Meeting of College of Arts and Humanities Assembly Minutes

September 7, 2016

Key West 218 A & B, Student Union

Dean Jeffrey Moore called the meeting to order at 1:00 pm. Introductions of new CAH faculty and chairs and the Dean’s staff followed. He also announced that MargaretMlachak will be leaving the dean’s office to work in Ronnie Korosec’s office.

The minutes of the CAH assembly of September 9, 2015 were approved as written.

Assistant Dean Rudy McDaniel presented the CAH Research Report.

  • CAH submitted four more federal proposals than in 2015 involving 48 faculty and staff with 20 faculty as PIs and resulting in largest split ($7, 255,566) in CAH history.
  • CREATE had 50% increase in department federal proposal activity
  • CAH won16 new awards in 2016 and the CAH split was $603,144 with 26 CAH facultyreceiving awards and with 16 CAH PIs.
  • SVAD had largest increase in awards (85%) and WUCF had largest increase in

award money amount (non-academic unit and A&P PI)

  • CAH Plant Grants were explained as was the criteria, eligibility and proposal requirements, submission information and review process and post-award requirements.
  • CAH departmental productions incentives will be $5000 given to the department that has the highest percentage increase in the dollar amount of external awards in 2017 and these awards must be used to support department research activities within the department.

Associate Dean Nancy Stanlick presented the CAH Assistant Professor Excellence Program report and the CAH Assessment report.

  • There are 11 new assistant professors in CAH who will need mentoring and the hope is that senior faculty will volunteers as mentors.
  • The content of the program includes grant searches and writing, collaborations for grants, understanding departmental and other P&T requirements, completing annual reports, Cumulative Progress Evaluation contents, and applying for UCF awards.
  • CAH continues to shine in assessment.
  • No deficiencies were noted in UCF’s SACS-COC re-accreditation
  • Goal for this year is to raise the percentage for results and plans by 10% at eh exemplary level and to have no result or plans at less than maturing.

CAH and BHC will host the Southeast Regional Ethics Bowl on October 29, 2016. Moderators needed. Contact Nancy Stanlick.

Dean Jeffrey Moore presented the Dean’s Report.

Dean Moore announced the activities planned for the Provost’s visit to CAH on October 20th from 8:00am to noon. He asked the faculty to let everyone know.

The Dean discussed UCF’s Collective Impact Strategic Plan and its trajectory for the next five (really 20) years. UCF is working toward acquiring preeminent status which only UF and FSU have currently. He discussed President Hitt’s Five Goals for UCF. Scale x Excellence = Impact which means we want to be the best we can be. We can’t just chase growth. Our students’ average GPA and SAT/ACT scores are higher than twenty years ago. Looking forward UCF is working on first-year retention, six-year graduation rate, faculty excellence, society impact, financial resources, and recognition.

Dean Moore discussed the issues with transfer students from Direct Connect which offers a savings to taxpayers. UCF wants access to this revenue strain to work on preparing transfer students to attend UCF. A dialogue between UCF and the state colleges is beginning.

UCF’s strategies/metrics to achieve preeminent status is ongoing. UCF has achieved six benchmarks (average GPA & SAT score, 6-year retention rate, non-medical science & engineering research expenditures, national ranking in STEM research expenditures, patents awarded, and doctoral degrees awarded annually) with six more left to achieve (public university national ranking, freshman retention rate, national academy memberships, science & engineering research expenditures, number of post-doctoral appointees, and endowment size). We are working on community engagement and arts and culture impact.

While CAH’s budget model involves SCH production, there are some changes so that departments are now asked to achieve 2% growth which gives departments some flexibility.

Dean Moore opened the floor to questions.

The meeting was adjourned at 2:13pm

Respectfully submitted,

Pat Angley, Secretary