Faculty Senate Meeting September 16, 2010

Faculty Senate Meeting

September 16, 2010

AgendaI. Call to Order and Roll Call

- James Martin, SecretaryII. Approval of June 17, 2010 meeting minutesIII. Campus Reports and ResponsesIV. Reports of Standing and Special CommitteesV. Old BusinessVI. New Business and AnnouncementsVII. Adjourn


- James Martin, SecretaryII. Approval of June 17, 2010 meeting minutes

http://facultysenate.mst.edu/documents/fsminutes/FS.Minutes.06.17.10.pdf

III. Campus Reports and ResponsesIV. Reports of Standing and Special CommitteesV. Old BusinessVI. New Business and AnnouncementsVII. Adjourn

http://facultysenate.mst.edu/documents/fsminutes/FS.Minutes.06.17.10.pdf



AgendaCampus Reports and Responses

A. President’s Report K.M. IsaacB. Administrative Report J. CarneyC. Administrative Report K. WrayD. Staff Council Report J. SingletonE. Student Council M. SchwartzF. Council of Graduate Students V. Gandikota

President’s Report

Michael Schulz Resolution

Whereas Professor Michael Schulz has served the Missouri University of Science & Technology Faculty Senate since 2007 as Parliamentarian, President-Elect, and President;

Whereas, as an Officer of the Faculty Senate, Professor Schulz has demonstrated hard work, good judgment, and vigilance in these positions;

Whereas, Professor Schulz 's leadership skills have helped the campus navigate through difficult budgetary crises;

Whereas Professor Schulz has been a tireless champion of shared governance and the university’s primary mission;

Be it resolved that the Faculty Senate of the Missouri University of Science & Technology does hereby sincerely thank Professor Schulz for many jobs well done and wish him continued success in his future endeavors.

Adopted this 16th day of September, 2010, at the meeting of the Missouri University of Science & Technology Faculty Senate.


A. FS Items for 2010-2011• Shared governance• Budget• Benefits• Service• Transformation of Higher Education

B. Benefits

• Vice President Betsy Rodriguez met with S&T faculty Wed., Sep. 8.

• She summarized the results of the Benefits survey


C. IFC Retreat August 18,19, 2010

Information Technology• Centralizing back office operations• Security and compliance• Cloud computing


C. IFC Retreat August 18,19, 2010 (cont’d)

• Summer on par with the Fall and Spring• Veteran-friendly campuses• Text book payments• Faculty awards (system)

• Innovative teaching award• Excellence award (early career, sustained excellence)• Faculty Engagement award (Comm., Cross-cultural)• Intercampus Collaboration award• University Citizenship award (leadership, service,

mentoring)• Economic Development award


C. IFC Retreat August 18,19, 2010 (cont’d)

• Emeritus title for professional tracks• Academic integrity• Promotion to professor criteria

D. Governor’s Higher Education Summit

3 One-hour Presentations

• Linda Luebbering, State budget director• Carol Twigg, National Center for Academic

Transformation• Dewayne Matthews, Lumina Foundation for Education




Faculty Senate

2010 Incoming Freshmen

John F. Carney III

September 16, 2010

Miner Recreation Building

Kummer Student Design CenterConstruction

Kummer Student Design Center

Construction ScheduleBegan construction in June 2010Completion in December 2010

Indoor Practice Facility

Construction ScheduleBegan construction in May 2010Completion in September 2010

Indoor Practice Facility

Innovation ParkConstruction

Innovation ParkTechnology Development Center

10th Street

Construction ScheduleBegan construction in April 2010Completion in November 2010



Faculty Senate Report

Warren K. WrayProvost and Executive Vice

Chancellor for Academic Affairs

September 16, 2010

• Strategic and Tactical Planning Activities– Open forum tentatively scheduled for September 27 at 4 pm

for presentation by Blue Sky Task Force on their findings.

• Curriculum and Accreditation− Reviewed and submitted Interim reports from five

engineering programs to ABET. Report on accreditation status of these programs expected during October.

− Completed review of draft proposal for MS in I/O Psychology.

− Reviewed preliminary proposal for ME in Military Geological Engineering.

Office of Academic Affairs

• External Partnerships− Members of the Corporate Relations Team are planning a

trip to Huntsville, AL to build strategic partnerships with corporations located in that area.

− Corporate Development Council (CDC) meeting scheduled for September 20.

• Faculty Activities– Faculty Excellence award nominations due September 17.

• Other– Submitted report on President Forsee’s initiative on “Outside-

In” (the role of UM in meeting employer needs within the state and region)

Office of Academic Affairs

Engineering Education Center:• Departments are using 18 courses from the

Engineering Education Center in St. Louis to supplement their Rolla course offerings. Two of these 18 serve only on campus students with one being an undergraduate class of over 50 students.

