Faculty Senate Meeting February 18, 2010

Agenda I. Call to Order and Roll Call N. Book, Secretary II. Approval of January 21, 2010 meeting 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 January 21, 2010 meeting 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 January 21, 2010 meeting minutes III. Campus Reports and Responses A. President’s Report M. Schulz B. Administrative Report J.Carney/B.Schwartz C. Staff Council Report W. Jadwin D. Student CouncilP. Voss E. Council of Grad. StudentsR. Akella IV. Reports of Standing and Special Committees V. Old Business VI. New Business and Announcements VII. Adjourn

President's Report  BOC meeting on S&T campus on April 15 and 16. FS will probably host luncheon on Thursday (instead of breakfast). Presentation by Jerri Arnold-Cook (AA office) on Student Leadership Development  Budget: no indication for withholdings, cautious optimism that Governor will honor deal with UM. But still significant concern especially about FY 12.  Benefits survey now open  Bylaws changes approved by BOC at January meeting

President's Report  Minor degree for students in corporative engineering program at MSU: allow those students to get MSU minor?  From IFC: other campuses are pushing for possibility to include non-married living partners in benefits plan. Alternative that is used at other institutions: Employee+1. Allows to include the employee plus one additional person living in your household in benefits plan. Referred to Personnel Committee.

Agenda I. Call to Order and Roll Call II. Approval of January 21, 2010 meeting minutes III. Campus Reports and Responses A. President’s Report M. Schulz B. Administrative Report J.Carney/K. Wray C. Staff Council Report W. Jadwin D. Student CouncilP. Voss E. Council of Grad. StudentsR. Akella IV. Reports of Standing and Special Committees V. Old Business VI. New Business and Announcements VII. Adjourn

Faculty Senate Report Warren K. Wray Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs February 18, 2010

 Curriculum »MS in Explosives Engineering was approved by the Board of Curators at the January meeting. »Special program – Sustainability Minor – election completed; committee formed to develop proposal  Faculty Activities »Third year review process (14 faculty members) initiated. »Successful awards banquet completed; meeting scheduled to review opportunities to improve banquet and process. Office of Academic Affairs

Global Learning  Missouri S&T’s Distance and Continuing Education works with professional societies and campus departments to promote and organize conferences and courses.  Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering teamed with the Association of State Dam Safety Officials to schedule technical seminars:  Kentucky – October, 2009  Louisiana – February, 2010  California – March, 2010  North Carolina – June, 2010

Global Learning  The production of international conferences is also bring more exposure to S&T. The two most recent are:  The Sixth International Phytotechnologies Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, December 1 – 4, 2009, organized by Joel Burken  Fifth International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics, May 24-29, 2010, San Diego, California organized by Shamsher Prakash

 Launched the Council of Graduate Students Grad Chat session for prospective/admitted students  Targeted 3204 prospective International students (using GRE name search) for webinar sessions. Office of Graduate Studies

International Affairs  Study Abroad »To Missouri S&T –7 Exchange students from Hong Kong, Italy, Singapore, France & Germany »From Missouri S&T –6 Exchange students - 2 in Spain & 4 in Hong Kong –3 students on Missouri-London Program –In January 2010, 19 students participated in short-term study abroad or experiential learning programs in Bolivia & Guatemala  Linkage Agreements »Memorandum of Understanding was signed with Central University of Technology (Bloemfontein, South Africa)

Office of Sponsored Programs  FY10 activities through January and a year-over-year comparison are as follows: »Proposals awarded in total dollars: $35.5M (up 12.3%) »Number of proposals awarded and amendments: 198 (down 14.7%) »Proposals submitted in total dollars: $97.4M (up 8%) »Number of proposals submitted: 294 (down 8.4%) »Research expenditures: $27.7M (up 21.7%) »F&A recovered: $4.3M (up 10.7%) »Number of active awards: 612 (up 0.5%)

