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Welcome!Reminder: AMS meeting at UNLV on Saturday, April 30 & Sunday, May 1, 2011. Please apply to the AMS to organize a special session.
Department MeetingApril 23, 2010
9:15 AM – 10:50 AM in CBC C128
FacebookSo far mostly graduate students and some
undergraduate students have made “friends” with Unlv Mathematical Sciences (also, Nichole Booker, Denrick Bayot, Scott MacDonald, etc.).
It appears many students have ventured outside their clique for “friends” during the last 2 weeks. Hopefully will improve communication and interaction between different math groups
Anticipate eventually needing to limit access etc.
Expect to do much more with facebook once the Spring Semester ends.
1. Call to Order2. Announcements
3. Approval of 4/16/10 Departmental Meeting Minutes
4. Committee Reports (Merit, Advisory, Graduate, Undergraduate, Personnel)
5. Mid-Tenure Reviews/Reports6. New Business 7. Adjournment
Meeting Agenda
Elections Meeting
4.3 Elections Meeting……No other items will be considered during this meeting, though a regular meeting can be scheduled to immediately follow the election meeting………… During this meeting, elections will be held to fill upcoming vacancies on the standing committees, and upcoming vacancies for the officers. Since a member is allowed to vote for themselves, it is inappropriate to ask anyone to leave
the room during balloting.
Order of Elections (From DMS By-Laws)
4.3.2 The order of elections will be as follows: a. Chairperson (if necessary)b. Graduate coordinator (if necessary)c. Undergraduate coordinator (if necessary)d. Advisory Committeee. Personnel Committee f. Merit Committee g. Departmental representative to the College Curriculum
Committee (if necessary**). The representative must be a member of the graduate faculty [CoSci, 4.5]. The term is approximately one year [CoSci, 4.7].*
h. Graduate Studies Committeei. Undergraduate Studies Committee j. Departmental representative to the College of Science Peer
Review Committee (if necessary) [CoSci, 4.5]. This is a 3 year elected position and the representative must have tenure [CoSci, 4.5 and 4.7].*
k. Departmental representative to the Committee for Evaluation of the Dean [CoSci, 4.5]. This is a one year term.*
*Note that a member cannot serve on more than two college standing committees [CoSci, 4.8].
**If the College representative to the University Curriculum Committee is from our department, then that person is the Departmental representative to the College Curriculum Committee [CoSci, 4.5].
Skip a., b., c. d. Advisory Committee (Baragar, Catlin, Ding) 5.6.1
Three Tenured Regular Members e. Personnel Committee (Bhatnagar, Salehi, Shiue) 5.6.2
Three Tenured Regular Members The Personnel Committee’s term begins as soon as elected (at least two weeks
before the end of spring classes), and ends on June 30th, a little more than a year later. For the period between election and the beginning of the fall semester, service on this committee will be exempt from the limitations of service outlined above. (The incoming and outgoing Personnel committees might both be active at the same time.) All other committee assignments begin July 1st and end June 30th.
f. Merit Committee (Dalpatadu, Ghosh, Ho, Li) 5.6.3 Three tenured regular members and one untenured non-voting
member g. Departmental representative to the College Curriculum Committee
(if necessary**). (Robinette) The representative must be a member of the graduate faculty [CoSci, 4.5]. The term is approximately one year [CoSci, 4.7].* COS 4.5 & 4.7 no longer exists; now COS 4.4 COS 4.4.3 Term: Approximately one year
*Note that a member cannot serve on more than two college standing committees [CoSci, 4.8].
**If the College representative to the University Curriculum Committee is from our department, then that person is the Departmental representative to the College Curriculum Committee [CoSci, 4.5].
h. Graduate Studies Committee (Burke, Cho, Muleshkov, Robinette, Yang) (5.6.5) Five members:
o 1. Graduate Coordinator (already selected)o 2. Departmental representative to the College Curriculum Committee (already
selected)o 3. Three or four elected academic graduate faculty members. (It is possible for
the Graduate Coordinator to also be the departmental representative to the College Curriculum Committee, in which case we will need four additional members instead of three.)
