General Faculty Meeting

1. General Faculty Meeting Robert E. Palazzo Acting Provost April 4, 2007

2. Highest Priorities: Provost Office • Faculty Development • Undergraduate Education • Graduate Program Development • Achieving Diversity General Faculty Meeting

3. Rensselaer Faculty Salary Trends 1999-2000 through 2005-2006 Professor Source: Chronicle of Higher Education. Figures compiled by the AAUP. General Faculty Meeting

4. Rensselaer Faculty Salary Trends 1999-2000 through 2005-2006 Associate Professor Source: Chronicle of Higher Education. Figures compiled by the AAUP. General Faculty Meeting

5. Rensselaer Faculty Salary Trends 1999-2000 through 2005-2006 Assistant Professor Source: Chronicle of Higher Education. Figures compiled by the AAUP. General Faculty Meeting

6. Rensselaer Faculty Salary Trends Compared to Selected Peer Institutions2005-2006 Professor Source: Chronicle of Higher Education. Figures compiled by the AAUP. General Faculty Meeting

7. Rensselaer Faculty Salary Trends Compared to Selected Peer Institutions2005-2006 Associate Professor Source: Chronicle of Higher Education. Figures compiled by the AAUP. General Faculty Meeting

8. Rensselaer Faculty Salary Trends Compared to Selected Peer Institutions2005-2006 Assistant Professor Source: Chronicle of Higher Education. Figures compiled by the AAUP. General Faculty Meeting

9. Rensselaer Faculty Salary Trends Compared to Private, Independent Doctoral Institutions2005-2006 Source: Chronicle of Higher Education. Figures compiled by the AAUP. General Faculty Meeting

10. Rensselaer Faculty Salary Trends General Faculty Meeting

11. Rensselaer Faculty Salary Trends General Faculty Meeting

12. FY06 Research Expenditures Millions General Faculty Meeting

13. FY06 Indirect Cost Returns Millions General Faculty Meeting

14. FY06 Research Expenditure Distribution 20% of the faculty produce 75% of research expenditures 74 faculty (20%) $45.978MM (75%) 298 faculty (80%) $15.00MM (25%) General Faculty Meeting

15. Faculty Research Expenditure Profile General Faculty Meeting

16. Expand the Research Enterprise GOAL: Aggressively Recruit Faculty “To maintain stature as a world-class university, Rensselaer must fill a number of vacant leadership positions and recruit more tenured and tenure-track faculty.” Actions: • Develop 3 year recruitment plans for each school • Priorities • Constellations • Enhancement of Signature Thrusts • Recruitment of women and minorities • Optimize use of endowment funds • Focus on maintaining academic programs General Faculty Meeting

17. Rensselaer Tenure/Tenure Track Faculty Hires *projected General Faculty Meeting

18. Rensselaer Tenure/Tenure Track & Constellation Faculty *projected General Faculty Meeting

19. Expand the Research Enterprise Goal: Improve faculty development “Faculty mentoring plans must be developed by all schools for each department and those involved in mentoring must be acknowledged, rewarded, and valued.” Actions: • Deans to develop mentoring plans • Work through departments • Recognize and reward mentoring as a service • Encourage sabbatical leaves as part of mentoring plans for faculty development General Faculty Meeting

20. New Faculty Productivity – Total Expenditures FY2000-2006 22/2002 No. of faculty w/research, Year hired 19/2000 13/2001 13/2003 Total Research Expenditure ($K) 8/2004 7/2005 2/2006 General Faculty Meeting

21. Expand the Research Enterprise Goal: Retaining the best faculty “Rensselaer will be challenged to retain their best and brightest.” Actions: • Provide the best intellectual environment • Provide the best infrastructure • Consider Core infrastructure platform needs • Work with HR through “the employer of choice” initiatives • maintain current <4% turnover • monitor salaries, benefits, personal rewards annually • compare to peer and aspirant institutions • Educate Department Heads on strategies • Establish protocols and response tactics General Faculty Meeting