Congratulations to …  Joshua Rovey, selected to receive AFOSR Young Investigator Research Program award, “Energy Conversion and Loss Processes in Heavy Gas, Field-Reversed Configuration Electric Thruster Plasma,” $360,000  Maciej Zawodniok, selected to receive NSF CAREER award, ”Back- scatter Propagation-based Multi-hop Networks for Battery-less Devices,” $400,000  James Stoffer, Eric Morris and Scott Hayes, 1 “Corrosion Resistant Coatings Containing Carbon,” US Patent 7,601,425  Kent Peaslee, David Robertson and Lifeng Zhang, “Continuous Steel Production and Apparatus,” US Patent 7,618,582  Shi Zhang, Gregory Hilmas and William Fahrenholtz, “Reaction Sintered Zirconium Carbide/Tungsten Composite Bodies and a Method of Making the Same,” US Patent 7,648, Late Drs. Thomas O’Keefe and Pu Yu are also co-inventors on this patent

Office of Undergraduate Studies 3 rd Annual Teaching and Learning Technology Conference, March “Cyberlearning” sponsored by EdTech with CERTI assisting. Keynote is Dr. Joel Hartman, Vice Provost for Information Technologies and Resources, University of Central Florida. Hartman has been instrumental in leading UCF in online and blended learning. Joel HartmanUniversity of Central Florida 6 th Annual Undergraduate Research Conference, Wednesday, April 7 students will showcase research efforts. Registration deadline is March 16. Interested in serving as a faculty judge? Please Melissa Hutton at

Office of Undergraduate Studies Teacher Education Program: Feb. 1, we welcomed Dr. Jana Neiss, Director of Teacher Education. Neiss served Drury University’s Rolla campus from and as director of the St. Robert, Ft. Leonard Wood, and Rolla campuses since Neiss earned her doctorate from the University of Missouri, master's from Pittsburg State University, and bachelor's from Ozark Bible College and can be reached at x4692. Office of Undergraduate Studies: Jan. 11, we welcomed Gayatri Bhatt, Assistant to the Vice Provost. Since 2005, Bhatt served UMKC Foundation and the School of Education impacting millions in private support and a record alumni participation rate. Bhatt earned her bachelor’s from Missouri S&T and master’s in Higher Education Administration from UMKC and can be reached at x7600 or

Agenda I. Call to Order and Roll Call II. Approval of January 21, 2010 meeting minutes III. Campus Reports and Responses A. President’s Report M. Schulz B. Administrative Report J.Carney/B.Schwartz C. Staff Council Report W. Jadwin D. Student CouncilP. Voss E. Council of Grad. StudentsR. Akella IV. Reports of Standing and Special Committees V. Old Business VI. New Business and Announcements VII. Adjourn

Staff Council Staff Day Preparations -received cash and verbal pledges to help support Staff Excellence Awards Human Resource Services Employee Development Advisory Committee Pilot Program-March 1 st thru May 28 th -determine if e-learning can be a valuable resource for training and professional development Haiti Relief Donations = $175

Agenda I. Call to Order and Roll Call II. Approval of January 21, 2010 meeting minutes III. Campus Reports and Responses A. President’s Report M. Schulz B. Administrative Report K. Wray C. Staff Council Report W. Jadwin D. Student CouncilP. Voss E. Council of Grad. StudentsR. Akella IV. Reports of Standing and Special Committees V. Old Business VI. New Business and Announcements VII. Adjourn

Student Council Report  Student Body President Campaigning  Dead Week Policy

Agenda I. Call to Order and Roll Call II. Approval of January 21, 2010 meeting minutes III. Campus Reports and Responses A. President’s Report M. Schulz B. Administrative Report K. Wray C. Staff Council Report W. Jadwin D. Student CouncilP. Voss E. Council of Grad. StudentsR. Akella IV. Reports of Standing and Special Committees V. Old Business VI. New Business and Announcements VII. Adjourn

Council of Graduate Students  Suhas Nerella- on behalf of Ravi Akella  Graduate Research Showcase will be held as a part of Graduate studies week during April 12- April 16, 2010  We are working with Graduate student council at Mizzou in co-organizing this event.  Working with Office of Graduate Studies in organizing chat sessions for prospective students to S&T.  CGS News letter for FY will be released in March 2010.

