1. College of Sciences and Arts Fall Faculty and Staff Meeting
September 14, 2017
AGENDA
Welcome new faculty
CSA in
a. Enrollment and other numbers
b. Priorities
3. Department High Points
4. Questions from the Floor

2. Looking Back 10 years…

3. Welcome New Faculty Air Force ROTC 1st Lieutenant Janna Clement
LTC John O’Kane, prof. of aerospace studies & dep’t chair
Army ROTC
LTC Michael C. Firmin, prof. of military science & dep’t chair
Chemistry
Christo Z. Christov, associate prof.
Tatyana Karabencheva Christova, research assoc. prof. to-be

4. Oren Abeles, ass’t professor rhetoric & composition
Computer Science
Bo Chen, assistant professor
Jianhui Yue, assistant professor
James W. Walker, lecturer
Humanities
Oren Abeles, ass’t professor rhetoric & composition
Kinesiology & Integrative Physiology
William Cooke, PHF Professor (and prodigal son! - lol)
Kelly Kamm, research scientist

5. Welcome New Faculty Mathematical Sciences
Xiao Zhang, assistant professor
Physics
Issei Nakamura, assistant professor
Social Sciences
Angie Carter, assistant professor
Visual and Performing Arts
Elizabeth Meyers, Lecturer of Music (Composition)
Medical Professions Coordinator
Nicole Signeurie

6. Looking Back 10 Years…

7. Enrollment, Fall 2017 (9/9/17)
Total: 7,363 (-6) (7,369/2016; 7,283/2015; 7,021/2014)
UG 1,536 (-87) (5,717/ ,745/2015; 5,611/2014)
Credit hr ,879 (+352) (95,527/2016; 93,542 (2015)
Female 1,990 (27%) (1,957/26.7%; 1,947 (26.7%);
Retention: 1st to 2nd year= % (+0.2%)
Transfer 202 (-32) (234/ 2016; 184/2015; 206/2014)
GRAD 1,402 (-68) (1,470/ 2016; 1,521/2015) 1,441/2014)
1st time MS: 356 (+18); st time PhD: 82 (even)
CSA 1,537 (-25) (1,562/2016 ; 1,492/2015)

8. Undergraduate enrollment by school
Fall 2017
No College Designated (-9/ 9%)
School of Business & Economics (+28 / 8%)
College of Engineering 4,722 (-37 / -1%)
School of Forest Res & Env Sciences (-4 / -2% )
College of Sciences & Arts 1, (-25 / 2% )
School of Technology (+41 / 12% )

9. Looking Back 10 Years…

10. * Reflects salary dollars set aside for faculty start-up
CSA Budget for
Salary & Wages
SS&E
GTAs (Grad School)
# of GTAs BL
$1,695,281
$190,565 *
$308,231 9 CH
$1,926,270
$68,178
$736,331
21.5
CLS
$1,114,741
$42,324
$102,744 3 CS
$2,038,886
$17,076
$493,451
13.5
KIP
$2,610,513
$48,414
$787,703 23 HU
$914,720
$29,986
$68,496 2
MATH
$3,152,532
$45,310
$813,389
23.75
PHY
$2,145,182
$27,772
$590,777
17.25 SS
$1,776,127
$21,111
$462,347
VPA
$1,018,459
$50,197 $0
ROZSA
$240,106
$36,127
Dean
$599,609
$84,117
ROTC
$74,229
$6,575
TOTALS
19,306,654
$667,752
$4,363,468
126.5
TOTALS
$18,923,867
$475,287
$4,193,419
127.5
TOTALS
$18,482,307
$490,287
$4,025,657
TOTALS
$17,641,673
$601,504
$3,844,744
129
TOTALS
$16,975,392
$3,677,054
NOTE: Rozsa added to CSA base in
NOTE: AY SS&E Reduced by $15,010 by transfer of ESL to Provost office.
Note: AY budget reduced by 1%: $169,995 in salary and $28,373 in SS&E
* Reflects salary dollars set aside for faculty start-up

