Program and Department Self-Study Questionnaire
Faculty Senate Program Review Committee
Academic Year 2007-08
Please complete your self-study narrative using this template. Please enter your responses in thegrey boxesthat you see on the screen. (The grey boxes won’t print in the final document.)Correct any of the information that has been filled in for you as may be necessary and add your comments as you wish. You will need to access the Academic Profiles website maintained by Institutional Analysis. Set up an Academic Profiles account by contacting UNLV Institutional Analysis and Planning at: .
I.SELF-STUDY INFORMATION
A.College/Department/Programs
1.College or School: College of Liberal Arts
2.Department: EnglishHomepage:
3.Program(s) being reviewed: B.A., M.A., Ph.D. in English
B.Primary respondent to questionnaire
1.Name:
2.Title:
3.Campus Phone:
4.Mail Stop:
5.E-mail:
6.Fax Number:
C.Identify other faculty involved in writing this report. Has the department faculty reviewed this self-study report?
II.PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS AND YIELDS
A.The programs.
1.Programs being reviewed and other programs offered by the department.
Programs being reviewed: B.A., M.A., Ph.D. in English
Other programs in department :
2.Program Catalog Descriptions: Catalog descriptions of the English programs are found at these links.
the B.A. program
the M.A. and Ph.D. programs.
Provide additions, corrections, and elaborations as necessary.
3.Program Assessment. For the program(s) being reviewed.
a)Undergraduate Student Learning Outcomes and Program Assessment Plans by program concentration are at Provide additions, corrections, and elaborations as necessary.
b)MA in English Program Assessment Plans and Student Learning Outcomes are at Provide additions, corrections, and elaborations as necessary.
c)PhD in English Program Assessment Plans and Student Learning Outcomes are at Provide additions, corrections, and elaborations as necessary.
d)The most recent Semester Assessment Report for the programs are found at this link Assessment reports for earlier semesters are also at that link. As a result of these reports, have any changes been made to:
1)Student Learning Outcomes or Program Assessment plans?
2)Course content, program curricula or other program completionrequirements?
B.Program Accreditation.
1.Is there external accreditation for any of your program(s)?
2.a)If so, what is the accreditation status of each program being reviewed?
b) What agency accredits the program, when was it last accredited, and when does the next accreditation cycle begin?
3.If any of the programs being reviewed is not accredited, why not?
C.Program enrollments and completions.
1.Student profiles and enrollment trends in the undergraduate program being reviewed are found at this Academic Profiles link.
Are trends in numbers and quality of students satisfactory?
2.Student profiles and enrollment trends in the graduate programs being reviewed are found at this Academic Profiles link.
Are trends in numbers and quality of students satisfactory?
3.Have the undergraduate and/or graduate programs being reviewed been able to accommodate the numbers of students who seek admission to the programs?
Have qualified applicants been turned away?
4.Numbers and characteristics of students completing the programs being reviewed are summarized at this Academic Profiles link.
Are trends in numbers of completions and times-to-completion satisfactory?
5.What lengthens time-to-completion or contributesto student separations from the programs being reviewed?
III.PROGRAM QUALITY
A.Admission Requirements. Admission requirements to the English programs are stated in the UNLV Undergraduate and Graduate Catalogs, available at: the B.A. program
and the M.A. and Ph.D. programs
1.Have there been any changes to program admission requirements since publication of the most recent catalogs?
2.Are current admissions requirements adequate? Do they either admit unqualified candidates or block qualified candidates?
3.Describe how students are recruited into the program being reviewed.
4.For graduate programs only.
a.Describe policies regarding Provisional Admission to the graduate programs being reviewed.
b.What remedial courses are required for graduate students who do not have undergraduate majors in the field of study? How are they determined?
IV.PROGRAM CURRICULUM AND COURSES OFFERED
1.Curricula – Degree requirements for the BA in English are given in the Undergraduate Catalog.
Degree requirements for the MA and the PhD in English are given in the Graduate Catalog.
2.Courses offered. For course offerings and enrollments by department in previous semesters, go to Enter the course prefix for the relevant department (ENG), select the option for enrollment count and click “View Data”. This data can be downloaded to an excel spreadsheet for further analysis if desired by clicking “Download to Excel”.
3.How is the BA in English curriculum kept up-to-date with its discipline?
