College of Arts & Sciences Program Review Oct. 5, 2010

Workload for Instruction A look at total credit hours and what determines the needs to support these efforts

Credit Hours from A&S Courses Increasing by 4.5% AY09-AY10 Increase of 5.4% F08-F09 This fall is largest ever Done with much less cost to cover budget cuts University Undergraduate Credit Hours increased 5.0% from AY08-AY09 and new numbers show 3.8% growth AY09-AY10

A&S Instruction is a Portion of All Majors Coursework

Other Programs Depend on A&S Instruction

Graduation Numbers Measure of Program Health and Future funding issues

Overall College Numbers Graduation Requests for this year are the largest ever

Departmental Views -- Undergraduate

Departmental Views -- Masters

Departmental Views -- PhD

Undergraduate Majors

Masters Majors

PhD Majors

Research Funding Numbers Indicator of success in recruiting faculty and commitment to research by departments.

Research Productivity

Different Views Similar trends when moved faculty considered More detail and consistency would help monitor individual units

Budget Issues Recap of state of A&S Budget and our priorities for future

Permanent Advising/Instructor Positions DepartmentPosition StatusCost Biology, CCJ, Poli SciFilled Positions$134,000 HistoryNew Position –$48,000 Computer ScienceNew Position$50,000 Total5 Positions$232,115

Tenure Track Faculty Positions DepartmentPositionsCost AnthropologyNew Assistant Professor $55,000Replacement/Backfi ll from Public Health Computer Science New Assistant Professor $73,000Replace long-term visiting position Computer Science New Assistant Professor $73,000Replace long-term visiting position Total$201,000 Currently hold $2,227,456 in funding in Unallocated Salaries from 33 tenure-track positions that can be reallocated as the funding is not required to cover other instructional needs. Currently only 7 have been released for active searches.

These are the critical positions needed to support our instructional needs in the College. They are not all of our one-year positions. Currently funding 60 1-year positions for $2,199,243 Not putting these particular ones on base funding again will require cutting other tenure track positions to do so. DepartmentPositionsCost Anthropology1 Instructor$48,000 Computer Science1 Instructor$40,000 English14 Positions$462,000 Foreign Languages8 Position$288,000 Math9 Positions$315,000 Political Sci.1 Position$32,000 Public Admin1 Position$41,000 Sociology1 Positions$32,000 Total36 Positions$1,259,000 Recurring Instructorships

Part-Time Instruction Part-time Instruction was not part of this year’s budget request because the Instructors are a higher priority – but it remains an issue for future years. Our base budget of PT is $690,000 ( down from $1.5M a few years ago ) Last year we spent $1,303,000 ( most from one-time money ) Fall 2010 costs are $716,698 up from Fall 2009 of $681,276 ( due to a dramatic decrease in instructor positions and 1-years by $700,000 ) $511,500 of last year’s PT was in support of Graduate Students – all initial allocations in future budgets would go directly to departmental TA budgets not the College PT budget.

Summer School Base budget of $567,000 Summer 2010 spent $883,713 to over 11,920 credit hours of instruction Down from $923,284 in Summer 2009 with 20% increase in credit hours Not high in priority replacement list but needs to be solved or hold vacant faculty positions A flat rate for credit hours would help cut costs and budget expenses based on number of courses.

Start-up and Faculty Support This is an annual struggle to find resources to cover start-up costs We are 1/6 of way through the fiscal year and no allocations have been made – which is typical but a problem. Committed this fiscal year alone to pay out $1,058,125 Source of funds: – A&S annual IDCR is about $120,000 – VPR annual contribution is about $375,000 – Rest? – How will future hires beyond stimulus funding be handled?

Graduate Assistantships In last few years have focused on budget reduction and we have not been able to make progress on our #1 need to make our programs stronger – increased graduate student support. This support is needed for higher stipends to attract quality students and some increases in numbers This priority needs to be back on top as our instructional support is stabilized and new resources are available

Highlights and Issues Overall – Online T&P in process this year (consider workflow UMDrive) – Moved position from Financial Support to Advising Support to handle larger workload for graduation checkout – Eliminated MA in WGST last year – Eliminating BS in Earth Science this year (?) – Developed guidelines and issues for “joint” appointments and will work with departments to incorporate into T&P where appropriate. – Issues with Public Health over Emergency Preparedness ownership. Need a more collaborative approach