Faculty Senate Meeting
April 23, 2015
Agenda
I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
VII.
Call to Order and Roll Call
- Barbara Hale, Secretary
Approval of March 19, 2015 meeting minutes
Campus Reports and Responses
Reports of Standing and Special Committees
Old Business
New Business and Announcements
Adjourn
Agenda
I.
Call to Order and Roll Call
II.
- Barbara Hale, Secretary
Approval of March 19, 2015 meeting minutes
MeetingMinutes.March19.15
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
VII.
Campus Reports and Responses
Reports of Standing and Special Committees
Old Business
New Business and Announcements
Adjourn
Agenda
I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
VII.
Call to Order and Roll Call
- Barbara Hale, Secretary
Approval of March 19, 2015 meeting minutes
Campus Reports and Responses
Reports of Standing and Special Committees
Old Business
New Business and Announcements
Adjourn
Agenda
III. Campus Reports and Responses
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 Report
Faculty Senate Meeting
April 23, 2015
April 23, 2015
President's Report
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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.
April 23, 2015
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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.
April 23, 2015
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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
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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
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Panelist Pool
• Panelist Pool members had training in
Columbia on April 13/14.
• Next training in May, again in Columbia.
April 23, 2015
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Intercampus Faculty Council
• Last IFC meeting was one week ago.
• IFC will revisit Post Tenure Review.
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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
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Agenda
III. Campus Reports and Responses
A. President’s Report, M. Bohner
B. Administrative Reports
i) Chancellor’s Report, S. Roberts
for C. Schrader
ii) Provost’s Report, M. Mormile
for R. Marley
C. Staff Council Report, S. Lewis – NO REPORT
D. Student Council, R. Jacobsen
E. Council of Graduate Students, E. Ronchetto
FACULTY SENATE
CHANCELLOR’S REPORT
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APRIL 23, 2015
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 includes
classrooms,
laboratories, mine
rescue station,
computer lab, offices
and equipment
storage
STRATEGIC PLAN UPDATE
Progress.mst.edu
WOMAN OF THE YEAR
Dr. Dan Lin
Assistant Professor of
Computer Science
FACULTY FIRST FRIDAYS
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Bring your lunch
Get to know faculty
Chat with administrators
Drinks and dessert!
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May 1
Sept. 4
Oct. 2
Nov. 6
Dec. 4
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 Rice
66th U.S. Secretary of State
• Thursday, May 14
• 31st presenter in the series
• Tickets available at
Castleman Hall
Agenda
III. Campus Reports and Responses
A. President’s Report, M. Bohner
B. Administrative Reports
i) Chancellor’s Report, S. Roberts
for C. Schrader
ii) Provost’s Report, R. Marley
C. Staff Council Report, S. Lewis – NO REPORT
D. Student Council, R. Jacobsen
E. Council of Graduate Students, E. Ronchetto
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)
College of Arts, Sciences, and Business
• 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 Engineering and Computing
• 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-MakerCollision 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.
Office of Undergraduate Studies
• Missouri S&T Undergraduate Research Conference
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110 Students Participated in 98 Projects on April 15th, 2015
• Student Design & Experiential Learning Center
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Advanced Aero Vehicle Group – Airplane
• Aero Design West Competition – April 24-26, 2015
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Concrete Canoe
• ASCE Conference Regional Competition – April 25-26, 2015
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Human Powered Vehicle
• Human powered Vehicle Challenge West – April 24-26, 215
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Steel Bridge
• ASCE Conference Regional Competition – April 23-25, 2015
• Hit the Ground Running (HGR) – July 12-31, 2015
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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 Graduate 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/.
Enrollment Management
• 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.
