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Presidential Brief

COLLEGE OFARTS AND SCIENCES

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James Blank, Ph.D.Interim Dean, College of Arts and Sciences

B.S., Biology, University of Illinois Ph.D., Biology, Indiana University

Responsibilities: Interim Dean James L. Blank, Ph.D., provides leadership to 17 departments in the natural sciences and mathematics, social sciences and humanities. Blank provides leadership to and serves as the principal administrator of the College of Arts and Sciences including complete line responsibility for personnel, general administration and management, budget, academic and development functions. Among other responsibilities, he provides leadership and oversight to all academic programs; promotes and administers research programs and grants; and fosters development activities. He represents the college to university administration, at appropriate university bodies and serves as college advocate and spokesperson at academic, social and public functions. He maintains community service activities, promotes diversity and recruitment and retention of faculty and serves as the university’s Liaison Officer to the Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED).

Profile: James L. Blank is the interim dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences. He holds a B.S. degree in biology from the University of Illinois and Ph.D. in biology from Indiana University. He has been a faculty member at Kent State since 1987 and previously has served as graduate program coordinator for the Department of Biological Sciences; director, School of Biomedical Sciences; chair, Department of Biological Sciences; and interim dean. His research foci are in neuroscience and educational technologies in the K-20 classroom. Blank has authored more than 40 peer-reviewed papers and advised 14 graduate students to completion of their degrees.

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Direct Report: James J. BrownAssistant Dean, Operations

B.A., Physical Science/Chemistry, Rowan UniversityMBA and M.P.A., Cleveland State UniversityM.A. and Ed.S., Kent State University

Responsibilities: • Compile and report financial information for management analysis and decision making needs. Utilize automated reporting systems. Develop databases, logs and spreadsheets to maintain records and create reports.

• Compile and analyze information; conduct research on various issues as assigned by the dean; prepare and disseminate reports to various constituencies and government agencies.

• Oversee or coordinate a program or a project.• Assist the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences with the development of

relevant policies in support of the missions of the college.• Conduct ongoing assessments and workflow analyses for the dean to use for

management decisions regarding faculty and staff workload.• Serve as security administrator for access to the mainframe system for the college;

oversee purchase of hardware, software and equipment.• Assist in the administration of personnel issues.• Provide oversight of the department support services and activities; manage

administrative operations of the college.• Serve on department, division and university committees; represent the college at

appropriate university bodies, committees, councils, etc.• Analyze and recommend changes to facilities/space utilization.• Coordinate NTT reviews and promotions.

Profile: James Brown has held various positions during his working life, including: chemical plant technician, financial aid director at a training center, congressional staff assistant, army officer, business manager, senior business manager and assistant dean. He holds an Ed.S. and M.A. from Kent State University, MBA and M.P.A. from Cleveland State University, a B.A. in physical science/chemistry from Rowan University and has been a Certified Purchasing Manager for 15 years. He completed the Army Command and General Staff College and the Marine Corps CGSC during his 32 years of reserve and active duty in the U.S. Army. His army awards include: Bronze Star Medal for merito-rious service in Iraq, Combat Action Badge, Army Commendation Medal and Army Achievement Medal x 4. He served six years on a local city council and four years as president. Brown has also volunteered as a Boy Scout leader over the past 38 years.

Direct Report: Raymond CraigProfessor and Associate Dean, Humanities and Social Sciences

Responsibilities: • Provide leadership and support for departments in the humanities and social sciences to advance the educational and research mission of the college, including planning, governance, instructional and student support.

• Assist in the development of strategic plans, curricular development, needs assessment and annual budgets.

• Assist in the management of faculty affairs within the disciplinary group, including supporting reappointment, promotion and tenure processes; chair review and search activities; oversee department, program and handbook review and other governance issues; and promote faculty development.

• Assist in the development of the instructional mission, including accreditation coordination and planning; oversight of the learning communities and student orientation programs; development of student and instructor success initiatives and needs assessment relative to the instructional mission.

• Assist in managing undergraduate student academic decisions, including probation, dismissal and reinstatement, academic forgiveness, student conduct and disciplinary actions and grade changes.

