Faculty Senate Meeting
November 12, 2015
Agenda
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VII.
Call to Order and Roll Call
- M. Bruening, Secretary
Approval of October 15, 2015 minutes
Campus Reports and Responses
Reports of Standing and Special Committees
Old Business
New Business and Announcements
Adjourn
Agenda
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II.
Call to Order and Roll Call
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IV.
V.
VI.
VII.
Campus Reports and Responses
Reports of Standing and Special Committees
Old Business
New Business and Announcements
Adjourn
Approval of October 15, 2015 minutes
October 15, 2015 FS Minutes
Agenda
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II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
VII.
Call to Order and Roll Call
Approval of October 15, 2015 minutes
Campus Reports and Responses
Reports of Standing and Special Committees
Old Business
New Business and Announcements
Adjourn
Agenda
Campus Reports and Responses
A. President’s Report, T. Schuman for S. Grant
B. Retiree Health Care Benefits
C. Administrative Reports
i) Chancellor’s Report
ii) Provost’s Report
D. Staff Council Report
E. Student Council
F. Council of Graduate Students
President’s Report
12 November 15
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IFC
 Teleconference on MU race protests
 IFC discussed whether and how to support students and role of IFC
 IFC plans to meet with Concerned Students 1950
 Contacting the appropriate representatives to frame discussion
 Changes in CRR with regard to Conflict of Interest (COI).
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CRRs 330.015 and 420.030 both deal with COI but are inconsistent
Will incorporate 420.030 into 330.015 for one body of information
Seeking faculty review and feedback prior to 1 Dec 15
Item referred to AF&S and IP committees and posted
 http://facultysenate.mst.edu/meetings/
 Changes in CRR on Health and Medical Surveillance Program for
Laboratory Animal Care Personnel
 Referred to Biology, Chemistry, and Materials Science department for review
 Faculty are encouraged to apply for President’s Awards
 No interim UM System President announcements
Resolution
Be it resolved:
The Faculty Senate of Missouri S&T is committed to
ensuring a safe, welcoming environment for all students,
faculty, staff, and visitors that is free of capricious
discrimination, racism, sexism, intimidation, and threats
of violence. At the same time, we affirm our support for
the constitutionally enshrined freedoms of assembly,
speech, religion, and the press and for the educational
principles of academic freedom and civil discourse. We
expect the entire Missouri S&T community and the
University of Missouri system to abide by these bedrock
principles of the university and condemn actions by any
member of the community that threaten to undermine
them.
Agenda
Campus Reports and Responses
A. President’s Report
B. Retiree Health Care Benefits, Renetta Gallup
C. Administrative Reports
i) Chancellor’s Report, C. Schrader
ii) Provost’s Report, R. Marley
D. Staff Council Report
E. Student Council
F. Council of Graduate Students
Agenda
Campus Reports and Responses
A. President’s Report
B. Retiree Health Care Benefits
C. Administrative Reports
i) Chancellor’s Report, C. Schrader
ii) Provost’s Report, R. Marley
D. Staff Council Report
E. Student Council
F. Council of Graduate Students
Agenda
Campus Reports and Responses
A. President’s Report
B. Retiree Health Care Benefits
C. Administrative Reports
i) Chancellor’s Report
ii) Provost’s Report, R. Marley
D. Staff Council Report
E. Student Council
F. Council of Graduate Students
Provost Report
Dr. Robert Marley
Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor or Academic Affairs
November 12, 2015
Agenda
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Interim Dean Update (CEC)
Faculty Hiring Update
Faculty Salary Incentive Update
Division Updates (for the record)
STRATEGIC FACULTY
Lever 2.2: Leverage S&T as Missouri’s technological research university
HRES
2020 GOAL
• Goal to add at least
100 additional faculty
by 2020, many in
Signature Areas
• We have added 26
new faculty since
FY13
• 14 active searches for
2015-16
• 7 planned searches
PLANNED
ACTIVE
SEARCHES
2015-16
NEW FACULTY LINE HIRES
Lever 2.1 & Lever 2.2
SIGNATURE AREA
TENURE-TRACK
Advanced Manufacturing
Lianyi Chen
Advanced Materials
Extreme Environments
Jie Huang
Aditya Kumar
Hongyan Ma
Vadym Mochalin
Alexsandr
Chernatynskiy
Joseph Graham
Number of T/TT +19
Number of NTT +7
as of September 2015
DEPARTMENT
Engineering Management
Physics
Biological Sciences
Electrical Engineering
Mining & Nuclear Engineering
Chemistry
Civil Engineering
Geo Science
Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
TENURE-TRACK
Zeyi Sun