Agenda I. Call to Order and Roll Call II. Approval of January 21, 2010 meeting minutes III. Campus Reports and Responses IV. Reports of Standing and Special Committees A. RP&A G. Gelles B. Curricula K. Nisbett C. Public OccasionsD. Westenberg D. Budgetary AffairsB. Hale E. Administrative ReviewS.N. Balakrishnan F. Ad-Hoc Teaching EvaluationK. Kosbar G. Academic Freedom and Standards L. Haynes V. Old Business VI. New Business and Announcements VII. Adjourn

RP&A Conflict of Interest Committee There is presently a vacancy on the Conflict of Interest Committee as a result of Dr. Don Myers passing away. RP&A is nominating Professor Wayne Huebner for the vacant position. Members of the Faculty Senate may nominate others for this position.

 RP&A Referral to Budgetary Affairs It has been reported that President Forsee has considered the possibility of UM-System campuses offering a 2% raise for faculty and staff for the next year. In light of this, RP&A passed a resolution that refers to the Budgetary Affairs Committee the task of studying potential impacts of a 2% salary raise for S&T employees for the upcoming year. RP&A

Referral to Academic Freedom and Standards Committee (AFSC) Common Exams It was brought to the attention of RP&A that common exams administered during the semester could create conflicts with regularly-scheduled evening classes. The potential conflicts may not be detected when students register for the evening classes so students may have to schedule alternative test times or the instructors of the evening classes may have to allow excused absences. RP&A passed a resolution to refer this matter to the Academic Freedom and Standards Committee for consideration and report.

RP&A Referral to Student Affairs Committee Student Organizations RP&A passed a motion to refer to the Student Affairs Committee the task of evaluating and reporting on the present approval process for a student organization to be officially recognized.

RP&A Referral to Personnel Committee “Employee + 1” Concept Professor Isaac indicated that there was a discussion at IFC concerning the “Employee + 1” concept in which an employee of he UM-System would be able to designate one person to include in their benefits program. A motion was passed at RP&A to refer the issue to the Personnel Committee for consideration and report.

Agenda I. Call to Order and Roll Call II. Approval of January 21, 2010 meeting minutes III. Campus Reports and Responses IV. Reports of Standing and Special Committees A. RP&A G. Gelles B. Curricula K. Nisbett C. Public OccasionsD. Westenberg D. Budgetary AffairsB. Hale E. Administrative ReviewS.N. Balakrishnan F. Ad-Hoc Teaching EvaluationK. Kosbar G. Academic Freedom and Standards L. Haynes V. Old Business VI. New Business and Announcements VII. Adjourn

Curricula Committee Report Feb. 18, 2010  The Curricula Committee recommends approval of the DCs and CCs in the distributed. It includes: »1 Degree Change (DC) form –Curriculum changes to BA in History »7 Course Change (CC) forms »3 Experimental Course (EC) forms (informational only)

Agenda I. Call to Order and Roll Call II. Approval of January 21, 2010 meeting minutes III. Campus Reports and Responses IV. Reports of Standing and Special Committees A. RP&A G. Gelles B. Curricula K. Nisbett C. Public OccasionsD. Westenberg D. Budgetary AffairsB. Hale E. Administrative ReviewS.N. Balakrishnan F. Ad-Hoc Teaching EvaluationK. Kosbar G. Academic Freedom and Standards L. Haynes V. Old Business VI. New Business and Announcements VII. Adjourn

