Provost ReportDr. Robert Marley

Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor or Academic AffairsSept. 17, 2015

State performance funding:FY14 - state approved 3%FY15 - state approved 5%FY16 - state approved 1.3%

* Additional state funding: Experimental Mine building $1.2 million Schrenk Hall $12.1 million

FY16FY14

Leverage S&T as Missouri’s technological research university

$2,570,000

Apply technology to enhance learning and productivity

$132,000

Improve learning laboratories

$500,000

Total $3,202,000

FY15

Doctoral student recruitment and retention

$3,047,550

Investment in signature areas

$1,493,300

Total $4,540,850

State of the University

will detail FY16 funding

Strategic Initiative Funding

• Goal to add at least 100 additional faculty by 2020, many in Signature Areas

• We hired 25 new faculty last year

• We are in the process of hiring 8 additional faculty and planning an additional 12-14

ADDITIONAL HIRES2014-15

ACTIVE SEARCHES

2020 GOAL

PLANNED SEARCHES 2015-16

2012 Faculty

Number of T/TT faculty - 285

Number of women T/TT faculty - 56

Number of ranked NTT faculty - 41

2014 Faculty

Number of T/TT faculty - 296

Number of women T/TT faculty - 63

Number of ranked NTT faculty - 46

Numbers take into account any faculty who retires, accepted another position etc. Does not demonstrate new faculty lines

Net Changes

DEPARTMENT TENURE-TRACKEngineering Management Zeyi SunPhysics Daniel FischerBiological Sciences Julie SemonElectrical Engineering Victor KhilkevichMining & Nuclear Engineering Catherine JohnsonChemistry Risheng WangCivil Engineering Wen DengGeo Science Peyman HeidarMechanical Engineering Xian HuangMechanical Engineering Charles WojnarComputer Science Simone SilvestriComputer Science Abu Sayeed Saifullah

DEPARTMENT NON TENURE-TRACKComputer Science Bushra AnjumElectrical Engineering Amardeep KaurChemical Engineering Christi Patton LuksHistory/Teacher Ed Program Mandy WelchMatls Sci & Engineering Ipek YucelenMatls Sci & Engineering Bingqi Zhang

SIGNATURE AREA TENURE-TRACKAdvanced Manufacturing Lianyi Chen

Jie HuangAdvanced Materials Aditya Kumar Hongyan MiaExtreme Environments Vadym Mochalin Alexsandr Chernatynskiy

Joseph Graham

Number of T/TT – 19Number of NTT – 6

Number of T/TT – 19Number of NTT – 6

New Faculty Lines in 2014-15

Active SearchesCivil EngineeringPsychological ScienceMechanical EngineeringAdvanced ManufacturingAdvanced MaterialsSmart LivingSmart LivingSmart Living

Planned SearchesJoint MUJoint MUNational Academy Stature for Advanced ManufacturingNational Academy Stature for Advanced Materials for Sustainable InfrastructureNational Academy Stature for Enabling Materials for Extreme Environments$900,000 for 7-9 new faculty lines

8 Active Searches

12-14 Planned Searches

New Faculty Lines - Searches

New base “bumps” for promotion (FY17) $3K - $5K associate/tenure $4K - $10K full professor

FY15-16 (base) 1.5% merit pool $230K additional market/merit Academic unit award

Post-tenure excellence award (base) $100K pool (criteria to be developed)

National Awards of Distinction (base) $25K pool (criteria to be developed)

NTT promotion “bumps”

Individual retention offers

Faculty Retention Efforts

Administration Headcount

Executive/Administrator/Manager

2012 – 132

2013 – 151

2014 – 166

Examples of Administrators hired since 2012:

Student Support Services (7)

IT (14)

Retiree Medical Study Objectives Ensure retirees and university are getting the most for their dollar

Affordable, accessible retiree medical plans are now available in the market

Taking advantage of options such as Medicare subsidies could lower costs

Ensure university can continue insurance benefits (medical, dental, life) for current retirees By 2019, the liability for current and future retiree medical benefits

will be over $1 billion, increasing to $4.5 billion in 30 years Recent finalized Governmental Accounting Standards Board

(GASB) ruling means the university will need to begin fund the liability

This is additional money that will increase the benefit rate

Retiree Medical Study Objectives This has nothing to do with the Retirement Plan – only the

medical benefits plan for future retirees They are going out to bid and find new better plans for current

retirees medical benefit plans and those will be in place January 2017 which will lower their costs

