FACULTY SENATE MEETING April 11, 2012

Thank you for your patience and understanding as we experience growth pains

TAP Report found at chancellor.uark.edu

Put students first by enhancing academic programs, creating an engaging campus life, keeping costs as low as possible and reducing obstacles to student success. Be transparent and accountable to the people of Arkansas in all decision- making. Increase overall enrollment while remaining the school of choice for the state’s most gifted students; provide a concomitant increase in faculty and staff. Enhance diversity by attracting more students, faculty and staff from underrepresented groups and by nurturing intercultural understanding inside and outside the classroom. Improve graduation rates and degree-completion times. Provide highly competitive compensation packages for the purpose of recruiting and retaining the very best faculty, staff and graduate students. Increase funding in both research awards and federal research expenditures.

Marshal the university’s expertise, programs, faculty, staff and students to grow the state’s knowledge-based economy and to address major issues confronting Arkansas and the world. Provide a superior campus landscape and environment by planning for and carrying out the continuous renewal and renovation of existing facilities and the designing and building of new world-class facilities. Pursue a consistent and aggressive program for the maintenance and improvement of the institution’s libraries and technology resources. Promote environmental sustainability. Establish and market a quality brand reputation for the university statewide, nationally and internationally. Foster the arts on campus and throughout the region. Expand outreach through distance education and partnerships with other institutions. Grow public support and the endowment through enhanced relationships with constituents and sound investment strategies.

High priority in TAP Grow enrollment

Why grow enrollment? Commitment to educate more citizens Increase percentage of Arkansans with bachelor’s degrees Thank goodness for West Virginia Hold down tuition increases Helps pay for faculty salary increases Saved our bacon last six years—only $837,000 in new funds from state

Growth rate has occurred faster than anticipated Lottery UA institution of first choice Quality professional enrollment management

Must put elements in place to cope with growth

Faculty and Staff Have added almost 50 new tenure- track faculty Have added approximately 100 non tenure-track faculty Commitment to continue adding faculty Also, need to add staff in key support areas

Salary increase for faculty and staff We’ve improved from 13% below SREB Average to 9% on full professor salaries Small improvements on associate and assistant professor salaries Need to do better—difficult without state support

New Facilities & Expansions Hillside Auditorium Vol Walker and addition Ozark and addition Peabody Hall Epley Center New fitness center in Arkansas Union New technology computer center in Union Jean Tyson Child Development Study Center

Facilities Administrative Services Building Hotz Hall, Brough addition, others Refurbishment of existing labs and classrooms Cato Springs Research Center Southwestern Energy Building

Future Needs Memorial Hall Fine Arts Building Engineering Home Economics Agriculture New Concert Hall Lab and Classroom space

Next Steps: Continued growth 27,000-28,000 students? Quality of freshman class Changes to New Arkansan Scholarship Award Provost Gaber and Dean Shields working to increase grad enrollment—20%-22% of student body

Act 1163 Requires state-supported higher education institutions to present expenditure data on a web site operated by the institution. The University will implement the requirements of the act beginning with 2012 fiscal year information.

What this means to you: Every purchase order and salary payment will be documented on-line. Increased transparency More questions about spending and more scrutiny

Questions?

FACULTY SENATE MEETING April 11, 2012