4.How are the graduate English curricula kept up-to-date with their disciplines?
5.Department trends and practices: BA in English
a.Annual Undergraduate Student FTEs for the Department of English are summarized at this link (please select English on the pull-down menu).
Please describe or explain any trends in the reported data.
b.Undergraduate Student Credit Hours taught by the Department of English are summarized at this link. .
Please describe or explain any trends in the reported data.
c.Describe procedures and resources for advising undergraduates in the BA in English program. Attach links to any materials and forms used for academic advisement.
d.Are employer surveys included as part of the assessment procedures for the program? If yes, please attach a sample survey and survey results.
e.From survey data, are employers satisfied with the preparation of graduates of the BA in English?
6.Department trends and practices: MA and PhD in English
a.What is the minimum number of 700-level courses required in each graduate program being reviewed?
b.How many combined undergraduate/graduate courses (400/600) are permitted in the degree program?
c.To what extent does the program accept courses from other departments or colleges?
d.Annual Graduate Student FTEs for the Department of English are summarized at this link.
Please describe or explain any trends in the reported data for graduate courses.
e.Graduate Student Credit Hours taught by the Department of English are summarized at this link.
Please describe or explain any trends in the reported data for graduate courses.
f.Describe qualifying exams for the graduate programs being reviewed in the table below. Note the purpose of the exam, when it is administered, whether it is written or oral, and who prepares and evaluates the exam. If there are no qualifying exams, please explain.
What is the departmental policy on retaking the qualifying examination?
g.Graduate student advising and student progress.
1.How is graduate student academic progress monitored?
2.How many advisors or supervisors serve each student?
3.What are typical advising loads?
4.How are student research experiences considered?
5.Please attach any materials and forms used in advising graduate students, or provide links to the materials and forms if they are available on-line.
h.Describe comprehensive or preliminary exams for the graduate programs being reviewed. Note whether the exam is required for program majors and/or minors, who develops the exam, who administers the exam, and who evaluates it. If there are no comprehensive exams, please explain.
1. Attach a representative copy of the comprehensive exam used in the last year.
2. What is the departmental policy on retaking the exam?
3.If the comprehensive exam is required, how many students passed or failed during the past year? In the previous two years?
4.How often is the exam updated?
i.Describe the thesis and or dissertation activity of the program over the last 5 years in the table attached.
Academic Year / Number of non-thesis M.S. graduates (examination or project report) / Number of M.S. theses / Number of PhD dissertations2002-3
2003-4
2004-5
2005-6
2006-7
If trends are significantly up or down in any category, could you please briefly explain possible causes?
- Please list the titles of recent representative theses and dissertations. Note degree earned and year of completion
Insert or delete rows to the table as necessary.
Title of Thesis or Dissertation / Degree earned (eg. M.Ed) / Year of completionV.COURSES FOR NON-MAJORS
1.Please fill in the table attached to summarize courses offered for non-majors. (Insert or delete rows from the table as necessary). For sections and enrollment, please see course Offerings in Program Review Profiles at
NON-MAJOR (or, “Service”) COURSES – You can extract the needed data for the first four columns of this table by (1) obtaining Fall and Spring Excel spreadsheets from the tab “Course Listing” in the Institutional Analysis and Planning intranet website “Academic Profiles” located at then (2) separating out only the non-major courses by course number, then (3) averaging Fall and Spring enrollments in each year, then averaging for 2002-2003 through 2006-2007.
Prefix and Course Number / Course Title / Number of sections offered / Average Fall plus Spring enrollment, 2002-03 through 2006-2007 / Taught by full time UNLV faculty or by PTI? (% of sections taught) / Meet a University General Education Requirement? / Meet upper division requirement in other degree program(s)? / If meet other degree requirement, please list example degree(s)EGG 100 (example) / People and Technology / 1 / 160 / 100% PTI / Yes / No / N/A
STA 463
(example) / Engineering Statistics / 1 / 30 / 80% Full-time
20% PTI / No / Yes / Engineering B.S.
2.How many of these courses meet undergraduate General Education requirements?
3.How many of these courses meet upper-division degree requirements in other programs?
4.How do these non-major courses affect the quality of the programs being reviewed?
