Illinois State University Department of Agriculture

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Illinois State UniversityDepartment of
Agriculture
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Illinois State UniversityDepartment of
Agriculture

• FY08 Consolidated Annual Report with Budget
  Request
  
• Patrick D. ORourke
• December 19, 2006

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I. Accomplishments and productivity for FY07

• The Departments Goals do
• Support Educating Illinois

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Vision

• The Department of Agriculture at Illinois State
  University will enhance the global food and
  agriculture industry by
  
• providing a premier educational experience,
• conducting high-quality research, and
• providing timely outreach services.

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Goal 1. Provide premier undergraduate educational
experience in agriculture.
United States Agriculture Travel Course
Developing honors section of AGR 203.
National Agriculture Marketing Association
Collegiate FFA Best Agriculture Career Day in his
tory Fall of 2006 --- 35 employers attending.
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Goal 2. Provide high quality M.S.

• The department has its second Fulbright Scholar
• More graduate students present results at
  professional meetings.
  
• Established Department Graduate Student Research
  Presentation Series.

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Goal 3. Scholarly activities in agriculture

• Research teams recieve research and sponsored
  program funding
  
• feed research, water management, livestock and
  urban waste management, and wind and other
  renewable energy projects.
  
• Increased undergraduate participation in research
  activities and the Research Symposium

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Goal 4. Participate in service and economic
development activities

• The IAA sponsored Agriculture Policy Series.
• The new Horticulture Center -- very successful
  inaugural Autumnal Festival.
  
• The department Hosted the
• Illinois Milk Producers,
• Council for Food and Agriculture Research,
• Illinois Farm Bureau Board of Directors.

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Goal 5. Enhance the academic atmosphere of the
department

• Increased its offerings of discipline based
  contests and competitions for students and
  potential future students.
  
• It hosted the largest high school land judging
  contest at its Farm in over 25 years.

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Goal 6 Help students understand global and
national interdependence

• Inaugural New Zealand Marketing Export Internship
  with the COB and Technology
  
• Continued participation in the academic French
  Exchange Program

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Goal 7 Climate to attract and retain highly
qualified students, including under-represented
groups.

• Increased publicity and recruiting activities
  with the CHSAS to support diversity in the
  department.
  
• Increased its Funk Scholarships by 10,000
  annually.
  
• Added two new student organizations C. FFA and
  NAMA
  
• Increased high school and community college
  contests including State FFA Public Speaking
  Contest
  
• The department increased recruiting with
  Agriculture Ambassadors

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C. Indicate measures of productivity by which the
units successes can be illustrated

• Examples of faculty successes contributing to the
  departments productivity
  
• 1,000,000 approved by Congress from US DOE for
  the Wind Energy Project -- Winter
  
• External C-FAR Project funded Walker, Rhykerd,
  and others
  
• Started a NAMA Chapter Spaulding Whitacre
• Faculty won the University Research Team Award
  Smiciklas, Wiegand, Walker and Rhykerd
  

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Statistics to measure productivity of department
as an academic unit

• Enrollment up 25 in two years
• If decline had not been turned around by quick
  actions taken by faculty and staff since the
  summer of 2004 the enrollment in the Department
  in the Fall of 2006 would have been about 150
  students instead of 253.

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Productivity

• Increased its total credit hours from
• 5,203 in calendar year 2004 to
• 6,417 in calendar year 2006,
• an increase of over 23.
• Student-faculty ratio in the Fall 2005 semester
  was 18.8 which was 14th highest out of 34.

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Productivity

• The increase in scholarship funding and in
  recruiting of talented students contributed to
  increasing the average ACT scores of entering
  freshmen
• 21.3 in the Fall 2003 freshman class
• 23.3 in the Fall 2005 freshman class
• Rate of increase 10 times the rate at Illinois
  State.

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Productivity

• Research funding -- tenth highest on average
  external grants (604,566) 2001-- 05
  
• Re-established strong connections with the
  Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences
  
• two new freshmen in 2006 freshmen class

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Productivity through EMPOWERMENT It is
important to recognize the Departments faculty
and students for their contributions

• energy,
• individual efforts and
• Entrepreneurialism.

