President’s Report November 15, 2012 Faculty Senate Report November 15, 2012

Searches CIO search (from Prof. Don Wunsch) 52 candidates 7-10 for first round interview Faculty Senate Report November 15, 2012

IFC IFC meetings on October 24 th and November 14 th Faculty Activities System(FAS) Replacement to FAS is being considered Two software tools are being actively considered; contacting users of those software. Steve Graham has already asked provosts, will do a deans and dept chair focus group and a faculty focus group at each campus, have names from S&T Faculty Senate Report November 15, 2012

IFC President will encourage the legislature to allow a) Bonding issue to provide infrastructure and maintenance funds b) Funding for the STEM initiative Strategy plan to be announced to the BOC at their Dec. 6 th meeting. (more on Chancellor’s report). Faculty Senate Report November 15, 2012

IFC Sponsored Dependent Plan(what we initially proposed).Employee + sponsored dependent(over the age of 18). Should have lived with the employee for atleast 12 months.Cannot be related to the employee by blood.Cannot be medicare eligible. Currently, UM pays 73%; expected to remain the same; medical cost is $135 millions Faculty Senate Report November 15, 2012

IFC.Start date for MU, UMSL, S&T for 2014 is August 25 th..UMKC is not changing its name.UMKC is exploring Trimester system to increase enrollment.NCTQ won a syllabus release case in Minnesota on ‘fair use’ basis Faculty Senate Report November 15, 2012