Distance and Continuing Education:• General Motors has requested nine Professional

Development non-credit courses to be delivered online to begin October 2010.

Global Learning

Global LearningVideo Communications Center:• S&T has a .75 FTE video production specialist

at the EEC in St. Louis to assist faculty that teach their courses from the St. Louis facility.

• Three video classrooms have been converted to High Definition video. The rooms are located in Fulton 107, Electrical Engineering 239 and the Library and deliver a much improved image to distance students.

• Met the FS2010 graduate enrollment goal• Communication mapping (internal and external

graduate application/admit communications) project completed

• Thirty-six thesis/dissertation formatting checks completed for graduating students during the summer and inter-session period

• Chancellor's Fellows Welcome Reception- 9/10/10

Office of Graduate Studies

• Graduate Certificate in Safety Engineering submitted and will likely be approved on Sept 9th, 2010

• E-Graduate Orientation page is now up and running: http://grad.mst.edu/currentstudents/VirtualOrientation.html

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Office of Graduate Studies

http://grad.mst.edu/currentstudents/VirtualOrientation.html

http://grad.mst.edu/currentstudents/VirtualOrientation.html

International AffairsCelebration of Nations - Rolla’s first celebration is scheduled for October 9th, with the Parade of Nations kicking off at 11 am from the Havener Center.

Banners will be hung around town, in the downtown area and around the band shell.

Donations from local businesses are coming in. A sample passport has been printed as a school outreach

incentive with businesses expressing interest in sponsoring the cost of printing.

The International Student Club created a website for sign-ups; the Communications department is developing a blog website - nations.mst.edu for future use in electronic communications.

Office of Sponsored Programs• FY10 activities and a year-over-year comparison are as

follows:– Proposals awarded in total dollars: $52.3M (up 22.8%)– Number of proposals awarded and amendments: 327

(down 10.2%)– Proposals submitted in total dollars: $259.1M (up 43.9%)– Number of proposals submitted: 528 (down 6.9%)– Research expenditures: $44.7M (up 17.4%)– F&A recovered: $7.7M (up 10.1%)– Number of active awards: 614 (down 1.3%)

• New all-time highs for proposals awarded and submitted in total dollars, expenditures and F&A recovered

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Disclosures Received Patent Applications Filed Patents Issued

License/Options Signed Licensing Income

Technology Transfer Performance

Office of Undergraduate StudiesCERTI

ClickersTwenty-eight faculty members are using clickers this Fall, with 3,264 students enrolled in classes that are using clickers, as of Sept. 1, 2010.

Curator’s Teaching SummitAll instructors are invited to the Curators’ Teaching Summit luncheon series this Fall, sponsored by the Center for Educational Research and Teaching Innovation (CERTI).This year’s topic is “Balancing Teaching and Research” and will be held from noon-1 p.m. on three Mondays this semester: Sept. 20, Oct. 18 and Nov. 15. The location is St. Pat’s Ballroom C.The first session on Sept. 20 will be a Q&A discussion with questions from the audience. Lunch is provided and reservations are necessary. Please contact Diane Hagni at [email protected] by Sept. 14 to reserve your spot.

NEW Comprehensive CalendarSeveral offices on campus collaborated this summer to provide a comprehensive calendar of events for faculty this semester. Activities hosted by Academic Affairs, the Advising Office, CERTI, Educational Technology, New Faculty Programs and the Office of Sponsored Programs are included on this calendar to help faculty in their Fall planning. You can go here to find it online: http://certi.mst.edu/events.html.

mailto:[email protected]

http://certi.mst.edu/events.html

Freshmen Engineering As of September 1 there are 1,780 Freshmen Engineers in our files that we are trying to mentor and guide. Drs. Cawlfield and Miller have 10 sections of FE10 students with over 110 students in most of those sections.

Student Design & Experiential Learning CenterHuman Powered Vehicle

A team of Missouri S&T students will be racing this month in an effort to set the land speed record for colligate men’s and women’s human powered vehicle racing at Battle Mountain, Nevada. This team is under the direction of Dr. Keith Nisbett and part of the Student Design and Experiential Learning Center.

New Construction!Construction is underway for the new Kummer Student Design Center with a target completion of early January, 2011.

Steel Bridge Team – New AdvisorTim Philpot, associate professor of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, has recently accepted the role of Steel Bridge Team main advisor joining the Student Design and Experiential Learning Center team of advisors.

