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Academic Affairs Budget Presentations - 2015

2015 ACADEMIC AFFAIRS

BUDGET PRESENTATION

College of Arts and Sciences Gregory Simpson, Dean

March 31 & April 1, 2015

Alumni Center


COLLEGE OF

ARTS AND SCIENCES

FY15 ACCOMPLISHMENTS

AND PRODUCTIVITY

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES Academic Affairs Budget Presentations 2015

CAS Strategic Goals and Educating Illinois

AREAS OF STRATEGIC FOCUS

• Focus 1: Facilitate academic

excellence (EI 1, 2)

• Focus 2: Enhance the systems

and infrastructure supporting

academic excellence (EI 2, 3, 5)

• Focus 3: Diversify and

enhance financial support for

academic excellence (EI 3, 4)

• Focus 4: Share and Promote

our academic excellence (EI 3)


Faculty Hiring

Major Accomplishments

In FY16, the college

anticipates 10 new

faculty

This fall, the college

welcomed 15 new

faculty.


2015 Student Body

• CAS continued to confer a significant

portion of the University’s degrees

– 1,455 undergraduate degrees

– 267 MS/MA degrees

– 7 graduate certificates

– 38 doctoral degrees

• Undergraduate enrollment at 4,983

• College generated

– 275,492 credit hours


Newly Implemented Academic Programs

• Graduate Certificate in Instructional

Technology and World Languages (LAN)

• Two sequences, a Ph.D. and M.S. in

Neuroscience & Physiology (BSC)

• One undergraduate sequence in Creative

Writing (ENG)

• Formalized Latina/o Studies Program –

new LAL designation – poised to become

an academic program


Re-Accredited Programs

• BS Social Work & MS Social Work successfully

completely re-accreditation in February 2015


EdTPA

• CAS units with Education programs are

requiring students to complete edTPA to

acquire data that will facilitate future

student preparation.

• A new IDS course will prepare students

for the edTPA process.

• The first course will be offered this

summer.


Joint Faculty Hiring Program

• Appointments to be shared between two

academic units

• Initiative enhances faculty collaboration in

research and teaching, and development

of inter-disciplinary programs on campus

• In FY15 BSC & PSY successfully hired a

new faculty member through the joint

faculty hiring program (Neuroscience)

• The college expects the arrival of a new

joint faculty hire in FY16 between

Anthropology and WGS


Faculty Professional Development

Programs

– Faculty Professional Development

Series for new faculty

– Mid-Career Faculty Professional

Development Series for tenured

faculty


Administrative Fellows Program

• Part of Professional Development Program for mid-career faculty

• Dr. Gina Hunter– Sociology and Anthropology

• Dr. Laura Vogel – Biological Sciences


Staff Professional Development Programs

– David G. Lewis,

President/CEO of Lewis

Consulting Group

presented “Be better…”

– Improving interpersonal

and intrapersonal skills,

communication and

productivity

Annual Lead Staff and Staff Retreat


On Campus and Community Events

• Launched the Main

Street College Event – Events are designed to reach out to

the community and showcase ISU’s

faculty activity and expertise

Sally Parry & Bob McLaughlin

Fred Smith

Visiting the Ancestors:

A Night Out with Neanderthals


International Travel Program

• Promote high-quality research,

scholarship, and creative activity by

tenured and tenure track faculty

• Supplement travel funds provided to

faculty members by department to

defray costs of professional travel

outside the contiguous US

• $14,278 supported research

activities of 20 faculty members


Student Team Travel Program

• Promote high-quality competitive team

activities in the CAS

• Joined effort between CAS, the Office of

the Provost and Office of Student Affairs

• Program provided support for the following

teams:

– Model UN

– Mock Trial

– Forensics


Undergraduate Student Travel Program

• Provided funds to offset

travel expenses for

undergraduate students to

attend and present their

research at professional

conferences

• Allocated $10,000 for

initiative


Faculty/Student Scholarly Activities

• Faculty members continue to engage

students in formal scholarly and creative

activity

• Last year 136 or 24% of all journal

articles, book chapters, and peer-

recognized creative efforts note at least

one student co-author

• Total of 265 or 32% of all conference

presentations listed at least 1 student

collaborator

• 29 presentations offered outside of the

US listed at least 1 student co-author


Faculty Scholarly Activities • In 2015 the CAS faculty authored or co-authored

– 20 books and monographs

– 8 edited books

– 13 textbooks

– 537 journal articles and book chapters

– 44 creative works

– 848 conference presentations,144 given

outside of the U.S.