22. Expand the Research Enterprise Goal: Improve Faculty Evaluation Actions: • Review performance analysis methods for each school • Assure meeting annual expectations • Allow “formal” mechanism to shift faculty responsibilities as a function of career change • From research to teaching expectations upon loss of research • Review loading annually • Include evaluation of space to assure optimal use General Faculty Meeting

23. Expand the Research Enterprise Goal: Improve impact of sabbatical leaves “Appropriate use of sabbatical leave is a key component of faculty development.” Actions: • Review sabbatical leave policies • Strengthen expectations for sabbatical outcomes • Presentation on campus • Publications, new proposals, displayed works • Tie expectations to merit evaluations • Encourage sabbatical leave soon after promotion • Include sabbatical leave as part of the mentoring plan for faculty General Faculty Meeting

24. Undergraduate Education Goal: Strengthen undergraduate programs “Recruitment of undergraduate students will require strong cooperation between all academic units and the VP-Enrollment.” Actions: • Focus on Recruitment and Yield • Academic partnering with VP-enrollment • Seek to balance distribution of enrollment across schools and departments • Engage Department Heads in recruitment process • Assure optimal yield of accepted students per department annually General Faculty Meeting

25. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute – Number of Freshman Applications Fall 2000 through Fall 2007* General Faculty Meeting

26. Freshman Applications for Selected Peer/Aspirant Institutions Fall 2006 entering cohort (source: IPEDS) General Faculty Meeting

27. Enhance Education Goal: Improve student recognition in national award competitions “A hallmark of a leading university is the success of its undergraduates in leadership competitions…” Actions: • With VP-Student Life and the VP-Enrollment determine best practices • recruitment, development, preparing applications, and preparation for final phases of competitions • Design a mentoring program • Early identification of candidates in the freshman and sophomore year • Groom through to final competitions • Establish target list of competitions • Inform students during freshman year to bring talent forward • Organize annual workshops • Inform students of opportunities • Engage past award and scholarship winners • Continue current success in Goldwater competitions • Expand goals to other competitions including Rhodes, Marshal, Truman, other… General Faculty Meeting

28. Enhance Education Goal: Enhance the quality and number of Ph.D. graduate students “Achievement of the goals of the Rensselaer plan will require an increase in the quality and number of graduate students.” Graduate Students 1228 (11/06) 75% Ph.D. (goal 80%) 530 Institutional support 381 External support Actions: • Focus on domestic recruitment • Identify faculty leaders • Prepare competitive graduate training grants • Work with VP-enrollment to improve recruitment process • Identify funds to bring all accepted students to campus (100K this year) • Engage graduate students in recruiting General Faculty Meeting

29. Achieve Diversity Goal: Achieve Diversity-Faculty “Rensselaer must establish a culture that values diversity to not only reflect the society which it serves but to also remain competitive in the future.” Actions: • Establish Monthly Provost-Women Faculty Meeting • Define issues • Establish Monthly Provost-Minority Faculty Meeting • Define Issues • Consider a Center for Women Studies • Assist in recruitment and career development of faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students. • Hold meetings of national experts on diversity to raise awareness • RAMP-UP • Recruit women or minorities into Constellations • Recruit women and minorities into administrative posts • Department Heads and other General Faculty Meeting

30. Achieve Diversity Goal: Achieve Diversity-Students “Rensselaer must establish a culture that values diversity to not only reflect the society which it serves but to also remain competitive in the future.” Actions: • Continue Howard Hughes Undergraduate Minority Scholars Program • Develop pipelines for diverse graduate student recruitment • HBCUs, Puerto Rico, and other universities • Use program template to develop other programs • Identify faculty leaders to develop additional programs • submit proposals to federal agencies for sustainability General Faculty Meeting

31. Discussion! General Faculty Meeting