• Assist in managing graduate programs within the disciplinary group, including management of admissions, dismissals, student performance review, graduate faculty status and reappointment, program review and performance, graduate budgets and graduate student training.

• Assist in development of the research mission, including increasing faculty scholarly productivity and increasing interdisciplinary research opportunities.

Profile: Ray Craig, Ph.D., has been associate dean in the college since January 2010, working in college analytics; RCM analysis, planning and forecasting; and administrative duties initially. He moved to graduate and faculty affairs, while retaining analytics and RCM duties, until the college was reorganized in summer 2013. He came to the college after serving as interim chair, graduate coordinator and program director in the Department of English. He is an early American literature and textual studies scholar, who also works in representational systems and knowledge construction, as well as classical rhetoric in the literacy, rhetoric and social practice doctoral program, which he helped to design and build.

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Direct Report: Janis H. Crowther, Ph.D.Associate Dean, Math and Sciences

Ph.D., clinical psychology, University of Vermont

Responsibilities: Provide leadership on behalf of and as delegated by the dean of the college in support of the instructional and research missions of departments in the Science and Math Cluster. Specific responsibilities include assisting the dean and department chairs in: 1. The development of strategic plans; curricular development, including distance

learning; needs assessment; and annual budgets. 2. The management of faculty affairs within the disciplinary group, including

supporting reappointment, promotion and tenure processes; chair review and search activities; department, program and handbook review; other governance issues; and faculty development.

3. The development of the instructional mission, including accreditation, coordination and planning; oversight of the learning communities and student orientation programs; development of student and instructor success initiatives; and needs assessment relative to the instructional mission.

4. The management of undergraduate student academic decisions, including probation, dismissal and reinstatement, academic forgiveness, student conduct and disciplinary actions and grade changes.

5. The management of graduate programs within the disciplinary group, including management of admissions, dismissals, student performance review, graduate faculty status and reappointment; program review and performance; graduate budgets; and graduate student training.

6. The development of the research mission, including increasing faculty scholarly productivity and increasing interdisciplinary research opportunities.

Profile: Janis Crowther, Ph.D., joined the College of Arts and Sciences as an associate dean in July, 2013. She also is a professor of psychology at Kent State University. She received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Vermont. She has served the Department of Psychology in several roles, including director of clinical training, graduate coordinator, interim director of the Applied Psychology Center and chair. Her research focuses on body image and eating disorders, and she has more than 80 publications.

Direct Report: Mary Ann Haley, Ph.D.Associate Dean, Curriculum

Responsibilities: • Ensure the integrity, excellence and ongoing development of the college educational and research missions.

• Assist the dean in performing needs assessment, developing strategic objectives and collegewide policies and procedures.

• Assist programs with curriculum development and revision, including new degrees, programs, Kent Core requirements, diversity courses, writing-intensive courses and experiential learning courses/activities.

• Review and update college general education requirements.• Submit the college’s curriculum development and revisions to the appropriate

universitywide committee.• College’s point-of-contact with Curriculum Services, including Undergraduate Catalog and GPS

roadmap revisions.• Convene and prepare materials for College Curriculum Committee.• Represent college on University Requirements Curriculum Committee, including Kent Core and

Experiential Learning subcommittees.• Attend Educational Policies Council as consultant.• College’s point-of-contact on the development of three-year degree plans as required by the state.• College’s university articulation representative — for the review of transfer courses from other

institutions and course substitutions.• Assist with the development and approval of unit budgets and expenditures. Maximize existing

resources and make strategic planning recommendations. • Assist the dean by representing him/her at internal and external meetings and events; assume

collegial responsibility as requested during dean’s absence. • Assist the dean in the development and accomplishment of College of Arts and Sciences goals,

practices and policies.• Assist the dean by representing the college on various campus and community committees, task

forces, councils, etc.• Assist the dean by performing duties and conducting special assignments essential to the

management of the college.• Collaborate with other administrative staff to advance the mission of the college.• Fulfill responsibilities of human resource management, including equal employment opportunity,

affirmative action and faculty/staff development.• Provide collegewide coordination of practices and policies in one or more areas of effort, such as

Faculty Affairs, Graduate Affairs, Undergraduate Affairs, Regional Campus Relations, Research Development and Support, and Assessment and Analytics.

