The Graduate School
Challenges & Goals
AY 14
University’s New Mission and Vision
Mission
• Southern Illinois University Edwardsville is a student-centered
educational community dedicated to communicating,
expanding and integrating knowledge. In a spirit of
collaboration enriched by diverse ideas, our comprehensive
and unique array of undergraduate and graduate programs
develops professionals, scholars and leaders who shape a
changing world.
Vision
• Southern Illinois University Edwardsville will achieve greater
national and global recognition and academic prominence
through innovative and interdisciplinary programs that
empower individuals to achieve their full potential.
University’s New Long Term Goals
• Prepared and Committed Students – Recruit and engage a diverse student
body ready to accept the rigorous challenges of higher education, to persist
in academic study, and to become lifelong learners.
• Innovative High Quality Programs – Develop and enhance curricular and cocurricular programs to fully support learning and degree completion.
• Dedicated Faculty and Staff—Recruit, support, and retain a highly
committed and diverse faculty and staff who continually strive for
excellence by promoting student learning, producing significant scholarship,
and serving multiple constituencies.
• Supportive Campus Community—Foster an inclusive university community
characterized by integrity, civility, shared governance and openness to and
respect for different backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives.
• Outreach and Partnerships – Develop and strengthen collaborative
relationships to effect positive changes in the university, region, nation and
world.
• Physical and Financial Sustainability—Develop, maintain and protect the
University’s assets by practicing and promoting economic, environmental,
and social sustainability campus-wide.
Where are we?
• Graduate Enrollment: 2092 (-118)
• Rankings of masters granting institutions by research expenditures
(Washington Monthly)
Institution
Rank Expenditures (mil)
CUNY – City College
1
$60.6
New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology 2
$43.9
San Jose State University
3
$40.1
CUNY – Hunter College
4
$39.8
Touro College
5
$39.4
Rochester Institute of Technology
6
$34.9
SIUE
7
$33.7
External Grants FY13
• Number of grant applications: 272
• Number of tenure/tenured track faculty submitting grant
applications: 151
• Number of non-tenure track faculty/staff submitting: 37
• Number of tenured/tenure-track faculty on active awards: 101
• Number of non-tenure track faculty/staff on active awards: 43
• Number of new awards: 189 for $42,216,712
Regional, national, international
recognition for scholarship and
graduates
Success of graduates
In industry and academia
Presenting work at workshops and conferences
Engaging outreach activities in K-12
Supporting and promoting of scholarship
Engaging in service to the scholarly community
Enhanced graduate
experience
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Quality graduates
Recruitment of quality students
Recruitment of committed, quality faculty
Multi-institutional collaborations
Innovative, high quality
graduate programs
Externally funded
research & projects
Capacity for scholarship
Challenges
• Increased grant competition due to sequestration cuts and increased
submissions
• State appropriations cuts impacting ORP, graduate programs, and graduate
assistantships
• Re-competition of the Head Start/Early Head Start Programs
• Increasing focus of sponsored programs on large, interdisciplinary projects
• Hiring a Director of Research & Projects
• Open access legislation – federal and state
• Export control regulations
• Enrollment goals set to increase graduate enrollment
• Expanding role of the Graduate School
• Graduate student services and retention
• Administration of interdisciplinary programs
Goals for Graduate Programs
• Conducting Program Reviews
• Chemistry, Civil Engineering, Computer Science, Mechanical
Engineering, Electrical Engineering
• Developing benchmarks for graduate student retention
• Improving graduate student life/experience
• Improvements to TA Orientation/Training
• Workshops for GA/TA’s and graduate students
• Graduate Student Advisory Committee
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Creating research grants for doctoral students
Developing MS/MA in Integrative Studies
Developing DMD/MBA and Nursing/MBA
Developing Cooperative PhD Program for Computer Science
Goals for ORP
• Increasing both the percentage of tenured/tenure-track faculty
submitting grant proposals and the competitiveness of the
submissions
• Tracking impact of internal grant programs
• Grant submissions & awards, publications
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Supporting development of faculty grant writing
Supporting interdisciplinary teams for proposal submissions
Supporting alternative funding opportunities
Creating alternative clinical IRB review processes
Policies
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Human subjects
Animal use
Intellectual Property
Research Center Promotion Policy
1F1 Graduation Requirements
1Q1 Faculty Code of Ethics and Conduct
1M4 University Policies and Guidelines Concerning Research
1L1 Graduate Student Course Loads
1L3 English Requirement for the Graduate School
1L4 Teaching Responsibilities Assigned to Graduate Students
IL5 Policy Statement on Classification Pending
1L6 Policy on Graduate Student Matriculation, Advisement, Instruction,
Evaluation and Assistantships
R&D Support
• “Facilities & Administrative (F&A) costs are incurred for common or joint
university objectives and, therefore, cannot be identified readily and
specifically with a particular sponsored project, an instructional activity, or
any other institutional activity “ (OMB Circular A-21, Cost Principles for
Educational Institutions).
• F&A is also referred to as Indirect Cost Recovery (ICR)
• ICR can be used at the discretion of the institution
• Federal government does not require reporting of the use of ICR
• ICR is recovered as a portion of grant expenditures
• The majority of grants are on a cost reimbursement basis
• ICR rates are negotiated with the Federal Government
• The negotiated Federal Rate is used as a basis for all grants. However,
state, private foundation, and private industry grants may have
alternative rates set by their own policies.
R&D Support
• University Policy 5D1
• Policy Statement Covering Distribution of Indirect Cost Funds from
Externally Sponsored Grants and Contracts
“Indirect cost reimbursement funds generated by externally sponsored
grants, contracts, and special projects beyond real and necessary costs
of Research and Projects Fiscal Management will be distributed as
follows:
• Training Grants (Instructional), Public Service, and Other Special
Projects:
• 67% Generating Unit
• 33% Graduate School - Office of Research and Projects
• Research Projects:
• 40% Generating Unit
• 60% Graduate School - Office of Research and Projects”
FY 13 Total ICR: $2,321,675
Audit Costs,
0.6%
Bad Debt, 1.9%
Research & Projects
Fiscal Management,
21.1%
Returned to Units,
43.2%
R&D Fund, 33.2%
ICR Returned to Units
Student Affairs, 0.45%
IERC, 0.36%
Graduate School, 0.07%
SDM, 0.24%
IUR, 0.58%
SoP, 2.63%
SoB, 3.04%
SoN,
3.58%
SoEd,
4.13%
SoE, 4.20%
STEM Center, 7.67%
ESL Center, 51.67%
CAS, 8.33%
NCERC, 13.04%
R&D Expenditures
Intellectual Property, 4%
ORP, 11%
Internal Programs, 53%
Unit & Faculty Support,
32%