Faculty Senate Meeting April 23, 2015. Agenda I.Call to Order and Roll Call - Barbara Hale,...

Faculty Senate Meeting

April 23, 2015

Agenda

I. Call to Order and Roll Call

- Barbara Hale, SecretaryII. 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

Agenda

I. Call to Order and Roll Call- Barbara Hale, Secretary

II. Approval of March 19, 2015 meeting minutesMeetingMinutes.March19.15



V. Old Business


VII. Adjourn

http://facultysenate.mst.edu/media/campussupport/facultysenate/documents/fsminutes/2015/FS.Minutes.3.19.15_Draft.pdf

Agenda


- Barbara Hale, Secretary

II. Approval of March 19, 2015 meeting minutes



V. Old Business


VII. Adjourn

Agenda


A. President’s Report, M. Bohner

B. 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

President’s ReportFaculty Senate Meeting

April 23, 2015

April 23, 2015 President's Report 6

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.


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.


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.April 23, 2015 President's Report 9

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, Oyebanjo Lajubutu, 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.April 23, 2015 President's Report 10

Panelist Pool• Panelist Pool members had training in

Columbia on April 13/14.• Next training in May, again in Columbia.


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.April 23, 2015 President's Report 12

Agenda




i) Chancellor’s Report, S. Roberts for C. Schrader

ii) Provost’s Report, M. Mormilefor R. Marley

C. Staff Council Report, S. Lewis – NO REPORT


E. Council of Graduate Students, E. Ronchetto

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CHANCELLOR’S REPORT

APRIL 23, 2015

FACULTY SENATE

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 includesclassrooms, laboratories, mine rescue station, computer lab, offices and equipment storage

STRATEGIC PLAN UPDATE

Progress.mst.edu

WOMAN OF THE YEAR

Dr. Dan LinAssistant Professor of Computer Science

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

ELECTION RESULTS

REMMERS SPECIAL ARTIST/LECTURER SERIES

• Dr. Condoleezza Rice66th U.S. Secretary of State

• Thursday, May 14

• 31st presenter in the series

• Tickets available at Castleman Hall

Agenda




i) Chancellor’s Report, S. Roberts for C. Schrader

ii) Provost’s Report, R. Marley

C. Staff Council Report, S. Lewis – NO REPORT



PROVOST’S REPORT

April 23, 2015

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 and add names of those seeking promotion only

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)

• 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.– Akim Adekpedjou (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

• 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.

College of Engineering and Computing

• 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)

Office of Undergraduate 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/.

Office of Graduate Studies

http://grad.mst.edu/services/events/

• 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.

Enrollment Management

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%

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

o adding contento Planning for conference publication (cold formed steel) using peer

review process

• Questions about content? Contact us at [email protected]

Curtis Laws Wilson Library

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C. Staff Council Report, Joe Boehm for

S. Lewis



Location: Havener Center

Date: May 20th 9:00am-

3:00pmFor a more detailed schedule go to http://staffcouncil.mst.edu/staffday

Notes: Please try and use the above disguise to blend inContact your building coordinator or Patti [email protected]. $10 for S-XL, $12 for XXL+

This flyer will self destruct after May 20th

007 Mission: Staff Day

http://staffcouncil.mst.edu/staffday

mailto:[email protected]



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C. Staff Council Report, Joe Boehm for S. Lewis



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C. Staff Council Report, Joe Boehm for S. Lewis


E. Council of Graduate Students, E. Ronchetto – NO REPORT

Agenda


- Barbara Hale, Secretary

II. Approval of February 26, 2015 meeting minutes



V. Old Business


VII. Adjourn

Agenda


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

Campus Curricula Committee Report

23 April 2015

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)


23 April 2015 Degree Changes Requested

» File #153.26 Computer Engineering: Computer Engineering BS» File #64.16 Geology & Geophysics: Geology and Geophysics BS


23 April 2015 Course Changes Requested

File #1272.5 Business 4675: International BusinessFile #507.4 Business 5360: Business OperationsFile #1682.4 Chemistry 2229: Organic Chemistry II LabFile #1825.1 Chemistry 2310: Inorganic Chemistry IFile #4173 Chemistry 2320: Inorganic Chemistry IIFile #1040.1 Chemical Engineering 2100: Chemical Engineering Material & Energy BalancesFile #2041.1 Chemical Engineering 2110: Thermodynamics IFile #466.1 Chemical Engineering 2300: Chemical Process MaterialsFile #1801.1 Chemical Engineering 3100: Chemical Engineering Fluid FlowFile #2306.1 Chemical Engineering 3110: Chemical Engineering Heat TransferFile #436.1 Chemical Engineering 3120: Chemical Engineering ThermodynamicsFile #1526.1 Chemical Engineering 3140: Continuous Mass TransferFile #1606.1 Chemical Engineering 3200: Biochemical SeparationsFile #862.1 Chemical Engineering 4097: Chemical Process DesignFile #1607.1 Chemical Engineering 4210: Biochemical Reactors