• Perform related duties as assigned.

Profile: Mary Ann Haley holds both a master’s and doctoral degree from Kent State University in geography. Since fall 1993, she has been employed by the university — first in the Department of Geography and more recently in the College of Arts and Sciences. While in geography, Haley served primarily an instructional role teaching in the undergraduate area and served the department as the undergraduate coordinator and College Curriculum Committee representative. Haley first served in the college as interim assistant dean for curriculum in 2006-2007, later returning as assistant dean in fall 2008. She has served in that capacity since then with a promotion to associate dean in July 2013.

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Direct Report: Sandra MorganDirector, External Affairs

B.A., Art History, Smith College

Responsibilities: Sandra Morgan’s responsibilities of external affairs director include: • Increasing “brand” recognition/raise the profile of the College of Arts and Sciences within

the university and to the external community.• Identify and cultivate external partnerships that promote the mission and goals of the

College of Arts and Sciences and the university.• Communicate and coordinate with the faculty and staff of various departments in the

College of Arts and Sciences and within other colleges to assist in developing, cultivating and sustaining relationships with public and private entities, professional associations and affinity organizations.

• Working closely with faculty and staff to write funding proposals.• Create and participate in events that strengthen the College of Arts and Sciences’ relationships

internally and with external partners.• Collaborate with and support institutional outreach initiatives related to the College of Arts and

Sciences and university missions.• Lead the College of Arts and Sciences marketing team to ensure that opportunities for

visibility, branding and fundraising are identified and leveraged.

Profile: Sandra Morgan currently serves as external affairs director for Kent State University’s College of Arts and Sciences. Previous to taking this position, Morgan focused on strategic planning and new business development in the financial services industry, international economic development and nonprofit sectors. Morgan earned a B.A. in art history from Smith College, Northampton, Mass., and holds numerous certifications from Thunderbird School of Global Management, Phoenix, Ariz.

Key committees at Kent State include:Member, President’s Commission for Women in STEMGirl Scouts of Northeast Ohio Strategic Planning CommissionNorTech/Kent State University Talent Mapping CommitteeCollege of Arts and Sciences Representative, Diversity Scorecard Planning and ImplementationCollege of Arts and Sciences Facilitator, Affirmative Action Cuyahoga Valley National Park Steering CommitteeCleveland Water Alliance Steering Committee

Boards and commissions include:Honorary Consul of the United Kingdom, state of OhioBoard Member of the British American Chamber of CommerceBoard Member OIC International, Washington, D.C.Board Member, Cuyahoga Valley National ParkMember, The British Marshalls Selection Committee, Midwest DivisionMember, Donor Committee, Smithsonian Museum for African-American History and Culture

Direct Report: Richard S. Meindl, Ph.D.Professor and Chairperson, Department of Anthropology

Ph.D., University of Massachusetts

Responsibilities: The chief administrative officer of the Department of Anthropology reports to the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. The chairperson provides leadership in cur-ricular planning, and he is the initial student contact for all undergraduate and graduate advising. He decides space and resource allocation, and oversees financial matters in the department. The chair is responsible for the maintenance and implementation of policies stated in the departmental handbook and the university policy register through consultation with the faculty and all departmental committee chairs and coordinators.

The chairperson is a nonvoting member of the Curriculum, Graduate Education and Faculty Advisory committees; however, he provides leadership, advice and direction in all these endeavors, subject to the formal vote of the faculty memberships. All members of the Faculty Advisory Committee are elected, including the Curriculum Advisory Committee representative; the Curriculum and Graduate Education coordinators are appointed by the chair.

Profile: Richard S. Meindl, Ph.D., is professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology. He is also the coordinator of the Biological Anthropology Doctoral Program; and in this role, he reports to the director of the School of Biomedical Sciences. He is the aca-demic advisor for all undergraduate students.

