Oct 28 FSU BOT meeting

https://floridastate.forums.rivals.com/threads/last-week-bot-meeting.162237/

just rough high level points:

http://learningforlife.capd.fsu.edu/bot/oct28_16.htm


College Town

Phase 1 & 2 appts 99% & 97% full

Commercial Phase 1 96%. Phase 2 60%

Phase 3 almost all residential...no commercial

Hotel in near clothing store

Boosters own 3 100%

trying to buyout phase 1 (pic)

Boosters will own 100% of 1 & 3

Boosters have 35% of 2 (will own 65% in future)


Research

This quarter looks good so far

MagLab renewal (next summer)

DOE Energy Frontier Centers-CAST $10 Million initially. Renewable. (CAST- Bottom row of periodic table. Radioactive metals. Critical to pace makers, elec. devices)


one BOT member actually tried to understand what the word average meant (discussing class size to faculty ratio)......how is this person on the BOT?


New COE Dean
new dean meet his wife at FSU (visited Tally for Mag Lab research).  Great experience, seemed to be solid person/Dean/hire

over last 100 years 50% of growth due to eng.

33% of CEOs have eng. degree

Goal of top 25

UF has 4 times funding then COE

Must grow


FSU Grad rate at 79% (over 6 years) 4 year is over 60% (top 25 in country)

out of 300 universities ('whose data is accounted for'), FSU is #284 in resources (in short, FSU is poor as hell....yet BOT never address endowment issue)


New major for health related fields (115 students in 1st year with no advertising)


moved to 6th in performance funding metrics

FSU weak in STEM (noted multiple times....no mention of how it would fix this issue)


Endowment

$584,528, 857

Real Eastate $0

Ringling $1,988,883

Research $89,064,470

Boosters $55,345,397

Foundation $438,130,106


"back to 2014 levels"

BOG Performance metrics

STEM

20 points (out of 100) on STEM

FSU disadvantaged with STEM...no word on how to fix it.

Focus from BOT on Shared facilities, Online learning



Byron Dobson ‏@byrondobson 4h4 hours ago

#FSU Pres Thrasher tells trustees VP Student Affairs Mary Coburn is retiring in June.@TDOnline


Byron Dobson ‏@byrondobson 34m34 minutes ago
#FSU trustees approve major pay increase for Pres. Thrasher bringing his total salary to $762,000 annually. @TDOnline




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