Faculty Senate Report Warren K. Wray Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs October 14, 2010

Strategic and Tactical Planning Activities –Blue Sky Task Force Open forum scheduled October 11 at 3 pm - recommendations of the task force will be presented. −Members of the Corporate Relations Team are scheduled to travel to Huntsville, AL on Nov. 8 – 10 −Branding and marketing of institution −Enhance strategic partnerships with corporations located in that area Office of Academic Affairs

Faculty Activities –Working on draft campus NTT promotion policy. Policy will be presented to Personnel committee for consideration later this month. –Faculty Excellence Award nominations currently under review by committee. –Faculty Achievement, Teaching, Research and Service Award nominations are due November 5. Office of Academic Affairs

The Engineering Education Center (EEC) in St. Louis continues to improve its capability for serving the Rolla campus: –A faculty learning community has been established within Blackboard to engage adjunct faculty as a group and encourage them to exchange. –Linda Chiles, the Video Production Specialist at the EEC, helps adjunct faculty improve course delivery that originates from St. Louis. –A room is available at the EEC for use as a conference room and can be scheduled by Rolla-based faculty for occasional meetings in St. Louis. Global Learning

Visited Rose Hulman Institute to recruit high quality graduate students Implementation of Graduate Learning Outcomes: Many departments/programs making good progress. Office of Graduate Studies

October 9 th Celebration of Nations’ Event focused on celebrating the cultural diversity which enriches our campus and community. Number of sponsored students has increased from 98 in FS2008 to 242 for FS2010. These students pay full tuition and fees. International Affairs

Office of Sponsored Programs FY11 activities through the end of September and a year- over-year comparison are as follows: –Proposals awarded in total dollars: $21.7M (up 3.5%) –Number of proposals awarded and amendments: 95 (down 8.7%) –Proposals submitted in total dollars: $37.5M (down 41.5%) –Number of proposals submitted: 132 (down 10.2%) –Research expenditures: $14.3M (up 11.5%) –F&A recovered: $2.3M (up 6.7%) –Number of active awards: 634 (down 0.2%)

K. Corzine and J. Huang, “Impedance Measurements Using Line to Line Injection” M. Leu and A. Gawate, “Computer Aided Dental Bar Design” J. Sarangapani, A. Ramachandran, C. Saygin and K. Cha, “Adaptive Inventory Management System” J. Stoffer, E. Morris and S. Hayes, “Corrosion Resistant Coatings” R. Zoughi, M. A. AbouKhousa, M. T. A. Ghasr, S. Kharkivskiy and D. Pommerenke, “Microwave and Millimeter Wave Imaging System” Congratulations to … for New Patents

Office of Undergraduate Studies CERTI Curators’ Teaching Summit, “Balancing Teaching and Research” part 2, on Monday, Oct. 18, noon-1 p.m. in St. Pat’s Ballroom C. Lunch is provided. Academic Advising Series Conference October 25, 2010, “Advising Probationary and Academically Deficient Students” For more information, contact the Undergraduate Advising Office at , or visit: LEAD 50 S&T faculty are running 36 LEAD guided-learning centers for their courses. LEAD also provides peer tutoring for 28 courses. To see what LEAD offers, go to the link LEAD SCHEDULE at

7,206 students, up 391 from fall 2009 (5.7%) 1170 Freshmen, 387 Transfers, 476 New Graduate Students 27.7 average ACT (upper 10% in nation) 94% have a 3.5 high school GPA or higher 85% in upper 30% of high school class ENROLLMENT MANAGEMENT Fall 2010 Enrollment Census

ENROLLMENT MANAGEMENT 1702Graduate Students 1610Female Students 960International Students 686Distance Students 560Under-represented Minority Students 163Latino/Hispanic Students

Largest Campus Enrollment Years

Fall 1981 Total Students:7,480 On-campus: 7,039 Distance/EEC: 441 Undergraduate:6,313 Freshmen:1,488 Graduate:1,167 Fall 2010 Total Students:7,206 On-campus: 6,520 Distance/EEC: 686 Undergraduate:5,504 Freshmen:1,170 Graduate:1,702 7,000 in 2010 not the same 7,000 from 1981 Fall 2000 Total Students:4,626 On-campus: 4,393 Distance/EEC: 233 Undergraduate:3,698 Freshmen: 696 Graduate: 928

19 th in Nation for Largest Undergraduate Engineering Enrollment 17 th in Nation for Number of Engineering Degrees Granted to African-Americans 19 th in Nation for Number of BS Engineering Degrees Granted 2010 ASEE Rankings