He teaches a graduate course in experimental design for biological and behavioral scientists (ANTH 68637/BMS 78637) and a graduate course in linear models (ANTH 68638/BMS 78638), both of which serve students in the schools or departments of Sports, Exercise and Leisure Studies; Anthropology; Archaeology; Ecology; Biological Sciences; and Pharmaceutical Sciences. These courses also serve as the statistics re-quirement for all doctoral students in the School of Biomedical Sciences (neurobiology, physiology, cell-molecular biology and biological anthropology). Meindl is also part of the team that offers the graduate core course in biological anthropology (ANTH 68630/BMS 78630).

He has expertise in New World archaeology, morphology, human and nonhuman primate demography sciences, and human variation and evolution. He has more than 50 research publications, including articles in Science and Nature. There are also several lengthy scholarly reviews, such as one in Annual Review of Anthropolog y.

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Direct Report: Laura G. Leff, Ph.D.Professor and Acting Chair, Department of Biological Sciences

B.S., University of MarylandM.S., Iowa StatePh.D., University of Georgia

Responsibilities: The department chairperson is the chief administrative officer of the department and reports to and is directly accountable to the dean of the college. The chairperson is responsible for recording, maintaining and implementing the policies and procedures stated in the faculty handbook, in regular and thorough consultation with the depart-ment faculty and the department’s various committees as provided in the Collective Bargaining Agreement. The faculty handbook of the department provides the details of the chair’s duties. The department chairperson is an ex officio, nonvoting member of all department committees, and may make appointments as necessary and permitted to the department committees and to the various administrative and service positions in the department.

Profile: Chair Laura G. Leff holds a B.S. degree from the University of Maryland, an M.S. degree from Iowa State, and a Ph.D. from the University of Georgia. Research in her lab focuses on uncovering factors that influence microbial community structure and how structure of the community influences important ecological functions, such as denitrification. Types of human impacts studied range from contamination of stream sediments with organic pollutants to tire dumps to acid mine drainage to nutrient pollution from fertilizer application of agricultural areas. Her basic research centers on interaction of the carbon and nitrogen cycles, as well as critical aspects of the carbon cycle, such as decomposition. Regardless of whether she and her research group are studying an applied issue or basic phenomenon, they use state of the art molecular methods in combination with culture based studies, microscopy and chemical analyses. Her research has been funded by NSF, DOE, NASA and EPA. Leff has also received grants from NSF and from foundations for programs that support research and train-ing of students ranging from middle school girls to undergraduates and doctoral students. She has authored 99 papers and advised 25 graduate students. In addition, Leff has served on editorial boards for: Microbial Ecolog y, International Society for Microbial Ecolog y, editor: Applied and Environmental Microbiolog y, 2001, 2011, and as graduate coordi-nator, assistant chair and acting chair of her department.

Direct Report: Eric M. Mintz, Ph.D.Director, School of Biomedical SciencesAssociate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences

B.A., Biology, Wesleyan UniversityPh.D., Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz

Responsibilities: The School of Biomedical Sciences is an interdisciplinary, inter-institutional unit housing M.S. and Ph.D. program in five areas: biological anthropology, cellular and molecular biology, neurosciences, physiology and pharmacology. The program is housed at Kent State in collaboration with the Northeast Ohio Medical University and the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. The director is the chief administrative officer of the school and reports to and is directly accountable to the dean of the college. The director chairs the Executive Committee of the school, contacts prospective applicants, manages the admissions process, administers the budgets, monitors student progress, advises students on coursework and lab rotations, manages the website and library holdings, resolves academic complaints, initiates recruitment programs, liaisons with representatives of the other consortium institutions and arranges service assignments for students on the Kent Campus.

Profile: Eric Mintz, Ph.D., is the director of the School of Biomedical Science and an associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences. He holds a B.A. degree in biology from Wesleyan University and a Ph.D. in biology from the University of California, Santa Cruz. He has been a faculty member at Kent State since 2002 and from 2008-2012 was the graduate program coordinator for the Department of Biological Sciences. Research in his laboratory focuses on the basic neurobiology responsible for regulating circadian rhythms in physiology and behavior. His research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. Mintz has authored 29 peer-reviewed papers and advised 10 graduate students to completion of their degrees. Mintz currently serves as an academic editor for the journal PLOS One.