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For example, in past few months

• The most successful and highly attended
  Horticulture event in its recent history -- the
  Autumnal Festival,
  
• The most highly attended high school judging
  contest at the University Farm in 20 years,
  
• Most successful Agriculture Career Day in the
  history of the Department -- 35 employers.

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II. Internal Reallocations and Reorganizations in
FY07

• Approximately 6,000 in operating and
  approximately 4,000 in student labor to new
  Horticulture Center activities.
  
• Associate Professor Ag Ed position -- Dr.
  Steffen.
  
• Faculty -- reassign the Ag Eng. Tech. position to
  a horticulture position as the first priority in
  personnel, -- Fall 2007 is preferred.
  
• Faculty decided to request a position for a
  second professor with Agriculture Education
  disciplinary interests as their second priority
  in personnel

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• Over 40,000 of Foundation funding to support
  undergraduate scholarships, and most of the
  departments recruiting and marketing programs.
  The department has a strong and loyal alumni
  association membership.
• Approximately 40,000 of equipment, operating and
  variance funds -- two new 12 passenger vans to
  support additional field trips for off campus
  experiential activities.

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• The Department spent farm revenues on several
  important improvements on the Farm including
  upgrades of the feed center operation, new safety
  and environmental health equipment/facilities,
  and new rolling stock.
• They are in the process of replacing two
  livestock shelters destroyed in a 2006 storm.
  
• The College paid for improvements in Ropp 107
  making it a much better classroom/lab for FCS and
  Horticulture courses.

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III. Major Objectives for FY08

• Construct a green house with utilities at the
  Horticulture Center.
  
• Continue to increase enrollment and retention of
  a highly qualified and diverse student cohort for
  the Department.
  
• Continue to improve the efficacy of the
  undergraduate program.
  
• Hire an additional professor of Horticulture and
  an additional professor of Agriculture Education
  
• Continue to search for ways to address the
  departments on-campus facilities and equipment
  short comings.

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IV. Program Enhancement Requests

• 1Add Civil Service Herder Position at the Farm
  See PERS 937 44,000.
  
• 2Increase Stipends and Number of research GAs.
  See PERS 937 37,000.
  
• 3Increase in operating budget to recover from
  past rescissions See PERS 937 10,000.
  
• 4Facilities annual maintenance support for
  farm 16,000
  
• 5Laboratory technician to support the
  teaching/research labs Ropp 107 and 108
  50,000.
  
• 6Teaching/Research Laboratory Equipment
  Maintenance/Repair 20,000
  
• 7Teaching/Research Laboratory -- New Equipment
  50,000

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V. Position Requests Replacement and New

• 1Add Second Tenure Track Horticulture Position
  -- Assistant/Associate Professor? See PERS
  936 72,000.
  
• 2Add Second Tenure Track Agriculture Education
  Position -- Assistant/Associate Professor
  See PERS 936 72,000.

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VI. Facilities Requests

• 1Construct greenhouse with utilities at
  Horticulture Center 40,000 - 55,000
  
• 2Rehabilitation of Ropp 107 and 108 for teaching
  computer lab, teaching science labs and research
  labs -- Estimated 2-3,000,000.

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Treat all students, staff, and colleagues with
respect and dignity.Complete the necessary
commitments at the Farm as well as the other
projects and commitments for horticulture, retail
meats, classrooms, laboratories, etc.

• My Objectives and Guidelines

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My Objectives and Guidelines

• Improve our focus on the markets for our students
  and for our graduates
  
• Incorporate improvements in curriculum.
• Increase enrollment over the next four years to a
  stable 300 /- 30.
  
• Obtain at least one, hopefully two, endowed
  professorships in the next five years.
  
• Obtain at least 2,000,000 in undergraduate
  scholarship funding over the next five years.

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My Objectives and Guidelines

• Improve evaluation of curriculum and
  instruction.
  
• Work to support higher salaries and find
  increased financial support for all functions.