Resource Allocation Management Program (RAMP)

FY 2004

Resource Allocation Management Program (RAMP)

Planning Documents

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

A. PLANNING STATEMENT 3

I. Mission and Focus Statements of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville 3

A. The Statement of Mission 3

B. The Statement of Vision 3

C. The Statement of Values 3

D. Statement on Diversity 4

E. Focus Statement 4

Southern Illinois University Priorities 5

II. Priorities Statement 5

RAMP 04 Assumptions 6

B. PROGRAM PRIORITIES REQUEST 7

Retaining Critical Faculty and Staff 7

School of Pharmacy Implementation 9

Meeting Enrollment Growth Needs 15

Enhancement of Dental Medicine Program 19

Academic Quality Improvement Project Initiatives 22

Construction Specialization in MBA and PDS in Construction 27

The Institute for Urban Research 42

Teaching, Learning, and Technology Initiative 48

School of Business Expansion of Specializations 52

School Partnerships with the Arts and Sciences 60

A. PLANNING STATEMENT

I. Mission and Focus Statements of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

As part of the Academic Quality Improvement Process (AQIP) the Goal 4 Strategic Planning group revised the mission, vision, values and diversity statements and are as follows. The process involved over 80 individuals representing various constituencies within the planning group. A description of the process can be found under Goal IV on SIUE's AQIP web site (http://www.siue.edu/AQIP).

A. The Statement of Mission

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville is a public comprehensive university dedicated to the communication, expansion and integration of knowledge through excellent undergraduate education as its first priority and complementary excellent graduate and professional academic programs; through the scholarly, creative and research activity of its faculty, staff and students; and through public service and cultural and arts programming in its region.

B. The Statement of Vision

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, as a premier Metropolitan University, will be recognized nationally for the excellence of its programs and development of professional and community leaders.

C. The Statement of Values

Recognizing public education as the cornerstone of a democracy, SIUE carries out its mission based on certain fundamental, shared values. We value:

Citizenship

·  Social, civic and political responsibility, globally, nationally, locally, and within the University

·  Active partnerships and a climate of collaboration and cooperation among faculty, staff, students and the larger community

·  Environmental stewardship

Excellence

·  High quality student learning

·  Continuous improvement and innovation

·  Outstanding scholarship and public service

·  Standards consonant with the premier status to which we aspire

Integrity

·  Accountability to those we serve and from whom we receive support

·  Honesty in our communications and in our actions

Openness

·  Inclusion of the rich diversity of humankind in all aspects of university life

·  Respect for individual differences

·  Intellectual freedom and diversity of thought

·  Access for all who can benefit from our programs

Wisdom

·  Creation, preservation, and sharing of knowledge

·  Application of knowledge in a manner that promotes the common good

·  Life-long learning

D. Statement on Diversity

All societies and peoples have contributed to the rich mix of contemporary humanity. In order to achieve domestic and international peace, social justice, and the development of full human potential, we must build on this diversity. SIUE nurtures an open, harmonious, and hospitable climate that facilitates learning and work. Each member of the University is responsible for contributing to such a campus environment.

SIUE is committed to education that explores the historic significance of diversity in order to understand the present and to better enable our community to engage the future. Integral to this commitment, SIUE strives for a student body and a workforce that manifests diversity.

E. Focus Statement

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville serves traditional college-aged undergraduate students, with many commuting from the surrounding area, as well as older, part-time, and minority students. The campus offers a balance of instruction, research, and public service programs consonant with its role as the only public university in southwestern Illinois. Southern Illinois University Edwardsville also administers the School of Dental Medicine at Alton and operates a center in East St. Louis. In addition to pursuing statewide goals and priorities, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville:

·  offers undergraduate programs and master's programs encompassing instruction in the arts and sciences, education, social services, business, engineering, and the health professions in order to improve the quality of life, economy, health care, and environment in the greater St. Louis metropolitan area;

·  emphasizes graduate-level programs that prepare practitioners and professionals in those fields that are particularly relevant to addressing the social, economic, and health-care needs of the region;

·  focuses off-campus programs in southwestern Illinois, except in fields such as nursing in which the University is distinctly positioned to offer off-campus completion programs for the entire southern Illinois area; and

·  addresses the need for dentists in the central and southern regions of the state through its School of Dental Medicine.

