faculty senate meeting february 18, 2010

Faculty Senate Meeting

February 18, 2010

Agenda

I. Call to Order and Roll Call

N. Book, SecretaryII. Approval of January 21, 2010 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


II. Approval of January 21, 2010 meeting minutes http://facultysenate.mst.edu/documents/FS.Minutes.01.21.10.pdf



V. Old Business

VI. New Business and Announcements

VII. Adjourn

http://facultysenate.mst.edu/documents/FS.Minutes.01.21.10.pdf

Agenda

I. Call to Order and Roll CallII. Approval of January 21, 2010 meeting minutesIII. Campus Reports and Responses

A. President’s Report M. SchulzB. Administrative Report

J.Carney/B.SchwartzC. Staff Council Report W. JadwinD. Student Council P. VossE. Council of Grad. Students R. Akella

IV. Reports of Standing and Special CommitteesV. Old BusinessVI. New Business and AnnouncementsVII. Adjourn

President's Report

BOC meeting on S&T campus on April 15 and 16. FS will probably host luncheon on Thursday (instead of breakfast). Presentation by Jerri Arnold-Cook (AA office) on Student Leadership Development

Budget: no indication for withholdings, cautious optimism that Governor will honor deal with UM. But still significant concern especially about FY 12.

Benefits survey now open Bylaws changes approved by BOC at January meeting

President's Report

Minor degree for students in corporative engineering program at MSU: allow those students to get MSU minor?

From IFC: other campuses are pushing for possibility to include non-married living partners in benefits plan. Alternative that is used at other institutions: Employee+1. Allows to include the employee plus one additional person living in your household in benefits plan. Referred to Personnel Committee.

Agenda



J.Carney/K. WrayC. Staff Council Report W. JadwinD. Student Council P. VossE. Council of Grad. Students R. Akella


Faculty Senate ReportWarren 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

An equal opportunity institution

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].

http://edtech.mst.edu/

http://google.cc.ucf.edu/search?q=cache:weck4bAz9C0J:www.orbit.ucf.edu/briefing/HartmanBio.pdf+Hartman,+Joel&site=UCF_Main&client=UCF_Main&access=p&ie=UTF-8&proxystylesheet=UCF_Main&output=xml_no_dtd&oe=UTF-8

http://itr.ucf.edu/

http://ugs.mst.edu/ugrc.html

mailto:[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].

Agenda



J.Carney/B.SchwartzC. Staff Council Report W. JadwinD. Student Council P. VossE. Council of Grad. Students R. Akella


Staff Council•Staff Day Preparations

-received cash and verbal pledges to help support Staff Excellence Awards

•Human Resource Services Employee Development Advisory Committee

•Pilot Program-March 1st thru May 28th

-determine if e-learning can be a valuable resource for training and professional development

•Haiti Relief Donations = $175

Agenda


A. President’s Report M. SchulzB. Administrative Report K. WrayC. Staff Council Report W. JadwinD. Student Council P. VossE. Council of Grad. Students R. Akella


Student Council Report

Student Body President Campaigning Dead Week Policy

Agenda


A. President’s Report M. SchulzB. Administrative Report K. WrayC. Staff Council Report W. JadwinD. Student Council P. VossE. Council of Grad. Students R. Akella


Council of Graduate Students

Suhas Nerella- on behalf of Ravi Akella Graduate Research Showcase will be held as a

part of Graduate studies week during April 12- April 16, 2010

We are working with Graduate student council at Mizzou in co-organizing this event.

Working with Office of Graduate Studies in organizing chat sessions for prospective students to S&T.

CGS News letter for FY 2009-10 will be released in March 2010.

Agenda


IV. Reports of Standing and Special CommitteesA. RP&A G. Gelles

B. Curricula K. NisbettC. Public Occasions D. WestenbergD. Budgetary Affairs B. HaleE. Administrative Review S.N.

BalakrishnanF. Ad-Hoc Teaching Evaluation K. KosbarG. Academic Freedom and Standards L. Haynes

V. Old BusinessVI. New Business and AnnouncementsVII. Adjourn

RP&A

Conflict of Interest Committee

There is presently a vacancy on the Conflict of Interest Committee as a result of Dr. Don Myers passing away. RP&A is nominating Professor Wayne Huebner for the vacant position. Members of the Faculty Senate may nominate others for this position.

