September 11, 200910:00 AM – 10:50 AM

CBC C128

WELCOME BACK!!!!!

Department Meeting

2 more visiting scholars this fall

Welcome Chengyue LiVisiting Scholar

AMS meeting: Saturday, April 30 & Sunday, May 1, 2011

Please apply to the AMS to organize a special session

1. 2011 AMS Spring Western Section Meeting @ UNLV

2.1 Long-term ISL vs. separate DMS building

2.2 Short-term BEH: Dean Taylor needs our input.

Do we want to insist on renovating the BEH classrooms?

A new DMS building would impact over 12,000 students annually.

Question asked to President Smatresk: “Can the administration really ignore over 10,000 students annually?”

Over 12,000 students annually using this building would be significant advertising for an appropriate donor.

Step 1: Get the proposal on the university master plan

Step 2: Getting permission to seek out willing donors

2. DMS Residence

Annual Enrollment – over 12,000 studentsSpring – 3,940

Summer – 2,517Fall with 95/96 – 5,738

Fall without 95/96 – 4,744

In-state Fall Tuition estimate – $3,164,925.75

3. Enrollments

June 18 & July 16: 299 registered

237 completed the test

Emphasized: DMS is not a testing facility!

Don’t have the staff, etc. of the College Board

But need to be in control of placement

$11 fee began this fall to hire needed

student workers

4. Placement Test

July 2009: mandated 4.6% staff pay cutMandated staff furlough leave: one day/month

Mandated furlough leave for untenured faculty (more complicated for those on visa)Workload increase for tenured COS faculty

appears to be covered

Program elimination/evaluation

5. Furlough Leave

FMLA leaveBrooke returns October 12Pat returns early December

Dean Taylor provided DMS additional student worker funds:

approximately $2,400

6. FMLA Leave

Second largest resource Faculty salaries: over $2.5 million

GA salaries: approximately $.5 million

PTI salaries: $84,000 (excludes 95/96)

44GAs: Fall 2009-Spring 201019 State funded: $230,000

25 PTI-GAs: $264,000

7a. Graduate Assitantships

25 PTI-GAs: 2 classes or 6 contact hoursDean Taylor avoided 25% decrease in

GAships Fixed number of College GAshipsAllocated additional GAs to DMS

5 filled from summer effortsDean Taylor also provided additional

$2,000Calculus breakout sessions: 25 students vs.

40+ students in the past

7b. Graduate Assistantships

Non-FTE generating through Educational Outreach

Instructors: PTIs

DMS did almost all the work without additional staff supplied

Peg Rees, Vice Provost of Ed Outreach, working to compensate DMS

DMS supplied 3 Math 095/096 offices in CDC 7

EO supplied 6 computers for 95/96

DMS is short offices and computers!!!

Grant-in-aid is not available for EO instructors

8. Math 095/096

Held every year on the Thursday before fall instruction begins

Special Guests: Dr. Bob Abella – COE Assoc. Dean

Office of Student Conduct RepresentativeNicholle Booker – COS

9a. Graduate Student Orientation

Provost Memo to Teaching Staff

Provost Memo – Minimum Criteria for Syllabi

Syllabus Info Tutor Clinic Flyer

Office Hours Info Attendance Sheet Info

Online Homework Info Dept Final Info

Rules for Giving an Incomplete Web Grading

Online Evaluation Info Voice Mail Info

Important Campus Phone Numbers Dept Phone/Office List

9b. Graduate Orientation Booklet

Course Structure Meeting (continued on Friday)

Videotaped for future use

Ananda is currently checking GA syllabi

9c. Graduate Orientation

Small student fee exists to guarantee its existence

Requesting a donor account to be setup for contributions to the tutor clinic

Long term Goal: Large donation from one person/name recognition

Weekly reports- Sam

Possibly located, with windows, near dining commons in proposed building

With appropriate funding may be able to expand to include a computer component for online homework and ALEKS/diagnostic

testing

10. Tutor Clinic

Student complaints: Dr. Ananda

TCEs to DMS Articulator (Dr. Dalpatadu)