No change on current retirees Total Rewards Advisory Committee will be working to decide

what, when and how is the best way to go forward with who will still receive medical benefits when they retire and when it will be cut off They will give no less than two years notice

They will provide experts to walk you through one on one on how it affects your pension

They understand this is a big decision they are making and is extremely emotional

Division Updates

• Yinfa Ma (Chemistry) has been issued a patent for his method and apparatus for cancer screening

• Gerald Cohen (Arts, Languages, and Philosophy) was the first recipient of the Frederic G. Cassidy Award for Distinguished Achievement in Lexicography or Lexicology

• Amber Henslee (Psychological Science) and Eric Bryan (English and Technical Communication) will participate in the CASB Summer e-Fellows program, a new pilot program within the College

• Jeanne Stanley (Arts, Languages, and Philosophy) is producing and directing a production of Good Kids, a play about sexual assault that will increase campus awareness and participation in bystander intervention practices

• John McManus (History and Political Science) has received an NEH grant for $50,400 for his project titled, “The U.S. Army in the Pacific/Asia Theater in World War II”

College of Arts, Sciences, and Business

• New department chairs:

Shannon Fogg, History and Political Science

Yue-Wern Huang, Interim, Biological Sciences

Susan Murray, Interim, Psychological Science

LTC Otis Register, Military Science – Army

Lt. Col. William Bragg, Aerospace Studies – Air Force

College of Arts, Sciences, and Business

• Suzie Long is now the interim chair of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering

• Doug Carroll is now the acting chair of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering

• Final ABET reports for the Engineering and Computing programs have been received. Missouri S&T was the largest program review of any U.S. institution in the last year. All our programs were reaccredited

College of Engineering and Computing

Service Learning Symposium • September 29, 2015 – St. Pat’s A&B – 8:00am-2:00pm – Breakfast & Lunch

• Keynote Speaker: Dr. S. David Mitchell, Associate Professor of Law, UMCo His research focuses primarily on the collateral consequences that attach upon conviction,

specifically the impact of such laws on the African-American community and the legal obstacles that prevent ex-offenders from successfully reintegrating back into society. 

• Speakers: Faculty, Staff, Students and Community Partners

Math Assistance where Success Happens (MASH)• Supplemental optional program with trained peer mentors working with small

learning groups outside of classo 162 students signed up to participate in Fall 2015o 11 hourly sessions held weekly starting September 8

Office of Undergraduate Studies

• Graduate Degrees Awarded:

• Graduate Learning Outcomes (GLO):– Establishing a standardized rubric to be used during M.S Thesis Defense, Ph.D.

Comprehensive Exam, and Ph.D. Final Defense.– Enables us to complete a campus evaluation, rather than only department-specific

evaluations, on how our students are developing in relation to the four GLO criteria.– Imperative to Higher Learning Commission (HLC) accreditation

• New Graduate Student Orientation Sept. 2: 94 students in attendance

• Thesis/Dissertation Boot Camp: – Sept. 11-18, 2015: 20 students registered - FULL– Nov. 6-13, 2015: 10 students registered; only 10 more spots available

• Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition coming Fall 2015 for graduate students

Office of Graduate StudiesSpring 2015 Summer 2015

Doctoral 43 30

Master’s 325 75

• 8,738 – Total enrollment at the end of 1st week of classes. Project 8,900 by 4th weeko 1,490 – First-time college (passed 1981 record of 1,488)o 429 – New transfer students o 494 – New graduate students

• New record high numbers for total enrollment, first-time college, Hispanic, Asian-American, underrepresented minority, and female students

• Upcoming events:o Saturday, September 26 – Open Houseo Wednesday, October 7 – Majors and Minors

Enrollment Management

Office of Sponsored Programs• Summary of FY15 activities year-to-date (June)

– Number of funded proposals down 14% for a total of 225

• Total dollars is $30.3M which is up 17%

– Number of new proposals submitted is up 10% at 543

• Total dollars is $179M which is up 55%

– Number of active awards is down by 8% at 566

– Total expenditures is $40.3M which is down 8%

– Net grant and contract expenditures is $33.4M which is down 10%

– F&A recovered is $6.5M which is down 12%

Construction on new café has started– Slated to end 10/21– Construction 10 pm – 8 am– No change to entrances or hours

August Upgrade to Inter-Library Loan serviceNumbers are encouraging. August, 2015: – 237 article requests – 95% fill rate of articles– 11.5 hours, turn-around time*

(*clock starts when the article is sourced and stops when PDF is delivered to S&T)

Curtis Laws Wilson Library