RP&A Referral to Budgetary Affairs

It has been reported that President Forsee has considered the possibility of UM-System campuses offering a 2% raise for faculty and staff for the next year. In light of this, RP&A passed a resolution that refers to the Budgetary Affairs Committee the task of studying potential impacts of a 2% salary raise for S&T employees for the upcoming year.

RP&A

RP&A

Referral to Academic Freedom and Standards Committee (AFSC)

Common Exams

It was brought to the attention of RP&A that common exams administered during the semester could create conflicts with regularly-scheduled evening classes. The potential conflicts may not be detected when students register for the evening classes so students may have to schedule alternative test times or the instructors of the evening classes may have to allow excused absences. RP&A passed a resolution to refer this matter to the Academic Freedom and Standards Committee for consideration and report.

RP&A

Referral to Student Affairs Committee

Student Organizations RP&A passed a motion to refer to the Student Affairs Committee the task of evaluating and reporting on the present approval process for a student organization to be officially recognized.

RP&A

Referral to Personnel Committee

“Employee + 1” Concept

Professor Isaac indicated that there was a discussion at IFC concerning the “Employee + 1” concept in which an employee of he UM-System would be able to designate one person to include in their benefits program. A motion was passed at RP&A to refer the issue to the Personnel Committee for consideration and report.

Agenda






Curricula Committee Report

Feb. 18 , 2010

The Curricula Committee recommends approval of the DCs and CCs in the distributed. It includes:» 1 Degree Change (DC) form

– Curriculum changes to BA in History

» 7 Course Change (CC) forms» 3 Experimental Course (EC) forms

(informational only)

Agenda






FALL SEMESTER 2011

International Student Orientation August 9, TuesdayFreshman Orientation Begins August 14, SundayTransfer Student Orientation August 18, ThursdayOpen Registration Ends August 21, SundayFall semester opens 8:00 a.m. August 22, MondayClasswork begins 8:00 a.m. August 22, MondayLabor Day Holiday September 5, MondayMid-Semester October 15, SaturdayThanksgiving vacation begins 8:00 a.m. November 20, SundayThanksgiving vacation ends 8:00 a.m. November 28, MondayLast Class Day December 9, FridayFinal Examinations begin 8:00 a.m. December 12, MondayFinal Examinations end 6:00 p.m. December 16, FridayFall Semester closes 6:00 p.m. December 16, FridayDecember Commencement December 17, Saturday

International Student Orientation January 3, TuesdayOpen Registration Ends January 8, SundaySpring semester opens 8:00 a.m. January 9, MondayClasswork begins 8:00 a.m. January 9, MondayMartin Luther King, Jr. Recognition Holiday January 16, MondayMid-Semester March 3, SaturdaySpring Recess begins 8:00 a.m. March 15, ThursdaySpring Recess ends 8:00 a.m. March 19, MondaySpring Break begins 8:00 a.m. March 25, SundaySpring Break ends 8:00 a.m. April 2, MondayLast Class Day April 27, FridayFinal Examinations begin 8:00 a.m. April 30, MondayFinal Examinations end 6:00 p.m. May 4, FridaySpring Semester closes 6:00 p.m. May 4, FridayMay Commencement – Graduate Ceremony May 4, FridayMay Commencement - Undergraduate Ceremony May 5, Saturday

SPRING SEMESTER 2012

Open Registration Ends June 3, SundaySummer session opens 8:00 a.m. June 4, MondayClasswork begins 8:00 a.m. June 4, MondayIndependence Day Holiday (observed) July 4, WednesdayFinal Examinations begin 8:00 a.m. July 26, ThursdayFinal Examinations end 12:30 p.m. July 27, FridaySummer Sessions closes 12:30 p.m. July 27, Friday

