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Purdue Today
April 5, 2024
| BOARD OF TRUSTEES NEWS
Trustees endorse 2024-25 Purdue faculty and staff salary policy
Purdue University will extend its four-year streak of above-Big-Ten-average salary increases with a faculty and staff salary policy for fiscal year 2025 of an average of 3% recurring increase, plus a 0.5% non-recurring recognition and reward pool.
Trustees ratify named headship, approve degree program to support Purdue Computes initiative
To support Purdue Computes — an initiative emphasizing four key pillars of Purdue’s extensive technological and computational environment — the university’s Board of Trustees today (April 5) ratified a named headship and approved a degree program.
Trustees approve faculty promotions and tenure; reaffirm commitment to academic freedom and tenure
The Purdue University Board of Trustees today (April 5) approved the promotion of 153 faculty across the West Lafayette, Northwest, Fort Wayne and IUPUI campuses for the 2024-25 academic year.
Trustees approve faculty promotions, tenured faculty transferring from IUPUI to Purdue West Lafayette
Purdue University’s Board of Trustees today (April 5) approved faculty promotions and tenured faculty transferring from IUPUI to Purdue West Lafayette. The promotions and transfers are effective with the 2024-25 academic year. Exact dates are noted by campus or individual.
Tenure recognition for Purdue University in Indianapolis faculty
In conjunction with the approval of other 2024 faculty promotions, the following faculty members in Indianapolis, who will join Purdue on July 1, will have "university tenure in Indianapolis" — the faculty tenure home established in August 2023 — as approved today (April 5) by the Purdue University Board of Trustees.
President Chiang’s report to trustees
In his report to the Board of Trustees, President Mung Chiang gave an update on Purdue Computes, an initiative emphasizing four key pillars of Purdue’s extensive technological and computational environment: semiconductor research and development, a focus on physical artificial intelligence, an emphasis on developing the university’s already-successful computer science department into one of the nation’s top programs, and quantum science and engineering. Chiang gave an overview of the faculty and staff salary policy for fiscal year 2025, acknowledged faculty who received major awards from December 2023 through March 2024, and thanked friends of the university for their recent generous contributions.
Zhou reports on advancements in digital technologies for steel industry decarbonization projects
In her presentation to the Purdue Board of Trustees, Chenn Zhou, the NIPSCO Distinguished Professor of Engineering Simulation and director of the Center for Innovation through Visualization and Simulation (CIVS) at Purdue University Northwest, provided an overview of how physics-based and data-driven integrated virtual process simulators have enabled the development and demonstration of decarbonization technologies for steel manufacturing. In addition, Zhou detailed nine Department of Energy grants, valued at over $1 billion, for CIVS’ collaborative efforts to achieve smarter and greener steel manufacturing by 2030.
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