11. New External Funding/Proposals
Proposals: PI's
Awards: PI's
Funding: PI's
Proposals: PI's
Awards: PI's
Funding: PIs
Proposals: PI's
Awards: PI's
Funding: PIs BL 29 11
$921,233 31
$1,249,644 33 16
$1,561,339 CH 6
$635,000 35 5
$836,354 36 8
$735,298
CLS 7
$436,053 17 9
$612,452 15
$760,450 CS 21
$923,251 10
$1,958,139 3
$394,176
KIP
$943,920
$790,000
$1,013,735 HU  2 1
$8,201
$13,400 2
$12,500 MA 19 4
$298,885
$786,823
$176,291
PHY 24
$1,360,583 12
$717,113 23
$1,772,682 SS 13
$2,689,571
$471,314 14
$948,674
VPA
$2,550
$64,600
$24,250
CSA TOTAL
158 74
$8,137,744
186 76
$7,499,840
180 81
$7,886,499
CSA Faculty were co-PIs on another 86 proposals, of which 19 were funded: $5,886, Total new funding was $13.29m compared to $12.48m (14-15) and $10.57m (15-16).

12. External Awards/Expenditures Three-year average ($ in 1000s)FY FY
Proposals
Awards
New Funding
External Res. Expend
F&A Recovery BL 31
12.7
$1,241
$984
$209 CH 34
6.3
$736
$461
$73
CLS
7.7
$603
$334
$96 CS 18 7
$1,092
$728
185
KIP
17.3
4.3
$916
$234
$62 HU
1.7 2
$11
$13
$3.3
Math
17.7 5
$421
$303
PHY
23.7 14
$1,283
$1,673
$454 SS
15.3
14.7
$1,370
$979
$117
VPA 3
3.3
$30 $0
TOTAL
174.3 73
$8,216
$4,661
$1,297
Proposals submitted (PI): Proposals submitted (co-PI):
14-15=158; 15-16=186; 16-17= = 75; 15-16= 70; 16-17=86
CSA also averaged $524k in instructional and other sponsored program funding

13. Looking Back 10 Years….

15. CSA Priorities, 2017-18 Assessment and Accreditation: ongoing;
Insuring the success and retention of CSA faculty: A never changing goal;
Assessment and Accreditation: ongoing;
Safety and Space: ChemStores/Chem labs project;
Merit Salary Review: similar to recent years;
Department Strategic Plan Updates.

19. CSA Department Accomplishments!
Air Force ROTC
Seven AFROTC Cadets returned/graduated from AFROTC Field Training this summer, the first major stepping stone as cadets travel to Maxwell AFB, AL and Camp Shelby, MS 4 weeks (think Basic Training for Cadets).  Returning cadets are considered Cadet Officers and responsible for the training of Freshman and Sophomore cadets.
Army ROTC
Nine Cadets commissioned, including 1 in the newly formed Cyber Corps; 2 were distinguished military graduates.
20 of 47 returning Cadets were on the Dean's list for Spring 2017.
Four Cadets participated in the Cultural Understanding and Leadership Program (CULP) in four different countries; Two participated in Project Global Officer (GO), learning Russian and Japanese.

20. CSA Department Accomplishments!
Biological Sciences
Steve Techtmann won Young Faculty award from DARPA;
Brigitte Morin nominated for teaching award; 
MLS accreditation is moving forward; hope to double enrollment;
Faculty achieved a record-high new funding of $9 million in last four years as PIs or Co-Pis; ~70% faculty have external grants.
Chemistry
Assistant Professor Xiaohu Xia awarded the department’s first NSF CAREER grant;
Began Phase 2 of Chemistry teaching lab renovations (two of five complete);
Construction launched on $2M Chemical Stores facility;
Established a course-based MS degree in Chemistry.