CLASS SESSIONS (EXCLUDING FINAL EXAMINATIONS)M TU W TH F S

Fall Semester 14 15 15 15 15 14

Spring Semester 14 15 15 14 14 14

Summer Semester 8 8 7 8 8 7

SUMMER SEMESTER 2012

AgendaI. Call to Order and Roll CallII. Approval of January 21, 2010 meeting minutesIII. Campus Reports and Responses





Budgetary Affairs

Agenda






Administrative Review Committee

Report

Status Report: The following administrators have been selected for review this year:

VP Allada, VP Krishnamurthy, VC Robinson,

VP Schwartz, and Dean Goff The surveys will be administered anonymously through Blackboard

involving all T/TT faculty. Numerical results will be available to the T/TT faculty. Written comments go the administrator reviewed and their direct supervisor.

Self-assessments have been requested from each administrator and information from four of the five administrators have been received.

Administrative Review Committee

Report…

The surveys will be available shortly –the Blackboard site is expected to be ready by next week – and then the faculty will have two weeks to complete the surveys.

Information from last year: We had approximately 75 respondents (about 25% of T/TT faculty) of which only 6 were paper surveys (faculty were given a choice between paper and electronic).

PLEASE complete the surveys.

Agenda






Faculty Senate Committee Report 2/18/2010

Ad Hoc Committee for Teaching Evaluations

Electronic Evaluation Pilot:

Purpose and Setup

Phase I of a pilot program to test the feasibility of electronic teaching evaluations is complete.

• 9 faculty with 12 undergraduate class sections participated in Fall 2009.

• Class size 21-190. • Included upper and lower level courses in a

variety of disciplines.


Process Evaluations were created using Qualtrics, an

online survey tool. Students received an email including a link to

the evaluation survey. The survey was opened to students on

December 2, and remained open until the last class day in December 2009 (almost two weeks).

Students completed the survey on their own time.

Instructors received a Word document summarizing results and listing written student comments.

Electronic Evaluation Pilot:Response Rates

• There was an expectation of significantly lower response rates if electronic evaluations were used.

• Response rates for sections in the pilot ranged from 52-100%.

• The average response rate for sections in the pilot was 69%.

• As per the CET, response rates in the recent past using paper forms is about 70-74%.

• Self-reported response rates from participating instructors were comparable to their usual rates for the same courses.


Participant Feedback

Feedback was requested from participants. 6 of 9 instructors and 127 of 599 students responded between 2/8 and 2/11, with the following results.

• Student confidence in privacy: 89% same or higher (65% same, 24% higher) than with paper

• Student confidence in accuracy: 90% same or higher (57% same, 33% higher) than with paper

• Student willingness to switch to electronic: 93% willing (69% prefer electronic, 24% no preference)

• Instructor willingness to switch to electronic: 100% willing (83% prefer electronic, 17% no preference)


Student Feedback

• Easier to do this on my own time• No pressure to complete evaluation in a certain

time period• Saves paper• Can be more thoughtful and thorough with

comments• Good that it does not take up class time


Instructor Feedback

• More and better quality student comments• Easier to read, no handwriting issues or privacy

concerns• Does not use class time• Much easier administratively


Future Plans

Phase II of the pilot will be implemented this semester. An in-house evaluation will be developed through IT

instead of the Qualtrics tool. The question of participant eligibility for teaching

awards will be discussed with the CET. Faculty interested in participating should contact

Steph Fitch at [email protected]. Participation may be limited.

mailto:[email protected]

Agenda






Agenda


II. Approval of January 21, 2010 meeting minutes



V. Old BusinessVI. New Business and Announcements

VII. Adjourn

Agenda

I. Call to Order and Roll CallII. Approval of November 19, 2009 meeting minutesIII. Campus Reports and ResponsesIV. Reports of Standing and Special CommitteesV. Old Business

VI. New Business and AnnouncementsVII. Adjourn

Agenda

I. Call to Order and Roll CallII. Approval of November 19, 2009 meeting minutesIII. Campus Reports and ResponsesIV. Reports of Standing and Special CommitteesV. Old BusinessVI. New Business and Announcements

VII. Adjourn

faculty senate meeting february 18, 2010

Documents

campus reports

meeting minutesiii

special committeesv

new business

staff council report

campus departments

st campus

roll callii