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Faculty Senate Report. Warren K. Wray Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs February 18, 2010. Office of Academic Affairs. Curriculum MS in Explosives Engineering was approved by the Board of Curators at the January meeting. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Faculty Senate Report
Warren K. Wray
Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
February 18, 2010
• Curriculum– MS in Explosives Engineering was approved by
the Board of Curators at the January meeting.– Special program – Sustainability Minor – election
completed; committee formed to develop proposal
• Faculty Activities– Third year review process (14 faculty members)
initiated.– Successful awards banquet completed; meeting
scheduled to review opportunities to improve banquet and process.
Office of Academic Affairs
SP2008 SP2009 SP2010
On Campus:
Close of Registration 4,995 5,177 5,632 455 8.8%
End of First Week 5,077 5,274 5,750 476 9.0%
End of Second Week 5,115 5,348 5,809 461 8.6%
End of Third Week 5,113 5,361 5,813 452 8.4%
End of Fourth Week 5,118 5,360 5,819 459 8.6%
Engineering Education Center:
Close of Registration 96 97 103 6 6.2%
End of First Week 103 104 109 5 4.8%
End of Second Week 102 107 110 3 2.8%
End of Third Week 103 105 110 5 4.8%
End of Fourth Week 103 105 112 7 6.7%
Distance Education:
Close of Registration 440 402 447 45 11.2%
End of First Week 462 440 478 38 8.6%
End of Second Week 457 449 490 41 9.1%
End of Third Week 461 453 492 39 8.6%
End of Fourth Week 457 453 565 112 24.7%
TOTAL:
Close of Registration 5,531 5,676 6,182 506 8.9% *
End of First Week 5,642 5,818 6,337 519 8.9%
End of Second Week 5,674 5,904 6,409 505 8.6%
End of Third Week 5,677 5,919 6,415 496 8.4%
End of Fourth Week 5,678 5,918 6,496 578 9.8%
* SP2010 Includes 3 additional days due to close of registration date extension
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Change
Enrollment StatisticsSpring Semester 2010
February 9, 2010
Office of the Registrar • 103 Parker Hall • 300 West 13th Street • Rolla, MO 65409-0930
Phone: 573-341-4181 • Fax: 573-341-4362 • Email: [email protected] • Web: http://registrar.mst.edu
Global Learning
Missouri S&T’s Distance and Continuing Education works with professional societies and campus departments to promote and organize conferences and courses.
Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering teamed with the Association of State Dam Safety Officials to schedule technical seminars:
Kentucky – October, 2009Louisiana – February, 2010California – March, 2010North Carolina – June, 2010
Global Learning
• The production of international conferences is also bring more exposure to S&T. The two most recent are:
The Sixth International Phytotechnologies Conference,
St. Louis, Missouri, December 1 – 4, 2009, organized by Joel Burken
Fifth International Conference on Recent Advances in
Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics,
May 24-29, 2010, San Diego, California organized by Shamsher Prakash
• Launched the Council of Graduate Students Grad Chat session for prospective/admitted students
• Targeted 3204 prospective International students (using GRE name search) for webinar sessions.
Office of Graduate Studies
International Affairs• Study Abroad
– To Missouri S&T• 7 Exchange students from Hong Kong, Italy, Singapore, France
& Germany– From Missouri S&T
• 6 Exchange students - 2 in Spain & 4 in Hong Kong• 3 students on Missouri-London Program• In January 2010, 19 students participated in short-term study
abroad or experiential learning programs in Bolivia & Guatemala
• Linkage Agreements – Memorandum of Understanding was signed with Central University
of Technology (Bloemfontein, South Africa)
Office of Sponsored Programs
• FY10 activities through January and a year-over-year comparison are as follows:
– Proposals awarded in total dollars: $35.5M (up 12.3%)
– Number of proposals awarded and amendments: 198 (down 14.7%)
– Proposals submitted in total dollars: $97.4M (up 8%)
– Number of proposals submitted: 294 (down 8.4%)
– Research expenditures: $27.7M (up 21.7%)
– F&A recovered: $4.3M (up 10.7%)
– Number of active awards: 612 (up 0.5%)
Congratulations to …• Joshua Rovey, selected to receive AFOSR Young Investigator Research
Program award, “Energy Conversion and Loss Processes in Heavy Gas, Field-Reversed Configuration Electric Thruster Plasma,” $360,000
• Maciej Zawodniok, selected to receive NSF CAREER award, ”Back- scatter Propagation-based Multi-hop Networks for Battery-less Devices,” $400,000
• James Stoffer, Eric Morris and Scott Hayes,1 “Corrosion Resistant Coatings Containing Carbon,” US Patent 7,601,425
• Kent Peaslee, David Robertson and Lifeng Zhang, “Continuous Steel Production and Apparatus,” US Patent 7,618,582
• Shi Zhang, Gregory Hilmas and William Fahrenholtz, “Reaction Sintered Zirconium Carbide/Tungsten Composite Bodies and a Method of Making the Same,” US Patent 7,648,675
-----1 Late Drs. Thomas O’Keefe and Pu Yu are also co-inventors on this patent
Office of Undergraduate Studies
3rd Annual Teaching and Learning Technology Conference, http://edtech.mst.eduMarch 11-12 “Cyberlearning” sponsored by EdTech with CERTI assisting. Keynote is Dr. Joel Hartman, Vice Provost for Information Technologies and Resources, University of Central Florida. Hartman has been instrumental in leading UCF in online and blended learning.
6th Annual Undergraduate Research Conference, http://ugs.mst.edu/ugrc.htmlWednesday, April 7 students will showcase research efforts. Registration deadline is March 16. Interested in serving as a faculty judge? Please e-mail Melissa Hutton at [email protected].
Office of Undergraduate Studies
Teacher Education Program: Feb. 1, we welcomed
Dr. Jana Neiss, Director of Teacher Education. Neiss served Drury University’s Rolla campus from 1995-2008 and as director of the St. Robert, Ft. Leonard Wood, and Rolla campuses since 2008. Neiss earned her doctorate from the University of Missouri, master's from Pittsburg State University, and bachelor's from Ozark Bible College and can be reached at x4692.
Office of Undergraduate Studies: Jan. 11, we welcomed
Gayatri Bhatt, Assistant to the Vice Provost. Since 2005, Bhatt served UMKC Foundation and the School of Education impacting millions in private support and a record alumni participation rate. Bhatt earned her bachelor’s from Missouri S&T and master’s in Higher Education Administration from UMKC and can be reached at x7600 or [email protected].
