna Long, Robert Marley. • Main result: Dean Search Committee consists of AT LEAST 2/3 Faculty. • Need 20 signatures to take to RP&A. • Will then go to General Faculty Meeting on May 5. President's Report

  10. Title IX Strategic Curriculum Committee • Full Committee met again last week. • Members are: Joe Boehm, Martin Bohner (Co-Chair), Michelle Bresnahan, Tyrone Davidson, Keri DeGraffenreid, Kate Drowne, Ian Ferguson, Pattie Frisbee, Debbie Hickey, Paul Hirtz, Jeanie Hofer, Christine Laughlin, OyebanjoLajubutu, Shenethia Manuel (Chair), Alyssa McCarthy, Neil Outar, Roger Parsons, Josh Pribe, Ted Read, Stephen Roberts, Bill Schonberg (Co-Chair), Mary Helen Stoltz, Dan Waddill, • Subcommittees are: Content, Bystander, Organizational Structure and Support, Online Training. • Recommends a syllabus statement concerning Title IX. President's Report

  11. Panelist Pool • Panelist Pool members had training in Columbia on April 13/14. • Next training in May, again in Columbia. President's Report

  12. Intercampus Faculty Council • Last IFC meeting was one week ago. • IFC will revisit Post Tenure Review. • update: Each campus has appointed a “Software Specialist”, ours is Melanie Mormile. Other coordinators are Bruce McMillin and Kate Drowne. • Delay was caused by making the interface more user friendly. • Now data have to be transferred from FAS. • Will go live hopefully in 2016. President's Report

  13. Agenda III. Campus Reports and Responses A. President’s Report, M. Bohner • Administrative Reports • i) Chancellor’s Report, S. Roberts for C. Schrader ii) Provost’s Report, M. Mormile for R. Marley C. Staff Council Report, S. Lewis – NO REPORT D. Student Council, R. Jacobsen E. Council of Graduate Students, E. Ronchetto

  14. FACULTY SENATE • APRIL 23, 2015 • Chancellor’s Report

  15. EXPERIMENTAL MINE BUILDING • Funded through the state higher education capital fund, our 50/50 building provides a state-of-the-art facility to support teaching and research in mining and explosives Missouri S&T contribution $1.2M from corporate partners State match $1.2M Facility includes classrooms, laboratories, mine rescue station, computer lab, offices and equipment storage

  16. STRATEGIC PLAN UPDATE Progress.mst.edu

  17. WOMAN OF THE YEAR Dr. Dan LinAssistant Professor of Computer Science

  18. Faculty first fridays • May 1 • Sept. 4 • Oct. 2 • Nov. 6 • Dec. 4 • Bring your lunch • Get to know faculty • Chat with administrators • Drinks and dessert! Lunch is noon-1p.m. on the first Friday of the month at the Hasselmann Alumni House during the fall and spring semesters

  19. Election RESULTS

  20. RemmersSpecial Artist/Lecturer Series • Dr. Condoleezza Rice66th U.S. Secretary of State • Thursday, May 14 • 31st presenter in the series • Tickets available atCastleman Hall

  21. Agenda III. Campus Reports and Responses A. President’s Report, M. Bohner • Administrative Reports • i) Chancellor’s Report, S. Roberts for C. Schrader ii) Provost’s Report, R. Marley C. Staff Council Report, S. Lewis – NO REPORT D. Student Council, R. Jacobsen E. Council of Graduate Students, E. Ronchetto

  22. PROVOST’S REPORT April 23, 2015

  23. Overview • Promotion and Tenure 2015/2016 will be electronic using Google Drive. • A select group viewed a demo and was pleased with the process. • Group included the VP&Deans and selected department chairs, prior committee members and faculty members with recent experience. • 2015/2016 P&T Deadlines are available and will be posted on the Provost website this week • April 27 Dept. Chairs are responsible for confirmation of P/T candidates andadd names of those seeking promotion only

  24. Overview Continued • May 1 Provost Office (Barb Palmer) will send instructions for creating electronic dossiers to candidates • May 15 election of campus committee representatives will be completed (In process now)

  25. Faculty: Shannon Fogg has been named chair of the Department of History and Political Science. She will begin her duties on July 1. Jay A. Switzer (Chemistry) has been named a Fellow of the Materials Research Society Larry Gragg (History and Political Science) was featured on Las Vegas’ Channel 3 “Video Vault”. Jeff Schramm (History and Political Science) will join the international humanities Twitter account We the Humanities as guest curator. AkimAdekpedjou(Mathematics and Statistics) has been selected to participate in the Carnegie African Diaspora scholar fellowship program in the Statistics Department at Rhodes University in South Africa. College: Planning for the large incoming freshmen class and anticipating where additional sections of the core courses may be needed. 1,390 undergraduates (21.3% of S&T total) 84,327 undergraduate SCH in AY1415 (50.1% of S&T total) Finalizing the first two BIC hires (chemistry and physics) College of Arts, Sciences, and Business

  26. College of Engineering and Computing • Currently exploring moving Freshman Engineering (FE) from its current location to Engineering Management. Consistent with University Master Plan by having FE easy to find for students (and parents) in arrival district. • same space will also be used to site an Ideation-Maker-Collision space for the developing program in experiential entrepreneurship. • Bonnie Bachman will join the college during the summer to look more closely on how experiential learning and entrepreneurship concepts can be folded into the curriculum.

