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Provost Report

Provost Report. Dr. Robert Marley Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor or Academic Affairs Sept. 17, 2015. Strategic Initiative Funding. State of the University will detail FY16 funding. State performance funding: FY14 - state approved 3% FY15 - state approved 5%

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Provost Report

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  1. Provost Report Dr. Robert Marley Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor or Academic Affairs Sept. 17, 2015

  2. Strategic Initiative Funding State of the University will detail FY16 funding State performance funding: FY14 - state approved 3% FY15 - state approved 5% FY16 - state approved 1.3% * Additional state funding: Experimental Mine building $1.2 million Schrenk Hall $12.1 million

  3. Goal to add at least 100 additional faculty by 2020, many in Signature Areas • We hired 25 new faculty last year • We are in the process of hiring 8 additional faculty and planning an additional 12-14 2020 GOAL PLANNED SEARCHES 2015-16 ACTIVE SEARCHES ADDITIONAL HIRES 2014-15

  4. Net Changes 2012 Faculty Number of T/TT faculty - 285 Number of women T/TT faculty - 56 Number of ranked NTT faculty - 41 2014 Faculty Number of T/TT faculty - 296 Number of women T/TT faculty - 63 Number of ranked NTT faculty - 46 Numbers take into account any faculty who retires, accepted another position etc. Does not demonstrate new faculty lines

  5. New Faculty Lines in 2014-15 Number of T/TT – 19 Number of NTT – 6

  6. New Faculty Lines - Searches Active Searches Civil Engineering Psychological Science Mechanical Engineering Advanced Manufacturing Advanced Materials Smart Living Smart Living Smart Living Planned Searches Joint MU Joint MU National Academy Stature for Advanced Manufacturing National Academy Stature for Advanced Materials for Sustainable Infrastructure National Academy Stature for Enabling Materials for Extreme Environments $900,000 for 7-9 new faculty lines 8 Active Searches 12-14 Planned Searches

  7. New base “bumps” for promotion (FY17) $3K - $5K associate/tenure $4K - $10K full professor FY15-16 (base) 1.5% merit pool $230K additional market/merit Academic unit award Post-tenure excellence award (base) $100K pool (criteria to be developed) National Awards of Distinction (base) $25K pool (criteria to be developed) NTT promotion “bumps” Individual retention offers Faculty Retention Efforts

  8. Administration Headcount Executive/Administrator/Manager 2012 – 132 2013 – 151 2014 – 166 Examples of Administrators hired since 2012: Student Support Services (7) IT (14)

  9. Retiree Medical Study Objectives • Ensure retirees and university are getting the most for their dollar • Affordable, accessible retiree medical plans are now available in the market • Taking advantage of options such as Medicare subsidies could lower costs • Ensure university can continue insurance benefits (medical, dental, life) for current retirees • By 2019, the liability for current and future retiree medical benefits will be over $1 billion, increasing to $4.5 billion in 30 years • Recent finalized Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) ruling means the university will need to begin fund the liability • This is additional money that will increase the benefit rate

  10. Retiree Medical Study Objectives • This has nothing to do with the Retirement Plan – only the medical benefits plan for future retirees • They are going out to bid and find new better plans for current retirees medical benefit plans and those will be in place January 2017 which will lower their costs • No change on current retirees • Total Rewards Advisory Committee will be working to decide what, when and how is the best way to go forward with who will still receive medical benefits when they retire and when it will be cut off • They will give no less than two years notice • They will provide experts to walk you through one on one on how it affects your pension • They understand this is a big decision they are making and is extremely emotional

  11. Division Updates

  12. College of Arts, Sciences, and Business • Yinfa Ma (Chemistry) has been issued a patent for his method and apparatus for cancer screening • Gerald Cohen (Arts, Languages, and Philosophy) was the first recipient of the Frederic G. Cassidy Award for Distinguished Achievement in Lexicography or Lexicology • Amber Henslee(Psychological Science) and Eric Bryan (English and Technical Communication) will participate in the CASB Summer e-Fellows program, a new pilot program within the College • Jeanne Stanley (Arts, Languages, and Philosophy) is producing and directing a production of Good Kids, a play about sexual assault that will increase campus awareness and participation in bystander intervention practices • John McManus (History and Political Science) has received an NEH grant for $50,400 for his project titled, “The U.S. Army in the Pacific/Asia Theater in World War II”

  13. College of Arts, Sciences, and Business • New department chairs: • Shannon Fogg, History and Political Science • Yue-Wern Huang, Interim, Biological Sciences • Susan Murray, Interim, Psychological Science • LTC Otis Register, Military Science – Army • Lt. Col. William Bragg, Aerospace Studies – Air Force

  14. College of Engineering and Computing • Suzie Long is now the interim chair of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering • Doug Carroll is now the acting chair of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering • Final ABET reports for the Engineering and Computing programs have been received. Missouri S&T was the largest program review of any U.S. institution in the last year. All our programs were reaccredited

  15. Office of Undergraduate Studies • Service Learning Symposium • September 29, 2015 – St. Pat’s A&B – 8:00am-2:00pm – Breakfast & Lunch • Keynote Speaker: Dr. S. David Mitchell, Associate Professor of Law, UMC • His research focuses primarily on the collateral consequences that attach upon conviction, specifically the impact of such laws on the African-American community and the legal obstacles that prevent ex-offenders from successfully reintegrating back into society.  • Speakers: Faculty, Staff, Students and Community Partners • Math Assistance where Success Happens (MASH) • Supplemental optional program with trained peer mentors working with small learning groups outside of class • 162 students signed up to participate in Fall 2015 • 11 hourly sessions held weekly starting September 8

  16. Office of Graduate Studies • Graduate Degrees Awarded: • Graduate Learning Outcomes (GLO): • Establishing a standardized rubric to be used during M.S Thesis Defense, Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam, and Ph.D. Final Defense. • Enables us to complete a campus evaluation, rather than only department-specific evaluations, on how our students are developing in relation to the four GLO criteria. • Imperative to Higher Learning Commission (HLC) accreditation • New Graduate Student Orientation Sept. 2: 94 students in attendance • Thesis/Dissertation Boot Camp: • Sept. 11-18, 2015: 20 students registered - FULL • Nov. 6-13, 2015: 10 students registered; only 10 more spots available • Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition coming Fall 2015 for graduate students

  17. Enrollment Management • 8,738 – Total enrollment at the end of 1st week of classes. Project 8,900 by 4th week • 1,490 – First-time college (passed 1981 record of 1,488) • 429 – New transfer students • 494 – New graduate students • New record high numbers for total enrollment, first-time college, Hispanic, Asian-American, underrepresented minority, and female students • Upcoming events: • Saturday, September 26 – Open House • Wednesday, October 7 – Majors and Minors

  18. Office of Sponsored Programs • Summary of FY15 activities year-to-date (June) • Number of funded proposals down 14% for a total of 225 • Total dollars is $30.3M which is up 17% • Number of new proposals submitted is up 10% at 543 • Total dollars is $179M which is up 55% • Number of active awards is down by 8% at 566 • Total expenditures is $40.3M which is down 8% • Net grant and contract expenditures is $33.4M which is down 10% • F&A recovered is $6.5M which is down 12%

  19. Curtis Laws Wilson Library Construction on new café has started • Slated to end 10/21 • Construction 10 pm – 8 am • No change to entrances or hours August Upgrade to Inter-Library Loan service Numbers are encouraging. August, 2015: • 237 article requests • 95% fill rate of articles • 11.5 hours, turn-around time* (*clock starts when the article is sourced and stops when PDF is delivered to S&T)

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