Faculty Senate 2010 Spring Career Fair John F. Carney III June 17, 2010

Faculty Senate

2010 Spring Career Fair

John F. Carney III

June 17, 2010

Commencement Graduate Ceremony

Friday, May 14265 candidates

Undergraduate CeremonySaturday, May 15675 candidatesGovernor Nixon

• Governor’s speech may be viewed at http://mst.edu/Curator Carnahan

1,467 degrees in the 2009-2010 academic year

2010 UM System Awards President’s Award for Research and Creativity

Richard Brow

President’s Award for Outstanding TeachingFrances “Dee” Montgomery

C. Brice Ratchford Memorial Fellowship AwardCurt Elmore

Student Entrepreneur of the Year AwardMichael Orlando, Jr.Colby HallR.J. Miller

FY2011 Budget Modifications

5.2% cut in state appropriations

$2,657,166 Increased recurring revenues

$1,274,666 Budget reductions

$1,382,500

FY2011 Budget Modifications

Academic Departmentsand

all other areaswere cut ~1.5%

Enrollmentend of fourth week

Fall Semester

Headcount

Actual Goal

2000 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2011

Undergraduate Students 3,698 4,313 4,515 4,753 4,912 5,205 4,800

Graduate Students 928 1,289 1,343 1,414 1,459 1,610 1,750

Total Enrollment 4,626 5,602 5,858 6,167 6,371 6,815 6,550

Applications and Admitsas of 6/8 each year

 2000 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

FRESHMEN Applications 1801 2095 2341 2351 2618 2793

  Admitted 1580 1870 2081 2055 2308 2427               

TRANSFERS Applications 334 423 434 482 506 605

  Admitted 237 288 308 342 345 392

Limiting Freshman Engineering Enrollment

Closing admission to Freshman Engineering Program for Fall 2010New students admitted after June 21 will be

deferred to spring 2011 semester and encouraged to enroll in fall classes at one of S&T’s 52 transfer partner colleges

Limiting Freshman Engineering Enrollment

S&T will continue to accept applications for transfer, graduate, and online engineering programs

S&T will continue to accept freshman applications for other 12 academic programs

Project Lead the WaySummer 2010

Train over 150 high school teachers and counselors from all over the countryBiomedicalEngineering

Only University in the U.S. selected to provide training in both biomedical and engineering

S&T is the PLTW National Affiliate Training Center in Missouri

FIRST Robotics Competition S&T will host a Missouri State Championship

weekend in Spring 2011The FIRST® Robotics Competition (FRC) is a

multinational competition that teams professionals and high-school students to solve an engineering design problem in a competitive way.

Will attract 1,000 visitors to campus

Solar Car

June 20 – June 26, 2010Tulsa, OK – Naperville, IL

• Stops and Checkpoints: Tulsa – Neosho – Topeka – Jefferson City – Rolla – Alton, IL – Normal – Naperville

• Ceremonial run on June 27 to the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago

Solar Cars Arrive in Rolla Wednesday, June 23

Teams arrive between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.View cars and meet team members in the

parking lot of the Multipurpose BuildingAll-you-can-eat BBQ from 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. for

$7.00

Thursday, June 249:00 a.m. race resumesGale Bullman parking lot