MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES

1. MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES Department Meeting September 10, 2010 9:15 AM – 10:50 AM CBC C124 (Slides 1-13) WELCOME BACK!!!!!

2. AMS meeting: Sat. April 30 & Sunday May 1, 2011 (Possibly the spring bbq should be Friday April 29.) Please apply to the AMS by September 30 to organize a special session 2011 AMS Spring Western Section Meeting @ UNLV

3. Second largest resource Faculty salaries: over $2.5 million GA salaries: almost $.5 million, funding 45 GAs PTI salaries: $84,000 (excludes 95/96) Graduate Assistantships

4. DMS Graduate Program • 28 PhD Students (6 new) • 38 MS Students (6 new) • 45 Graduate Assistantships • GA Funding: $494,000 Note: During summer 2010, four GAships became available (not additional funding!!) for those on the waiting list. It seems that we need a waiting list of approximately 9-10 students each summer.

5. GS Summer Teaching • GA salaries are often supplemented through summer teaching. • $4,500 for one summer 3 credit class • PTI’s receive approximately $2,769 for a 3 credit class during the academic year ($923 per credit).

6. Summer Teaching GS Summer Teaching • In order to be considered for summer teaching, graduate students must be: • in good standing with respect to their academic program, • follow department & university policies with respect to teaching (online homework, holding class, university policy concerning incompletes, etc.) • attend the graduate orientation, course meetings, etc. • receive favorable evaluations concerning their teaching assignments (grading assignments, discussion session assignments, etc.) • No grade inflation. Grades must accurately reflect the students academic performance. • Returning students need to email Erin information as to which courses they anticipate taking four weeks before the start of each semester • Etc.

7. $376,114.41was contracted to 46 GSs for 2010 summer teaching. With total first day enrollments of 1,570, with SIS final enrollment of 1,367, and with with average first day enrollment of 17.64 students (15.52 average SIS final enrollment). Erin and I used a number of different strategies to maximize GS summer funding (see GS Orientation powerpoint). Total faculty summer salaries?? Summer 2010 GS Teaching

8. Recent DMS activities? Placement test at every summer SOARS Dean Porter met with Dr. Ananda and myself for a one hour meeting (lasting about 3 hours) during the second week in August to view our facilities, discuss the department needs (e.g. more faculty and staff lines), etc. Standard meetings during the week before fall instruction: Wed: Semester Math 95/96 Meeting around 1:30-4:30 Thursday: Annual DMS Graduate Orientation around noon-4:30 noon-1pm for food, faculty, graduate students, Dean, etc. See last year’s powerpoint for some details, e.g. Graduate Orientation Booklet. Please make sure to attend noon-1pm next fall. Friday: Semester Math 120, 124, 126, 127, 132 Meetings around 1:30-4:30. ADS Meeting Wed. Sept. 1 Lotus Notes Emails will be archived (Information to appear through unlvofficial on September 15, archiving starts October 15)

9. Annual Enrollment – over 12,000 students Spring with Math 95/96– 4538 (last year: 3,940) Spring without 95/96 - 3631 (last year: 3431) Summer with Math 95/96– 2400 (last year: 2,517) Summer without Math 95/96 - 1733 Fall with 95/96 – 5,914 (last year: 5,738) Fall without 95/96 – 4,533 (last year: 4,744) The fall numbers are misleading (see next slide). In-state Fall 2009 (last year) Tuition estimate $3,164,925.75 Need to calculate this year’s. Enrollments

10. Fall Enrollment Fall with 95/96 – 5,914 (last year: 5,738) Fall without 95/96 – 4533 (last year: 4,744) The fall numbers are completely misleading: Fall 95/96 are up to due to additional instructors. 100-level classes down due to our not being provided access to make timely changes during last two weeks before instruction (e.g. lack of access to room availability, inability to split classes). Fall enrollment actually increased by 110 from 8/23 to 8/31 and would have increased by more if …. It normally decreases during the first week. Final enrollment surge was partly due to SOARS registration hold being released near at the end of July and students having difficulty with MyUNLV. I have already indicated how to solve this final enrollment surge problem for DMS classes, but … Not fixing this creates the need for more DMS resources (GA and faculty lines). Some of the Lab Sciences experienced huge problems with meeting the fall enrollment demands. The likely fallout is that some SEB labs may become teaching labs!! Exact opposite of past policy, etc.

11. 4,533(5,914 with M95/96)DMS students (29 fac at 2.6 million)4,332 COE students (lectures)

12. Special thanks to Dean Taylor for an unknown sum of funds to the Department at the end of academic year. Please apply to the AMS by September 30 to organize a special session at …

13. Call to Order  Announcements  Approval of April 30, 2010 Meeting Minutes  Committee Reports (Merit, Personnel, Graduate, Undergraduate, Advisory)  Election of three hiring committee members (5.5 bylaws) Vacancy Announcement (5.6.1d) New Business  Adjournment 9/10/10 Meeting Agenda

14. Department Bylaws (from page 8) 5.5. Hiring committees. Hiring committees are composed of three elected members and two members appointed by the chair, one of which may be a faculty member from outside the department.The hiring committee will be formed no later than when the final vacancy ad is endorsed by the department. They will: Evaluate the completed files of qualified applicants and select finalists for interviews. Submit their recommendation to the Department for their approval. (This could be a ranked list, or to not hire, etc. As with all motions, the recommendation can be amended – see 5.10.) 5.5.1 When a candidate is invited for an interview, their complete file (including unredacted letters of recommendation) will promptly be made available for inspection by the regular members. The chairperson’s report on each search to the Dean of the College of Sciences shall contain the recommendation of the Search Committee and the result of the faculty vote. 5.5.2 During an academic year, a person cannot be appointed to more than one hiring committee and a person cannot serve (appointed and elected) on more than two hiring committees. This last provision may be suspended, as outlined in Section 1.7.

15. Vacancy Schedule (1) The vacancy announcement is approved in September. (2) Roughly two weeks anticipated for the university to approve, etc. the vacancy announcements and for the announcements to be posted.    (3) Roughly six weeks (last part of October and all of November) for the vacancy announcements to be posted and for applicants to submit application documents. With a due date of December 1, 2010 for all materials, there is probably a little more than six weeks. (4) The Hiring Committee will have the month of December to evaluate the completed files and select those they recommend to be interviewed. Please note that most of this period is during the break with the fall semester ending early, so that faculty should take this into account.   (5) The week of January 1-7 is to request and hopefully obtain the Dean's (and all needed) approval(s) for the interviews. (6) During January 8-17, the hiring committee sets up the interviews, etc. probably from 1-2:15 on TR (January 18, 20, 25, 27 of 2011) since there will be no DMS classes taught by faculty in that time slot. January 8-17 includes only five working days, so it is desirable if items (4) and/or (5) can be completed earlier. However, these five working days are during the week before instruction, which is technically not part of the December/January break. (7) The interviews hopefully start the first day and/or week of instruction. I believe that the first day of instruction for spring 2011 is January 18.