1. President’s Report June 19, 2014 Faculty Senate Report June 19, 2014

2. Intercampus Faculty Council: IFC Task Force on workload policy report to Chairs IT security training modules sent to IFC (only?) yesterday Course Sharing Proposals: hoped 15 courses, received 17 proposals for 29 courses, funded 25. Fitness for Duty policy in draft form Discussions: post-tenure and post-full professor retirement in place, ideas of additional promotion Tonight, 5 of 11 President’s Awards to S&T faculty Elmore, Cross-Cultural Engagement Dawes, Early Career Excellence Crow, Leadership Ma, Mentoring Gregg, Jefferson Award Faculty Senate Report June 19, 2014

3. Intercampus Faculty Council: Title IX: all are mandated reporters, task force working on training and interpretation of President’s order State appropriation good (+5%), or maybe not (Governor, veto override, revenue growth reality), System says: 1-1.5% increase to general pool $18 million strategic funding expected available 2% cut for strategic match expected Merit increases from 3% budget reallocation IFC promoting in-dep’t transparency in evaluation and merit raises; ‘productive’ oft excludes service, instead do not promote useless volunteerism Faculty Senate Report June 19, 2014

4. Intercampus Faculty Council: System continues to push patents as component of dossier, IFC replies no ban on patent inclusion Some IFC members dislike President’s “Flagship University” April BOC received ‘report’ on administrative hiring (Chronicle article): UM spends 77% of budget on “core mission”, peers: 72% Last 5 years, 19.6% degree ↑ at 3.7% ↓ in $/degree UM overall 51% of employees academic, public research universities average 47% Faculty Senate Report June 19, 2014

5. Faculty Senate Report June 19, 2014 Chart from President Wolfe’s April BOC presentation

6. Cumulative Growth in Academic and Staff headcount to Student FTE over previous 5 years 13.5% 4.7% - 2.5% Chart from President Wolfe’s April BOC presentation Limited Raises and Instituted Hiring Freezes System-wide, 2002 to 2012, student-to-faculty ratio increased from 17.4 to 19.7 Deferred Plant Maintenance and Renewal: Backlog of M&R needs increased $479M between 2008 and 2013 Faculty Senate Report June 19, 2014

7. Low Administrative Cost in Peer Group – Benchmarked to Other Public Flagships in Recent WSJ Article & SEC AAU Members Source: Avg. 2009-2011 Academic and Administrative Support as % of Total Expenditures from IPEDS AAU Median

8. Our People – System and Campuses Staff by Function, Campus to CampusUMKC 1260; 15% UMSL 930; 11% UM 430; 5% MU 5160; 60% S&T 850; 10%

9. Campus: Enrollment growth. June 16 data vs. last year: +132 freshmen (+ 105 PRO tomorrow), >10% growth -35 transfers, ~14% shrink +20 grad (total 97 admit, 35 on campus), 26% growth 1471/1354 = 8.6% increase Overall enrollment up 2-3% estimated No dep’t capacity values, some, esp. in ABS, have room IT working on 7-yr gradebook retention Deans: Tenure (Policy) Committee P&T process back from General Counsel, edits not principles and process, instead making wording more lawyeresque Two proposed amendments to CRR with RP&A, special Gen Fac meeting next week expected Faculty Senate Report June 19, 2014