Daniel Fischer
Julie Semon
Victor Khilkevich
Catherine Johnson
Risheng Wang
Wen Deng
Peyman Heidar
Xian Huang
Charles Wojnar
Computer Science
Computer Science
Simone Silvestri
Abu Sayeed Saifullah
DEPARTMENT
Computer Science
Electrical Engineering
Chemical Engineering
History/Teacher Ed Program
Matls Sci & Engineering
Matls Sci & Engineering
NON TENURE-TRACK
Bushra Anjum
Amardeep Kaur
Christi Patton Luks
Mandy Welch
Ipek Yucelen
Bingqi Zhang
Mechanical Engineering
Jillian Schmidt
NEW LINE SEARCHES
Lever 2.1: Employ transformative and focused hiring, including cluster hires, in
selected areas of expertise
Active Searches
7 Planned Searches
• Civil Engineering
Joint hire MU (2)
• Psychological Science
2 additional lines
• Advanced Manufacturing
National Academy Stature:
• Advanced Materials
Advanced Manufacturing
• Smart Living
Advanced Materials
• Smart Living
Extreme Environments
• Smart Living
• Math
• Math
• English and Technical Communication
• Chemical Engineering
• Geological/Mining (joint hire)
• Computer Science/Electrical/Engineering Management (joint hire)
• Electrical
14 Active Searches
ALL VACANT LINES
Action 2.1.2: Develop and implement a process to transparently allocate all faculty positions to impact strategic plan and
progress on unit performance measures
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Business and Information Technology - Sheng
(approved)
Materials Science and Engineering - Wolf Chair/Richards
(approved)
Geosciences and Geological and Petroleum Engineering
- Nygard (approved)
Geosciences and Geological and Petroleum Engineering
- Chapman (approved)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Wang (allocated for chair)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering - Volz
(allocated for chair)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Richardson (allocated for chair)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Hurst/McCarthy (approved)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering MAPA (approved)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering (approved)
Computer Science - Chellappan (approved)
Computer Science - Anjum (hired visiting professor)
Computer Science - (approved)
Computer Science - Kessentini (approved)
• Engineering Management and Systems Engineering
- Sarchet (approved)
• Engineering Management and Systems Engineering Smith
• Electrical and Computer Engineering (approved)
• Electrical and Computer Engineering - Shi
• Electrical and Computer Engineering - Tang
(approved)
• Electrical and Computer Engineering (approved)
• Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering - Eversman
• Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering - Finaish
• Mining and Nuclear Engineering
- Baird (approved)
• Mining and Nuclear Engineering - Tien
• Physics - Sankovich
• Physics - Dubois
Materials Science and Engineering Chair
Engineering Management and Systems Engineering Chair
Mining and Nuclear Chair
Biological Sciences Chair
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Chair
Geosciences and Geological and Petroleum Engineering Chair
(pending structural decision)
NET FACULTY
*Includes 40 ADDITIONAL faculty lines
*LARGEST Number of T/TT faculty
Faculty Salary
Incentive Update
Division Updates
For the Record
College of Arts, Sciences, and Business
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John McManus (History & Political Science) has published a new book on
WWII, Hell Before Their Very Eyes: American Soldiers Liberate Concentration
Camps in Germany, April 1945 (Johns Hopkins Press)
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Diana Ahmad (History & Political Science) has been named a Curators’
Teaching Professor, effective January 1, 2016
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The iGEM design team won third place at the 2015 Jamboree for its project
“Defending North American Bats from the Emerging White-nose Epidemic”
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Honglan Shi (Chemistry) has received funds totaling $20,687 from the LabTech
America, Inc. for her project: “Validation/Optimization of Automatic Solid Phase
Extraction Methods”
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Dan Reardon’s (English & Tech Com) article, “Blended and Asynchronous
Course Effectiveness in First-Year Composition: A Case Study,” which used S&T
classrooms as data collection sites, has been accepted by Teacher-Scholar: The
Journal of the State Comprehensive University
College of Engineering and Computing
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Significant Departmental Awards:
Four GAANN (Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need) Awards:
Mining and Nuclear, Electrical and Computer, Materials Science and Engineering, Mechanical and Aerospace.
