ACADEMIC COUNCIL REPORT

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• ACADEMIC COUNCIL REPORT
• Y. T. SHAH
• PROVOST AND
• EXECUTIVE VICE CHANCELLOR
• November 17, 2005

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• ENROLLMENT MANAGEMENT

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ENROLLMENT MANAGEMENT

• People Soft Financial Aid Implementation is
  proceeding. ISIR records have been placed on P.S.
  for us to review for correctness. The People Soft
  Financial Aid Go-Live date is February 2006.
• The 8.9 PS student modules upgrade is on-schedule
  to go-live January 14, 2006.
• Fall registration is underway and going smoothly.
• Admission and Orientation reports for FS2006 will
  start to be distributed campus-wide by November
  14. Initial reports show gains in freshmen and
  transfer applications and enrollment deposits for
  PRO 2006.

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ENROLLMENT MANAGEMENT

• F-05 state of Missouri financial aid funds have
  arrived on campus and have been applied to the
  recipients university accounts.
• Spring 06 initial fee statements will be sent to
  students who pre-registered on or around November
  20th with a due date of December 15th. Financial
  aid students have been awarded or the Spring 06
  semester will show as a credit on the initial fee
  statement.
• Scholars Day for the 06/07 Chancellors
  Scholarship applicants will be on Saturday,
  December 3rd. Faculty and staff interviewers are
  still needed. Please contact Bob Whites in the
  Student Financial Assistance Office to register.

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• RESEARCH

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FY 06 Proposals Awarded through October
18.9 growth over FY05
Total 16.0 M
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FY 06 Proposals Submitted through October
-2.1 compared to FY05
Total 45.9 M
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• UNDERGRADUATE AND
• GRADUATE STUDIES

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Academic Pilot Program

• 26 UMR students are participating in a 6-week
  pilot project to assist in the development of a
  program to help students who are not meeting
  their academic expectations.
• Faculty members involved include Harvest Collier,
  Larry Gragg, Diana Ahmad, Ralph Flori,

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Academic Dishonesty

• Academic Dishonesty Panel Discussion
• November 2, 2005200-400 pm Carver Turner
  RoomHavener Center
• Moderated by Vice Provost Harvest Collier
• Panelists will include representatives from UMR
  Student Council, UMR Council of Graduate
  Students, UMR Student Affairs, UMR IT Security,
  UMR Academic Council and UM System Legal Counsel.

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Academic Advising Awards

• UGS is now accepting nominations for the
  2005-2006 Outstanding Academic Advising Awards.
  
• Any UMR faculty or staff member who serves as an
  academic advisor to students is eligible to
  receive this annual award.
• The Outstanding Academic Advisor Award is given
  to one faculty member from each school/college,
  one staff advisor, one freshman advisor, and one
  transfer student advisor.
• Nominations Forms are Due February 28, 2006.
  Copies of the nomination form and instructions
  are available on line at http//campus.umr.edu/u
  gs/advisorrecognition.htm

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New Student Honors Seminar

• Topic UMR Research
• November 16, 2005
• 700-800 PM
• G-3 Schrenk Hall

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Voyager Learning Community

• November Seminars
• Wed. Nov. 2- Campus Life- Part II- Figuring it
  Out, by Matt Goodwin, 500 PM, TJ Hall South
  LoungeTues. Nov. 8- The Writing Center-
  Achieving Success in Writing- by Dr. Kate
  Drowne, 400 PM, TJ Hall South LoungeTues.,
  Nov. 15- Take the Torture Out of Testing, by
  Cheryl Downey-Eber, 400 pm, TJ Hall South Lounge

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CERTI- Faculty Workshop

• Assessment of Teaching Innovations
• Presented by Richard Hall
• November 3, 2005
• In this workshop we will introduce faculty to
  techniques and tools for assessing the impact of
  instructional innovations they implement in their
  classes. We will also discuss ways to translate
  these into publications and grant proposals, with
  a focus on UMR resources that can facilitate this
  process. Faculty will leave the workshop with a
  practical knowledge of tools and techniques that
  will allow them to
• Assess the impact of instructional innovations
  they introduce intotheir courses,
• Publish research regarding these innovations in
  discipline specificand educational research
  journals, utilizing resources available onthe
  UMR campus, and
• Prepare competitive grant proposals to external
  agencies associatedwith these innovations,
  utilizing resources available on the UMRcampus.

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• SCHOOL OF EXTENDED LEARNING

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School of Extended Learning

• The Video Communication Center (VCC) will
  conclude, in December, a series of eight 20-hr.
  non-credit short courses videoconferenced to King
  Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
• This semester the VCC has added integrated
  one-way audio to its WebEx interactive and
  streaming video delivery. This provides partial
  redundancy and a real time alternative to
  telephone conferencing.
• The Engineering Education Center (EEC) is
  continuing its recruiting efforts in the St.
  Louis area by sending several thousand
  recruitment letters to members of the MO Society
  of Professional Engineers. In addition the EEC
  participated in an educational fair held at the
  Boeing facility.
• The International Affairs Office has been working
  jointly with Admissions to screen for admission
  and issue immigration documents to approximately
  65 new Saudi students for FS05. Twenty-three of
  these students have arrived on campus so far.
  These students are part of a contingent of 25,000
  students that Saudi Arabia wants to send to US
  universities over the next 5 years. These
  students have been arriving at UMR during the
  course of the semester, and have been enrolled in
  intensive English classes prior to starting their
  academic studies. The following graphs show the
  breakdown of currently enrolled sponsored Saudi
  student program admissions.

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School of Extended Learning
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• INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

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Information Technology

• Applications/Enterprise Reporting
• Academic Alert has been released campus-wide for
  the Fall Semester
• Two demos have been conducted for faculty and
  advisors
• Additional reports added for department chairs,
  faculty and advisors
• Creation of enterprise level application to track
  and control Desktop Enhancement process
• Networks and Computing
• Voice-Over IP Telephony Project
• Over 600 VoIP phones deployed
• Engineering Management deployment completed
• McNutt Hall scheduled for December 5 deployment
• Wireless environment moving to the 802.1x
  standard for increased security
• Near 100 wireless coverage in Humanities and
  Social Sciences
• Wireless coverage expanded in Mechanical
  Engineering
• Cdigix to provide legal music access
• Cluster Computing
• Beta testing underway
• Cyber Security Awareness Month
• Open Forum
• Weekly information tables in Havener