Liberal Arts & Sciences Meeting current needs Access to education for all UI students Foundational academic disciplines Interdisciplinary synergy Student excellence Degrees leading to professional or graduate study An educated citizenry and a better future for society

Diversity – by the numbers Meeting current needs CLAS students: – 45% domestic out of state, 10% international – 54% female CLAS faculty – 41% female, 18% minority – Of 75 holding named appointments, 24% are women, 9% minority

Impact—by the numbers Meeting current needs 16,000 undergraduates (> 75% of UI total—92% of new students) 60 major programs 3,000 degrees annually 2,300 graduate students (~50% of UI total) 650 graduate degrees annually

Our on-going story Meeting current needs Resilience in responding to a changing environment Continuous renewal of our faculty, curriculum, and teaching methods Teaching and inquiry that changes lives

Undergraduate Options Meeting current needs Certificate in Writing Ethics & Public Policy major Aging Studies major proposal Interdepartmental Studies General Education Program Restructured

A Decade of Innovation in Majors Meeting current needs Interdepartmental Studies 800 students Health and Human Physiology BA400 students Human Physiology BS International Studies (BA)393 students Cinema 262 students Environmental Sciences (BA)140 students Ethics and Public Policy (BA) 95 students Sport Studies (BA) 95 students Informatics (BA) 93 students

Undergraduate Student Success Meeting current needs TILE curriculum development More advisors for our largest majors Renovated and revitalized Math Lab Hybrid instruction in Spanish, Mathematics “Restart” program for returning students

Graduate Student Success Meeting current needs UI’s first IGERT training grant MFA in Spanish Creative Writing (proposed) Improved graduate student experience

Synergistic Restructuring Meeting current needs Division of Performing Arts Division of World Languages, Literatures, & Cultures Department of Health & Human Physiology

Faculty Renewal Meeting current needs 32 new faculty (44% female, 22% minority) – 5 hires in CLAS cluster initiatives – 9 hires in UI cluster initiatives More than 30 searches for fall 2012 hires – continued focus on interdisciplinary/cluster hires

Staff Renewal Meeting current needs Professionalized administrative staff Shared service centers for departments Increased staff in academic student services and informational technology support

Infrastructure Renewal, I Meeting current needs Modern labs for science teaching and research Well-equipped studios in the fine arts State-of-the-art performance support Top-notch people to make it work

Infrastructure Renewal, II Meeting current needs Biology Building East 2000 Biology Building Renovation 2004 Philip D. Adler Journalism Building 2005 Glenn Schaeffer Library 2006 Art Building West 2006, 2011 Chemistry 2010 Stuit Hall 2011 Psychology 2014 Visual Arts 2016 School of Music 2016

Liberal Arts & Sciences Meeting current needs The test of time: an institution that prevails and continues Continuous renewal and adaptation Past predicts the future