University Transportation Center (RE-CAST) receives a third year of funding (Sept. 2015-16) from U.S. DOT.
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Faculty and Alumni Awards and Recognition:
Muthana Al-Dahhan, Chem Eng, named Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.
Shari Dunn-Norman and Larry Britt ‘79 GeoE, Soc. of Petroleum Engineering’s Distinguish Membership Award.
Jie Gao and Xiaodong Yang, MAE, published in Nature: Scientific Reports.
Kamal Khayat, CArE, named Fellow of RILEM, the International Union of Laboratories and Experts in Construction
Materials, Systems and Structure.
Suzanna Long, EMSE, named Fellow of the ASEM and received the Franklin Woodbury Award.
Bruce McMillin, Comp. Sci., elected to Board of Governors of the IEEE Computer Society.
Joe Newkirk, MSE, named a Fellow of the ASM.
Dave Richardson, CArE, named Fellow of the American Concrete Institute.
Joshua Rovey, MAE, received the 2016 AIAA Lawrence Sperry Award for contributions by a young person.
James Spehr ’64 & ’69 MetE, presented the Thomas J. O’Keefe Memorial Lecture on October 22nd.
Steve Watkins, ECE, elected to the board of Governors of the IEEE Education Society
Reza Zoughi, ECE, elected president of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society.
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Student Recognition:
The Ceramic Engineering Honor Society, Keramos, received the nation’s Outstanding Chapter Award at
the MS&T 2015 Conference held in Columbus, OH.
The student group, Materials Advantage, received a Chapter of Excellence Award at the MS&T 2015
Conference held in Columbus, OH.
EMSE won the ASEM Founders Award for Best Undergraduate Program and Best Student Chapter.
Office of Undergraduate Studies
 Experiential Learning Awards & Service Learning Awards
• Electronic Nomination Form is due November 20, 2015
o 1 Faculty and 1 Staff Award per year
 Undergraduate Research Day at the Capitol - March 15, 2016
• Electronic Nomination Form is due December 11, 2015
 Hit the Ground Running (HGR)
• 91 Students
o 9 out of 37 Intensive Algebra students earned credit by exam for College Algebra. (24%)
o 15 out of 31 College Algebra students earned credit by exam for College Algebra. (48%)
o 18 out of 21 Trigonometry students earned credit by exam for Trigonometry (and the other
three earned a waiver of trigonometry) (86%)
 Honor Seminar
• 142 New Freshman for FS2015
Office of Graduate Studies
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Recent Recruiting Events
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Chancellor’s Distinguished Fellowship
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84 requests for technical editing so far FS 2015
Each edit completed in less than 2 weeks
Thesis/Dissertation Format Checks – Final Copy due Nov. 4
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Partnered with the Student Success Center to create the Majors & Minors and Graduate Degrees Fair
25 graduate programs represented
Technical Editing
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90+ S&T Undergrad students in attendance over a 3 day period
30+ S&T Grad Students/Faculty available to discuss grad school options
Graduate Fair – Oct. 7
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Next visit date: Nov. 19-20
Now open to international students residing in U.S.
What about Graduate School? Event – Oct. 12-14
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Deadline: Dec. 5 for best consideration
Experience S&T (campus visit program)
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23 different universities visited
130+ students reached, contacts will be sent to departments and followed up with by Graduate
Studies
98 theses/dissertations turned in for FS 2015 graduates
Graduate Studies Specialists Advising Survey
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Main question: How satisfied are you with advising you have received today?
