1. President’s Report March 20, 2014 Faculty Senate Report March 20, 2014

2. Awards: NSF CAREER, Yiyu Shi, ECE Advisor Awards New Advisor: Stephen Tupper, S&T Student Veterans Association Advisor: Heath Pickerill, Solar House Team, and Walter Bethea, Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers Distinguished Advisor: David Westenberg, International Genetically Engineered Machine Design Team (iGEM) Student Affairs Meritorious Award: Kevin Brady, BBQ Club Faculty Service Learning Award Amber Henslee Jana Neiss Faculty Senate Report March 20, 2014

3. Faculty Awards: Achievement Petra DeWitt Nishant Kumar Eric Showalter Theresa Swift Research Victor Birman Joel Burken Genda Chen Richard Dawes Fatih Dogan Ulrich Jentschura Sanjay Madria David Pommerenke Faculty Senate Report March 20, 2014

4. Faculty Awards: Service Michael Davis Shannon Fogg John Myers Paul Worsey Teaching Diana Ahmad Kelly Homan Irina Ivliyeva John C. McManus Jeff Schramm Faculty Senate Report March 20, 2014

5. Intercampus Faculty Council: IFC Task Force on workload policy draft report to President Wolfe Legislature o State budget may include 3-5% increase for higher ed; we’ll know in early May o 50/50 capital projects may be approved IT security training modules under development, IFC will review and give feedback “Most of IT talent spends all of their effort keeping things running” April BOC to receive report on administrative hiring (Chronicle article) Faculty Senate Report March 20, 2014

6. Campus: Enrollment growth. Mar 15 data: up 2.6-12% vs 3/15/2013 Deans: Tenure (Policy) Committee drafting P&T process; must include Deans by CRR Common Exams: suggest term of enforcement as Spring 2015 Faculty Senate Report March 20, 2014