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Faculty Senate

February 18, 2009
1330 - 204 McNutt Hall
http//facultysenate.mst.edu
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Agenda

• I. Call to Order and Roll Call
• K. M. Isaac, Secretary
• II. Approval of November 20, 2008 meeting
  minutes
• III. Campus Reports and Responses
• IV. Reports of Standing and Special Committees
• V. Old Business
• VI. New Business and Announcements
• VII. Adjourn

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Agenda

• I. Call to Order and Roll Call
• II. Approval of January 22, 2008 meeting minutes
• http//facultysenate.mst.edu/documents/FS.Minutes.
  01.22.09.pdf
• III. Campus Reports and Responses
• IV. Reports of Standing and Special Committees
• V. Old Business
• VI. New Business and Announcements
• VII. Adjourn

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Agenda

• I. Call to Order and Roll Call
• II. Approval of November 20, 2008 meeting minutes
• III. Campus Reports and Responses
• A. Presidents Report D. Carroll
• B. Administrative Report J. Carney/W. Wray
• C. Staff Council Report C. Elmore
• D. Student Council A. Ronchetto
• E. Council of Grad. Students R. Gudavarthy
• IV. Reports of Standing and Special Committees
• V. Old Business
• VI. New Business and Announcements
• VII. Adjourn

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Presidents Report

• Budget Waiting for Legislative/Governor
  Decisions
• Will there be a withholding this spring? If so,
  how much? No change from last month.
• FY 2010 Budget Will probably not know until
  late spring.
• The F Word President Forsee received
  permission from the Board of Curators to
  implement Furloughs or Layoffs, if necessary, to
  balance the Budget. Authority was granted
  through June 30, 2009.

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Presidents Report

• Employee Contributions to Retirement, 1.x
• Retirement Fund 3B June 30, 2007 to 2.1 B Dec
  31, 2008. (900 M loss)
• Annual State Appropriations about 480 M.
• University Budgets about 7 (70 M contribution)
• Annual Payments Benefits - 130 M
• University Payroll 1.5B, Benefits, Part Timers,
  so 1.x is about 15 M.
• Our retirement plan is similar to other plans.
  Are other State employees being asked to take a
  pay cut to fund their retirement?

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President Report

• Justification Most of our peer institutions
  require contributions to retirement.
• Our salaries are not competitive with our peers.
• Total compensation puts us at the bottom of our
  peers.
• If the market comes back quickly
• Special FS Meeting next Tuesday 230 PM in McNutt
  204. Betsy Rodriguez from UM System

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Agenda

• I. Call to Order and Roll Call
• II. Approval of November 20, 2008 meeting minutes
• III. Campus Reports and Responses
• A. Presidents Report D. Carroll
• B. Administrative Report J. Carney/W. Wray
• C. Staff Council Report C. Elmore
• D. Student Council A. Ronchetto
• E. Council of Grad. Students R. Gudavarthy
• IV. Reports of Standing and Special Committees
• V. Old Business
• VI. New Business and Announcements
• VII. Adjourn

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Chancellor Carney
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Provost Wray
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Agenda

• I. Call to Order and Roll Call
• II. Approval of November 20, 2008 meeting minutes
• III. Campus Reports and Responses
• A. Presidents Report D. Carroll
• B. Administrative Report J. Carney/W. Wray
• C. Staff Council Report C. Elmore
• D. Student Council A. Ronchetto
• E. Council of Grad. Students R. Gudavarthy
• IV. Reports of Standing and Special Committees
• V. Old Business
• VI. New Business and Announcements
• VII. Adjourn

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Staff Council

• Cecilia Elmore--Staff  Council  activities
• Attended HR open forums regarding changes in
  benefit plans, etc.
• Meeting with HLC Accreditation team 2/24/09 to
  discuss staff issues including staff survey
  results
• Meeting with V.P. of HR for UM System, Betsy
  Rodriguez on 2/24 to discuss staff concerns.
• Continued planning for Staff Recognition Day

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Agenda

• I. Call to Order and Roll Call
• II. Approval of November 20, 2008 meeting minutes
• III. Campus Reports and Responses
• A. Presidents Report D. Carroll
• B. Administrative Report J. Carney/W. Wray
• C. Staff Council Report C. Elmore
• D. Student Council A. Ronchetto
• E. Council of Grad. Students R. Gudavarthy
• IV. Reports of Standing and Special Committees
• V. Old Business
• VI. New Business and Announcements
• VII. Adjourn

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Student Council

• Student Body President Elections
• Voting open to undergraduate and graduate
  students
• From 800AM on February 23 through 400PM on
  February 27
• Student Representative to the Board of Curators
• Term August 2009 July 2011
• Application Deadline February 27, 2009
• CDC Student Leaders Awards
• Remarkable Student Group
• Most Improved Organization
• Group and Individual Community Service
• Most Spirited Missouri Miner
• Outstanding Student Advocate
• Extraordinary Faculty/Staff
• Diversity Recognition
• The Keystone
• Extraordinary Student Leadership Award