800-1,000 TCEs annually

Graduation Packets, Credit-by-exam, Petitions, etc., etc. to

Undergraduate Coordinator (Dr. Bellomo)

11. Student Flow

Academic Assessment Report – due on October 30, 2009

Accreditation Team will be on campus April 19, 20, 21

http://provost.unlv.edu/Assessment/forms.html

12. Assessment

Lori Temple – 3 computersDean Taylor – student worker funds

Dean Taylor - additional GashipsDean Taylor - $2,000

Tham http://www.unlv.edu/math/Tham.html

Special Thanks!

Call to Order Announcements

 Approval of March 13 Meeting Minutes  Committee Reports

 Dual MA ECO and MS MAT Program proposal  New Business Adjournment

  

Meeting Agenda

Minutes

Meeting of Friday March 13, 2009, 10:30am – 12pm in CBC C216

Department of Mathematical Sciences

Prepared by Patricia Pablo

Present: Drs. Amei, Ananda, Bachman, Baragar, Bellomo, Burke, Catlin, Cho, Costa, Dalpatadu, Ding, DuBose, Ghosh, Ho, Kern, X. Li, Marcozzi, Muleshkov, Phanord, Robinette, Salehi, Shiue, Sun, Westveld and Yang. Staff: Brooke Drake, Erin McNamara and Pat Pablo

The meeting started at 10:40a with 25 faculty in attendance and Dr. Ho turns the meeting over to Dr. Sandra Catlin, Chair of the Advisory Committee concerning voting information for the elections. Dr. Catlin stated that you can write in nominees for the Chair position. All votes will be done by secret ballot and the committee votes will be done by choice voting. Discussion follows.

The meeting consisted of a series of elections for Officers of the Department, membership on the Department’s Standing Committees and for departmental representatives for certain COS committees. The results are listed below.

 Nominations for the Chair are Drs. Costa, DuBose and Phanord. Dr. Phanord removed his name from the Chair nomination.

Voting of the Chair was done by secret ballot and the final counts for the Chair were as follows:

Dr. Costa (9), Dr. DuBose (15), Abstain (1).

Dr. DuBose’s name will be submitted to the Dean’s office as the choice of the faculty for the next Chair of the Department of Mathematical Sciences to be approved by the President.

Dr. Doug Burke is elected by acclamation as the Department Graduate Coordinator.

The Undergraduate Coordinator has 2 nominees; Drs. Bellomo and Dalpatadu. The results of the secret ballot are: Dr. Bellomo (17), Dr. Dalpatadu (8). The new undergraduate coordinator is Dr. Carryn Bellomo.

Advisory Committee: Drs. Baragar, Catlin and Ding are elected by acclamation.

Personnel Committee: Drs. Bhatnagar, Salehi and Shiue are elected by acclamation.

Merit Committee: Drs. Dalpatadu, Ghosh, Ho, and X. Li are elected by acclamation.

Departmental Representative to the COS Curriculum Committee: Dr. Robinette is elected by acclamation.

Graduate Studies Committee: Drs. Cho, Muleshkov and Yang are elected by acclamation.

Undergraduate Studies Committee: Dr. Bachman is elected by acclamation.

Departmental Representative to the COS Academic Standards Committee: Dr. Bachman is elected by acclamation.

Departmental Representative to the COS Research Council: There are 2 nominees for this representative, Drs. Sun and Westveld. The results of the secret ballot are: Dr. Sun (6), Dr. Westveld (15), Abstain (4). The new Departmental Representative to the COS Research Council is Dr. Westveld.

Departmental Representative to the COS Merit Review Committee: Dr. Baragar is elected by acclamation.

Departmental Alternate Representative to the COS Personnel Committee: Dr. Marcozzi is elected by acclamation.

As of June 30, 2009, Dr. Ding will be the departmental representative to the COS Ad-Hoc Committee concerning FIR Policy/rules for Promotion.

Dr. Bellomo moves to adjourn (seconded by Dr. Robinette).