College of Arts and Science Faculty Meeting

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College of Arts and ScienceFaculty Meeting

• October 24, 2006

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State of the CollegeOverview

• Faculty Issues
• Graduate Education
• Undergraduate Education
• Diversity Issues
• Capital Campaign Update

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The AS Faculty
Academic Year Tenured and Tenure-Track
2006-2007 361
2005-2006 351
2004-2005 329
2003-2004 317
2002-2003 309
2001-2002 311
2000-2001 314
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Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty Recruitment
AY Chaired Full Associate Assistant Total
2001-02 0 4 2 16 22
2002-03 2 9 1 12 24
2003-04 4 5 4 19 32
2004-05 7 5 6 12 30
2005-06 4 3 4 12 23
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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.

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Promotion to Full Professor
Academic Year of cases promoted denied by PTRC
2001-2002 0 0 0
2002-2003 5 3 0
2003-2004 4 2 0
2004-2005 14 11 1
2005-2006 7 7 0
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Promotion to Associate Professor
Academic Year of cases promoted denied by PTRC
2001-2002 5 5 0
2002-2003 6 5 0
2003-2004 7 7 0
2004-2005 7 7 0
2005-2006 8 6 0
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Tenure-Track Reappointments
Academic Year of cases re-appointed denied by Dean
2001-2002 18 17 1
2002-2003 24 23 0
2003-2004 23 23 0
2004-2005 30 29 0
2005-2006 25 24 0
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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

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Graduate Education in2005-2006

• In 2006, AS programs conferred 109 Masters
  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.

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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)

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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.

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AS 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

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Vanderbilt Visions

• 2006-2007

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Frank WcisloProfessor of HistoryFounding Dean
of Commons
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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
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Building a New Partnership
VUceptors Faculty First Years
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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.
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Diversity

• VU performance nationally
• AS Faculty
• AS Undergraduate Students
• AS Graduate Students

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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.

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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

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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.

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Diversity of AS FreshmenClass of 2010
African American 12
Hispanic 7
Asian American 8
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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
• AS 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 Masters-
  Ph.D. Bridge Program in Physics and Astronomy

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Sponsored Research
Year Number of Awards Total Amount
FY 2000 149 19,839,985
FY 2001 161 21,131,459
FY 2002 167 24,307,194
FY 2003 166 28,254,491
FY 2004 201 32,671,317
FY 2005 201 34,076,717
FY 2006 216 39,447,210
13.6 increase!
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The AS Development Office

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

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Shape the Future Campaign

• Goal 1.25 billion for VU overall
• AS goal 125 million
• Total for AS (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 AS campaign goal is under review.

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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.

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

• Planning for a new humanities building is still
  several years off.
• The Physics Building needs major renovation.
• A new AS 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.

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