December 1, 2006

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Dean's Report to the Advisory Council's Fall
Assembly

• December 1, 2006

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Office of the Dean

• Big picture stuff the 30,000 ft level
• Where we are
• How we compare
• The Future opportunities and prospects
• In the trenches state of the College
• Graduate and Undergraduate Studies
• Research and Scholarship
• Facilities
• HR and Budget
• Faculty and Program Development

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• CAS from the 30,000 ft level

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• How do we compare to our peers?
• instruction
• research and scholarship
• Delaware Study provides basic measures
• Cost/SCH
• SCH/TTE Faculty
• Research Expenditures/TTE Faculty
• Caveats!
• 2004-05 data
• From AFD/FAR, FAST
• Comparison group all Research I and II
  participants

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• Cost per SCH is less than the peer group average
  in 26 of 27 comparisons
• SCH per TTE Faculty is more than peer group
  average in 17 of 27 comparisons
• Research expenditure per TTE Faculty is less than
  the peer group average in 22 of 27 comparisons

Ergo (provisionally)
In instruction we do more with less than our
peers (underfunded) and this fact negatively
impacts our research productivity compared to
them.
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FTE Enrollment Projection
We are here
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• Implications of enrollment growth and age
  distribution
• Using Provosts formula for allocation of growth
  positions, CAS to add 102 positions over next six
  years
• Age distribution suggests at least 80 vacancies
  over the next six years
• Total vacancies 182, about 30 per year

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• Other opportunities
• Plus-ups (Federal)
• CIFM, CMD5, Coastal Field Station, CMB, ICNR,
  Proteomics Center, GeoArch
• LBRs, CoEs, WCSs (State)
• Proteomics/Genomics Biotechnology Program,
  Coastal Field Station, GeoArch, ICNR, CoE in
  Biomolecular Identification and Targeted
  Therapeutics, WCS in Biomolecular Science

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• And still others the four research thrust
  initiatives with total investment of 11 million
• Fundamental and Applied Life Sciences
• Computational Visualization and Representation
• Sustainable Healthy Communities
• Functional Multi-scale Materials by Design

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• Meanwhile, in the trenches

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Graduate and Undergraduate Studies

• Undergraduate Developments
• University initiatives
• Enhancement of FTIC Orientation
• New advising lines (5 to CAS)
• Development of transfer student resource days
• CAS developments
• Enhancement of Academic Petition Process
• Continued Enhancement of Pre-Professional
  Advising and Services

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Graduate and Undergraduate Studies

• Graduate Developments
• New Dean (Delcie Durham) with enhanced portfolio
• Staff reorganization to better serve students
• Enhanced, academically oriented new student
  orientation
• Focus on student diversity (with excellent
  results Black enrollment up 25 in CAS)

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Graduate and Undergraduate Studies

• New Programs
• Bachelors in Latin American and Caribbean Studies
  awaiting BOT action
• Masters in Urban Planning pending before
  Graduate Council
• Ph.D.s
• Sociology, GIA next in line for ???
• History awaiting BOT action
• Comparative Literature Film Studies pending
  before CAS Graduate Committee

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Graduate and Undergraduate Studies

• Enrollment Trends
• Fall FTIC down 18 from peak in 2004
• Acceptance rate for FTIC at 55 (compared with
  71 in 2002)
• Total SCH continues to increase (3/yr)
• Summer enrollments at all-time high (up 50 from
  2002)

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Graduate and Undergraduate Studies

• Assessment and Accountability
• Related but not synonymous
• Assessment can be used for
• Accountability (e. g. State and Federal
  reporting)
• Improvement
• Focuses on student learning outcomes

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Graduate and Undergraduate Studies

• Assessment at USF 2006
• Creation of Office of Assessment and Faculty
  Oversight Committee
• Development of Statement of Philosophy (in final
  drafting process)
• Development of web-based repository for
  assessment data (work in progress)
• Assessment is here to stay, so lets make the
  best of it!

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Research and Scholarship
Scholarly Productivity
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Research and Scholarship
Grants/Contracts Data in Millions
First Quarter!
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Research and Scholarship

• Enhanced Award Programs with award cycles in
  both the Fall Spring
• Faculty Research Development award size
  increased to as much as 1,000
• International Travel up to 750 with 11 match
  from department
• Conference Coordination award size increased to
  as much as 1,000 for multi-day conferences
• Publication by Doctoral Student 200 award for
  both the CAS doctoral student and the CAS faculty
  mentor

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Research and Scholarship

• Fridays For Funding Workshops
• Overview of Research Funding
• All About Budgets
• Developing the Project Content
• Figuring out Proposal Forms
• All Presentations are available through the
• CAS Research Website this Semester.

