January 13, 2012 Faculty Meeting

• Good things happening

• Publications

• Money

• UK Core

• Procedures

• Supervising

• Department review

January 13, 2012 Faculty Meeting

• Good things happening

• Publications

• Money

• UK Core

• Procedures

• Supervising

• Department review

Forage Research/Teaching faculty position

Forage Legume Agronomist

Search committee – Tim Phillips, Glen Aiken, Laurie Lawrence, Rebecca McCulley, Ray Smith, Bill Witt, Hongyan Zhu

Recruiting through March 2 - Interviews in April

AWARDS

CAROL and JERRY BASKIN

BILL WITT

JD GREEN

PAUL BERTSCH

MIKE BARRETT

JOE CHAPPELL

ANNE JACK and GLEN WEINBERGER

GRANTS

RAY SMITH

DAVE McNEAR

KTRDC Research Funding –$109,000 for multiple projects involving 9 PSS faculty and staff scientists

Exceptional grant support

Grant support by PSS researchers for the previous five years

Year 2006-2007 2007-2008 2008-2009 2009-2010 2010-2011

$$$ 2,080,000 3,260,000 3,921,000

Exceptional grant support

Grant support by PSS researchers for the previous five years

Year 2006-2007 2007-2008 2008-2009 2009-2010 2010-2011

$$$ 2,080,000 3,260,000 3,921,000 7,587,000 8,419,000

PUBLICATIONS

JASON UNRINE

Peer Review of Teaching

• Bill Witt

• Bob Pearce

• Brad Lee

• Ole Wendroth

• Tasios Karathanasis

• Tom Mueller

January 13, 2012 Faculty Meeting

• Good things happening

• Publications

• Money

• UK Core

• Procedures

• Supervising

• Department review

Declining publication output

Refereed journal publications and book chapters by PSS researchers for the previous five years

Year 2006-2007 2007-2008 2008-2009 2009-2010 2010-2011

Articles per research FTE

2.86 3.33 3.70 2.75 2.33

Mean of CA departments 3.79

Median of CA departments 3.18

Range of CA departments 0.63 – 7.49

Rank among departments 11th of 14

January 13, 2012 Faculty Meeting

• Good things happening

• Publications

• Money

• UK Core

• Procedures

• Supervising

• Department review

Internal departmental proposals for equipment/facilities

• Due January 20

• Advisory committee February 2

• Spend by June 30

• From returned faculty salaries

Grant Reports

• Is the itemized list of charges for grants and cost centers what you need or do you need additional information?

F&A return to department

• Research Enrichment Program ~ 10% return [$80,000]

• At department - if >$500 then 2/3 allocated to PI [$45,000]

• Department [$35,000] – match college Research Activity Awards, seminar speakers, recruiting grad students, equipment

Why do I need a Hatch or Multi-state project? Source $$

State – instruction, research, extension $ 5,361,000

RCTF - faculty $ 297,000

RCTF – student $ 278,000

Federal – Hatch $ 480,000

Federal – Multi-state $ 261,000

Federal – extension $ 270,000

Total $ 6,947,000

Total Federal $ 1,011,000

% Federal ~15%

What do I get?

Other than salaries, what are our big departmental expenses?

Current expense budget – all sources $ 338,000

Item $$ Notes

Communications $101,000 Now pay per person per quarter

Travel $ 80,000 In-state extension $27,000

Other dept. $53,000

Additional grant funded

$34,000

Copiers $ 20,000 64,000 b/w, 4,000 color per month

New managed print services contract projected to cut copy costs by 7%

President Capilouto - budget

• Of the topics Capilouto wants to study, UK's budgeting process could become the most controversial.

• UK does incremental budgeting, in which units have a base budget that is adjusted up or down by a small amount each year, depending on available funding.

• More universities are moving toward resource-based budgeting, which, for example, could base a department's financing on how many students it attracts.

• Capilouto said he wants an "integrated and transparent budgeting system that is in alignment with our mission and values — it allocates resources according to productivity and quality and assigns expenses according to your consumption of resources.“

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Next Steps

2. Renewing the University’s commitment to creating a comprehensive and innovative undergraduate experience– More recruiters in Kentucky and in target markets

– Increasing top scholarships to attract more of Kentucky's outstanding students

– Expand Honors Program

– Increase use of technology in living and learning environments

January 13, 2012 Faculty Meeting

• Good things happening

• Publications

• Money

• UK Core

• Procedures

• Supervising

• Department review

UK Core Courses• Other than PLS 103 and 104 what courses should we

pursue to expand our UK Core course offerings?• Greatest need is for Arts & Creativity

• Chemical Engineering Product and Process Design• A&C Inquiry – Digital mapping• What about

– Designing biological molecules– Creating the perfect plant

– Greater participation in GEN 100 which is a UK Core course?

