Week of December 2, 2024

Monday, Dec. 2:

• Discuss National Aviation Programs
  • Agenda: Aviation Programs
  • Who’s in the Room: David Bayless, David Borrok, Colin Potts, Stephen Raper, Stephen Roberts, Jill Warren
    
    

Tuesday,Dec. 3:

• Leadership Team Meeting: Core strategic Leadership Team
  • Agenda: Coordination of S&T Priorities For Missouri Legislative Session • Upcoming Events • Leadership Roundtable
  • Who’s in the Room: Chancellor Dehghani, Alysha O’Neil, Cheryl Cain, Colin Potts, Dick Brow, Kamal Khayat, Mohammad Dehghani, Wayne Jones, Robin Gore, Steve Roberts, Tory Verkamp, Jill Warren.
    
    
• General Faculty Meeting
  • Agenda: Full Agenda
  • Who’s in the Room: Open Entire Campus Community
    
    

Wednesday,Dec. 4:

• College Fundraising
  • Who’s in the Room: Chancellor Dehghani, David Borrok, Tory Verkamp, Jill Warren.
    
    
• Faculty Campus Awards Lunch
  • Agenda: This annual faculty awards lunch is coordinated by S&T’s Center for Advancing Faculty Excellence (CAFE) in partnership with the provost’s office and chancellor’s office.
    
    
• December Commencement Committee meeting
  • Agenda: Upcoming Fall Commencement
  • Who’s in the Room: Brian Fleagle, Crystal Wilson, David C. Wright, Deanne Jackson, Douglas Ludlow, Douglas Roberts, Gregory Huffman, Jorge Porcel, Lanette Epstein, Lishia Stevens, Mindy Limback, Paul Hirtz, Sammatha Yelton, Sharon Matson, Stephen Raper, and Debra Griffith, Jill Warren.
    
    
• Chancellor’s Speaker Series- Lt. Gov. Aruna Miller
  • Who’s in the Room: Open to the Campus Community
  • Watch the Lecture!
    
    

Thursday Dec. 5

• S&T Financial Plan Meeting
  • Agenda: Yearly Financial Planning
  • Who’s in the Room: Chancellor Dehghani, Alysha O’Neil, Colin Potts, Ryan Rapp, Eric Vogelweid
    
    
• Senior Design Projects: Final PresentatioNS Engineering Management
  • Agenda: Flight School and Campus Food Sustainability
  • Who’s in the Room: Jill Warren and Senior Design Students
    
    
• Executive Forum
  • Agenda: Campus Arts and Performance
  • Who’s in the Room: Chancellor Dehghani, Alysha O’Neil, Colin Potts, Steve Roberts, Cheryl Cain, Jill Warren, Wayne Jones, Mehrzad Boroujerdi
    
    

Friday Dec. 6

• First Friday Coffee – Almost Home
  • Who’s in the Room: Open to entire campus and Rolla community
    
    
• Campus Event Planning Monthly Meeting
  • Agenda: Campus Events in December
  • Who’s in the Room: Abigail Mayes, Amanda Pogue, Amy E. Smith, Ashley Berry, Ashley Crilly, Brian Fleagle, Brittanie Kircher, Brittany Thompson, Casey Bouse, Cassidy Cantrell, Cody Mantle, Courtney Jones, Daniel C. Reardon, David Spivey, Edna Grover-Bisker, Gregory Huffman, Jodi Hasekamp, Jacob Ternes, Justin Rauls, Kelly N. Sharp, Lishia Stevens, Masum Kaisar, Melanie Keeney, Robin Gore, Sarah Dowling, Sara Hathaway, S&T Enrollment Management Office, Timothy McDonell, Tina Reagan, Tyler L. Johnson.
    
    
• President Choi And Chancellor Dehghani | Bi-Weekly Meeting
  
  
• Chancellor Dehghani meeting with Jim Sterling and Jill Warren
  • Agenda: Strategic Brainstorming Accounting Courses
  • Who’s in the Room: Chancellor Dehghani, Jill Warren, Jim Sterling
    
    
• Legislative and Engagement Initiatives Weekly Meeting
  • Agenda: Upcoming Events
  • Who’s in the Room: Jill Warren, Melanie Keeney
    
    
• Kummer Task Force Meeting
  • Agenda: Preparing for the January board Meteing
  • Who’s in the Room: Alysha O’Neil, Cheryl Cain, Colin Potts, Courtney Jones, David Borrok, David Spivey, Diane Read, Fred Stone, Smitty Grubbs, Jim Sterling, Kaitlin Brothers, Kamal Khayat, Lindsay Stanford, Mehrzad Boroujerdi, Rachel Kohman, Richard Brow, Trini Lilly, Velvet Hasner, Tory Verkamp, Jill Warren
    
    
• Faculty Dinner with Chancellor Dehghani
  • Who’s in the Room: Chancellor Dehghani, Cassie Elrod, David Duvernell, Donald Wunsch, Douglas Bristow, Joel Burken, Paul Runnion, Wayne Jones, Ron O’Malley, Shelley Minteer, Tory Verkamp, Jill Warren.
    

Subject: Giving, sharing and caring

Summary: In this week’s message, Chancellor Dehghani reflects on the transformative power of volunteering and civic engagement, drawing from personal experiences and campus-wide efforts. Highlighting opportunities available through Missouri S&T and beyond, he encourages campus to embrace volunteering as a vital rite of passage that fosters professional growth, social responsibility, and fulfillment.

Read the full message: Giving, sharing and caring

Monday, Dec. 9:

• Taskforce Teaching Communication
• Library Tour
• Lunch with Representative Tara Peters
• Vivarium Strategy
• CM2AE Consortium Meeting

Tuesday, Dec. 10:

• Strategic Plan Grand Challenges: Six-Month Follow-Up Meeting
• Meet with Provost Search Firm Lead Consultant (Witt Kiefer)
• Enrollment Management Update

Wednesday, Dec. 11:

• Chancellor Dehghani meeting with Executive Staff Council
• Advising Discussion
• Military Relations
• Chancellor’s Greek Advisory Council
• 1st Kummer I&E Doctoral Fellow Achievement Award Reception

Thursday, Dec. 12:

• Commencement Appreciation Lunch for faculty and staff volunteers
• Campus Holiday Card Review

Friday, Dec. 13:

• Legislative and Engagement Initiatives Weekly Meeting
• Commencement Speaker Harold “Skip” Garner Visits the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
• Commencement Speaker Harold “Skip” Garner: Department of Nuclear Engineering & Radiation Science
• Fall Ph.D. Commencement Ceremony (6 p.m.)
• Who Brought the Humbug by Rhythm Street Dance, Leach Theatre (7:30 p.m.)

Saturday, Dec. 14:

• Fall Commencement Morning Ceremony (10 a.m. )
• Fall Commencement Luncheon
• Fall Commencement Afternoon Ceremony (3 p.m.)