2013 Spring Assembly

2013 Spring AssemblyDean Eric M. Eisenberg, Ph.D.

YEAR IN REVIEWOffice of the Dean

• We have had another tremendous semester with positive movement toward our two main goals:– Student Success: Graduate our students on time

and prepare them for life and work.– Research: Conduct meaningful research that

makes a positive difference in this world.


• Currently, we are restructuring our college to respond to students’ needs and to maximize research productivity.

• Addition of the School of Public Affairs– SPA is launching our first market-based master’s degree

this August• Exploring new synergies between the School of Mass

Communications and the School of Information.• Proposing to create a new academic unit focused on

earth and the environment.


• CAS has signed a MOU with JSOU.– Identifying and exploring overlapping shared

commitment to development and diplomacy– Student-Faculty exchange– Joint research and teaching opportunities– Helping JSOU to create a new on-line journal– Strengthens our partnership with MacDill and

beyond


• Frontier Forum continues to grow in popularity.• This year we hosted:– Michio Kaku, Ph.D.– Rory Kennedy– Helen Fisher, Ph.D.


• Attendance at Trail Blazers has increased.• Presenters are encouraged to bring a student

or two to meet with our donors.• This year’s speakers included:– Lori Collins and Travis Doering– Susan MacManus– Phil Levy– Liz Bird and Fraser Ottanelli


Trail Blazers 2013-2014 Call for Nominations• We are looking for engaging speakers who are

passionate about their research and able to translate what they do into terms that a lay audience can understand.

• We want to feature high-impact, meaningful research that includes participation of undergraduate and graduate students.

• Please send nominations to Michele Dye at [email protected] by April 22.

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• The Humanities Institute had great success by hosting Scholars in Residence for the first time.– Nell Irvin Painter, prominent historian– Jorie Graham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author

• Our faculty participate in the “Homegrown Humanities Faculty Book Series”


• TEDx came to USF in February for the first time to host a series of lectures with the theme “On the Edge of the Future.”

• Four of the speakers have CAS connections:– Randy Borum, Ph.D. (School of Information)– Patrizia LaTrechia, Ph.D. (World Languages)– Raven Villegas (CAS alumna)– Jordan Zimmerman (CAS alumnus, BOT member)


2012 USF Outstanding Staff Award Recipients• Michael Abrahams (webmaster)• Brandon Kroll (academic adviser)• Autumn Mueller (director of advising)• Kevin Slaughter (senior groundskeeper)

STUDENT SUCCESSOffice of Graduate and Undergraduate Studies

• We need to be creating a dynamic catalog of courses for our students and also examine how well we are preparing them. Many industries we’re preparing our students for are in turmoil, and we need to be quick and nimble in adapting to the changing world.


• We need to continue to develop relationships with our applicants and deepen our engagement with them while they are at USF.

• Following graduation, we need to make sure they stay connected and become loyal alumni.


• We should focus our energy on providing high quality academic experiences for our students both inside and outside the classroom.– Academy for Teaching and Learning Excellence

(Kevin Yee)– Office for Undergraduate Research (Rick Pollenz)


• The USF Board of Trustees have approved to split our Ph.D. in biology into two degrees:– Ph.D. in cell and molecular biology – Ph.D. in integrative biology

• The next step is for the Florida Board of Governors to consider these additions. These new degrees will replace the current Ph.D. in biology.


• Enrollment remains dynamic! Mixture of native, transfer, international and OOS will continue to change.

• New degrees outside CAS are attracting students.

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UNDERGRADUATE SCH TAMPA – SPRING 2013Arts & Sciences

Behavioral & Community Sci-encesBusiness

Education

Engineering

Health

The Arts

OtherCAS Undergraduate Headcount: 13,339


• Active recruitment is needed to elevate our overall profile.

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5%3%Arts & Sciences

Behavioral & Community Sci-encesBusiness

Education

Engineering

Health

The Arts

Other

GRADUATE SCH TAMPA – SPRING 2013

Master’s Student Headcount: 827 Ph.D. Student Headcount: 888


SACS Reaffirmation• Faculty credentialing for Fall 2013 and Spring

2014:– Updated CV’s– Official transcripts on file– Meaningful program assessment that leads to

improvement


• Tracking academic progress of undergraduate students:– Utilization of degree planning software allowing

students and advisers to sequence course options– Pilot program planned for Spring/Summer 2013

• English, Political Science, Psychology and Biomedical Science

• Advantages:– Decreased time to degree– Improve planning of departmental course offerings


• Our students continue to win prestigious awards:– Fulbright Award– NIH Oxford Cambridge Scholar– NOAA Hollings Scholarship– UNCF/Merck Science Initiative– Critical Language Scholarship

RESEARCHOffice of Research and Scholarship

• Ongoing conversation to identify our areas where we are truly great and are positioned to become national or international leaders.– Materials Science– Biomedical Science and Drug Discovery– Global Governance and Cultural Identity– Data Imaging and Visualization– Global Change and Environmental Hazards– Human Performance and Resilience


• Eight of the 15 AAAS Fellows from USF are CAS faculty.

• USF had more fellows named this year than Harvard, Duke, USC and UF. Congratulations to: Susan Bell, Jim Garey,

Lorena Madrigal, Earl McCoy, George Nolas, Richard Pollenz, John Skvoretz and Peter Stiling.


