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

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

3. Faculty Activities System(FAS) Replacement to FAS is being considered
Faculty Senate Report
November 15, 2012
IFC
IFC meetings on October 24th and November 14th
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

4. 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. 6th meeting. (more on Chancellor’s report).

5. 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

6. Faculty Senate Report
November 15, 2012
IFC
.Start date for MU, UMSL, S&T for 2014 is August 25th.
.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