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Direct Report: Liang-Chy Chien, Ph.D.Interim Director, Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary ProgramProfessor, Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program

National Chung-Hsing University Ph.D., University of Southern Mississippi

Responsibilities: The Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program director acts as chief executive officer of the program. The director is empowered to integrate and supervise the activities of the program; represent the Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program in its relations with the College of Arts and Sciences, other units within the university and the central university administration; and determine and control the administrative organization and activities of the Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program. The director is re-sponsible for recording, maintaining and implementing the policies and procedures stated in the Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program Handbook through proper procedures such actions and policies regarding the academic, budgetary and personnel development of the Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program.

The director is a nonvoting member of all program committees and may make appoints as necessary to program committees and to the various administrative and service positions in the program, in consultation with the Faculty Advisory Committee of Chemical Physics.

Profile: Liang-Chy Chien, Ph.D., is professor and director (interim) of the Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program at Kent State University. He has degrees from the National Chung-Hsing University and the University of Southern Mississippi. He has served as a visiting professor at Eindhoven University of Technology and Philips Research Laboratory in Eindhoven, Netherlands. He teaches Advanced Liquid Crystal and Polymeric Materials and Applications and co-teaches Physical Methods of Characterization. He focuses on frontier research in liquid crystal materials, devices and applications. He is a fellow of the International Society of Optics and Photonics and associate editor of IEEE/LEOS Journal of Display Technologies and Crystals.

Direct Report: Michael J. Tubergen, Ph.D.Chair, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

B.A., Chemistry, Calvin College Ph.D., Chemistry, University of ChicagoPostdoctoral Experience, University of Michigan

Responsibilities: The chairperson of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry determines the courses and sections to be offered each academic year, is ultimately responsible for faculty workload assignments, is responsible for the reappointment/tenure/and promotion process in the department and provides staff oversight. In those roles, the chairperson is the primary point of contact between the administration and the unit faculty. Despite the formal role as a member of the administration, the chairperson is largely viewed as a member of the department faculty, teaching in the department and providing leadership for major departmental initiatives.

Profile: Michael Tubergen, Ph.D., is a professor and chairperson in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. He is completing his 19th year at Kent State University. Tubergen earned a B.A. in chemistry from Calvin College and a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Chicago, has postdoctoral experience at the University of Michigan and has prior teaching experience at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Tubergen has published more than 40 papers in the area of high resolution molecular spectroscopy, is the recipient of an NSF CAREER Award and is PI on grants exceeding $900,000 in total. He was awarded the College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Teaching Award in 1999.

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Direct Report: Javed I. Khan, Ph.D.Chair, Computer ScienceProfessor, Computer Science

Ph.D., University of Hawaii-Manoa

Responsibilities: The department chair is the chief administrative officer of the department and reports directly to and is accountable to the dean of the college. The chair provides leader-ship, gives direction and oversees planning for the future of the department. The chair manages the budget and financial affairs of the department and is responsible for the attraction and retention of outstanding faculty and staff for the department. The chair is responsible for recording, maintaining and implementing the policies and procedures stated in this handbook through regular and thorough consultation with the depart-ment faculty and the department’s various committees, as provided in the Collective Bargaining Agreement. The chair is an ex officio, nonvoting member of all department committees and may make appointments as necessary to department committees and to the various administrative and service positions in the department, in consultation with the Faculty Advisory Committee.

Profile: Javed I. Khan, Ph.D., is professor and chair of the Department of Computer Science at Kent State University. His research team specializes in large scale, high-performance and cognizant networking, communication and networked systems. His lab is currently working on next generation network architecture, cross-layer communication and software defined networks. His research has been funded by diverse funding agencies including U.S. Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, National Science Foun-dation and the World Bank, as well as the state of Ohio. He has also worked at NASA Glenn for space communication team and nonverbal communication with the Wright Patterson Air Force Research Lab’s Human Effectiveness Division.

He is member of IEEE, ACM and Internet Society. He has authored 100-plus reviewed publications. He has also served as editor for 100-plus journal articles in his area and on a national panel on next generation communication. Khan is also active in international technology collaboration and is serving in the U.S. Fulbright Senior Specialist Roaster on high-performance higher education networking and digital divide. Khan received his Ph.D. from the University of Hawaii-Manoa. He is also an East West Center doctoral scholar. More information about Khan’s research can be found at http://medianet.kent.edu.