Southern Illinois University Priorities

At the December 2000 Southern Illinois University Board of Trustees meeting the following Southern Illinois University priorities were adopted:

To improve teaching and learning and strengthen undergraduate, graduate and professional education, taking advantage of existing and emerging programmatic strengths and bridging school-to-work by increasing work-based learning experiences for our students.

To enhance student success by involving all members of the University community in implementing an effective, targeted recruitment strategy and improving student retention, including the elimination of obstacles to timely degree completion.

To strengthen our commitment to faculty and staff development as well as ensure a closer correlation of productivity, faculty and staff workload, and reward systems as defined by the role and mission of each program and administrative unit.

To expand inter- and intra-campus collaboration to strengthen international education, degree programs, distributed learning, fundraising, and student and faculty research opportunities, and to streamline administrative processes. Resources resulting from such efficiencies shall be directed to the University’s primary educational mission.

To build public and private sector partnerships that address the state’s needs and strengthen the University’s leadership role in the region.

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville indicated its efforts to meet these priorities to the Board of Trustees through planning matrices. The planning matrices include information on campus goals/objectives, results indicators, action, and budget allocations. The priorities are reviewed and updated annually with quarterly reports provided to the Board of Trustees concerning progress on meeting the priorities.

II. Priorities Statement

The primary focus of SIUE’s long-term goals is student learning. Achieving the following goals will help students become lifelong learners and effective leaders in their professions and communities:

Engaged students and capable graduates--Attract a diverse student body, including traditional, non-traditional, commuter, and residential scholars, and nurture, educate, and graduate students who achieve the objectives for baccalaureate, graduate, and professional degrees.

Innovative High Quality Programs--Develop, deliver, and continually improve high quality academic programs appropriate for a Metropolitan University.

Committed faculty and staff--Recruit and support a diverse faculty and staff known for providing the highest quality educational opportunity, scholarship, and service.

Harmonious campus climate--Foster an harmonious student-centered campus characterized by integrity, cooperation, open dialogue, and mutual respect among individuals with different backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives.

Active Community Engagement--Achieve an integral and indispensable relationship with Illinois and the St. Louis metropolitan area; work cooperatively within SIU to make the whole greater than the sum of its parts.

Sound Physical and Financial Assets--Develop, maintain, and protect the University’s assets in a financially, aesthetically, and environmentally responsible manner.

Excellent Reputation--Participate and excel in actions that earn national recognition for quality.

RAMP 04 Assumptions

SIUE plans a tuition increase of approximately 10.5% for FY 04. This planning document assumes that the IBHE will again require that the revenue generated by the first three percent of the increase will be used for salary increases. The remainder of the revenue will be used to enhance academic programs, support the Dental Medicine Program, and meet enrollment growth needs. The remaining Program Priorities Requests seek new general revenue resources.

B. PROGRAM PRIORITIES REQUEST

Retaining Critical Faculty and Staff

I. Request Identification

A.  Name of Institution: Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

B.  Title of Request: Retaining Critical Faculty and Staff

C.  Total new state resources requested: $783,000

D.  Proposed date for initiation: FY 04

E. Date of submission of request: RAMP 04

F. Program Abstract: This request for new state resources will allow the University to maintain faculty and staff salaries at levels comparable to SIUE peer institutions. This request supports the IBHE salary equity initiative now in its fourth year.

II. Relationship to THE ILLINOIS COMMITMENT and Institutional Priorities

New state resources are requested to provide for recruitment and retention of critical faculty and staff. These funds will be used to recruit and retain faculty and staff in high demand areas, to increase salaries toward national peer medians, to provide performance-based salary incentives, and to provide funds to help cover the costs of early retirement programs. This request is in accordance with the IBHE's objective to improve salary competitiveness of faculty and staff over a five-year period and with SIU's commitment to improve the competitive salary position of faculty and staff. Maintaining salaries that are comparable to peer institutions allows the University to attract and keep faculty that are meritorious in teaching, scholarship and service.

III. Justification for the Budget Request

This request is for new state general revenue for the 1% salary equity increase recommended by the IBHE in the fourth year of a five year plan to improve salary competitiveness. The University will match this 1% increase through existing resources. These existing resources will be used for merit increases, recruitment of faculty and staff, and early retirement agreements.

IV. Program Results and Performance Measures to Assess Program Effectiveness

Salary equity studies of peer institutions will be conducted annually to determine whether these new state resources and internal reallocations are allowing the University to maintain its salary position relative to these peer institutions.

