Department Annual Report, Summer 2015

Department Annual Report, Summer 2015

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  1. Programs and Enrollment

For your responses in this section, data from FactBook will be very useful.

  1. Comment on any significant increase or decrease in the department’s number of declared majors and degrees granted. Do you have any concerns about increases or decreases registered in the data? If so, what plans do you have to address those concerns? What are the primary tools you utilize for your enrollment planning?

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  1. Note any significant changes in time-to-degree. To what do you attribute increases or decreases?

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  1. Describe any current curricular initiatives or outreach planning that might bring about program changes or enrollment impact. Include comments on trends and on any GUR planning, on-line curriculum, and international programming.

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  1. Describe any interdisciplinary programs with which your department is currently involved. Please include programs within CST as well as those involving other colleges.

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  1. Faculty Positions
  1. List your tenure-track faculty recruitment efforts during AY 2014-15.

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  1. Faculty Professional Development
  1. Which department faculty members are planning to apply for professional leave for 2014-2015?

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  1. How will you accommodate your curriculum to the absence of those on leave?

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  1. Community Contribution
  1. Describe how your academic program provides students with experience in the community.

·  How do you define your students’ activities (e.g., service learning, internship, practicum)?

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·  List number(s) and title(s) of courses that include off-campus activities. How is credit assigned for each course? Is the class repeatable?

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·  How are students supervised?

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·  How are students graded?

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·  How is faculty workload apportioned?

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  1. In which agencies/businesses do your students intern, provide service, or otherwise volunteer?

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  1. How do such arrangements affect students’ subsequent employment opportunities?

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  1. Please estimate the number of hours your students (graduate and undergraduate) contribute to community service.

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  1. Diversity

Describe any strategies or processes your department uses to attract and/or retain a diverse faculty, staff and student population.

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  1. Scholarship
  1. Summarize department faculty scholarship, as reflected in the faculty Annual Activity Reports, during the past academic year. Include the number of students who are listed as authors (i.e., “30-6” would represent 30 articles, 6 of which have student authors listed).

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* any product resulting from professional activity, such as programs and CD ROMs.

  1. Summarize student scholarship in the department (undergraduate or graduate), during the past academic year. Along with the faculty/student collaborations (included above), include the number of students who have produced scholarship independently (not included above).

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* any product resulting from professional activity, such as programs and CD ROMs.

3.  List any significant awards or honors your faculty or students have received during AY 2013-14 (not scholarships).

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  1. Grant Funding

For 2014-15, indicate external grant activity:

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  1. External Fundraising

1.  Describe any fundraising initiatives and/or successes from the past year. Do you have plans for enhancing your fundraising in the future?

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2.  If your department has an external advisory board, please describe that group’s work this year and how you use these volunteers in your fundraising and/or community outreach.

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  1. Resource Needs

In priority order, what are the department’s top five resource needs? Include estimated cost and brief rationale

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  1. Space
  1. Comment on your department’s current space needs and pressures.

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  1. Describe any planned growth and new programs/initiatives potentially needing additional space.

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  1. Describe any program decreases or cuts resulting in potential repurposing of space.

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  1. Budget

Comment on your department’s budget. Include remarks on operating fund balances, self-sustaining funds, Foundation dollars, equipment, and any other accounts the department administers. Please attach any spreadsheets that would be helpful for discussion.

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The following topics will be discussed at the Dean/Chair meeting.
No written comments are requested at this time.

  1. Staff
  1. What staff accomplishments, changes, challenges, and/or plans have occurred over the past year. How has the department been affected?
  2. What development opportunities have been provided to your staff members over the past year?
  1. Faculty

You should meet individually with each permanent faculty member prior to the Dean/Chair meeting. (See the Annual Faculty Review section of the Unit Evaluation Plan.)

  1. Review of plans for probationary faculty for performance leading to tenure. (This plan should be agreed upon by the Chair and faculty member and should be reflected in the annual non-tenured evaluation letter prepared by the Chair).
  2. Review of each faculty member's accomplishments and plans for the future, as discussed by the Chair with each faculty member in the annual review meeting.
  3. Review of faculty teaching loads, other assigned duties, and release time.
  4. Review of non-tenure-track faculty.
  1. Chair
  1. Review of your role as leader of the department: What are your major goals, accomplishments, challenges?

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