i. Undergraduate Studies Committee (Bellomo, Bachman, Robinette) (5.6.4) Three members
o 1. Undergraduate Coordinator (already selected)o 2. Departmental representative to the College Curriculum Committee (already
selected)o 3. One (or two) elected academic faculty member(s) It may be necessary to elect
two instead of one, if the rep to the college and the Undergraduate Coordinator are the same person. Should a member of the department (including officers) be elected to the University Curriculum Committee, then he/she will automatically be the departmental representative to the College Curriculum Committee [CoSci Bylaws, 4.5].
j. Departmental representative to the College of Science Peer Review Committee (if necessary) [CoSci, 4.5]. This is a 3 year elected position and the
representative must have tenure [CoSci, 4.5 and 4.7].* The departmental bylaws refer to the CoSci bylaws that existed before the
major revision we now have. The duties of the peer review committee were the same as the Faculty Review Committee.
Faculty Review Committee (COS 4.4 & DMS 4.3.2.j) (Baragar) May 4, 2007 minutes: Departmental Representative to the COS Peer Review Committee. Dr. Baragar is reelected by acclamation. COS 4.3.3 – Three year term with elections staggered by departments
k. Departmental representative to the Committee for Evaluation of the Dean [CoSci, 4.5]. (gone) This is a one year term.*
*Note that a member cannot serve on more than two college standing committees [CoSci, 4.8].
From COS By-lawsCOS 4.4.4 Limitation of Service: No member shall serve at the same
time on more than two College Standing Committees or Councils nor be chairperson of more than one College Committee or Council.
Academic Standards Committee COS 4.4 (Bachman)COS 4.4.3 Term: Approximately one year
Curriculum Committee (Already Selected?) COS 4.4 & DMS 4.3.2 g (Robinette)COS 4.4.3 Term: Approximately one year
Financial Aid Committee (No selection/election!!!)(COS 4.4.1 Dean Appoints) COS 4.4.3 Term: Approximately one year
Faculty Review Committee (Already Selected?) (COS 4.4 & DMS 4.3.2.j) (Baragar) May 4, 2007 minutes: Departmental Representative to the COS Peer Review Committee. Dr. Baragar is reelected by acclamation. COS 4.3.3 – Three year term with elections staggered by departmentsThe departmental bylaws refer to the CoSci bylaws that existed before the major revision we now have. The duties of the peer review committee were the same as the Faculty Review Committee.
Undergraduate Affairs Council (COS 4.4) (??) COS 4.3.3 – Three year term with elections staggered by departments
Graduate Affairs Council (COS 4.4) (??) COS 4.3.3 – Three year term with elections staggered by departments
Research Council (COS 4.4) (Westveld; Term ends Spring 2012) COS 4.3.3 – Three year term with elections staggered by departments
Continued From COS By-Laws
COS 4.2 Personnel Committee (No selection/election)
Three year term for department representative and alternate.
Costa (DMS Representative): Fall 2008-Spring 2011
Phanord/Marcozzi (Alternate): Fall 2008-Sprin 2011
Old Slide IgnoreOther Representatives
1. Department Representative to the COS Academic Standards Committee (Bachman)
2. Department Representative to the COS Research Council (Westveld; appointed?)
3. Department Representative to the COS Merit Review Committee (Baragar; maybe ad-hoc)
4. Department Alternate Representative to the COS Personnel Committee (Marcozzi??)
1. Call to Order2. Announcements
3. Approval of 4/09/10 Departmental Meeting Minutes
4. Committee Reports (Merit, Advisory, Graduate, Undergraduate, Personnel)
5. Any remaining elections of department representatives as outlined in COS 4.4
6. Mid-Tenure Reviews/Reports7. New Business 8. Adjournment
Meeting #2 Agenda
NWCCU Accreditationhttp://provost.unlv.edu/nwccu/ (go to self-study report; in particular
standards 2 & 4)
Main topic during Chair’s meeting (Friday) and ADS meeting (Wednesday) 10 year accomplishments discussed by President
PhD enrollment doubled Largest percent increase in combined PhD/Masters (5 years) COS/COE 4th largest increase in scholarly/grant activity Bragged about PeopleSoft (he had zero expectation it would work) Etc., Etc., Etc., Etc
Persevering our plans (not happening as fast as desired due to over 30% budget cuts, but still moving forward)
Main point: We are doing what we should be doing Ahead of other universities in the northwest concerning
accreditation (according to “pre-visit” by accreditation team a few years ago)
UNR received extremely bad accreditation report (now accreditation team meets with UNR more often). Also, President discussed his very bad accreditation experience at University of Hawaii.