– New Honors Program courses• No longer tracks• H sections of existing courses or HON courses• Need Natural Science, Social Science, and Arts & Creativity courses

– Plants, Pigs, and People: Genetic Engineering in our Brave New World

January 13, 2012 Faculty Meeting

• Good things happening

• Publications

• Money

• UK Core

• Procedures

• Supervising

• Department review

• January 12, 2012 New ag commissioner seeks audit of department during Richie Farmer's tenure – Issues have been raised about time sheets, travel

vouchers and procard purchases.

• January 13, 2012 Herald-Leader exclusive: Equipment worth nearly $500,000 missing from state Agriculture Department

Provide Meghan pro card paperwork in a timely manner.

Computer orders require a quote from Dell or a web proposal from Apple & Ann places the order.

Any one item over $2K ($1K if it is a computer) requires a quote and Ann places the order.

If you take a guest or recruit out for a meal, turn in the itemized receipt along with the credit card receipt.

Travel exceptions

Alcohol at events

January 13, 2012 Faculty Meeting

• Good things happening

• Publications

• Money

• UK Core

• Procedures

• Supervising

• Department review

January 13, 2012 Faculty Meeting

• Good things happening

• Publications

• Money

• UK Core

• Procedures

• Supervising

• Department review

Self study – suggestions to hire staff

– Hiring a 50% statistical consultant to advise graduate students and faculty members on statistical design and analysis

– Hiring an administrative support assistant focused on 1) grant management and report submission, 2) grant development and consortium coordination.

– Hiring a 50% recruiting coordinator for the HPLS undergraduate program

– Hiring a 50% lecturer to provide a statistical reasoning undergraduate course in the UK Core specific for agriculture students

Self study – Instruction Efforts

– Increasing our contributions to and integration in campus wide education initiatives

– Creating an MS level distance education program with an extension agent focus

– Reviewing graduate courses with the intention of consolidating courses. Offer new courses in cooperation with graduate programs at other universities.

Self study - Research Initiative

• Developing a core analytical facility that can be used for non-targeted chemical analysis of plant and soil samples and that serves the analytical needs of Kentucky agriculture as well as our research programs. Sample analyses on a cost recovery basis would support this facility. We envision a lab space of 1,000 square feet. The facility should have a faculty director and two full-time technical persons. The initial equipment for the facility includes a GC-MS ($150,000 plus $10,000 for an annual service contract) and an HPLC-MS ($250,000 plus $20,000 per year for a service contract). Initial start-up for the unit would be approximately $500,000 for a 3 year period. Then the unit must generate adequate funds to become self-sustaining. This models the AGTC facility available for molecular genetics analyses.

• Enrolling students in the Horticulture, Plant and Soil Science undergraduate program: Do we, with the Department of Horticulture, drop the HPLS undergraduate program? Do we search for alternatives to increase enrollment which would require devoting significant resources to student recruitment. These significant resources could include having participating faculty members adopt a high school for recruiting and science support activities, sharing a recruiting coordinator, targeting scholarships to high school contest winners (such as land judging), guaranteeing jobs in research laboratories, creating a three year curriculum with distance education courses and funded internships for summer credit.

• Organizing our extension faculty to serve the state: Our past has been defined by two extension specialists for most commodity groups. Currently our extension faculty number has been declining. Do we continue with the two specialist model? If we abandon that model how do we maintain a significant presence in west KY? What presence do we maintain at RCARS? Could we fill the void programmatically with extension associates, and do we have the resources to support them if we choose that route?

• Defining our research priorities for future faculty positions: We identified our research diversity and breadth as one of our strengths. But as faculty numbers decrease some areas are left wanting. How do we proceed with defining critical areas for faculty hiring? Do we choose continued breadth or do we concentrate on creating a critical mass of faculty members in specific areas and diminish our breadth? Would targeting specific research areas as strengths enhance our graduate program quality?