21. CSA Department Accomplishments!
Cognitive & Learning Sciences
Faculty received over $1.6 million in new external funding
Shari Stockero and Kedmon Hungwe promoted to full professor
Publications:
Kedmon Hungwe article in Mind, Culture and Activity, the leading journal devoted to the study of the mind in its cultural and historical contexts.
 Kevin Trewartha, article in Cognition, a prestigious journal in cognitive psychology
 Philart Jeon, Emotions and Affect in Human Factors and Human-Computer Interaction.

22. CSA Department Accomplishments!
Computer Science
ranked top 18 in mid-career median pay of US Computer Science programs by PayScale
Software Engineering program is ranked 10th in US by CollegeChoice
UG enrollment of 457 (all time high); First-year women percentage: 18.1%
Kinesiology & Integrative Physiology
Dept chair Jason Carter was selected as one of eight faculty/administrators in the U.S. for the APLU Council on Research Leader Fellow Program; and will be inducted into the National Academy of Kinesiology this weekend, a national academy limited to 150 living members.
KIP UG Stephanie Dietrich won 1st place in the Pavilis Honors College Undergraduate Research Expo (a record 70 UG participants this past spring), and KIP undergraduate Thomas Bye received a Michigan Space Grant Consortium grant and an undergraduate fellowship from the American Physiological Society.

23. Books published and forthcoming by HU faculty 2016-2017
Carlos Amador,
Ethics and Literature
Dana Van Kooy,
Shelley’s Radical Stages
Michael Bowler,
Hermeneutical Heidegger
Jennifer Slack
Culture and Technology
Jennifer Slack
Cultural Studies 1983
Syd Johnson
Handbook of Neuro-ethics
Marcelino Viera Ramos
Exposing Paraguay
Diane Shoos
Gaslighting
Forthcoming soon:
Stephanie Carpenter, Missing Persons
Ramon Fonkoue, Nation without Narration
Beatrice Smith, Cross-Language Communication and the Academy
Sue Collins, Calling All Stars

24. CSA Department Accomplishments!
Mathematical Sciences
Ying Sha: new Portage Health Endowed Professor in Population Health. 
The third annual Kliakhandler conference, organized by Min Wang, held in Houghton August Topic was Bayesian Inference in Statistics and Statistical Genetics.
 Don Saari delivered the Kliakhandler Lectures (yesterday and today).
Physics
 Professor Alex Kostinski: with new research grant marks more than 30 years of continuous NSF support!  
Ramy El-Ganainy – earned tenure and also published a photonics related paper in Nature: ‘Enhanced sensitivity at higher-order exceptional points.’  
John Jaszczak, on team that discovered a new mineral (Merelaniite), named Mineral Of the Year for 2016.

25. CSA Department Accomplishments!
Social Sciences
Dr. Richelle Winkler: 2017 Distinguished Faculty Service Award
Four monographs:
Jonathan Robins, Cotton and Race Across the Atlantic (University of Rochester Press, 2016).
Chelsea Schelly, Dwelling in Resistance: Living with Alternative Technologies in America (Rutgers University Press, 2017)
 Nancy Langston, Sustaining Lake Superior: An Extraordinary Lake in a Changing World (Yale University Press, 2017)
 Melissa Baird, Critical Theory and the Anthropology of Heritage Landscapes (University Press of Florida, 2017)
Over 350 community members (in person) and nearly 7,900 people online have classified over 56,000 historical features in Don Lafreniere’s and Sarah Scarlett’s Keweenaw Time Traveler, a public participatory historical GIS project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

26. CSA Department Accomplishments!
Visual and Performing Arts
Audience up significantly in all areas of the department’s programming in the Rozsa Center/McArdle Theatre, as well as for gallery shows in art.  
 Art faculty installations at the Jack Straw Cultural Center in Seattle, WA (Anne Beffel, Meditaions on Water) and in Guatemala (Lisa Gordillo, Trinchera/Trench(era))
Christopher Plummer, Kent Cyr, and Libby Meyer are completing Listening to Parks, a multimedia art/sound/music project funded by the NEA.

27. QUESTIONS?