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)

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 be 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 Arts, Sciences, and Business

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-Maker- Collision 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. College of Engineering and Computing

Missouri S&T Undergraduate Research Conference 110 Students Participated in 98 Projects on April 15 th, 2015 Student Design & Experiential Learning Center Advanced Aero Vehicle Group – Airplane Aero Design West Competition – April 24-26, 2015 Concrete Canoe ASCE Conference Regional Competition – April 25-26, 2015 Human Powered Vehicle Human powered Vehicle Challenge West – April 24-26, 215 Steel Bridge ASCE Conference Regional Competition – April 23-25, 2015 Hit the Ground Running (HGR) – July 12-31, 2015 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 Undergraduate Studies

The 6 th Annual Chancellor’s Fellows Research Poster Session was held on February 23 rd with 42 posters presented. –The Awards Banquet for the winners of the Poster Session was held on March 9 th. The following awards given: 1 st Place- Daniel Field, Metallurgical Engineering, PhD 2 nd Place- Cory Reed, Geology & Geophysics, PhD 3 rd 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 2 nd Graduate Leadership Development Program (GLDP) met March at UMKC - Focused on entrepreneurship and management Thesis/Dissertation Boot Camp March students attended April is Graduate Education Month –A complete list of scheduled events is available at Office of Graduate Studies

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. Enrollment Management

Office of Sponsored Programs Summary of FY15 activities year-to-date (March) –Number of funded proposals down 16% for a total of 177 Total dollars is $25.2M which is up 16% –Number of new proposals submitted is up 3% at 439 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%

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 Curtis Laws Wilson Library