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State of the College 2010. Victor H. Matthews, Dean August 26, 2010. Budget Update. CHPA Annual Budget = $9,363,942.70 $8,984,380 is budgeted for salaries and benefits $379,563 is budgeted for operations and equipment
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State of the College 2010 Victor H. Matthews, Dean August 26, 2010
Budget Update • CHPA Annual Budget = $9,363,942.70 $8,984,380 is budgeted for salaries and benefits $379,563 is budgeted for operations and equipment There is an estimated $1,160,626 in one-time monies available and $398,884in recurring salary savings. CHPA
Budget From the $1,160,626 the College will fund items including: • Summer School ($109,907 budgeted) • Per Course and One-time Hires ($181,658 budgeted) • Travel and Operations for Dean’s Office ($82,674 including $25,554 Capital Outlay for computer purchases) • New Hire Summer Research Stipends ($30,000) • Recruiting and Faculty Hiring ($35,000) • Development Efforts ($2,000) • Research Opportunities ($36,000) • Program Directors ($35,000) • Sabbaticals ($25,000) CHPA
Hiring Plan – Anticipated Searches From the $398,884 in recurring salary savings, the college will fund three faculty searches: • Criminology – Department Head • History – Department Head Asst. Prof. African American HST CHPA
External Review • External Reviewer will Visit Economics in October 2010 • Dr. James Payne, Illinois State University CHPA
External Review • Religious Studies and Philosophy Departments prepare for external review visit in fall 2011 (http://www.missouristate.edu/assets/provost/ProgramReviewInstructions.pdf):1. Self Study written and approved by June 1, 20112. External reviewers nominated and approved by Dean and Provost CHPA
Vision Statement The College of Humanities and Public Affairs helps students to understand social, political and legal structures, ethical principles, religious systems, and economic institutions and practices within a global, historical, and contemporary context. CHPA presents the concepts contained in the university’s Public Affairs mission and applies them to real-world problems and situations so that our students will be better prepared to become citizens and leaders. CHPA
Central Themes • Enhance Public Affairs Mission • Increase Student Success Efforts • Enhance and Improve Assessment Methods • Maintain Scholarly Productivity CHPA
Public Affairs Mission • Public Affairs Intensive Component in Majors • Greater visibility for Public Affairs Programming • CHPA Speakers Bureau • CHPA Research Centers/Community Connections CHPA
Public Affairs Mission • Derek Bok, Our Underachieving Colleges, p. 187-88Four Elements of “Civic Education” • Introduction to American Democracy • Political Philosophy • Basic Elements of Economics • Knowledge of America’s Engagement in World Affairs CHPA
Student Success • Recruitment, Retention, and Access • Enhanced Advisement Efforts • Enrollment Management Analysis • Course Transformation Initiative CHPA
Student Success • Eric Nelson (HST) appointed as Dean’s Fellow for Course Transformation • http://www.thencat.org/whoweare.html • http://www.thencat.org/articlesmonographs.html • http://handouts.aacrao.org/am07/finished/T0245p_C_Twigg.pdf CHPA
Recruitment & Retention • Participation in college and majors fairs • Utilization of Advisement Specialists • Greater participation in Master Advisor Workshop • Promotion of Bear Claw and other Intervention Methods CHPA
Access Efforts • Increased development of on-line and blended courses • Use of ITV to transmit courses from DSS to Ft. Leavenworth and the Springfield campus • Identification of degrees that can be completed in the evening, on-line or in combination • Degree Pathways information on Dept websites CHPA
Teaching Modalities(as of 8-26-10)FA 10: 6532 Total SCH = 17.5% of CHPA SCH CHPA
Enrollment Management • Flexible strategy to meet student needs • Projection of course scheduling based on past history and student feedback • Response to external review reports Current CHPA fall 2010 enrollment (37,382 on 8-27-10) stands at 101.7% of fall 2009 census totals. CHPA
Assessment Strategies • Develop Assessment Methods for All Modalities & All Degrees • Greater Attention to Alumni Feedback • Reassessment of Teaching Evaluation Methods • Work with FCTL to Develop/Revise Departmental Assessment Plans • Use Student Success Committee as a CHPA Assessment Council CHPA
External Grants Bernice Warren Center for Archaeological Research – Director, Neal Lopinot • “CAR-1429 Intensive Archaeological Survey at Lake Wappapello, Butler & Wyane Counties, MO” ($320,000). • “CAR-1405 Phase III Assessment of Crawford Co., KS” ($51,500). Departmental • Taiwan Foundation for Democracy: “Rapprochement between Taiwan and the Chinese Mainland: Implications for American Foreign Policy” ($5,490). Dennis Hickey (PLS). • Wabash Center for Teaching & Learning: Assess REL Department Pedagogy ($18,757) CSSPPR • Small grants to support surveys on “Attitudes of Springfield Voters toward Public Health Issues,” for the Missouri Department of Transportation and a “Survey of Uninsured and Underinsured Residents of Greene County, Missouri,” for the Springfield/Greene County Regional Health Commission. CHPA
Recent CHPA Books Blevins, Brooks, Arkansas/Arkansaw: How Bear Hunters, Hillbillies, and Good Ol' Boys Defined a State (U. of Arkansas Press, 2009) Chuchiak, John, A. and Harada, T. O. Text and Context: Analyzing Colonial Yucatec Maya Texts and Literature in Cross-Cultural Perspective (Institut für Altamerikanistik und Ethnologie, Universität Bonn, 2009) Piston, William, Portraits of Conflict; A Photographic History of the Civil War in Missouri (U. of Arkansas Press, 2009) Walker, Bethany, Reflections of Empire: Archaeological and Ethnographic Studies on the Ottoman Levant (ASOR, 2009) Dennis Hickey, Dancing With the Dragon: China’s Emergence in the Developing World (New York: Lexington Books, 2010) Berkwitz, Steve, South Asian Buddhism: A Survey (Routledge, 2009) Finch, Martha, Dissenting Bodies: Corporealities in Early New England (Columbia University Press, 2009) Matthews, Victor H. 101 Questions & Answers on the Historical Books of the Bible (Paulist Press, 2009) Joseph, Robert, Countering WMD: The Libyan Experience. Fairfax, VA: National Institute Press, 2009. Nelson, Eric, After the League: Politics and Religion in Early BourbonFrance. Palgrave Academic Press, 2009. CHPA
Archaeological Field School in MissouriJudy’s Cave – Wright County CHPA
Archaeological Field School – MissouriNathan Boone Homestead CHPA
Fieldwork in Jordan CHPA
Fieldwork in Jamaica CHPA
Questions/Comments • Please send questions or comments to: • VictorMatthews@missouristate.edu CHPA