Direct Report: Robert W. Trogdon, Ph.D.Chair, Department of EnglishProfessor, Department of English

Ph.D., University of South Carolina

Responsibilities: • Oversee personnel administration and professional development.• Oversee budget.• Advocate for the needs of the department; represent the department at

appropriate committees and councils.• Oversee the curriculum.• Enforce department, college and university policies.• Scheduling for Kent Campus English courses.• Building curator for Satterfield Hall. The Department of English offers B.A. degrees (English and Teaching English as a Second Language), M.A. degrees (English and TESL), doctoral degrees in literature and in rhetoric and composition. Through the Northeast Ohio M.F.A. in creative writing, we offer the M.F.A. degree. In addition, the department oversees the English as a Second Language Center for the university.

Profile: Robert W. Trogdon, Ph.D., is professor and chair of the Department of English at Kent State University. He has degrees in English from North Carolina State University and the University of South Carolina. He teaches courses in 20th-century American and British literature, bibliography and editing and book history. He has been employed at Kent State University since 1997. He is the author of one book, editor or co-editor of four others and author of several articles.

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Direct Report: Mandy Munro-Stasiuk, Ph.D.Chair, Department of GeographyProfessor, Department of Geography

Ph.D., University of Alberta

Responsibilities: The department chair is the chief administrative officer of the department and reports directly to and is accountable to the dean of the college. The chair is responsible for re-cording, maintaining and implementing the policies and procedures of the department, college and university in consultation with the department faculty and the department’s various committees.

The chair is an ex officio, nonvoting member of all department committees and may make appointments, as necessary and permitted, to department committees and to the various administrative and service positions in the department.

Profile: Mandy Munro-Stasiuk, Ph.D., is a geomorphologist and applied remote sensing re-searcher. Her tools are satellite imagery, 3-D terrain models and ground penetrating radar. Most of her work is on ancient and contemporary glacial landscapes in Canada, the USA and Iceland, in particular meltwater processes associated with melting ice sheets and ice caps. More recently, she is working with archaeologists in Yucatan, Mexico, to understand settlement patterns, agricultural practices and water management through a comprehensive analysis of sinkholes and ancient canals.

She has been PI on a number of federal awards from the National Science Foundation and NASA, most notably a large $2 million GK-12 award from NSF.

At Kent State, she is currently the co-chair of the Kent State Commission on Women in STEM Research and Education, which is dedicated to implementing practices and policies that will help STEM and AALANA female students, faculty and staff advance in their endeavors and improve the climate at Kent State.

Direct Report: Daniel K. Holm, Ph.D.Chair, Department of GeologyProfessor, Department of Geology

Ph.D., Harvard University

Responsibilities: The department chair is the chief administrative officer of the department and reports directly to, and is accountable to, the dean of the college. The chair provides leader-ship, gives direction and oversees planning for the future of the department. The chair manages the budget and financial affairs of the department and is responsible for the attraction and retention of outstanding faculty and staff for the department. The chair is responsible for recording, maintaining and implementing the policies and procedures stated in the handbook through regular and thorough consultation with the department faculty and the department’s various committees as provided in the Collective Bargaining Agreement.

The chair is an ex officio, nonvoting member of all department committees and may make appointments, as necessary, to department committees and to the various ad-ministrative and service positions in the department in consultation with the Faculty Advisory Committee.

Profile: Daniel Holm, Ph.D., is professor and chair of the Department of Geology at Kent State University. He has degrees in geology from the University of Rochester, the University of Minnesota-Duluth and Harvard University. He teaches courses in Structural Geol-ogy and Tectonics, and his research focuses on the formation and growth of the North American continent. In addition to North America, he has done field research in New Zealand, central Europe and northeast Africa. Holm is a two-time Fulbright Scholar, a recipient of an NSF-CAREER Award, a Geological Society of America Fellow, and past president of the Phi Beta Kappa chapter at Kent State. He is the author of more than 50 research publications and has been recognized for excellence in teaching.