Average response: 4.83/5 point scale, 5 being “Very satisfied”
Enrollment Management
• Thank you to everyone that contributed to the Open House on
November 14. We continue to have good numbers, especially
for majors in the College of Arts, Sciences, and Business.
• Chancellor’s Scholarship finalists will be on campus Saturday,
December 5. 100 of our most talented applicants for Fall 2016.
• Commencement Ceremony will be on Saturday, December 19
at 10:00 am and 4:00 pm.
• Student Veteran Resource Center – Opened this fall, located in
the Baptist Student Center serving campus student servicemembers and veterans as a resource to assist them to reach
their educational goals.
Office of Sponsored Programs
• Summary of FY16 activities year-to-date (September)
– Number of funded proposals up 20% for a total of 101
• Total dollars is $14M which is down 10%
– Number of new proposals submitted is down 18% at 107
• Total dollars is $32.5M which is down 33%
– Number of active awards is down by 2% at 588
– Total expenditures is $12.3M which is up 6%
– Net grant and contract expenditures is $8.8M which is up
5%
– F&A recovered is $1.6M which is down 11%
Curtis Laws Wilson Library
Scholars’ Mine Update
• Global readership of documents in Scholars’ Mine
• As of 11/1/15, 216,036 documents downloaded.
Downloads from 11/1/2015
Agenda
Campus Reports and Responses
A. President’s Report
B. Retiree Health Care Benefits
C. Administrative Reports
i) Chancellor’s Report
ii) Provost’s Report
D. Staff Council Report, J. Boehm
E. Student Council
F. Council of Graduate Students
Agenda
Campus Reports and Responses
A. President’s Report
B. Retiree Health Care Benefits
C. Administrative Reports
i) Chancellor’s Report
ii) Provost’s Report
D. Staff Council Report
E. Student Council, A. McMikle
F. Council of Graduate Students
Agenda
Campus Reports and Responses
A. President’s Report
B. Retiree Health Care Benefits
C. Administrative Reports
i) Chancellor’s Report
ii) Provost’s Report
D. Staff Council Report
E. Student Council
F. Council of Graduate Students, T. Goodwin
Council of Graduate Students
Travel Grants:
CGS has increased their Travel Grant awards from four per semester to twenty grants
awarding $200 each to help reward graduate students doing research present their work.
If a graduate student under you has presented at a conference between July and Dec 2015
they are eligible to apply for CGS travel grants.
The deadline for the grant applications is tomorrow, Nov 13, but the application only takes a
few minutes.
Even if the conference has happened and was paid for the grants can be used as
reimbursement as long as the receipts can be presented.
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Agenda
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VI.
VII.
Call to Order and Roll Call
Approval of June 18, 2015 meeting minutes
Campus Reports and Responses
Reports of Standing and Special Committees
Old Business
New Business and Announcements
Adjourn
Agenda
Reports of Standing and Special Committees
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B.
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F.
G.
