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Faculty Senate Report June 19, 2014. President’s Report June 19, 2014. Faculty Senate Report June 19, 2014. Intercampus Faculty Council: IFC Task Force on workload policy report to Chairs IT security training modules sent to IFC (only?) yesterday
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Faculty Senate Report June 19, 2014 President’s ReportJune 19, 2014
Faculty Senate Report June 19, 2014 • 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 • 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 • 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 ReportJune 19, 2014 Chart from President Wolfe’s April BOC presentation
Faculty Senate Report June 19, 2014 Cumulative Growth in Academic and Staff headcount to Student FTE over previous 5 years 13.5% 4.7% - 2.5% 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 Chart from President Wolfe’s April BOC presentation
Low Administrative Cost in Peer Group – Benchmarked to Other Public Flagships in Recent WSJ Article & SEC AAU Members AAU Median Source: Avg. 2009-2011 Academic and Administrative Support as % of Total Expenditures from IPEDS
Our People – System and CampusesStaff by Function, Campus to Campus UM 430; 5% UMSL 930; 11% UMKC 1260; 15% S&T 850; 10% MU 5160; 60%
Faculty Senate Report June 19, 2014 • 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