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college of liberal arts and sciences. U N I V E R S I T Y O F F L O R I D A. September 1, 2006. CLAS Fiscal Affairs. Focus on vision for College for future. 2. Mission oriented planning.

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September 1, 2006

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  1. college of liberal arts and sciences U N I V E R S I T Y O F F L O R I D A September 1, 2006

  2. CLAS Fiscal Affairs Focus on vision for College for future. 2. Mission oriented planning. Distinctive moves that are clear, set path and enable objectives of CLAS. Goal Restructure the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences -- align with College & University missions.

  3. Overall State of Affairs

  4. Growth ~ 59% of seats taken by majors outside CLAS

  5. Faculty Hiring

  6. CLAS Faculty Vacancies -- Planned Searches

  7. Budget History

  8. CLAS Fiscal Affairs • Financial Objectives • Balance current budget. • Plan next 4 years budget. • Create a reserve (ability to respond to opportunities). • Reviews with Faculty Finance Committee. • Academic Objectives • Promote excellence in core CLAS mission ---- invest in strategic areas. • Hire in areas that contribute to mission. • Meet undergrad. and graduate education goals • Structural Objectives • Streamline administrative services. • Review, and enhance, recalibrate or maintain academic units.

  9. Implementation: Budget Restructuring Mission oriented: Variable among Divisions of CLAS (Humanities, Nat. Sciences, Social Sciences) Alignment of Base (OPS/OE) Budgets Align OE Allocation/ Faculty/ Approp. Area  Infrastructure needs (Lab. sciences, Centers, etc.) Align OPS Allocation/ Approp. Area/  Productivity (SCH & grad degree production)/ Total (Fac. + TA FTE)  Research productivity (awards, initiatives…)  Private Giving, Foundations Strategic Planning…. Invest in some key areas

  10. Guidelines for Chairs/Directors • Managing Faculty and Fiscal Resources • Chairs:Management responsibilities: (1) faculty assignments (2) budget, personnel, enrollment , external relations) • Provide departments with key mission metrics (enrollment, graduation, grants, private giving) • Minimum class enrollments(review with CLAS) • Minimum class sizes for TA assignments (Variable: Lab, discussions, etc.) • Students need exposure to faculty at all levels

  11. OPS Recommendations Primary use: • Undergraduate teaching & graduate student training • High quality undergraduate education experience (smaller classes, more individual teaching) • Secondary: • Assist advising & curricular missions • Senior TAs to coordinate labs • Development of new curricular areas • Title VI mission: teaching & outreach • Tertiary: • Investment to grow PhD program • New faculty hires (RA) by negotiation

  12. Budget Restructuring Overview

  13. END

  14. Space Ustler Hall(occupation 2006) Women’s Studies, classrooms Dedication: September 29, 2006 Pugh Hall / Graham Center(32,000 NASF ) Private funds = $6.5M + state match + federal (Oral History, African & Asian Languages & Literatures) Groundbreaking: September 30, 2006 Turlington Hall Relief space for new programs in: European Studies, Asian Studies, new languages CLAS Life Sciences(Future)

  15. • Lou Guillette (HHMI Professor) • Train young scientists biological & biomedical sciences Biological Sciences Howard Hughes Medical Institute Awards HHMI Science for Life Program • Under UF-Honors Program • Transform interdisciplinary undergraduate laboratory experience (Core Lab) • CoEd, COM, CLAS collaboration • International links: (FFRI; France; UK.…) • Minority school partners (Morehouse)

  16. Graham Center for Public Service Major presence in Government Studies • Public Leadership - Createnew BA/MA in Public Policy - Internship/Washington Training Program - Distinguished Lecturer Series (Parliamentarians, national leaders) • Language Learning Facility - UF to be a center for less commonly taught languages (Mid-East, East Asian, African) - Training students; languages and literatures, critical thinking, cultural studies, linguistics • Groundbreaking ceremony: September 30, 2006

  17. (a) The crystallographic unit cell of GM2AP showing three different conformations (b) X-ray models of GM2AP with GM2, PAF or PG show different binding motifs. Nanosciences (NIMET) G. Fanucci - Structural biology, membrane proteins Ú K. Merz - Molecular modeling, quantum bioinformatics H. Chen - Microelectro-mechanincal systems Biophysics A. Petkova - Structure of B-amyloid fibrils Ù (Alzheimers, Prion diseases) C. Cao - Nano-crystal assemblies, biomarkers

  18. Astronomy •Keck Foundation Award (Science, Nature) J. Ge -Discoveries of Exoplanets; $875,000 grant to develop the W.M. Keck Exoplanet Tracker S. Eikenberry –Instrumentation astronomy, GTC Genetics/Genomics •NSF Floral Genome / NSF Tree of Life A. Hegeman - Genomics S. Chen - Functional Genomics, plant growth D. Oppenheimer – Gene function, cell expansion

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