Office of Undergraduate Studies

Office of Undergraduate StudiesUndergraduate Advising OfficeNew Advising Center Director

Aug. 2, we welcomed Anna I. Gaw, Director of Academic Advising. Gaw has over 10 years of advising experience, primarily from Spring Hill College in Mobile, AL and earned her second master’s degree in Liberal Arts. Gaw also holds a master’s in Education from Kansas State University and bachelor’s from University of Missouri. She is happy to be back in her home state, looks forward to enjoying the great outdoors of the Ozark region and can be reached at x4735 or [email protected].

The Academic Alert System Presented by: Dr. Harvest L. Collier, Office of Undergraduate StudiesMonday, September 13 Noon – 1:30pm in Havener Center - Missouri/Ozark roomLearn about the updated system and how it supports student academic success.

LEADLEAD offers walk-in peer tutoring in 29 foundational courses. Collaborative learning centers ran by 49 faculty as office hours in 35 courses from Elementary Russian and Financial Accounting to Digital Circuit Design and Introductory Quantum Chemistry.

New Learning Centers added to LEAD portfolio - Real-Time Digital Signal Processing (CpE 342) - Nuclear Fuel Cycle (NucE 307) - General Genetics (Bio 231)

New LEAD tutoring in - Statics (IDE 50) & Mechanics of Materials (IDE 110) - Intro Differential Equations (Math 204, starts week 4



Staff Council Report



Student Council Report



Council of Graduate Students

Vishwanath Gandikota09/16/2010

Council of Graduate Students

• Worked with Office of Graduate Studies in organizing webinars and pre-departure orientation for incoming students.

• CGS participated in the International Student Orientation program.

• Energy awareness campaign.• CGS held its first general meeting for the semester

on August 18th 2010.• Number of department representatives increased to

20 and CGS is serving on all the FS committees.


- James Martin, SecretaryII. Approval of June 17, 2010 meeting minutesIII. Campus Reports and ResponsesIV. Reports of Standing and Special Committees

A. RP&AB. CurriculaC. ITCCD. Personnel

V. Old BusinessVI. New Business and AnnouncementsVII. Adjourn

RP&A

Defined Benefits vs Defined Contributions

Referral: The Personnel Committee is asked to explicate the ramifications of defined benefits versus defined contributions plans

A straw poll was conducted with an overwhelming majority for DB

Profs. Davis, Isaac, and Schulz will participate in discussions on this issue at the upcoming Inter-Faculty Council meeting

RP&A

Emergency access to electronic records

With input from ITCC, RP&A proposes the following amendment to the motion of ITCC:

The campus faculty representative providing signature of approval should be the President of Faculty Senate, or if he/she is unavailable the Past President, or if he/she is unavailable the President Elect.

RP&A

S&T representative to UM Shared Services Oversight Committee. RP&A makes the following motion: “Be it resolved that the Missouri S&T Faculty Senate respectfully requests representation on the UM Shared Services Oversight Committee.”

RP&A

UM System Awards.

A status report on the recommendations of the UM System Awards committee was given at the August, 2010 IFC meeting. This report suggested that in the proposed award structure the relative importance of the traditionally main responsibilities of faculty (scholarly activities and teaching) would be significantly reduced in favor of a greater emphasis on service activities. RP&A makes the following motion: “S&T Faculty Senate moves to have President Isaac convey its recommendation to IFC that the System Awards should be focused on the main responsibilities of the faculty.”

RP&A

Election of Standing Committee members Dr. Potthast was elected to serve on the Intellectual Property Committee, however, he has since left S&T. RP&A nominates Dr. Eun-Soo Park to take his spot on this committee.

Due to the resignation of one of the elected Grievance Review panelists a replacement election had to be conducted. Because of time constraints on an ongoing hearing this was done by e-mail ballot. Dr. Chaman Sabharwal was elected.





Curricula Committee ReportSeptember 16, 2010

The Curricula Committee report includes:» 3 Degree Change (DC) forms

DC0365 – Deletes Bioinformatics Emphasis from Comp. Sci. MS degree

DC0366 – Modifies list of courses for Finance minorDC 0368 – Adds courses to list of depth electives for

CE degree» 27 Course Change (CC) forms

Note that CC 7919, 7920, 7999, and 8000 were added to the report this week.

» 19 Experimental Course (EC) forms (informational only)


The Curricula Committee moves to change the effective date on CC 8000 from Fall 2011 to Spring 2011.


The Curricula Committee moves for the approval of the DCs and CCs in the report.










- James Martin, SecretaryII. Approval of June 17, 2010 meeting minutesIII. Campus Reports and ResponsesIV. Reports of Standing and Special CommitteesV. Old Business

A. Electronic Access PolicyVI. New Business and AnnouncementsVII. Adjourn



Agenda

Adjourn

Documents

Faculty Senate Meeting September 16, 2010