• First freshman PRO registration day for Fall 2014 is February 22.

• A new “Smart Card” will replace the current ID Card. Details will be available during the Spring Semester.

• Course renumbering is on schedule and cut-over will occur in August 2014.

Enrollment Management

• The Chancellor’s Scholarship recipients for Fall 2014 have been identified, 40% are female.

• Financial Aid has secured an $80,000 grant for an Institutional Work Study program to target low-income freshmen. Will work similar to Federal Work Study.

Enrollment Management

Global Learning • Psychology is the latest department to offer a

MS degree to distance students with an MS in Industrial/Organizational Psychology.

• Enrollment in distance courses (including FLW and MSU) continues to increase with 750 projected for Spring 2014 at the close of registration as compared to 742 in Spring 2013.

• Vicki Hudgins, Graduate Studies Specialist, celebrated her 41st year at Missouri S&T on December 18th.

• The number of documents submitted and completed for technical editing increased from 47 in FS12 to 56 in FS13 (a 16% increase).

• 42 theses and 36 dissertations were formatted during the FS13 semester for a total of 78 papers checked and processed.

• Unofficial Fall 2013 graduation numbers: 31 PhD, 233 Masters, 157 graduate certificates. (The Office of Graduate Studies has until January 13th to clear final graduation reports and the Office of the Registrar will not release official numbers until the end of January.)

Office of Graduate Studies

Office of Sponsored Programs• Summary of FY14 activities through the end of November

– Proposals awarded in total dollars: $15.9M (down 59.4%)– Number of proposals awarded and amendments: 140 (up

13.8%)– Proposals submitted in total dollars: $58.6M (down 12.2%)– Number of proposals submitted: 234 (up 13.0%)– Total expenditures: $19.3M (up 12.6%)– Net grant and contract expenditures: $15.8M (up 14.3%)– F&A recovered: $3.3M (up 16.4%)– Number of active awards: 610 (up 9.7%)