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College of Arts and Science Faculty Meeting

College of Arts and Science Faculty Meeting. October 24, 2006. State of the College Overview. Faculty Issues Graduate Education Undergraduate Education Diversity Issues Capital Campaign Update. The A&S Faculty. Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty Recruitment. 131.

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College of Arts and Science Faculty Meeting

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  1. College of Arts and ScienceFaculty Meeting October 24, 2006

  2. State of the CollegeOverview • Faculty Issues • Graduate Education • Undergraduate Education • Diversity Issues • Capital Campaign Update

  3. The A&S Faculty

  4. Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty Recruitment 131

  5. Promotion, Tenure and Reappointment • Our record of success in presenting strong promotion cases to the Promotion and Tenure Review Committee (PTRC) and the Provost over the past five years is superb (52 of 53 cases approved). • This records reflects well on our departments, especially in their ability to recruit outstanding junior faculty to Vanderbilt.

  6. Promotion to Full Professor

  7. Promotion to Associate Professor

  8. Tenure-Track Reappointments

  9. Faculty Development • Susan Kuyper, Ph.D. has been appointed Grants Resource Officer for the Humanities & Social Sciences • Workshops for Tenure-Track Faculty on Promotion and Tenure Process hosted by Executive Dean Ed Saff and by Associate Provost Tim McNamara • Brown Bag Discussions and Mentoring Programs for Tenure-Track Faculty directed by Dana Nelson

  10. Graduate Education in2005-2006 • In 2006, A&S programs conferred 109 Master’s degrees and 72 Ph.D.s • Excalibur has been moved to MIS to insure reliability and security and the system worked well in the last phase of graduate recruiting during the spring semester 2006.

  11. Graduate Admissions for2006-2007 • Total applications = 3391 (4% increase) • Total admits = 540 (6% increase) • Admit rate = 16% (same as previous year) • Total accepts = 263 (7% decrease) • Yield = 49% (7% lower than previous year)

  12. Graduate Support • 2006 was the fourth year of the Summer Research Awards program: 25 awards of $4000 each • 2006-2007 is the third year of the Arts and Science Fellows program: ◊Merit-based competition for dissertation- year support for students in the humanities and qualitative social sciences ◊Lisa Battaglia (Religious Studies) and Tim Boyd (History) are the current fellows.

  13. A&S Class of 2010 • 9,219 applications (5% increase over Class of 2009) • 30% of those who applied were admitted (31% in Class of 2009) • Yield of those admitted: 36% (37% in Class of 2009) • Average SAT: 1368 (5-point decrease from Class of 2009) • Average ACT: 30 (no change from Class of 2009) • 3 International Students in Class of 2010 (down from 8 in the Class of 2009) • 95 students were National Merit Finalists

  14. Vanderbilt Visions 2006-2007

  15. Frank WcisloProfessor of HistoryFounding Dean of Commons

  16. Campus Culture CommitteesEstablished by the Chancellor* • Orientation to Vanderbilt Norms and Values • Mark Bandas and Richard McCarty, Co-Chairs • Conduct, Honor and Integrity • James Hudnut-Beumler and Brock Williams, Co-Chairs • Student Wellness and Health • Camilla Benbow and John Greene, Co-Chairs • Events, Activities and Campus Culture • Sandy Stahl and Mark Wait, Co-Chairs *E-mail to Vanderbilt community on February 1, 2006

  17. Building a New Partnership VUceptors + Faculty + First Years

  18. Southern Association of College and Schools (SACS) The last SACS review took place in 1996. The next SACS review will be completed in 2007. Associate Provost for Faculty Tim McNamara will direct this effort. Vanderbilt Visions will be the focus of our QEP.

  19. Diversity • VU performance nationally • A&S Faculty • A&S Undergraduate Students • A&S Graduate Students

  20. Faculty Diversity Change in % of Black Faculty between 1999-2005: • 2.2% (1999) • 3.1% (2002) • 4.3% (2005) Overall change: +2.1% (Vanderbilt leads all top-ranked schools in this measure.)* *Data from the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, Summer 2005 issue.

  21. New Faculty Diversity • Of the 23 faculty recruited for 2006-2007 • 10 are women • 2 endowed chairs of 4 hired • 2 full professors of 4 hired • 2 tenured associate professors of 3 hired • 4 assistant professors of 12 hired • 8 are ethnic minorities • 5 are foreign nationals

  22. Undergraduate Diversity Increase in freshman enrollment of black undergraduates: 1994: 70 black freshmen 2004: 140 black freshmen 2005: 133 black freshmen Vanderbilt leads top-ranked schools in percentage increase and numerical increase of black undergraduates. Top-ranked schools with greater numbers of black freshmen: Michigan, Virginia, Duke, Penn, Cornell, and Harvard.

  23. Diversity of A&S FreshmenClass of 2010

  24. Graduate Diversity • 23 new African-American students in 2006 (22 in 2005) • 11 new Hispanic students in 2006 (10 in 2005) Woodrow Wilson Responsive Ph.D. Program • Consortium of 20 leading research universities dedicated to improving doctoral education • A&S invited to join in 2004-2005 • Our work will focus on diversity issues. • Program provides seed-money grant to advance programs such as the Fisk-Vanderbilt Master’s- Ph.D. Bridge Program in Physics and Astronomy

  25. Sponsored Research 13.6% increase!

  26. The A&S Development Office • Jonathan S. Petty, Associate Dean • Warner Ballard, Senior Development Officer • Matt A. Wilson, Assistant Director • Elisabeth M. Yoder, Director of the CollegeCabinet • Malah Tidwell, Administrative Assistant • Anna Shell, DAR Assistant

  27. Shape the Future Campaign • Goal: $1.25 billion for VU overall • A&S goal: $125 million • Total for A&S (as of 9/30/06): $94 MM • The campaign has been extended by 30 months to December 30, 2010 and the overall VU goal has been increased to $1.75 billion. • The A&S campaign goal is under review.

  28. Special Recognition • Ken Catania: MacArthur Fellow for 2006 • Muhammad Yunus (Ph.D. ’71): Nobel Prize for Peace in 2006 • Randolph Blake, elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (total of only 3 fellows at VU) • Sandy Rosenthal: Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Award for 2006 • Bunmi Olatunji: Named one of fifteen most promising psychological scientists by APA • Steve Buckles: Kenneth Elzinga Teaching Award from the Southern Economics Association • David Schlundt: Levi Watkins, Jr. Diversity Award from VUMC • A.V. Ramayya: Jesse Beams Award from APS-Southeast Section • John McCarthy: Certificate of Merit from the Goethe Institute-American Association of Teachers of German • Jumped from 114 to 53 in the Times of London World University Rankings.

  29. Special Recognition for CLAIS Designated a Title VI Center by the U.S. Department of Education $1MM over 4 years

  30. Looking Ahead • Planning for a new humanities building is still several years off. • The Physics Building needs major renovation. • A new A&S Sustainability Committee is working with SPEAR this year. • A Library Planning Committee will be appointed by the Provost this semester to focus on the Central Library. • National Search for VIPPS Director is underway. • Dan Cornfield was recently named the first Director of the Center for Nashville Studies within VIPPS. The End

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