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Agenda

• I. Call to Order and Roll Call
• II. Approval of November 20, 2008 meeting minutes
• III. Campus Reports and Responses
• A. Presidents Report D. Carroll
• B. Administrative Report J. Carney/W. Wray
• C. Staff Council Report C. Elmore
• D. Student Council A. Ronchetto
• E. Council of Grad. Students R. Gudavarthy
• IV. Reports of Standing and Special Committees
• V. Old Business
• VI. New Business and Announcements
• VII. Adjourn

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Council of Graduate Students

• Survey for the graduate student satisfaction
  is getting ready to be sent out to list server.
• CGS is planning to have a series of guest
  lectures during the graduate studies week.
• Graduate students have shown concern regarding
  the pre completion OPT rule. CGS plans to talk to
  academic council regarding this issue.
• CGS is working with graduate studies office and
  admissions office to increase the graduate
  student enrollment
• Dr. Goodman was invited to talk to graduate
  students about the recent changes in student
  health facilities.

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Agenda

• I. Call to Order and Roll Call
• II. Approval of November 20, 2008 meeting minutes
• III. Campus Reports and Responses
• IV. Reports of Standing and Special Committees
• A. Curricula K. Nisbett
• B. Personnel L. Sotiriou-Leventis
• C. Public Occasions D. Westenberg
• D. RPA F. Blum
• E. Bylaws Committee Update K. Kosbar
• V. Old Business
• VI. New Business and Announcements
• VII. Adjourn

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Curricula

• The Curricula Committee report has been
  distributed. It includes
• 1 Degree Change (DC) form
• DC 0309 New MS in Explosives Engineering
• 140 Course Change (CC) forms
• 133 of these are deletions of old courses
• 2 Experimental Course (EC) forms (informational
  only)

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Curricula

• DC 309 MS in Explosives Engineering
• As new program at graduate level, this needs a
  recommendation from the Graduate Faculty and
  Budgetary Affairs.
• The Graduate Faculty has not yet held its meeting
  to discuss this.
• The Curricula Committee will hold this DC until
  the Faculty Senate meeting in April.

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Curricula

• The Curricula Committee moves for the approval of
  only the Course Change (CC) forms in its report.

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Agenda

• I. Call to Order and Roll Call
• II. Approval of November 20, 2008 meeting minutes
• III. Campus Reports and Responses
• IV. Reports of Standing and Special Committees
• A. Curricula K. Nisbett
• B. Personnel L. Sotiriou-Leventis
• C. Public Occasions D. Westenberg
• D. RPA F. Blum
• E. Bylaws Committee Update K. Kosbar
• V. Old Business
• VI. New Business and Announcements
• VII. Adjourn

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Personnel
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Agenda

• I. Call to Order and Roll Call
• II. Approval of November 20, 2008 meeting minutes
• III. Campus Reports and Responses
• IV. Reports of Standing and Special Committees
• A. Curricula K. Nisbett
• B. Personnel L. Sotiriou-Leventis
• C. Public Occasions D. Westenberg
• D. RPA F. Blum
• E. Bylaws Committee Update K. Kosbar
• V. Old Business
• VI. New Business and Announcements
• VII. Adjourn

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Public Occasions Add Homecoming to the calendar.

• The resulting Fall 2009 Calendar will be as
  follows.
• FALL SEMESTER 2009
• International Student Orientation August 11,
  Tuesday
• Freshman Orientation Begins August 16, Sunday
• Transfer Student Orientation August 20, Thursday
• Open Registration Ends August 20, Thursday
• Fall semester opens 800 a.m. August 24, Monday
• Classwork begins 800 a.m. August 24, Monday
• Labor Day Holiday September 7, Monday
• Fall Career Fair September 29, Tuesday
• Mid-Semester October 17, Saturday
• Homecoming October 23/24, Friday/Saturday
• Thanksgiving vacation begins 800 a.m. November
  22, Sunday
• Thanksgiving vacation ends 800 a.m. November 30,
  Monday
• Last Class Day December 11, Friday
• Reading Day December 12, Saturday
• Final Examinations begin 800 a.m. December 14,
  Monday
• Final Examinations end 600 p.m. December 18,
  Friday
• Fall Semester closes 600 p.m. December 18,
  Friday

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Agenda

• I. Call to Order and Roll Call
• II. Approval of November 20, 2008 meeting minutes
• III. Campus Reports and Responses
• IV. Reports of Standing and Special Committees
• A. Curricula K. Nisbett
• B. Personnel L. Sotiriou-Leventis
• C. Public Occasions D. Westenberg
• D. RPA F. Blum
• E. Bylaws Committee Update K. Kosbar
• V. Old Business
• VI. New Business and Announcements
• VII. Adjourn

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Rules, Procedures and Agenda

• Special Rule (for Action)
• A substitute for a Faculty Senate Member be
  allowed at a Faculty Senate Meeting if (1) the
  substitute is from the same department as the
  Member and (2) the substitute presents themselves
  to the Secretary as a substitute. Proxy voting
  by any other means is not allowed at Faculty
  Senate Meetings.