Bad accreditation report implies more visits, additional department/college/university reports/assessment/work, etc.,
Also discussed: Accreditation stick, how we close the loop using past assessments, etc.
Meetings Info ContinuedPresident hopes that reflecting on the last
10 years will be a rallying point. Believes community support is very high
(legislators in “shock and awe” by support from community/student/faculty)
Possibly over 100 million dollars in gifts vs. annual average of 30 million dollars in gifts.
Chair’s Meeting FridayPresident’s vision also discussedSeems to be down playing differential
tuition and vertically cutting out Nevada State College
Proposing UNLV trasformed into the elite/choice state university, giving a larger role to Nevada State College.
Possibly increasing tuition from $6000 to $9000 but with many $3000 scholarships available to good students.
Possibly decreasing enrollment from 26,000 students to 22,000 students
Meeting #2 Agenda1. Call to Order2. Announcements 3. Approval of 4/09/10 Departmental
Meeting Minutes 4. Committee Reports (Merit, Advisory, Graduate,
Undergraduate, Personnel)
5. Any remaining elections of department representatives as outlined in COS 4.4
6. Mid-Tenure Reviews/Reports7. New Business 8. Adjournment
Choice Voting Procedure Introduction to Choice Voting Choice voting (e.g., "single transferable vote" or "preference voting")
is a form of limited voting in which voters maximize their one vote's effectiveness through ranking choices. Choice voting is very likely to provide fair results, can be used in both partisan and non-partisan elections and does not require primaries. It is recommended as the best system for local government elections.
To vote, voters simply rank candidates in order of preference, putting a "1" by their first choice, a "2" by their second choice and so on. Voters can rank as few or as many candidates as they wish, knowing that a lower choice will never count against the chances of a higher choice.
To determine winners, the number of votes necessary for a candidate to earn office is established based on a formula using the numbers of seats and ballots: one more than
1/(# of seats + 1). In a race to elect three seats, the winning threshold would be one vote more than 25% of the vote -- a total that would be mathematically impossible for four candidates to reach.
Choice Voting Cont. After counting first choices, candidates with the winning threshold are elected. To
maximize the number of voters who help elect someone, "surplus" ballots beyond the threshold are transferred to remaining candidates according to voters' next-choice preferences: in the most precise method, every ballot is transferred at an equally reduced value. After transferring surplus ballots until no remaining candidate has obtained the winning threshold, the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated. All of his/her ballots are distributed among remaining candidates according to voters' next-choice preferences. This process continues until all seats are filled. Computer programs have been developed to conduct the count, although the ballot count often is done by hand.
Choice voting has been used for city council elections in Cambridge (MA) since 1941 and is used for Community School Board elections in New York and for national elections in Ireland and Australia. Cambridge's 13% African-American community has helped elect a black candidate in every election since the 1950s; choice voting in other cities -- like New York in the era of Mayor Fiorello La Guardia -- also resulted in fair racial, ethnic and partisan representation.
Example: The chart below illustrates choice voting in a partisan race with 6 candidates running for 3 seats: Jones, Brown and Jackson are Democrats; Charles, Murphy and Stevens are Republicans. With 1000 voters, the threshold of votes needed to win election is 251: (1000/4) + 1.
Note that Democrats Brown and Jones and Republican Charles win, with over 75% of voters helping directly to elect a candidate. Having won 60% of first choice votes, Democrats almost certainly would have won three seats with a winner-take-all, at-large system. (They also would have won three seats with a limited vote system -- and likely with cumulative voting -- because of "split votes" among the Republicans.) Despite greater initial support, Murphy loses to Charles because Murphy is a polarizing candidate who gains few transfer votes. Finally, 45 of 345 voters who help elect Brown in the fourth count chose not to rank Charles and Murphy, which "exhausts" their ballots.