Curricula Committee, T. Schuman
Public Occasions
Academic Freedom & Standards
Administrative Review
Personnel
Information Technology/Computing
Rules, Procedures & Agenda
Campus Curricula
Committee Report
12 November 2015
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CCC Meetings
» 27 October 2015
» 1 December 2015 (upcoming)
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Committee Activity
» 3 Degree change requests (DC forms)
» 18 Course change requests (CC forms)
» 7 Experimental course requests (EC forms)
Campus Curricula
Committee Report
12 November 2015
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Degree Changes Requested
» File #150.25
» File #38.5
» File #39.8
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Chemical Engineering: Chemical Engineering BS
Economics: Economics BA
Economics: Economics BS
Course Changes Requested:
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File #191.1
File #4252
File #4253
File #4257
Technology
File #1968.1
File #1656.1
File #427.1
File #556.1
File #1433.1
Aerospace Engineering 4885: Assessment
Chemical Engineering 4230: Bioprocess Safety
Chemical Engineering 5230: Bioprocess Safety
Civil Engineering 6801: Advanced Concrete Science and
Music 3251: History and Analysis of Music I
Music 3252: History and Analysis of Music II
SP&M S 3275: Foundations of Media Communication
Systems Engineering 5101: System Engineering and Analysis
Systems Engineering 5211: Computational Intelligence
Campus Curricula
Committee Report
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12 November 2015
Course Changes Requested (cont’d)15th Meeting:
» File #484.1
Systems Engineering 5212:
and Applications
» File #347.1
Systems Engineering 6102:
» File #1367.1 Systems Engineering 6103:
Engineering
» File #2194.1 Systems Engineering 6104:
» File #1292.1 Systems Engineering 6105:
Project Management
» File #2173.1 Systems Engineering 6196:
» File #1779.1 Systems Engineering 6239:
Design
» File #2161.1 Systems Engineering 6321:
» File #1108.1 Systems Engineering 6542:
Introduction to Neural Networks
Information Based Design
Economic Analysis for Systems
Systems Architecting
Complex Engineering Systems
Systems Engineering Capstone
Smart Engineering System
Modeling Complex Systems
Model Based Systems
Campus Curricula
Committee Report
12 November 2015
Curriculum committee moves for FS to
approve the DC and CC form actions
 Questions or comments?
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Campus Curricula
Committee Report
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12 November 2015
Informational Only
Experimental Courses Requested15th Meeting:
» File #4256
» File #4249
Design
» File #4263
» File #4211
Languages
» File #4261
» File#4264
» File #4254
Modeling
Art 3001.001: Introduction to Digital Video
Civil Engineering 6001.001: Advanced Masonry Structural
Civil Engineering 6001.003: Concrete Durability and Repair
Computer Science 2001.002: Contemporary Programming
Electrical Engineering 6001.001: Power System Protection II
IS&T 5001.002: Data Methodologies in Python
Petroleum Engineering 6001.001: Advanced Mechanical Earth
Campus Curricula
Committee Report
12 November 2015
I move for Faculty Senate approval of the request by the Provost to reassign
the DSCC charter for Computer Science
Agenda
Reports of Standing and Special Committees
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F.
G.
Curricula
Public Occasions, S. Sedighsarvestani
Academic Freedom & Standards
Administrative Review
Personnel
Information Technology/Computing
Rules, Procedures & Agenda
Homecoming Date for 2016
October 15
Proposed by the Miner Alumni Association
Approved by the Public Occasions Committee
Presented to the Faculty Senate on Nov. 12, 2015
Calendar for Fall Semester 2016
International Student Orientation
Freshman Orientation Begins
Transfer Student Orientation
Open Registration Ends
Fall semester opens 8:00 a.m.
Classwork begins 8:00 a.m.
Labor Day Holiday
Homecoming (and Mid-Semester)
Thanksgiving vacation begins 8:00 a.m.
Thanksgiving vacation ends 8:00 a.m.
Last Class Day
Final Examinations begin 7:30 a.m.
Final Examinations end 5:00 p.m.
December Commencement
August 9, Tuesday
August 14, Sunday
August 18, Thursday
August 21, Sunday
August 22, Monday
August 22, Monday
September 5, Monday
October 15, Saturday
November 20, Sunday
November 28, Monday
December 9, Friday
December 12, Monday
December 16, Friday
December 17, Saturday
Presented to the Faculty Senate on Nov. 12, 2015
Agenda
Reports of Standing and Special Committees
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B.
C.
D.
E.
F.
G.
Curricula
Public Occasions
Academic Freedom & Standards, D. Ahmad
Administrative Review
Personnel
Information Technology/Computing
Rules, Procedures & Agenda
Academic Freedom and
Standards Committee
Diana L. Ahmad, Chair
November 12, 2015
Regarding:
Consideration for students who must miss class due to
extraordinary reasons, such as religious observance, military
duty, jury duty, and other similar events.
Students would be required to provide “proof of the needed
absence from the appropriate authority.”