  27. Office of Undergraduate Studies • Missouri S&T Undergraduate Research Conference • 110 Students Participated in 98 Projects on April 15th, 2015 • Student Design & Experiential Learning Center • Advanced Aero Vehicle Group – Airplane • Aero Design West Competition – April 24-26, 2015 • Concrete Canoe • ASCE Conference Regional Competition – April 25-26, 2015 • Human Powered Vehicle • Human powered Vehicle Challenge West – April 24-26, 215 • Steel Bridge • ASCE Conference Regional Competition – April 23-25, 2015 • Hit the Ground Running (HGR) – July 12-31, 2015 • Summer Bridge Program – Enrollment Goal is 100 • Students cannot enroll until they attend pro • 20 registered with 10 on wait list (late PRO’s)

  28. Office of Graduate Studies • The 6th Annual Chancellor’s Fellows Research Poster Session was held on February 23rd with 42 posters presented. • The Awards Banquet for the winners of the Poster Session was held on March 9th. The following awards given: • 1st Place- Daniel Field, Metallurgical Engineering, PhD • 2nd Place- Cory Reed, Geology & Geophysics, PhD • 3rd Place- Erica Ronchetto, Materials Science & Engineering, PhD • Honorable Mention- Warner Meeks, Aerospace Engineering, PhD • Honorable Mention- Annalise Pfaff, Chemistry, PhD • Honorable Mention- Kaylea Smith, Civil Engineering, MS • 2nd Graduate Leadership Development Program (GLDP) met March 12-13 at UMKC - Focused on entrepreneurship and management • Thesis/Dissertation Boot Camp March 20-27 • - 20 students attended • April is Graduate Education Month • A complete list of scheduled events is available at http://grad.mst.edu/services/events/.

  29. Enrollment Management • Spring 2015 Commencement – May 15 and 16 Approximately 1400 candidates, an increase of 11% over last year. • PRO deposits for Fall 2015 freshmen are up 16% with good numbers for female and underrepresented minority students. • Thank you to departments that submitted their fall freshman financial awards early (17 vs. 7 last year). • New software functionality coming next fall – prerequisite checking enforced at registration, updated degree audit, academic mapping planner, and VA tracking/certifying.

  30. Office of Sponsored Programs Summary of FY15 activities year-to-date (March) Number of funded proposals down 16% for a total of 177 Total dollars is $25.2M which is up 16% Number of new proposals submitted is up 3% at 439 Total dollars is $144.5M which is up 51.3% Number of active awards is down by 10% at 576 Total expenditures is $30.3M which is down 6% Net grant and contract expenditures is $23.6M which is down 7% F&A recovered is $4.5M which is down 12%

  31. Curtis Laws Wilson Library Scholars’ Mine Update (scholarsmine.mst.edu) • Optimized for discovery in Google/Google Scholar • On track for > 200,000 downloads of full-text documents for calendar year 2015 • Priorities for FY16 • adding content • Planning for conference publication (cold formed steel) using peer review process • Questions about content? Contact us at scholarsmine@mst.edu

  32. Agenda III. Campus Reports and Responses A. President’s Report, M. Bohner • Administrative Reports • C. Staff Council Report, Joe Boehm for • S. Lewis D. Student Council, R. Jacobsen E. Council of Graduate Students, E. Ronchetto

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  34. Agenda III. Campus Reports and Responses A. President’s Report, M. Bohner • Administrative Reports • C. Staff Council Report, Joe Boehm for S. Lewis D. Student Council, R. Jacobsen E. Council of Graduate Students, E. Ronchetto

  35. Agenda III. Campus Reports and Responses A. President’s Report, M. Bohner • Administrative Reports C. Staff Council Report, Joe Boehm for S. Lewis D. Student Council, R. Jacobsen E. Council of Graduate Students, E. Ronchetto – NO REPORT

  36. Agenda • Call to Order and Roll Call - Barbara Hale, Secretary II. Approval of February 26, 2015 meeting minutes III. Campus Reports and Responses IV. Reports of Standing and Special Committees V. Old Business VI. New Business and Announcements VII. Adjourn

  37. Agenda IV. Reports of Standing and Special Committees A. Curricula, T. Schuman • B.Academic Freedom and Standards, M. FitchC. Information Technology/Computing, T. Vojta NO REPORT • D. Student Affairs, A. Pringle • E. RP&A, M. Fitch

  38. CCC Meetings • 6 April 2015 • 13 May 2015 • Committee Activity • 2 Degree change requests (DC forms) • Third DC form rolled back pending degree hour issue and clarification of electives requirements • 34 Course change requests (CC forms) • 5 Experimental course requests (EC forms)

  39. Degree Changes Requested • File #153.26 Computer Engineering: Computer Engineering BS • File #64.16 Geology & Geophysics: Geology and Geophysics BS

