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2014 ACADEMIC AFFAIRS BUDGET PRESENTATION College of Arts and Sciences Gregory Simpson, Dean April 1-2, 2014 Alumni Center



FY14 ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND PRODUCTIVITY

Academic Affairs Budget Presentations 2014


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)

CHE CHE

ENG

GEO



Faculty Hiring

Major Accomplishments

We are fortunate to welcome 15 new faculty to our academic community in FY15

This fall, the College welcomed 18 new faculty



2014 Student Body • CAS continued to confer a significant

portion of the University’s degrees – 1,423 undergrad. degrees – 285 MS/MA degrees – 9 graduate certificates – 32 doctoral degrees

• Undergraduate enrollments steady at

5,080

• College generated – 284,821 credit hours

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Newly Implemented Academic Programs

• BA/BS Legal Studies (POL)

• BS Biochemistry (CHE)

• BS Molecular and Cellular Biology (BIO)

• MS Anthropology (SOA)

• Creative Writing Sequence (ENG)



Re-Accredited Programs

• Doctor of Audiology (CSD)

• MS Speech Language Pathology (CSD)



Joint Faculty Hiring Program

• Initiative encourages the recruitment of inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary faculty members to our campus

• Appointments to be shared between two academic units

• Initiative to enhance faculty collaboration in research and teaching, and development of inter-disciplinary programs on our campus

• First hire in FY14 – Biological Sciences and Psychology in Cognitive and Behavioral Psychology



Faculty and Staff Professional Development

• We have continued our mentoring program for our first-year faculty members

• Mid-career faculty professional development program

• Annual lead staff and support staff retreat



Administrative Fellows Program

• Part of professional development program for mid-career faculty

• Dr. Maria Pao – Languages, Literatures, and Cultures



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

• $16,500 supported research activities of 21 faculty members



Student 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:

– Solar Car – Model UN – Mock Trial – Forensics



Faculty/Student Scholarly Activities • Faculty members continue to engage

students in formal scholarly and creative activity

• Last year 143 or 26% of all journal articles, book chapters, and peer-recognized creative efforts note at least one student co-author

• Total of 261 or 36% of all conference presentations listed at least 1 student collaborator

• 23 presentations offered outside of the US listed at least 1 student co-author

SOA

WGS



Faculty Scholarly Activities • In 2014 the CAS faculty authored or co-authored

– 14 books and monographs – 11 edited books – 12 textbooks – 743 journal articles and book chapters – 86 creative works – 721 conference presentations,122 given outside of the U.S. – 49 (8%) journal articles and book chapters co-authored with international collaborators – 35 scholarly presentations featuring international collaborators

• 2.5 scholarly products per faculty member



Faculty Scholarly Activities • In FY14 the CAS was home to 82 (~ 1 in 4 faculty members)

editors, associate editors, or editorial board members of national and international peer-reviewed journals



Faculty Scholarly Activities & Grantsmanship

• Between July 1 and Feb 18 CAS generated $3,666,786 in external funding

• 55 grants were awarded across 13 units

• New inductees into the Million Dollar Club – Amy Bloom (GEO) – Craig Cullen (MAT) – George Rutherford (PHY)

Amy Bloom

Craig Cullen George Rutherford



Faculty Accomplishments • Dr. David Malone (Geography-Geology)

named University Professor

• Dr. Saad El Zanati (Mathematics) named Distinguished Professor

• 9 other faculty recognized for their excellence in teaching, research, and service through University Awards programs

• Dr. Robert McLaughlin (English) and Dr. Roger Thomas (Languages) were named CAS Distinguished Lecturers for 2014-15.

Malone El Zanati

McLaughlin Thomas



Student Accomplishments 8 BONE SCHOLARS

• Molly Bell (COM) • Jacob Birlingmair (BSC) • Jessica Garber (ENG/POL) • Jade Kestian (PSY) • Joseph Powers (BSC) • Brian Rohman (COM) • Andrew Steinacher (PHY) • Mackenzie Walker

(CHE/BSC/PSY)



Fund- and Friend- Raising • Between 3/1/13 and 3/1/14 the CAS raised

$2,697,089

• Funds represent an increase of $437,627 from previous year

• Total number of donors: 4,090

WGS

PHY

CHE



FY14 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 ($ 1 million) – Funding of startup packages for incoming faculty

(~$502,000) – Allocation of funds for faculty professional travel

(~$195,000, + 20% over last year) – Student travel & Washington Internship program – Digital Measures – Upgrades, hiring, retention of faculty and staff – Facilities renovations

GEO



FY14 ENHANCEMENT FUNDS – THANK YOU!

