College of Arts and Science
Faculty Meeting
October 24, 2006
State of the College
Overview
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Faculty Issues
Graduate Education
Undergraduate Education
Diversity Issues
Capital Campaign Update
The A&S 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
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
131
Promotion, Tenure and
Reappointment
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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.
Promotion to Full Professor
Academic
Year
2001-2002
# of cases
0
#
promoted
0
# denied
by PTRC
0
2002-2003
5
3
0
2003-2004
4
2
0
2004-2005
14
11
1
2005-2006
7
7
0
Promotion to Associate
Professor
Academic
Year
2001-2002
# of cases
5
#
promoted
5
# denied
by PTRC
0
2002-2003
6
5
0
2003-2004
7
7
0
2004-2005
7
7
0
2005-2006
8
6
0
Tenure-Track Reappointments
Academic
Year
2001-2002
# of cases
18
# reappointed
17
# denied
by Dean
1
2002-2003
24
23
0
2003-2004
23
23
0
2004-2005
30
29
0
2005-2006
25
24
0
Faculty Development
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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
Graduate Education in
2005-2006
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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.
Graduate Admissions for
2006-2007
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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)
Graduate Support
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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 dissertationyear support for students in the humanities
and qualitative social sciences
◊Lisa Battaglia (Religious Studies) and Tim
Boyd (History) are the current fellows.
A&S Class of 2010
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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)
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3 International Students in Class of 2010 (down from 8 in
the Class of 2009)
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95 students were National Merit Finalists
Vanderbilt
Visions
2006-2007
Frank Wcislo
Professor of History
Founding Dean of Commons
Campus Culture Committees
Established by the Chancellor*
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Orientation to Vanderbilt Norms and Values
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Conduct, Honor and Integrity
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James Hudnut-Beumler and Brock Williams, Co-Chairs
Student Wellness and Health
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Mark Bandas and Richard McCarty, Co-Chairs
Camilla Benbow and John Greene, Co-Chairs
Events, Activities and Campus Culture
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Sandy Stahl and Mark Wait, Co-Chairs
*E-mail to Vanderbilt community on February 1, 2006
Building a New Partnership
VUceptors + Faculty + First Years
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.
Diversity
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VU performance nationally
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A&S Faculty
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A&S Undergraduate Students
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A&S Graduate Students
Faculty Diversity
Change
• 2.2%
• 3.1%
• 4.3%
in % of Black Faculty between 1999-2005:
(1999)
(2002)
(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.
New Faculty Diversity
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Of the 23 faculty recruited for 2006-2007
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10 are women
2
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endowed chairs of 4 hired
full professors of 4 hired
tenured associate professors of 3 hired
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.
Diversity of A&S Freshmen
Class of 2010
African American
12%
Hispanic
7%
Asian American
8%
Graduate Diversity
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23 new African-American students in 2006 (22 in 2005)
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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
Sponsored Research
Year
Total Amount
FY 2000
Number of
Awards
149
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
$19,839,985
13.6% increase!
The A&S Development Office
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Jonathan S. Petty, Associate Dean
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Warner Ballard, Senior Development Officer
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Matt A. Wilson, Assistant Director
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Elisabeth M. Yoder, Director of the College
Cabinet
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Malah Tidwell, Administrative Assistant
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Anna Shell, DAR Assistant
Shape the Future Campaign
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Goal: $1.25 billion for VU overall
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A&S goal: $125 million
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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.
Special Recognition
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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 InstituteAmerican Association of Teachers of German
Jumped from 114 to 53 in the Times of London World University
Rankings.
Special Recognition for CLAIS
Designated a Title VI Center by the
U.S. Department of Education
$1MM over 4 years
Looking Ahead
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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