– 55 (9%) journal articles and book

chapters co-authored with international

collaborators

– 45 scholarly presentations featuring

international collaborators

• 1.89 scholarly products per faculty member


Faculty Scholarly Activities

• In FY15 the CAS was home to 108 editors, associate editors,

or editorial board members of national and international peer-

reviewed journals


Faculty Scholarly Activities & Grantsmanship

• In FY15, CAS generated $5,780,063 in

external funding

• 91 grants were awarded across 13 units

• New inductees into the Million Dollar Club

– John Baur (CHE)

– Rachel Bowden (BIO)

– Matt Aldeman (ECO)


Faculty Accomplishments

• Dr. Craig Gatto (Biological Sciences) named

University Professor

• 7 faculty recognized for their excellence in teaching,

research, and service through University Awards

programs


Student Accomplishments

8 BONE SCHOLARS

• Samantha De Carlo (ENG)

• Kristine Demonbreun (COM)

• Taylor Hobson (ENG)

• Jennifer Jaroch (MAT)

• Tyler Malone (BSC)

• Samuel Quast (HIS)

• Raymond St. John (BSC)

• Matthew Weber (BSC)


Fund- and Friend- Raising

• Between 1/1/14 and 12/31/14 the

CAS raised $2,291,318

• Established new scholarship fund for

the social sciences, in excess of

$700,000

• The Lee Ann Murray “Everything

Counts” Actuarial Science Endowed

Scholarship Fund (MAT)

• Other new endowed scholarships –

ENG & POL


Worldwide Campus Fund

• Endowed in 2015 through an alum gift


FY15 Reallocations & Reorganizations

• Internal reallocation of permanent and

temporary variance funds made several

important initiatives possible (examples only):

– Replacement of existing and purchase of new

scientific equipment with GR and other funds

– Funding of start-up packages for incoming

faculty

– Allocation of funds for faculty professional travel

– Student travel & Washington Internship program

– Digital Measures

– Upgrades, hiring, retention of faculty and staff

– Facilities renovations

– Support journal editors, guest speakers, and

conferences

– Accreditation fees


FY15 ENHANCEMENT FUNDS – THANK YOU!

• CAS student team travel initiative - $10,000

• CAS student teacher supervision travel - $57,807

• Summer incentive program - $20,960

• Additional Gen Ed/IC funds - $200,000

• ENG Race to the Top - $12,218

• ENG Obsidian Journal - $13,500


COLLEGE OF

ARTS AND SCIENCES

FY16 PLANNING

MAJOR OBJECTIVES


FY 16 Major Objectives

• Maintain and build upon our academic excellence

• Continue to enhance systems and infrastructure

critical in supporting this excellence (CAS Foci 1, 2;

EI Goals 1,2)

• Recruit new & retain existing faculty, staff, and GAs

• Ensure availability of adequate start-up funds

• Ensure availability and accessibility to adequate

research and office space

• Maintain technology & scientific instrumentation

• Enhance support for faculty professional travel

• Fully support student teacher supervisor activities


Permanent Funding Enhancement Requests

College-wide initiatives

1. Graduate Stipends ($160,000)

2. General Revenue Operating Funds ($50,000)

3. Faculty Professional Travel ($40,000)

4. Technology – Recapitalization of Faculty

Computers and Chemical Stockroom Security

Solution for BSC ($52,000)

5. Student Teacher Supervision Salaries/Travel

($100,000)


Strategic Budgeted Carryover Requests

• 35 requests totaling $706,956

• Proposed Initiatives: – Instruction

– Replacement of scientific instrumentation

– Start-up package supplemental funds

– Student and faculty professional travel

– Conference sponsorship

– Graduate assistantships

– Faculty/staff computer recapitalization

– Facility renovations

– Student recruitment

– Fund and friend-raising

– Student Awards


Provost Enhancement Requests

Twelve requests totaling $494,729 :

• CAS Instruction (PE)

• CAS Student Teacher Supervision Travel (PE)

• CAS Start-up Funds (SBC + PE)

• BSC Mobile Lab & SLB Greenhouse Sustainability

• CHE Teaching & Research Instrumentation

Support (PE)

• CAS Student Team Travel (PE)

• COM NUVI Subscription (PE)

• LAN STV 227C Remodel (PE)

• PHY Lab & Research Equipment (PE)


FY17 TENURE TRACK FACULTY REQUESTS

Principal Criteria for Prioritization:

Enrollment demands

Recent trends in faculty base (hires, retirements,

etc.)

Programmatic needs

External pressures (e.g., accreditation)

New department/school leadership


CAS FY16 FACULTY HIRING REQUEST

Total request: $2,463,462

Unit Priority

Rank

Specialization/Discipline Faculty Rank

PSY 1 Clinical-Counseling Psychologist Assistant Prof

BSC 2 Virologist Assistant Prof

GEO 3 Hydrogeology/Applied Geophysics Assistant Prof

SOA 4 Quantitative Sociologist Assistant Prof

LAN 5 French Assistant Prof

ECO 6 Public-Sector Economics Assistant Prof

PHY 7 Experimental Physics Assistant Prof

CSD 8 Audiology Assistant Prof

POL 9 International Relations Assistant Prof

CHE 10 Biochemistry Assistant Prof

MAT 11 Statistics Assistant Prof

COM 12 Public Relations Assistant Prof

PHI 13 Normative/Applied Ethics Assistant Prof

ENG

14

Technical Communication, Specializing in Digital Rhetoric & Web –

Based Technologies

Assistant Prof

SOA 15 Non-North American Archaeologist Assistant Prof

GEO 16 Environmental Geography Assistant Prof

CSD 17 Speech-Language Pathology Assistant Prof

PSY 18 Quantitative-Developmental Psychologist Assistant Prof

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