Choice Voting Cont.1st Count 2nd Count 3rd Count 4th Count 5th Count
Candidate Jones winsJones' surplus transferred
Smith's votes transferred
Jackson's votes transferred
Brown's votes transferred
Brown (D) 175 +10 = 185 + 10 = 195 +150 = 345 - 94 = 251
Jones (D) 270 -19 = 251 - - -
Jackson (D) 155 + 6 = 161 + 6 = 167 - 167 = 0 -
Charles (R) 130 + 2 = 132 + 75 = 207 + 14 = 221 + 44 = 265
Murphy (R) 150 + 0 = 150 + 30 = 180 + 3 = 183 + 5 = 188
Smith (R) 120 + 1 = 121 -121 = 0 - -
Exhausted - - - - + 45 = 45
Pi Mu EpsilonThe Nevada Beta Chapter of Pi Mu Epsilon •Pi Day event and Spring Induction of PME new members, was held
March 12, 2010 at 12pm – 2pm (Organizers: Camilia Alvarez and Shipra De)
•New PME Office CDC 702 (Building 7)
•To help facilitate interaction with our undergraduate students
•Our undergraduate majors will be invited to our Spring “barbecue”
•Possible dates for Spring barbecue: either Thursday April 29 after 1pm or Friday April 30 (tentative, not yet official)
•Separately, possible e-mail will be sent from Annabella Starks
•Do we want starting in the Fall, an informal gathering from 1:30 – 2:30 every Tuesday in CDC Building 10 Conference Room or Sandbox?
UNLV Ranking
UNLV marginally at Carnegie 1 rankingDMS PhD program, DMS research/grants
vital to this ranking.Can not afford to increase DMS teaching
loads (UNLV and DMS future at stake)Congratulations to David Hanasch: awarded
National Physical Science Consortium Fellowship (Possibly $16,000/year; not sure yet as not yet announced.)
Spring Enrollment Numbers
Tenured Faculty CountSpring 2009 Total 1025Spring 2010 Total
1/5/10-1131 (10.34% increase)
Mon. 1/11/10-1118 (9.1% increase)
Fri. 1/15/10-1091 (6.4% increase)
Spring 2010 Spring 09
Math 095/096 Online 92 110
Math 095 In Class 399 190
Math 096 In Class 416 206
Math 120 285 227
Math 122/123 100 98
Math 124 412 505
Math 126 323 235
Math 127 495 399
Math 128 59 63
Math 132 366 443
Math 181 367 345
Math 182 223 227
Math 283 178 134
Math 251 58 57
300 Level Math 143 128
Math 431 90 79
Stat 152 37 16
Stat 391 110 108
Stat 463/663 40 49
400/600/700 level math/stat & Mat/Sta; other than Math431 and Stat391/463/663 345 318
Total 4538 3937
Total w/o 095/096 3631 3431
Fall 2010 Schedule
As I expected, currently a disasterFirst semester in which PeopleSoft (with AdAstra)
was used, instead of SIS. Current system did not allow room requests!!Raelynn from Scheduling still adding the
auditoriums to our calculus classesAdAstra is not up for fall to check for available
rooms (summer is available)We expect to be working on fixing the schedule to
match our actual requested fall schedule through early summer.
In spite of the mess, registration starts Monday April 12, 2010
1. Sent out to potential applicants 2289 e-mail advertisements, 1568 of postcards, 1004 posters to universities.
2. We had 66 applicants: 50 complete and offers to 26 with current deadline of Friday, April 16, 2010.
3. Checking into providing small additional support for incoming graduates.
4.Please let us know if you have contacts to send postcards and/or posters
5.Facebook (setting up an account next week)
Annual Graduate Student Recruitment
SOAR
Student, Orientation, Advising, & Registration
Working with SOAR (and many other units) on the Math Placement Test dates, online placement test registration, online payments, etc., etc., ……..
May SOAR dates: 14, 19, 21, 22, 27, 28June SOAR dates: 11, 17, 18, 25July SOAR dates: 1, 17August SOAR dates: 7, 19Very Helpful: Engineering, English and others
On-Line Payment for Math Placement Exam
Web Communications (Barbara Childs)Controllers OfficeWells Fargo – Create online accountAuthorize.net – Processor of the paymentsAdmissions (Suzane Espinoza and Kivanc
Oner) – initiate creation of online Math Placement registration form consistent with SOARS.
Student Technology (Geetha Sendhil) – currently programming the registration form
General InformationWe have updated THAMStill working on Administrative Assistants
Job elements Concerned about bumpingReminder: AMS meeting at UNLV on Saturday,
April 30 & Sunday, May 1, 2011. Please apply to the AMS to organize a special session.