Two Items:
1. A friendly motion was made and PASSED at the October 15, 2015,
Faculty Senate ADDING “may” to pages 1 and 12 ABSENCES in
“Student Academic Regulations.”
a. The clause now reads: “Instructors MAY make the ultimate decision;
however, students have the power to appeal to the department chair or
dean.”
2. After the meeting of October 15, 2015, it came to light that a
deletion made by AF&S regarding DROPPING INCOMPLETES
PRIOR TO Fall Semester 1991 SHOULD BE RE-ADDED to the
“Student Academic Regulations” as the Registrar said that it is still
used, albeit rarely.
a. The AF&S committee agrees to RE-ADD the said section to the “Student
Academic Regulations.”
REQUEST of FACULTY SENATE:
1. Vote to RE-ADD the section about “Dropping Incompletes
Prior to Fall Semester 1991” to the Student Academic
Regulations.
THANK YOU
Agenda
Reports of Standing and Special Committees
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B.
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D.
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F.
G.
Curricula
Public Occasions
Academic Freedom & Standards
Administrative Review, L. Gragg
Personnel
Information Technology/Computing
Rules, Procedures & Agenda
Administrative Review Committee
This committee sets policies and procedures for review
of campus administrators. The committee recommends
the evaluation questionnaires and a plan/schedule for
conducting reviews to the Faculty Senate. The
committee conducts the reviews; oversees the sending
of the evaluation forms to the evaluating persons;
oversees the collection and collation of the resulting
evaluations; and, along with the officers of the Faculty
Senate, reviews and forwards the results of the
evaluation.
Administrative Review Committee
Schedule of Reviews
– 2016: Chancellor; Provost; Vice Provost and Dean of
College of Arts, Sciences, and Business
– 2017: Vice Chancellors: Global and Strategic Partnerships;
Human Resources, Equity and Inclusion; Finance and
Administration; University Advancement; and Student
Affairs. Chief Information Officer
– 2018: Vice Provosts: Dean of Engineering and Computing,
Graduate Studies, Undergraduate Studies, Research, and
Enrollment Management. Director of Institutional
Research and Assessment and Director and Library and
Learning Resources
*This schedule assumes the administrator under review will have
completed one academic year of service prior to the review in a
non-interim or non-acting appointment.
Agenda
Reports of Standing and Special Committees
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
F.
G.
Curricula
Public Occasions
Academic Freedom & Standards
Administrative Review
Personnel, M. Fitch
Information Technology/Computing
Rules, Procedures & Agenda
The Personnel Committee submits the following motion for the
12 Nov 2015 meeting of the Faculty Senate.
“Faculty Senate urges the Administration to review the 29-step hiring
process and:
1) Establish timelines, with action required by a certain deadline else that
step has a default outcome, either proceed or fail;
2) Have an office track the status of each and every faculty search and
oversee adherence to the timeline;
3) Create a simplified committee-level summary of the process for faculty;
4) Examine the process with intent to simplify, notably the layers of
decision;
5) Create ‘else’ branches in the process, which as currently available has
no flow path for when the result of a step is ‘no’; at each step, a no result
should result in feedback within some period of time;
6) Move from an unranked list to a categorized list; and
7) Delete the word ‘Advisory’ in describing the Search Committee.”
Agenda
Reports of Standing and Special Committees
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B.
C.
D.
E.
F.
Curricula
Public Occasions
Academic Freedom & Standards
Administrative Review
Personnel
Information Technology/Computing
T. Vojta
G. Rules, Procedures & Agenda
Agenda
Reports of Standing and Special Committees
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
F.
G.
Curricula
Public Occasions
Academic Freedom & Standards
Administrative Review
Personnel
Information Technology/Computing
Rules, Procedures & Agenda, M. Bohner
AAUP Declaration
Agenda
I. Call to Order and Roll Call
II. Approval of October 15, 2015 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
II. Approval of October 15, 2015 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
II. Approval of October 15, 2015 minutes
III. Campus Reports and Responses
IV. Reports of Standing and Special Committees
V. Old Business
VI. New Business and Announcements
VII. Adjourn
Agenda
Adjourn