The Role of Non-Tenure Track Faculty on Campus

September 29, 2014

Merilee Krueger – Psychological Sciencesand

Scott Miller – Materials Science & Engineering

National Trends

National Trends

The role of Non Tenure Track faculty and the Missouri S&T Strategic Plan

Rising to the Challenge: Missouri S&T's Strategy for Success

Prioritized ActionsIncorporated Action StartInto Plan Date Duration Owner(s) Baseline Key Metric to Track

2.2.1: Increase Missouri S&T’sundergraduate enrollment by 500 by2020

FY14 7/1/13 7 yearsfor EnrollmentManagement

Vice Provost and Dean 5,843 Undergraduate enrollments;Target year one: 90;Target year seven: 500

2.2.2: Increase Missouri S&T’s Ph.D.enrollment by 200-400 by 2020

FY14 7/1/13 7 years Vice Provost forGraduate Studies

517 Number of PhD’s;Target year one: 19;Target year seven: 200-400

2.2.3: Increase the number of T/TT and(NTT) faculty members by 67 (33)(12 T/TT faculty in conjunction with Lever2.1 focused areas in Phase 1 hiring)

FY14 7/1/13 7 yearsfor Research,Department Chairs,Vice Provost andDeans

Provost, Vice Provost T/TT-285 Number of T/TT and NTT faculty;(ranked) NTT- 40 Target year one: increase by 16;

Target year seven: increase by 100

2.2.4: Transparently allocate as defined inAction 2.1.2 all open and new facultypositions to impact strategic plan andprogress on unit performance measures

FY14 7/1/13 7 years Chancellor, Provost,Vice Provost andDeans

0 Number of positions filled in line with

strategic plan and progress on unitperformance measures;Target year one: increase by 16;Target year two: increase by 17;Target year seven: all open positionsfilled strategically

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Missouri University of Science and Technology

Implementation Plan│Portfolio Management of Actions…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………Lever 2.2: Leverage S&T as Missouri's technological research university

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Prioritized Actions Incorporated Action StartInto Plan Date Duration Owner(s) Baseline Key Metric to Track

3.4.1: To increase diversity of faculty andstaff, provide incentives to the hiringdepartments that select qualifiedunderrepresented minorities

FY14 9/1/13 5 years Chancellor Number of under-

represented T/TTfaculty: 15;number ofwomen T/TTfaculty: 56;number of under-represented NTTfaculty: 2;number of NTTwomen faculty: 1

Faculty underrepresented/ female

faculty, professional/administrativestaff;Target year one: 1 underrepresentedminority or female faculty and 1professional or administrative staff;Target year two: first year, plus 2underrepresented minority or femalefaculty and 1 professional oradministrative staff

3.4.2: To increase diversity of students,explore scholarship funding to be morecompetitive with underrepresentedminorities/female/student recruitment(See Lever 3.9)

FY14 9/1/13 5 years Vice Chancellor forUniversityAdvancement

AY13/14scholarship

Plan developed to expandscholarship and grant funding for

funding sources-9 female and underrepresentedminority students

3.4.3: Set up transfer articulationagreements with two-year institutionswith large underrepresented minoritypopulations

FY14 9/1/13 5 yearsfor EnrollmentManagement

Dean and Vice Provost 0 Articulation agreements;Target year one: 1;Target year two: 2

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Implementation Plan│Portfolio Management of Actions…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

Lever 3.4: Promote inclusion and increase diversity of faculty, staff, and students to remain relevant and competitive in a globalenvironment

Rising to the Challenge: Missouri S&T's Strategy for Success

Theme 1Develop and inspirecreative thinkers andleaders for life-longsuccess

Theme 2Enhance reputationand raise visibility

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Themes and Levers/Categories of Actions

1.1 Require all undergraduate students to participate in some significant experiential learning activity before they graduate

1.2 Foster innovation and creativity for faculty, staff, students and administration1.3 Establish database of measures to define student access to faculty and staff1.4 Create professional and leadership development opportunities for faculty, staff, alumni and students1.5 Encourage and enhance collaboration in teaching and research

2.1 Employ transformative and focused hiring, including cluster hires, in selected areas of expertise to support best-in-class achievements

2.2 Leverage S&T as Missouri's technological research university2.3 Develop a culture of excellence in research, scholarship and creative activity among faculty, staff, and students2.4 Create and implement a communication and marketing plan to raise the visibility of the campus and convey

our return on investment2.5 Modify our conventional methods of teaching and research to accommodate current and new technology that

will enhance student learning and increase faculty productivity 2.6 Improve infrastructure that enables faculty, graduate student and undergraduate student abilities and accomplishments 2.7 Address administrative structural changes to facilitate strategy and enhance national visibility

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Theme 3Achieve sustainablegrowth to ensure bestreturn on investment

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Themes and Levers/Categories of Actions

3.1 Evaluate current academic programs and create, modify, eliminate or combine in order to ensure a relevant portfolio that supports Missouri S&T's Carnegie classification as a national research university3.2 Centralize corporate relations to improve service to existing corporate partners and to identify and establish new partnerships for the purpose of increasing/enhancing research, economic development, credit and non-credit education, philanthropy, and the hiring of our graduates3.3 Improve facilities to enhance research and student learning, and expand experiential learning3.4 Promote inclusion and increase diversity of faculty, staff and students to remain relevant and competitive in a global environment3.5 Create and implement a student alumni lifetime engagement strategy3.6 Devise convenient technology-based methods of accessibility, communication and engagement with external constituents3.7 Market campus strengths and create a broad awareness of student opportunities and benefits to both domestic and international

audiences

3.8 Exercise leadership in sustainability on campus and in the community by modeling sustainability practices in daily operations andpracticing environmental stewardship

3.9 Conduct a comprehensive fundraising campaign to secure private support for identified campus priorities

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Theme 4Increase and facilitatemeaningful access toand interaction withrenowned faculty, staffand services

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Themes and Levers/Categories of Actions

4.1 Create a comprehensive distance and online education strategy 4.2 Enhance instructional labs and methods of developing lab experiences

4.3 Enhance innovative use of technologies to improve and facilitate access4.4 Ensure renowned faculty teach/interact with undergraduate students4.5 Engage in transformative doctoral student recruiting/retention and placement4.6 Improve student, faculty and staff mentoring and advising4.7 Identify and remove barriers to graduation and reduce time to degree for undergraduate and graduate students4.8 Expand access to renowned faculty through enhanced recruiting and retention4.9 Promote non-traditional activities outside of classroom

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Missouri S&TFaculty Headcount by Department

(from 2013-2014 FACT BOOK)

What is the composition of Missouri S&T’s Non Tenure Track Faculty?

Instructional Faculty vs. Research Faculty?Full-time vs. Part-time?On campus or off campus?

Please collaborate at your table, using the discussion points on your handout as a starting point, to develop a list of survey questions we should distribute to collect a snapshot of the Missouri S&T Non Tenure Track faculty population