• French Literature Professor Christine Probes received the Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques award from France.

• She is only the eighth American to win the award.

France Consul General Gaël de Maisonneuve pinned the Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques award on USF Professor Christine McCall Probes.


• For the third time since 2009, a faculty member in physics has received an NSF-CAREER Award.– Andreas Muller received a 5-year, $595,000 grant

to study “Interfacing Remote Quantum Dot Nanostructures by Resonant Light Scattering”


• Our faculty are capturing the attention of local, national and international media.

• Erin Kimmerle’s work at the Dozier school has been featured in The New York Times.


– Mike Zawortko, Mohamed Eddaoudi and Brian Space were featured in Nature for their work in carbon dioxide (CO2) capture and separation.

– The metal-organic framework material at the center of a new discovery by chemists at the USF and KAUST is shown under a microscope. The crystals have been found to be a more efficient, less expensive and reusable material for carbon capture and separation, and is a promising breakthrough in developing better carbon-control technologies.

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– Philip Levy’s work in the community has been featured in the local papers, and his latest book on George Washington’s boyhood home has received rave reviews.


• David Jacobson’s latest book, “Of Virgins and Martyrs: Women and Sexuality in Global Conflict,” has received international media attention.


• Funding rates for USF Internal Award applications submitted by CAS faculty are high!

• 2 out of 4 Conference Support Grants submitted by CAS faculty were funded by USF Internal Awards.

• 6 out of 11 Faculty International Travel Grants submitted by CAS faculty were funded by USF Internal Awards.

• Three of the four Proposal Enhancement Grants from the USF Research Council were received by CAS faculty:– Stephan Deban (IB)– Randy Larsen (Chemistry)– Brian Space (Chemistry)


• Like USF’s distribution of external funding, CAS funding is largely from federal sources ($9 million of $19million), with the remaining $10 million from State and Local Government and Private Partnerships.


2012 Recovered F&A• 24 percent! CAS Contracts and Grants• NIH: $3.7 million• NSF: $4.5 million• NEH: $285,000• Congressional Earmarks: $221,000

Unit F&A %

College of Pharmacy 42.4%

College of Nursing 25.2%

College of Arts & Sciences 24.9%

College of Engineering 21.0%

BUDGETOffice of the Dean

• Last year’s view of the road ahead.


• This year’s view.


State of Florida Outlook for 2013-2014• Sustained modest improvement in economy.• Unemployment is down from 9 percent to 7.7 percent.• Foreclosures are in decline and housing prices are

beginning to rebound.• New home construction starts are up from last year.• 3.2 percent increase in average per capita income over

last year.• $3.5 billion state budget surplus for next year.


Florida Legislature• Governor proposed $74.2 billion budget, an increase

of $4 billion over last year.• House and Senate budgets plan to boost university

spending by more than $100 million in addition to restoring $300 million cut from last year.

• House leaders propose a 6 percent increase in tuition.• Funding for UF and FSU to improve national ranking.• Long way from done (session ends May 3).


CAS Budget Update for 2013-2014• We have significantly reduced our dependency on a cash

supplement from Academic Affairs from slightly more than $5 million last year to $3.6 million in 2013-2014.

• Resources for summer continue to come from cash supplement ($3 million).

• Base budget has increased with an investment of $2.4 million in faculty lines. There is very little flexibility. Our positions are filled and everything is committed.

FACULTY AFFAIRSOffice of the Dean

Faculty Hires in 2012-2013Instructors: 33Research Assistant Professors: 8Assistant Professors: 34Associate Professors: 6Professors: 3Total: 84

We hired 10 STEM faculty in the areas of computation and science education.

FACULTY AFFAIRSOffice of the Dean

Spring and Summer 2013 Retirees• Mary Bennett | Office Manager | Economics• Kathryn Borman | Professor | Anthropology• Maria Esformes | Associate Professor | World Languages• Charles Guignon | Professor | Philosophy• Robin R. Jones | Senior Instructor | Public Affairs• Taketo Ohtani | Instructor | World Languages

DEVELOPMENTOffice of the Dean

• New energy in the development office with the hiring of Nico Karagosian, senior director of development

• We reached our goal of 40 percent for the Faculty and Staff Campaign

• Thank you to our area representatives!– Dean Martin, Sandra Justice, Lorene Hall-Jennings and Sheri Broner

• Please join us at 10 a.m. on Monday, April 15 in front of the Marshall Student Center to watch the Dean surf the waves!

• If you would like to be an area representative, please contact Elisa Jackson at [email protected].

COMMUNICATIONS & MARKETINGOffice of the Dean

• The CAS website will be moving into the university’s content management system in Fall 2014. We will begin preparations this summer.

• Our social media strategy resulted in front-page coverage in the Tampa Bay Times.

• Dean’s Office Internship Program applications have tripled since launching two years ago.

• Launching a student grass roots marketing team in May 2013 that will help promote the College to our campus community.

COMMUNICATIONS & MARKETINGOffice of the Dean

• Dean’s Student Leadership Society will launch in Fall 2013.

• We will be asking faculty to nominate outstanding students to apply for this prestigious organization.

• These students will serve as ambassadors for our college and work closely with the Dean’s Office and our development team.

MOVING FORWARDOffice of the Dean

• What’s next?

MOVING FORWARDOffice of the Dean

• Questions?

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2013 Spring Assembly