VI.ALUMNI FOLLOW-UP
1.Is there a system for following the careers of program graduates? If so, please describe.
a)If data are available, what proportions of BA and MA program graduates complete advanced or professional degrees at UNLV or other institutions?
b)Are BA program graduates in positions appropriate to their training?
c)Are MA program graduates in positions appropriate to their training?
d)Where have recent PhD graduates been placed?
VII.PROGRAM RESOURCES
A.Department budget
1.In the table attached, summarize the state budget of the Department of English.
DEPARTMENT BUDGET, ACADEMIC YEAR 2006 – 2007 – Please insert a summary departmental state-funded budget here. Summaries can be provided from UNLV’s Data Warehouse, or please contact Susan Haboush in the UNLV Budget Office Ext. 5-1077. E-mail: )
Organization Summary Report by Object for Fiscal Period: 2007 - 13 (Year End 2007) - FINALAccount Number: Department Name:
Expense Budget Summary
OBJECT CODE / OBJECT NAME / APPROVED BUDGET / CURRENT BUDGET
11 / PROFESSIONAL SALARIES
14 / CLASSIFIED SALARIES
15 / WAGES
16 / FRINGE BENEFITS
30 / GENERAL OPERATIONS
TOTAL
Is this budget sufficient to meet the department’s instructional needs?
If not, approximately what line items and amounts would be needed?
2.What other regular income enters the department budget (gifts, service center fees, etc).
3.Describe the grants and contracts that impact the department budget. Are there any expected changes in externally sponsored department activities?
4.Please note any recent changes in the department budget.
5.What Service Centers, Scholarly Institutes, EducationCenters, Laboratories, or ArchivalCenters does the Department of English administer?
Describe their relations to the programs being reviewed.
6.Estimate the approximate fractions of the department’s resources devoted to the departments’ non-major courses, undergraduate programs, and graduate programs, from various sources in the table below.
ESTIMATED PROPORTIONAL RESOURCE ALLOCATIONS
Source of Funds / University Operating Budget (2101 funds) / Grants & Contracts / Self-Supporting Budget / TotalNon-major courses
Undergraduate programs/majors
Graduate programs
Grants and Contracts
Total / 100%
Explain these estimates as necessary.
B.Department/Program Faculty
1.Please indicate the numbers of full-time and part-time faculty in the Department of English.
2. List department faculty and professional staff in the tables attached. Add or delete rows from Parts 1 and 2 as necessary. Include all state-supported permanent and temporary faculty, faculty on sabbatical leave or leave without pay, and all other faculty, e.g., adjunct, grant or contract, emeritus, and part-time instructors. Note with a pound sign (#) those persons most closely associated with the programs under review, and provide a link to each person’s short vitae. If vitae are not available on the internet, please prepare a binder with all relevant vitae.
FULL-TIME FACULTY & PROFESSIONAL STAFF PROFILE, ACADEMIC YEAR 2007-2008 – Part 1
Tenure status codes: * T = Tenured, TT = Tenure Track, NTT = Non Tenure Track
Ethnic Codes: ** AM = American Indian/Alaskan Native, AS = Asian/Pacific Islander, BL = Black non-Hispanic
HI = Hispanic, WH = White, NR = Non-resident Alien, UN = Unknown
Last Name / Rank (Instructor, Assistant, Associate, Full) / Permanent UNLV or PTI? / FTE or % Position assigned to department / Terminal Degree / Year earned / Tenure Status * / Grad Faculty status? (Y/N) / Gender (M/F) / Ethnic Code **Smith (Example) / Associate / Permanent / 100% / PhD/1994 / T / Yes / M / WH
Jones (Example) / Full / Permanent / 100% / EdD/1990 / T / Yes / F / BL
FULL-TIME FACULTY & PROFESSIONAL STAFF PROFILE, ACADEMIC YEAR 2007-2008 – Part 2
Last Name / Rank (Instructor, Assistant, Associate, Full) / Permanent UNLV or PTI? / FTE or % Position assigned to department / Assignment Distribution, based on Fall 2006 workload allocation report% Instruction / % Research / % Service / % Administration / % Other
Smith (Example) / Associate / Permanent / 100% / 50 / 40 / 10 / 0 / 0
Jones (example) / Full (Chair) / Permanent / 100% / 0 / 0 / 0 / 100 / 0
3.Faculty retention. How many full-time faculty and professional staff have been hired, resigned, moved within UNLV, or retired in the last ten years?