TABLE IV-4

TOTAL RESOURCE REQUIREMENTS FOR PROGRAM PRIORITIES

BUDGET REQUEST

Line
Code / Current
Year / Budget Year / 2nd
Year / 3rd
Year / 4th
Year
1 / Total Resource Requirements / $2,700,000 / $4,240,000 / $4,266,000 / $4,266,000 / $4,266,000
2 / Resources Available from Federal Sources / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0
3 / Resources Available from Other Non-State Sources / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0
4 / Existing State Resources / 1,960,000 / 2,700,000 / $4,266,000 / $4,266,000 / $4,266,000
5 / State Resources Available through Internal Reallocation / 370,000 / 783,000 / 0 / 0 / 0
6 / New State Resources Required from Income Fund
New State Resources Required from General Revenue / 370,000 / 783,000
Breakdown of New State Resources Required for Budget Year:
7 / Staff / $783,000
8 / Equipment and Instructional Materials / 0
9 / Library / 0
10 / Contractual Services / 0
11 / Other Support Services / 0

PROGRAM PRIORITIES REQUEST

School of Pharmacy Implementation

I.  REQUEST IDENTIFICATION

A.  Name of Institution: Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

B.  Title of Request: School of Pharmacy Implementation

C.  Total Requested: $650,000

D.  Proposed date for initiation: FY 04

E.  Date of submission: RAMP 03

F.  Program Abstract: This Program Priorities Request seeks new state resources to begin the implementation of the School of Pharmacy at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville to address the pressing health care need of a shortage of pharmacists in central and southern Illinois. The School of Pharmacy was approved by the Illinois Board of Higher Education at its April 2, 2002 meeting.

II. RELATIONSHIP TO THE ILLINOIS COMMITMENT AND INSTITUTIONAL PRIORITIES

SIUE’s focus statement calls for the University to “offer undergraduate programs and master’s programs encompassing instruction in the arts and sciences, education, social services, business, engineering, and the health professions in order to improve the quality of life, economy, health care, and environment in the greater St. Louis metropolitan area.” The new program would replicate the Schools of Dental Medicine and Nursing success in preparing health care practitioners to serve the citizens of central and southern Illinois.

The SIUE program intends to admit 75 students for each cohort beginning in FY 05 in a 4-year professional program and to graduate approximately the same number to meet pharmacy industry demand. Positioned as the School of Pharmacy for central and southern Illinois, students from throughout the region could matriculate to SIUE for their professional education. Targeted student populations would include two special groups: science majors who desire to make a program change during their college career and Illinois residents who desire to return to the University to enter pharmacy as a second career. It should be noted that in existing Schools of Pharmacy a number of the students are individuals pursuing pharmacy as a second career. The SIUE School of Pharmacy, located in the second largest metropolitan area in the state, is well located to serve this type of student. These contributions will help meet the Illinois Commitment goals of supporting business and economic growth in the state and providing additional educational opportunities to the state’s citizens.

III. JUSTIFICATION FOR THE BUDGET REQUEST

It is recommended by the consultant and the American Council of Pharmaceutical Education that a 18 – 24 month start-up period be provided for a dean to hire faculty, establish a curriculum, and begin the accreditation process. During the start-up, library and equipment would be purchased prior to the hiring of new faculty and enrollment of the first students. Thus, resource requirements outlined in RAMP 03 reflect incremental increases to phase-in the operation of the School of Pharmacy. The School of Pharmacy is anticipated to be fully operational in FY 09. A class size of 75 students will require a faculty of approximately of 40 members, including the Dean and other School administrators as outlined in the following table.

Discipline / Number FTE's
Dean / 1
Associate Deans / 2
Department Chairs / 2
Pharmaceutics faculty / 2
Pharmacology/Pathophysiology faculty / 6
Behavioral and Administrative Sciences faculty / 2
Clinical faculty / 25
Total School Faculty / 40

An additional number of part-time clinical faculty will be required to teach elective clerkships. Also, at least 3 additional biomedical faculty members are needed to teach the biomedical sciences. At least one additional professional librarian will be required. Faculty appointments will be on a 12-month basis with each semester having a length of 18 weeks. This 12 month appointment is in keeping with national practice for clinical faculty and provides the sciences (biomedical and pharmaceutical) time during the summer term to conduct their scholarship.