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Faculty Senate Report March 20, 2014. President’s Report March 20, 2014. Faculty Senate Report March 20, 2014. Awards: NSF CAREER, Yiyu Shi, ECE Advisor Awards New Advisor: Stephen Tupper , S&T Student Veterans Association
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Faculty Senate Report March 20, 2014 President’s ReportMarch 20, 2014
Faculty Senate Report March 20, 2014 • 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 • 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 • 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 • Intercampus Faculty Council: • IFC Task Force on workload policy draft report to President Wolfe • Legislature • State budget may include 3-5% increase for higher ed; we’ll know in early May • 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 • 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