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Research and Scholarship

• Shimberg Online Resources now just a click away
• HAPI OVID
• Stat Ref
• Elsevier

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Research and Scholarship
E-newsletter Funding Opportunities
Pages Delivered to your mail box available via
our web site To help the faculty navigate
through some challenging issues and important
opportunities First issue released in November
2006
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Facilities, Safety, and Security

• ISC
• Advisory Planning Council meeting bi-weekly
• Future occupants Physics, Biology Teaching
  Research Space in LIF and LSA, two Chemistry
  teaching labs, and the NMR facility from LSA
• HMS and ROTC
• HMS renovation done end of Fall 06
• New ROTC building done end of Fall 07
• CAS into space currently used by ROTC program

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Facilities, Safety, and Security

• CAS Security Watch
• University Police weekly crime report shows
  dramatic decrease in CAS buildings theft since
  start of program in Summer 2004
• Student run program
• Hurricane preparation (emergency generators)
• Completed BSF, PHY, LIF, LSA
• SCA being installed (done by January 07)

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Facilities, Safety, and Security

• Card access to CAS buildings almost done
• CPR and PCD by Spring 07
• All new buildings will have card access,
  including selected interior areas
• HITS (Hazardous Inventory Tracking System)
• Complete for CAS science departments
• Provides a university-wide online chemical
  inventory database

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Facilities, Safety, and Security

• Building lettering on all sides to add visibility
  to Tampa Campus buildings
• CAS buildings complete BSF, CHE, NES, PSY, SCA
• CAS buildings upcoming BEH, CIS, FAO, HMS, SOC
• Facilities, Safety Security Office Changes
• Dr. Jim Garey now Co-Chair of Biology and
  Director for the Division of Cell Biology,
  Microbiology and Molecular Biology (CMMB)
• Josh Broer and Bruce Smith perform the tasks for
  the office and report directly to Dean Skvoretz
• Josh will focus on the non-Science Departments
  and Bruce will focus on the Science Departments

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Budget/HR
2006/07 EG Operating Budget Summary
Salary/Benefits amount is an estimate provided
by the College, final figures are calculated at
the University level and were not available for
this presentation
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Budget/HR
2006/07 Salary Benefits by Pay Plan
Salary/Benefits amount is an estimate provided
by the College, final figures are calculated at
the University level and were not available for
this presentation
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Budget/HR
2006/07 Changes

• 3.4 m increase over 2005/06
• 14 new lines and 130K based on the increase in
  SCH production achieved in 2005/06
• 1 new advising position (TAPS)
• 3.0 Salary Increase for Faculty Staff

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Budget/HR
2006/07 New Business Practices

• More detailed budget categories (i.e. Travel,
  Telephone, Office Supplies, replaces what was
  lumped into Expense)
• Quarterly budget periods
• Budget to actual variance analysis reviewed by
  UBOT
• Budgeted revenues for auxiliary operations
• Financial Code of Conduct required for
  Accountable Officers
• Established new dotted line reporting
  relationship for staff performing financial
  functions up to University CFO

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Budget/HR

• Faculty Positions
• 2004/05 2005/06 2006/07
• Filled Cont. Faculty 459 495 506
• Visiting Faculty 48 39
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• Total Faculty Positions 507 534
  561

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Budget/HR

• Breakdown of Filled Continuing Faculty
• 2004/05 2005/06 2006/07
• Distinguished Professors 12 14
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• Full Professors 140 139 139
• Associate Professors 124 143 130
• Assistant Professors 112 118 137
• Instructor/Lecturers 64 74
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• Other 7 7 5
• Total Faculty 459 495 506

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Budget/HR
HR Changes for USPS and AP

• University initiative to redesign job
  classification codes
• Targeted implementation for spring 2007
• 2nd Year of College Performance Bonus Program
• 15 Awards at 3,000 each
• Recipients recognized at an annual staff
  appreciation event
• Centralized authority for approval of salary
  actions
• Deans signature required for all USPS and AP
• Department chairs can approve OPS (Grad
  Asst/Adjunct)

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Faculty and Program Development

• 44 new faculty for 2006 -2007
• Instructors 8
• Assistant Professors 32
• Associate Professors 2
• Professors 2
• 36 searches for 2007-2008
• Instructors 3
• Assistant Professors 27
• Asst/Assoc Professors 1
• Associate Professors 3
• Professor/Chair 2

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Faculty and Program Development

• Kudos to Our Award Winning Scholars, Teachers,
  and Advisors!
• Distinguished University Professor
• Dr. Daniel Lim, Biology (CMMB Division)
• Dr. Paul Spector, Psychology
• Theodore Vennette Ashford-Askounces
  Distinguished Scholar
• Dr. Graham Tobin, Geography
• USF WLP Faculty Research Recognition Award
• Dr. Naomi Yavneh, Humanities American Studies
• Jerome Krivanek Distinguished Teacher Award
• Dr. Laura Runge, English

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Faculty and Program Development

• Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award
• Dr. Ross Andel, Aging Studies
• Dr. Sara Crawley, Womens Studies
• Dr. Karla Davis-Salazar, Anthropology
• Mr. Dell deChant, Religious Studies
• Dr. Cheryl Hall, GIA
• Dr. Jessica McIlvane, Aging Studies
• Mr. John Napora, Anthropology
• Outstanding Undergraduate Advising Award
• Ms. Leila Amiri, Deans Office
• Ms. Lisa Landis, Criminology

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End of Report!