President’s Report

June 19, 2014

Faculty Senate Report

June 19, 2014

Intercampus Faculty Council:• IFC Task Force on workload policy report to Chairs• IT security training modules sent to IFC (only?) yesterday• Course Sharing Proposals: hoped 15 courses, received 17

proposals for 29 courses, funded 25.• Fitness for Duty policy in draft form• Discussions: post-tenure and post-full professor retirement in

place, ideas of additional promotion• Tonight, 5 of 11 President’s Awards to S&T faculty

• Elmore, Cross-Cultural Engagement• Dawes, Early Career Excellence• Crow, Leadership• Ma, Mentoring• Gregg, Jefferson Award

Faculty Senate Report

June 19, 2014

Intercampus Faculty Council:• Title IX: all are mandated reporters, task force working on

training and interpretation of President’s order• State appropriation good (+5%), or maybe not (Governor,

veto override, revenue growth reality), System says:• 1-1.5% increase to general pool• $18 million strategic funding expected available• 2% cut for strategic match expected• Merit increases from 3% budget reallocation

• IFC promoting in-dep’t transparency in evaluation and merit raises;

• ‘productive’ oft excludes service, instead do not promote useless volunteerism

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Intercampus Faculty Council:• System continues to push patents as component of dossier,

IFC replies no ban on patent inclusion• Some IFC members dislike President’s “Flagship University”• April BOC received ‘report’ on administrative hiring (Chronicle

article):

• UM spends 77% of budget on “core mission”, peers: 72%• Last 5 years, 19.6% degree ↑ at 3.7% ↓ in $/degree• UM overall 51% of employees academic, public research

universities average 47%

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Limited Raises and Instituted Hiring FreezesSystem-wide, 2002 to 2012, student-to-faculty ratio increased from 17.4 to 19.7Deferred Plant Maintenance and Renewal: Backlog of M&R needs increased $479M between 2008 and 2013

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Low Administrative Cost in Peer Group – Benchmarked to Other Public Flagships in Recent WSJ Article & SEC AAU Members

Source: Avg. 2009-2011 Academic and Administrative Support as % of Total Expenditures from IPEDS

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Campus:• Enrollment growth. June 16 data vs. last year:

• +132 freshmen (+ 105 PRO tomorrow), >10% growth• -35 transfers, ~14% shrink• +20 grad (total 97 admit, 35 on campus), 26% growth• 1471/1354 = 8.6% increase• Overall enrollment up 2-3% estimated

• No dep’t capacity values, some, esp. in ABS, have room• IT working on 7-yr gradebook retention• Deans:

• Tenure (Policy) Committee P&T process back from General Counsel, edits not principles and process, instead making wording more lawyeresque

• Two proposed amendments to CRR with RP&A, special Gen Fac meeting next week expected

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