FALL SEMESTER 2011 International Student OrientationAugust 9, Tuesday Freshman Orientation BeginsAugust 14, Sunday Transfer Student OrientationAugust 18, Thursday Open Registration EndsAugust 21, Sunday Fall semester opens 8:00 a.m.August 22, Monday Classwork begins 8:00 a.m.August 22, Monday Labor Day HolidaySeptember 5, Monday Mid-SemesterOctober 15, Saturday Thanksgiving vacation begins 8:00 a.m.November 20, Sunday Thanksgiving vacation ends 8:00 a.m.November 28, Monday Last Class DayDecember 9, Friday Final Examinations begin 8:00 a.m.December 12, Monday Final Examinations end 6:00 p.m.December 16, Friday Fall Semester closes 6:00 p.m.December 16, Friday December CommencementDecember 17, Saturday

International Student OrientationJanuary 3, Tuesday Open Registration EndsJanuary 8, Sunday Spring semester opens 8:00 a.m.January 9, Monday Classwork begins 8:00 a.m.January 9, Monday Martin Luther King, Jr. Recognition HolidayJanuary 16, Monday Mid-SemesterMarch 3, Saturday Spring Recess begins 8:00 a.m.March 15, Thursday Spring Recess ends 8:00 a.m.March 19, Monday Spring Break begins 8:00 a.m.March 25, Sunday Spring Break ends 8:00 a.m.April 2, Monday Last Class DayApril 27, Friday Final Examinations begin 8:00 a.m.April 30, Monday Final Examinations end 6:00 p.m.May 4, Friday Spring Semester closes 6:00 p.m.May 4, Friday May Commencement – Graduate CeremonyMay 4, Friday May Commencement - Undergraduate CeremonyMay 5, Saturday SPRING SEMESTER 2012

Open Registration EndsJune 3, Sunday Summer session opens 8:00 a.m.June 4, Monday Classwork begins 8:00 a.m.June 4, Monday Independence Day Holiday (observed)July 4, Wednesday Final Examinations begin 8:00 a.m.July 26, Thursday Final Examinations end 12:30 p.m.July 27, Friday Summer Sessions closes 12:30 p.m.July 27, Friday CLASS SESSIONS (EXCLUDING FINAL EXAMINATIONS) MTUWTHFS Fall Semester Spring Semester Summer Semester SUMMER SEMESTER 2012

Agenda I. Call to Order and Roll Call II. Approval of January 21, 2010 meeting minutes III. Campus Reports and Responses IV. Reports of Standing and Special Committees A. RP&A G. Gelles B. Curricula K. Nisbett C. Public OccasionsD. Westenberg D. Budgetary AffairsB. Hale E. Administrative ReviewS.N. Balakrishnan F. Ad-Hoc Teaching EvaluationK. Kosbar G. Academic Freedom and Standards L. Haynes V. Old Business VI. New Business and Announcements VII. Adjourn

Budgetary Affairs

Agenda I. Call to Order and Roll Call II. Approval of January 21, 2010 meeting minutes III. Campus Reports and Responses IV. Reports of Standing and Special Committees A. RP&A G. Gelles B. Curricula K. Nisbett C. Public OccasionsD. Westenberg D. Budgetary AffairsB. Hale E. Administrative ReviewS.N. Balakrishnan F. Ad-Hoc Teaching EvaluationK. Kosbar G. Academic Freedom and Standards L. Haynes V. Old Business VI. New Business and Announcements VII. Adjourn

Administrative Review Committee Report Status Report:  The following administrators have been selected for review this year: VP Allada, VP Krishnamurthy, VC Robinson, VP Schwartz, and Dean Goff  The surveys will be administered anonymously through Blackboard involving all T/TT faculty. Numerical results will be available to the T/TT faculty. Written comments go the administrator reviewed and their direct supervisor.  Self-assessments have been requested from each administrator and information from four of the five administrators have been received.