File #1880.1 Computer Engineering 6320: Adaptive Dynamic ProgrammingFile #2451.1 Computer Engineering 6510: Resilient NetworksFile #4176 Electrical Engineering 6350: Neural Network Control of Nonlinear

Continuous-time SystemsFile #416.1 Engineering Management 5515: Integrated Product and Process DesignFile #1798.1 Enterprise Resource Planning 5110: Enterprise Resource Planning Systems Design and ImplementationFile #701.1 Geology 4831: Computational GeologyFile #263.1 Geology 5311: Depositional SystemsFile #1552.1 Geology 5513: Petroleum GeologyFile #1317.1 Geology 5621: Advanced Stratigraphy and Basin EvolutionFile #2027.1 Geology 5741: MicropaleontologyFile #1836.1 Geophysics 5231: Seismic Data ProcessingFile #1790.1 Geophysics 5782: Environmental and Engineering GeophysicsFile #745.1 Geophysics 3210: Introduction to Geophysics



File #920.6 Information Science & Technology 4654: Web and Digital Media DevelopmentFile #497.1 Marketing 5310: Digital Marketing and PromotionsFile #2185.1 Petroleum Engineering 6231: Drilling OptimizationFile #4175 Petroleum Engineering 6431: Advanced Well Completion DesignFile #15.1 Petroleum Engineering 6521: Advanced Well Test AnalysisFile #4195 Philosophy 1130: Introduction to EthicsFile #4196 Philosophy 3302: Medieval Philosophy


23 April 2015

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 ?


23 April 2015

- Informational Only - Experimental Course Requests

File #4184 Aerospace Engineering 6001.TBD: Adaptive Control of Mechanical and Aerospace Systems (co-listed with Mech Eng 6001 below)

File #4159 Aerospace Engineering 6001.TBD: Methods in Orbit DeterminationFile #4193 Electrical Engineering 6001.TBD: Advanced Signal and Power IntegrityFile #4167 Geology 5001.TBD: Lidar Principles and ApplicationFile #4183 Mechanical Engineering 6001.TBD: Adaptive Control of Mechanical and Aerospace Systems

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B. Academic Freedom and Standards, M. Fitch

C. Information Technology/Computing, T. Vojta

NO REPORT


E. RP&A, M. Fitch

AF&S ReportApril 23, 2015

The AF&S committee unanimously recommends the following minimum BS degree requirements:

i. Minimum degree credit hours: 120;

ii. 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;

iii. Humanities plus Social Sciences: 21 credit hours (must be content approved by the department and school);

iv. Mathematics and Science: college algebra or higher; may include up to 3 credit hr. of psychology; 18 credit hours;

v. Minimum cumulative GPA of 2.0

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C. Information Technology/Computing, T. Vojta - NO REPORT


E. RP&A, M. Fitch

Student Affairs CommitteeReport 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

http://facultysenate.mst.edu/media/campussupport/facultysenate/documents/studentaffairs/2015/Robotics%20Competition%20Team%20Operational%20Rules.pdf

http://facultysenate.mst.edu/media/campussupport/facultysenate/documents/studentaffairs/2015/Robotics%20Competition%20Team%20Operational%20Rules.pdf

http://facultysenate.mst.edu/media/campussupport/facultysenate/documents/studentaffairs/2015/RCT%20Constitution%20Amendments.pdf

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C. Information Technology/Computing, T. Vojta


E. RP&A, M. Fitch

MotionFull-time lecturers are to be counted as faculty for the purposes of Faculty Senate representation.

Background• ALP has 17 or 9 faculty; 8 are lecturers. • System has no definition of “Faculty Member”• CRR 300.030: “The General Faculty of the Missouri University of

Science and Technology consists of all tenured, tenure-track, and non-tenure track full-time faculty members holding the rank of instructor or above…”

• Policy memo II-12 eliminated Instructor (future appointments), Lecturers “Assignments will be limited to classroom and/or laboratory instruction”

• A footnote in CRR 310.035 “Titles associated with the unranked, non-regular faculty group include, but are not limited to, instructor, lecturer, senior lecturer and visiting professor.”

RP&A ReportApril 23, 2015

MotionThat the “draft” notation on Provost’s web site (NTT Promotion) be removed.

Background• Provost’s website, “NTT Promotion Procedures” →

RP&A ReportApril 23, 2015

Agenda


- Barbara Hale, SecretaryII. Approval of February 26, 2015 meeting minutes



V. Old Business


VII. Adjourn

Agenda

Adjourn

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