Office of Sponsored Programs
• Summary of FY15 activities year-to-date (March)
– Number of funded proposals down 16% for a total of 177
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Total dollars is $25.2M which is up 16%
– Number of new proposals submitted is up 3% at 439
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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%
Curtis Laws Wilson Library
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 content
o Planning for conference publication (cold formed steel) using peer
review process
• Questions about content? Contact us at
scholarsmine@mst.edu
Agenda
III. Campus Reports and Responses
A. President’s Report, M. Bohner
B. Administrative Reports
C. Staff Council Report, Joe Boehm for
S. Lewis
D. Student Council, R. Jacobsen
E. Council of Graduate Students, E. Ronchetto
007 Mission: Staff Day
Location: Havener Center
Date: May 20th 9:00am-3:00pm
For a more detailed schedule go to http://staffcouncil.mst.edu/staffday
Notes: Please try and use the above disguise to blend in
Contact your building coordinator or Patti adamspat@mst.edu. $10 for S-XL, $12 for XXL+
This flyer will self destruct after May 20th
Agenda
III. Campus Reports and Responses
A. President’s Report, M. Bohner
B. Administrative Reports
C. Staff Council Report, Joe Boehm for
S. Lewis
D. Student Council, R. Jacobsen
E. Council of Graduate Students, E. Ronchetto
Agenda
III. Campus Reports and Responses
A. President’s Report, M. Bohner
B. Administrative Reports
C. Staff Council Report, Joe Boehm for
S. Lewis
D. Student Council, R. Jacobsen
E. Council of Graduate Students, E. Ronchetto
– NO REPORT
Agenda
I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
VII.
Call to Order and Roll Call
- Barbara Hale, Secretary
Approval of February 26, 2015 meeting minutes
Campus Reports and Responses
Reports of Standing and Special Committees
Old Business
New Business and Announcements
Adjourn
Agenda
IV. Reports of Standing and Special
Committees
A. Curricula, T. Schuman
B. Academic Freedom and Standards, M. Fitch
C. Information Technology/Computing, T. Vojta
NO REPORT
D. Student Affairs, A. Pringle
E. RP&A, M. Fitch
Campus Curricula
Committee Report
23 April 2015
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CCC Meetings
» 6 April 2015
» 13 May 2015
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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)
Campus Curricula
Committee Report
23 April 2015
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Degree Changes Requested
» File #153.26 Computer Engineering: Computer Engineering BS
» File #64.16 Geology & Geophysics: Geology and Geophysics BS
Campus Curricula
Committee Report
23 April 2015
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Course Changes Requested
File #1272.5 Business 4675: International Business
File #507.4 Business 5360: Business Operations
File #1682.4 Chemistry 2229: Organic Chemistry II Lab
File #1825.1 Chemistry 2310: Inorganic Chemistry I
File #4173 Chemistry 2320: Inorganic Chemistry II
File #1040.1 Chemical Engineering 2100: Chemical Engineering Material & Energy
Balances
File #2041.1 Chemical Engineering 2110: Thermodynamics I
File #466.1 Chemical Engineering 2300: Chemical Process Materials
File #1801.1 Chemical Engineering 3100: Chemical Engineering Fluid Flow
File #2306.1 Chemical Engineering 3110: Chemical Engineering Heat Transfer
File #436.1 Chemical Engineering 3120: Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics
File #1526.1 Chemical Engineering 3140: Continuous Mass Transfer
File #1606.1 Chemical Engineering 3200: Biochemical Separations
File #862.1 Chemical Engineering 4097: Chemical Process Design
File #1607.1 Chemical Engineering 4210: Biochemical Reactors
Campus Curricula
Committee Report
23 April 2015
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Course Changes Requested
File #1880.1 Computer Engineering 6320: Adaptive Dynamic Programming
File #2451.1 Computer Engineering 6510: Resilient Networks
File #4176 Electrical Engineering 6350: Neural Network Control of Nonlinear
Continuous-time Systems
File #416.1 Engineering Management 5515: Integrated Product and Process Design
File #1798.1 Enterprise Resource Planning 5110: Enterprise Resource Planning
Systems Design and Implementation
File #701.1 Geology 4831: Computational Geology
File #263.1 Geology 5311: Depositional Systems
File #1552.1 Geology 5513: Petroleum Geology
File #1317.1 Geology 5621: Advanced Stratigraphy and Basin Evolution
File #2027.1 Geology 5741: Micropaleontology
File #1836.1 Geophysics 5231: Seismic Data Processing
File #1790.1 Geophysics 5782: Environmental and Engineering Geophysics
File #745.1 Geophysics 3210: Introduction to Geophysics
Campus Curricula
Committee Report
23 April 2015
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Course Changes Requested
File #920.6 Information Science & Technology 4654: Web and Digital Media
Development
File #497.1 Marketing 5310: Digital Marketing and Promotions
File #2185.1 Petroleum Engineering 6231: Drilling Optimization
File #4175 Petroleum Engineering 6431: Advanced Well Completion Design
File #15.1 Petroleum Engineering 6521: Advanced Well Test Analysis
File #4195 Philosophy 1130: Introduction to Ethics
File #4196 Philosophy 3302: Medieval Philosophy
Campus Curricula
Committee Report
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 ?