4.Are there gaps in expertise for the programs being reviewed that require new hires? Please explain.
5.Faculty Instructional Activity.
a)The proportions of teaching effort in the Department of English conducted by full-time and part-time faculty are summarized at this link
(Select English, then Instructors, and at the Select Measure box, select Total SCH, Undergraduate SCH, Graduate SCH). Is this distribution of effort satisfactory?
6.Faculty Research and Creativity
a)The following grant and contract award data were obtained from the Office of Sponsored Programs
FACULTY GRANT AND CONTRACT AWARD FINANCIAL SUMMARY.
Fiscal Year / Competitive Awards / Earmark Awards / Total Awards / Competitive Expenditures / Earmark Expenditures / Total Expenditures2002-3
2003-4
2004-5
2005-6
2006-7
b) If there were major changes in funded activity over the review period, please explain
c)What are the major external funding sources for the department or program? (Examples: Federal-NIH, State- Department Public Health, Local – ClarkCounty Comprehensive Planning)
d)Summarize the scholarly productivity of the program's/department's faculty over the last five years. Comment on trends in journal and book publications, presentations, and creative successes. Note the qualities of journals, etc., in which department publications and exhibitions have appeared. If possible, quantify the numbers of journal articles, book publications, professional association presentations, and creative exhibits by department members in each of the last two-to-five years.
7.Program Graduate Assistants
a) Show the numbers of graduate assistants and their stipends in the programs being reviewed over the last three years in the table below.
GRADUATE STIPENDS — PAST 3 YEARS (2004-05 through 2006-2007) – The UNLVGraduateCollege may be able to assist with tracking the number of GA awards
Academic Year / Number of State-funded graduate assistantships / Number of externally funded research assistantships / Number of graduate scholarships or fellowships / Number of graduate traineeshipsMaster's / PhD / Master's / PhD / Master's / PhD / Master's / PhD
2004-5
2005-6
2006-7
If there have been any significant changes or trends, could you please explain?
b) What are the typical duties of graduate assistants in the program?
How are these duties determined?
c)Do teaching assistants receive any training in teaching? ?
Please explain?
d)How are graduate assistants oriented, supervised, and evaluated? ?
8.Department Facilities
a)Please comment on the adequacy of the physical facilities available to your program. List in priority orderany specific facilities needs your program may have now or in the foreseeable future.
9.Department Staff Support
a)Please fill in the following staff support table:
SUPPORT: ADMINISTRATIVE, CLERICAL AND TECHNICAL SUPPORT PERSONNEL FTE, 2006-2007 (SOURCE: Human Resources) use this link to generate list of departmental employees that support the program being reviewed. Click on “Advanced search.” Select department name from the pull down list. Click “Search” then click export and save as Excel table. Then select staff names to complete the table. Then review name list and allocate FTE to the different categories:
Source of Funds / University operating budget (2101 funds) / Grants & Contracts / Self Supporting budget / TotalAdministrative FTE
Clerical FTE
Technical FTE
Total
b)Are available department staff resources sufficient to meet the department’s administrative, teaching and research needs?
c)If not, what additional staff resources are needed?
VIII.DEPARTMENT POLICIES
A. Faculty evaluation
1.For the following categories, please indicate the type(s) of published document(s) (eg. NSHE Code, University and/or College and/or Dept Bylaws, Workload Policy, Operations and Procedures Manual, student teaching evaluations, annual internal evaluations, external peer evaluations, none) used for faculty evaluation:
Evaluation / Types of documents usedTenure (example) / University, College, Dept Bylaws; Teaching Evaluations; External Peer Evaluations; Annual evaluations
Tenure
Promotion
Merit
Please discuss the above list, if needed:
2. If departmental information is available on-line, please provide a link to relevant documentation in the table below
Document / Link (if available)College Bylaws
Department Bylaws
Workload Policies
Operations and Procedures manual
3.a) What ranges of weights are given to teaching, research/scholarly activity, and service in evaluations for tenure, promotion, and merit?
Evaluation / Teaching / Research/scholarly/creative activity / ServiceTenure (example) / 30-40% / 50-60% / 0-20%
Tenure
Promotion
Merit
(tenure track)
Merit (tenured)
Merit (tenured-administrative)
c) What kinds of publication, research, or creative activity does the department regard most important in this discipline?