Purdue University Senate Meeting October 15, 2012

Acting President Tim Sands Challenges: MOOCs maximize IT benefit to on-campus students on-line Hybrid/flip courses scientific assessment certify outcomes maintain (or exceed) current Purdue standards Financial State support 2002 vs enrollment +7% - support -12% enrollment +13%- Support -20% Student loan defaults PU, IU < 3% regionals ~ 10% IVY Tech/ Vincennes > 20%

Paul Robinson Data Administrators +54% Non Tenure Track Lect +50% (Many Part Time) Tenure Track Faculty +8% All Teaching Entities 0% Grad Teaching Assist -17% Clerical Staff -19.5%

Tuition fees Senate Chair, J. Paul Robinson’s report

Increase in faculty and administrative positions during the last decade U. Of Virginia, Stanford, and Yale data from: Ginsberg, Benjamin (2011). The Fall of the Faculty : The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why It Matters. Oxford University Press. The Purdue data:

Trimester proposal Initiated by white paper authored by Tim Sands 18% net increase in revenue after hiring 50% more faculty target date st summer school must increase from 7% of fall to 35% 2011 model produced only 1.1% increase 2013 model changes better scheduling increased incentives for faculty clear class cancellation dates Will the trimester work here? 60 US universities have tried it. A Canadian university is using it. Popular in Europe. ‘Just looking backward may cause us to be backward in the future’