• CAS STARTUP FUND ENHANCEMENT - $100,000 • CAS STUDENT TEACHER SUPERVISION TRAVEL - $53,667 • SUMMER INCENTIVE PROGRAM - $10,000 • CAS-IT PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT - $17,500 • PSY TECHNOLOGY AND FACILITIES UPGRADE FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL

CENTER - $7,500 • BSC EQUIPMENT - $39,519 • CHE EQUIPMENT - $23,000



FY15 PLANNING MAJOR OBJECTIVES



FY 15 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 startup 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

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Permanent Funding Enhancement Requests College-wide initiatives

1. Graduate Stipends ($160,000) 2. Physical Infrastructure for Faculty/Staff Office and

Research Space 3. General Revenue Operating Funds ($50,000) 4. Faculty Professional Travel ($40,000) 5. Technology – Recapitalization of Faculty

Computers and Chemical Stockroom Security Solution for BSC ($52,000)

6. Student Teacher Supervision Salaries/Travel ($50,000)

7. AP/CS Support Personnel ($198,700)

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Strategic Budgeted Carryover Requests • 30 requests from 10 units plus CAS

totaling $838,733

• Proposed Initiatives: – Instruction – Replacement of scientific instrumentation – Startup package supplemental funds – Faculty and student professional travel – Conference sponsorship – Graduate assistantships – Faculty computer recapitalization – Facility renovations – Student recruitment – Friend and fund raising



Provost Enhancement Requests Twelve requests totaling $330,000 : 1. CAS Instruction (SBC) 2. CAS Startup Funds (SBC + PE) 3. CHE Scientific Equipment Purchase (SBC + PE) 4. COM Teacher Education Project (PE + CAS) 5. CAS-IT Equipment Purchase (PE) 6. CAS Digital Measures (PE) 7. MAT Faculty Professional Development (PE) 8. BSC Scientific Instrumentation Purchase (PE) 9. CAS-IT Training (PE) 10. PHY Lab & Research Equipment (PE + CAS) 11. POL Civic Engagement Study Tour (PE) 12. CAS URG Supplement (PE)

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FY16 TENURE TRACK FACULTY REQUESTS Principal Criteria for Prioritization: Anticipated programmatic needs including student demand from new programs Existing and projected student demand Outside programmatic and accreditation pressures Recent trends in faculty base Presence of new leadership



CAS FY 16 FACULTY HIRING REQUEST Total request: $1,510,360

Unit Priority Rank

Specialization/Discipline Faculty Rank

CSD 1 Audiology Assistant Prof

ENG 2 Creative Writing – Fiction Assistant Prof

BSC 3 Cellular Immunology Assistant Prof

POL 4 Legal Studies Assistant Prof

MAT 5 Statistics Education Assistant Prof

GEO 6 Hydrogeology/Applied Geophysics Assistant Prof

PHI 7 Normative and Applied Ethics Assistant Prof

SOA 8 Sociology/Anthropology with Women’s and Gender Studies Assistant Prof PHY 9 Applied Computational Physics Assistant Prof

POL 10 International Relations Assistant Prof

SOA 11 Archaeology Assistant Prof

ENG 12 Digital Humanities/Publishing History Assistant Prof

CSD 13 Audiology/Speech-language Pathology Assistant Prof

CHE 14 Biochemistry Assistant Prof

MAT 15 Secondary Mathematics Education Assistant Prof

MAT 16 Biomathematics Assistant Prof

GEO 17 Mineralogy/Petrology Assistant Prof

POL 18 Public Policy Assistant Prof

BSC 19 Virology Assistant Prof

ENG 20 Early American Comparative Literature Assistant Prof

PHI 21 History of Philosophy/Philosophy Assistant Prof

PHY 22 Experimental Physics Assistant Prof

GEO 23 Climatology/Meteorology Assistant Prof

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