Administrative Review Committee Report…  The surveys will be available shortly –the Blackboard site is expected to be ready by next week – and then the faculty will have two weeks to complete the surveys.  Information from last year: We had approximately 75 respondents (about 25% of T/TT faculty) of which only 6 were paper surveys (faculty were given a choice between paper and electronic).  PLEASE complete the surveys.

Agenda I. Call to Order and Roll Call II. Approval of January 21, 2010 meeting minutes III. Campus Reports and Responses IV. Reports of Standing and Special Committees A. RP&A G. Gelles B. Curricula K. Nisbett C. Public OccasionsD. Westenberg D. Budgetary AffairsB. Hale E. Administrative ReviewS.N. Balakrishnan F. Ad-Hoc Teaching EvaluationK. Kosbar G. Academic Freedom and Standards L. Haynes V. Old Business VI. New Business and Announcements VII. Adjourn

Faculty Senate Committee Report 2/18/2010 Ad Hoc Committee for Teaching Evaluations

Electronic Evaluation Pilot: Purpose and Setup Phase I of a pilot program to test the feasibility of electronic teaching evaluations is complete. 9 faculty with 12 undergraduate class sections participated in Fall Class size Included upper and lower level courses in a variety of disciplines.

Electronic Evaluation Pilot: Process  Evaluations were created using Qualtrics, an online survey tool.  Students received an including a link to the evaluation survey.  The survey was opened to students on December 2, and remained open until the last class day in December 2009 (almost two weeks).  Students completed the survey on their own time.  Instructors received a Word document summarizing results and listing written student comments.

Electronic Evaluation Pilot: Response Rates There was an expectation of significantly lower response rates if electronic evaluations were used. Response rates for sections in the pilot ranged from %. The average response rate for sections in the pilot was 69%. As per the CET, response rates in the recent past using paper forms is about 70-74%. Self-reported response rates from participating instructors were comparable to their usual rates for the same courses.

Electronic Evaluation Pilot: Participant Feedback Feedback was requested from participants. 6 of 9 instructors and 127 of 599 students responded between 2/8 and 2/11, with the following results. Student confidence in privacy: 89% same or higher (65% same, 24% higher) than with paper Student confidence in accuracy: 90% same or higher (57% same, 33% higher) than with paper Student willingness to switch to electronic: 93% willing (69% prefer electronic, 24% no preference) Instructor willingness to switch to electronic: 100% willing (83% prefer electronic, 17% no preference)

Electronic Evaluation Pilot: Student Feedback Easier to do this on my own time No pressure to complete evaluation in a certain time period Saves paper Can be more thoughtful and thorough with comments Good that it does not take up class time

Electronic Evaluation Pilot: Instructor Feedback More and better quality student comments Easier to read, no handwriting issues or privacy concerns Does not use class time Much easier administratively

Electronic Evaluation Pilot: Future Plans  Phase II of the pilot will be implemented this semester.  An in-house evaluation will be developed through IT instead of the Qualtrics tool.  The question of participant eligibility for teaching awards will be discussed with the CET.  Faculty interested in participating should contact Steph Fitch at Participation may be

Agenda I. Call to Order and Roll Call II. Approval of January 21, 2010 meeting minutes III. Campus Reports and Responses IV. Reports of Standing and Special Committees A. RP&A G. Gelles B. Curricula K. Nisbett C. Public OccasionsD. Westenberg D. Budgetary AffairsB. Hale E. Administrative ReviewS.N. Balakrishnan F. Ad-Hoc Teaching EvaluationK. Kosbar G. Academic Freedom and Standards L. Haynes V. Old Business VI. New Business and Announcements VII. Adjourn

Agenda I. Call to Order and Roll Call II. Approval of January 21, 2010 meeting 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 November 19, 2009 meeting 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 November 19, 2009 meeting minutes III. Campus Reports and Responses IV. Reports of Standing and Special Committees V. Old Business VI. New Business and Announcements VII. Adjourn