  40. Course Changes Requested File #1272.5 Business 4675: International Business File #507.4 Business 5360: Business Operations File #1682.4 Chemistry 2229: Organic Chemistry II Lab File #1825.1 Chemistry 2310: Inorganic Chemistry I File #4173 Chemistry 2320: Inorganic Chemistry II File #1040.1 Chemical Engineering 2100: Chemical Engineering Material & Energy Balances File #2041.1 Chemical Engineering 2110: Thermodynamics I File #466.1 Chemical Engineering 2300: Chemical Process Materials File #1801.1 Chemical Engineering 3100: Chemical Engineering Fluid Flow File #2306.1 Chemical Engineering 3110: Chemical Engineering Heat Transfer File #436.1 Chemical Engineering 3120: Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics File #1526.1 Chemical Engineering 3140: Continuous Mass Transfer File #1606.1 Chemical Engineering 3200: Biochemical Separations File #862.1 Chemical Engineering 4097: Chemical Process Design File #1607.1 Chemical Engineering 4210: Biochemical Reactors

  41. Course Changes Requested File #1880.1 Computer Engineering 6320: Adaptive Dynamic Programming File #2451.1 Computer Engineering 6510: Resilient Networks File #4176 Electrical Engineering 6350: Neural Network Control of Nonlinear Continuous-time Systems File #416.1 Engineering Management 5515: Integrated Product and Process Design File #1798.1 Enterprise Resource Planning 5110: Enterprise Resource Planning Systems Design and Implementation File #701.1 Geology 4831: Computational Geology File #263.1 Geology 5311: Depositional Systems File #1552.1 Geology 5513: Petroleum Geology File #1317.1 Geology 5621: Advanced Stratigraphy and Basin Evolution File #2027.1 Geology 5741: Micropaleontology File #1836.1 Geophysics 5231: Seismic Data Processing File #1790.1 Geophysics 5782: Environmental and Engineering Geophysics File #745.1 Geophysics 3210: Introduction to Geophysics

  42. Course Changes Requested File #920.6 Information Science & Technology 4654: Web and Digital Media Development File #497.1 Marketing 5310: Digital Marketing and Promotions File #2185.1 Petroleum Engineering 6231: Drilling Optimization File #4175 Petroleum Engineering 6431: Advanced Well Completion Design File #15.1 Petroleum Engineering 6521: Advanced Well Test Analysis File #4195 Philosophy 1130: Introduction to Ethics File #4196 Philosophy 3302: Medieval Philosophy

  43. The Campus Curricula Committee recommends, and makes a motion for, Faculty Senate to approve the CCC report’s DC form and CC form actions • Discussion, Comments or Questions ?

  44. - Informational Only - • Experimental Course Requests File #4184 Aerospace Engineering 6001.TBD: Adaptive Control of Mechanical and Aerospace Systems (co-listed with MechEng 6001 below) File #4159 Aerospace Engineering 6001.TBD: Methods in Orbit Determination File #4193 Electrical Engineering 6001.TBD: Advanced Signal and Power Integrity File #4167 Geology 5001.TBD: Lidar Principles and Application File #4183 Mechanical Engineering 6001.TBD: Adaptive Control of Mechanical and Aerospace Systems

  45. Agenda IV. Reports of Standing and Special Committees A. Curricula, T. Schuman • B. Academic Freedom and Standards, M. FitchC. Information Technology/Computing, T. Vojta NO REPORT • D. Student Affairs, A. Pringle • E. RP&A, M. Fitch

  46. AF&S ReportApril 23, 2015 The AF&S committee unanimously recommends the following minimum BS degree requirements: • Minimum degree credit hours: 120; • Communications:  1 writing intensive course in major OR 2 writing emphasized courses in major; 1 writing intensive course out of major OR 2 writing emphasized courses out of major; • Humanities plus Social Sciences: 21 credit hours (must be content approved by the department and school); • Mathematics and Science: college algebra or higher; may include up to 3 credit hr. of psychology; 18 credit hours; • Minimum cumulative GPA of 2.0

  47. Agenda IV. Reports of Standing and Special Committees A. Curricula, T. Schuman • B. Academic Freedom and Standards, M. FitchC. Information Technology/Computing, T. Vojta - NO REPORT • D. Student Affairs, A. Pringle • E. RP&A, M. Fitch

  48. Agenda IV. Reports of Standing and Special Committees A. Curricula, T. Schuman • B. Academic Freedom and Standards, M. FitchC. Information Technology/Computing, T. Vojta - NO REPORT • D. Student Affairs, A. Pringle • E. RP&A, M. Fitch

  49. Student Affairs Committee Report to Faculty Senate April 23, 2015 Robotics Competition Team Operational Rules The Robotics Competition Team requests that the Faculty Senate approve amendments to their “Operational Rules,” which they also call their Constitution. The current constitution (operational rules) is available here: Robotics Competition Team Operational Rules.docx The proposed amendments are available here: RCT Constitution Amendments.docx

  50. Agenda IV. Reports of Standing and Special Committees A. Curricula, T. Schuman • B. Academic Freedom and Standards, M. FitchC. Information Technology/Computing, T. Vojta • D. Student Affairs, A. Pringle • E. RP&A, M. Fitch

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