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Board of Curators, Feb. 5-6, Columbia
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Board of Curators, Feb. 5-6, Columbia

• From Board Documents
• Due to the downturn in the market, the required
  contribution to the retirement trust fund will
  increase in FY2010 from 5.87 to 6.12 and
  potentially as high as 10 to 13 in subsequent
  years depending on the condition of the financial
  markets. The University will be able to address
  the increase initially within the existing
  benefits budget coupled with a stabilization fund
  that has been established to buffer variations in
  the required contribution due to market
  volatility.

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Board of Curators, Feb. 5-6, Columbia

• From Benefits Presentation
• VALUE An index of 100 indicates the average of
  the peers. So values above 100 would indicate
  the program is above the peer average. An index
  of 104 indicates the value is 4 above the
  average.
• RANK Listed as our place in the list of 15. A
  ranking of 2/3 indicates that we place between
  the 2nd and 3rd highest ranked plans (of the
  peers).

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Board of Curators, Feb. 5-6, Columbia
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Board of Curators, Feb. 5-6, Columbia
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Board of Curators, Feb. 5-6, Columbia

• Allows UM to continue commitment to support
  meaningful pension benefits
• 1 up to 50,000 salary 2 on all salary above
  50,000
• Annual fiscal impact - 11.9 million (based on
  current salaries)
• Employees will contribute on a pre-tax basis

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Board of Curators, Feb. 5-6, Columbia
When UM Share is Less than Budget
When UM Share is Greater than Budget
Total Required Contribution 2009 5.87 2010 6.12
2011 8.80 2012 10.7 2013 12.2
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Board of Curators, Feb. 5-6, Columbia

• Delegate authority from Board to President for
• Transition Assistance (action item)
• Furloughs (action item)
• Recommended salary and benefit changes
• Overtime calculation (action item)
• Pension plan change (action item)
• Authority to President to develop a procedure for
  employees who lose jobs due to budget reductions
• Transition Assistance components
• Continued access to medical insurance
• Severance pay based on years of university
  service, with cap
• Available only to staff

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Board of Curators, Feb. 5-6, Columbia

• That the President, on an annual basis, shall
  present a review of the Universitys benefit and
  compensation strategies, after conferring with
  appropriate faculty and staff groups, to the
  Board of Curators for the purpose of discussing
  any proposed changes for the upcoming year.

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Rules, Procedures and Agenda

• FS Annual Calendar (N. Book)

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Agenda

• I. Call to Order and Roll Call
• II. Approval of November 20, 2008 meeting minutes
• III. Campus Reports and Responses
• IV. Reports of Standing and Special Committees
• A. Curricula K. Nisbett
• B. Personnel L. Sotiriou-Leventis
• C. Public Occasions D. Westenberg
• D. RPA F. Blum
• E. Bylaws Committee Update K. Kosbar
• V. Old Business
• VI. New Business and Announcements
• VII. Adjourn

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Ad-Hoc Bylaws Committee

• Kurt Kosbar

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Agenda

• I. Call to Order and Roll Call
• II. Approval of November 20, 2008 meeting minutes
• III. Campus Reports and Responses
• IV. Reports of Standing and Special Committees
• V. Old Business
• VI. New Business and Announcements
• VII. Adjourn

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Referrals and Actionable Items

• Referrals Ongoing
• FS0708ref-5 Graduate Student Stipend/Fees (Grad.
  Council).
• FS0708ref-8 Spousal Actions (Personnel).
• Grievance Procedures (Personnel).

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Referrals and Actionable Items

• Ongoing Monitoring
• Emergency Preparedness (Facilities)
• VPAA SB 389 Committee (Ad-Hoc SB389)
• Supplementary/Soft Money Raises (Budgetary
  Affairs)

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Referrals and Actionable Items

• Other Committee Items
• Budgetary Planning, Start-up Packages (Budgetary
  Affairs)
• Best Practices for forming dept. tenure
  committees (Tenure)
• Monitor progress of new PT procedures (Tenure)
• Academic Dishonesty (Academic Freedom
  Standards)

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Agenda

• I. Call to Order and Roll Call
• II. Approval of November 20, 2008 meeting minutes
• III. Campus Reports and Responses
• IV. Reports of Standing and Special Committees
• V. Old Business
• VI. New Business and Announcements
• VII. Adjourn

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Agenda

• I. Call to Order and Roll Call
• II. Approval of November 20, 2008 meeting minutes
• III. Campus Reports and Responses
• IV. Reports of Standing and Special Committees
• V. Old Business
• VI. New Business and Announcements
• VII. Adjourn