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Campus Curricula
Committee Report
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 Determination
File #4193 Electrical Engineering 6001.TBD: Advanced Signal and Power Integrity
File #4167 Geology 5001.TBD: Lidar Principles and Application
File #4183 Mechanical Engineering 6001.TBD: Adaptive Control of Mechanical and
Aerospace Systems
Agenda
IV. Reports of Standing and Special
Committees
A. Curricula, T. Schuman
B. Academic Freedom and Standards,
M. Fitch
C. Information Technology/Computing, T. Vojta
NO REPORT
D. Student Affairs, A. Pringle
E. RP&A, M. Fitch
AF&S Report
April 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
Agenda
IV. Reports of Standing and Special
Committees
A. Curricula, T. Schuman
B. Academic Freedom and Standards,
M. Fitch
C. Information Technology/Computing,
T. Vojta - NO REPORT
D. Student Affairs, A. Pringle
E. RP&A, M. Fitch
Agenda
IV. Reports of Standing and Special
Committees
A. Curricula, T. Schuman
B. Academic Freedom and Standards,
M. Fitch
C. Information Technology/Computing,
T. Vojta - NO REPORT
D. Student Affairs, A. Pringle
E. RP&A, M. Fitch
Student Affairs Committee
Report 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
Agenda
IV. Reports of Standing and Special
Committees
A. Curricula, T. Schuman
B. Academic Freedom and Standards,
M. Fitch
C. Information Technology/Computing,
T. Vojta
D. Student Affairs, A. Pringle
E. RP&A, M. Fitch
RP&A Report
April 23, 2015
Motion
Full-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 nontenure 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, nonregular faculty group include, but are not limited to, instructor, lecturer,
senior lecturer and visiting professor.”
RP&A Report
April 23, 2015
Motion
That the “draft” notation on Provost’s web
site (NTT Promotion) be removed.
Background
•
Provost’s website, “NTT Promotion Procedures” →
Agenda
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II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
VII.
Call to Order and Roll Call
- Barbara Hale, Secretary
Approval of February 26, 2015 meeting minutes
Campus Reports and Responses
Reports of Standing and Special Committees
Old Business
New Business and Announcements
Adjourn
Agenda
I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
VII.
Call to Order and Roll Call
- Barbara Hale, Secretary
Approval of February 26, 2015 meeting minutes
Campus Reports and Responses
Reports of Standing and Special Committees
Old Business
New Business and Announcements
Adjourn
Agenda
I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
VII.
Call to Order and Roll Call
- Barbara Hale, Secretary
Approval of February 26, 2015 meeting minutes
Campus Reports and Responses
Reports of Standing and Special Committees
Old Business
New Business and Announcements
Adjourn
Agenda
Adjourn