Budget CrisisRe-working AA job Descriptions
Bumping for those Departments who get cut Units To Consider for Elimination
Educational Leadership
Informatics
Management Information Systems
Marriage and Family Therapy
Recreation and Sport Management (including Professional Golf Management)
Sports Education Leadership
Teaching and Learning Center
Women's Studies
Subunits To Consider for Elimination
Clinical Laboratory Sciences
Construction Engineering Management
English Language Center
Entertainment Engineering
Gerontology and Senior Theatre
Landscape Architecture
Urban Affairs Advising Center
Urban Horticulture Program
Further Administrative Reductions To Be Considered
Executive Vice President and Provost: Do not fill Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education position
Executive Vice President and Provost: Do not fill Vice Provost for Academic Affairs position
Executive Vice President and Provost: Do not fill Vice Provost for Academic Resources position
Executive Vice President and Provost/Academic Success Center: Eliminate 1 advisor and 1 classified position
College of Education: Eliminate 1 associate dean position
College of Education: Not seek NCATE accreditation
College of Hotel Administration: Reduce to only two academic departments
School of Nursing: Return to campuswide semester instead of trimester system
College of Sciences: Reduce costs of Department of Geoscience
College of Urban Affairs: Combine School of Journalism and Media Studies and the Department of Communication Studies
5. Applications for fall 2010 are due February 1, but like UNR, we have a rolling application deadline and will consider applications until we fill all our vacancies.
6. Even though it’s impossible to pinpoint the number of vacancies, we anticipate several openings due to: 1. Several GAs are finishing. 2. Students going on probation due to unsatisfactory performance in
their classes3. Students not passing their qualifying exams
7. Goal: To substantially increase the quality of incoming graduate students and to make our GAships very competitive.
8. Hope to use 2-4 Math 95/96 PTI positions as a back-up for hiring grad students and as a pool for any GA openings (problems: covering graduate student tuition, health-care, etc.)
9. Need to compare Math 95/96 instruction between grad students and non-grad students.
Annual Graduate Student Recruitment
UNLV GA Program Reorganization
The current.proposal (see handout) includes: 1. Increases to Minimum Stipends2. New Policies and Procedures3. Modified Model for Distribution of State GA funds 4. Kate Korgan is scheduled to discuss this at the December 9th
ADS (Administrative Development Seminar). 5. One COS/DMS Goal: To obtain additional GAs in line with our
FTEs and increase stipends (COS compared better than other colleges).
6. PTI-GAs seem to correspond to actual people and include a fixed stipend, making it impossible to increase the minimum stipend.
7. Whereas a total dollar amount corresponds to State Funded GAs, making it less difficult to change stipends.
8. Currently over ½ of our GAs are PTI-GAs).
Chairs’ Meetings JET (Joint Evaluation Team)– used to be Program
Elimination Committee. Associate Professors Review (topic 3c on 11/6/09 Chairs’
Meeting). President’s message seems to include: motivate to move forward toward promotion, especially in
research (help keep one oar in the water). candid feedback. successful applicants have been much weaker than he
anticipated.
I hope to meet during spring with everyone to form individual plans for the next three years.
General Ed Advisory CommitteeSee center slide on handout (back of second page):
Universal Undergraduate Learning Outcomes (UULOs)-2007 retreat
Dean and Associate Dean have been pushing for Science to be included (e.g. analytical and problem solving).
President indicated Tuesday that he wants Science included as part of the UULOs.
1. AMS meeting: Saturday, April 30 & Sunday, May 1, 2011. Please apply to the AMS to organize a special session.
2. Lost Opportunities: Need feedback. Also topic 3A on 11/6/09 Chairs meeting and also discussed at EC. - How are Departments managing with budget cuts?
3. Math Diagnostics and Retention Meetings: Chair, Associate Chair, Undergraduate Coordinator, Dean, ASC, Bill Speers, Provost, etc. are heavily involved with. Partly driven by President. Mainly affects Math Placement Testing and Math 095 & 096.
4. Evaluations will be e-mailed and run April 19, 2010 through April 30, 2010.
Thank you to all the faculty who submitted grant proposals!
Reminders
Updating the work performance standards for staff.