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Direct Report: Kenneth J. Bindas, Ph.D.Chairperson, Department of HistoryProfessor, Department of History

Ph.D., University of Toledo

Responsibilities: The department chairperson is the chief administrative officer for the department and reports to the dean of the college. As chairperson, I work with my faculty to discuss, develop and implement curricular advancement at the CORE, upper division and graduate levels. Serving these different levels of students with a small faculty of 14 is not without problems; but through the variety of committee input and a general desire to improve our instruction, the department has tried to move forward. As chairperson, I am the leader of this movement, guiding the process by giving voice to the faculty, while at the same time tempering their ideas with the realities of budget, staffing, scheduling and other university goals. As chairperson, I also try to lead through exam-ple the balance between teaching, scholarship and service.

Within the department itself, the chairperson serves as ex officio to all appointed com-mittees; chairs the Graduate Faculty Committee; and works with the elected Faculty Advisory Committee to introduce, implement and evaluate policies.

Profile: Kenneth J. Bindas received his Ph.D. in 1988 from the University of Toledo and has been with Kent State University since 1995. From that year until 2008, he taught at Kent State Trumbull, working his way through promotion to associate, and then full professor by 2005. He has published four monographs, three edited works, wrote/pro-duced two television documentaries, and has published widely in prominent historical journals. In 2012, he was recognized with the university’s Outstanding Research and Scholar Award. As a teacher, he has also garnered the Diversity Leadership Award and the Distinguished Teaching Award.

Direct Report: Françoise Massardier-Kenney, Ph.D. Director, Institute for Applied Linguistics

Ph.D., Kent State University

Responsibilities: • Plans long-term program development (current: M.A. Arabic Translation, cross-cultural competency initiative).

• Directs translation programs.• Participates in recruiting and hiring of translation faculty.• Coordinates translation research activities.• Facilitates obtaining extramural funding.• Facilitates interdisciplinary research efforts in translation.• Fosters presence and recognition of the IAL in the university and outside.• Develops collaboration with language industry, other universities and

government agencies.• Coordinates staffing of courses (Ph.D., M.A., B.S. in five languages).• Recruits and meets with prospective students.• Maintains contacts with alumni.• Initiates, develops and markets publications.• Develops and maintains contacts with potential donors.• Initiates and monitors internship programs and exchange programs with

foreign universities.• Administers IAL website.• Manages current expenses.• Ex officio, nonvoting member of all committees in Modern and

Classical Language Studies.

Profile: Françoise Massardier-Kennedy, Ph.D., is professor of French and director of the Institute for Applied Linguistics at Kent State University since 2008 where she teaches in the graduate program in translation. She is the editor of the American Translators Association Scholarly Series and co-editor of the journal George Sand Studies. Her publications include the monograph Gender in the Fiction of George Sand (2001), Translating Slavery (with Doris Kadish), a translation of Sand’s Valvèdre (2007), of Antoine Berman’s Toward a Translation Criticism, and numerous articles on Sand, 19th-century women’s writers and translation. She is the co-editor with Carol Maier of Literature in Translation.

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Direct Report: Hiroshi Yokoyama, D.Engr.Director and Ohio Research Scholar, Liquid Crystal InstituteProfessor, Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program

D.Engr., Tokyo Institute of Technology

Responsibilities: The director is the chief executive officer of the Liquid Crystal Institute®, and is responsible for the advancement of basic and applied research, corporate engagement and higher education in a wide area related to liquid crystals and soft and biological materials. The Liquid Crystal Institute was founded in 1965 before the dawn of liquid crystal displays and has continued to play a leading role in the development of science and technology of liquid crystals that has culminated in the current $200 billion liquid crystal display industry. The Liquid Crystal Institute is the world-renowned research institute, solely dedicated to the research of liquid crystals, and is considered one of the centers of the field by the international liquid crystal community. The mission of the director is to exercise leadership to advance the reputation and recognition of the institute beyond the LCD TV. The director oversees the three facilities housed in the Liquid Crystal Institute: Device Prototyping, Characterization and Organic Synthesis. The three facilities open to the research community on campus constitute the infrastructure of the institute that assures the competence of research activities under the roof of the Liquid Crystal Institute. The director is also responsible to maintain a safe environment for students, research staff and faculty. Last, but not least, is the role of the director as the ambassador of the institute and university to establish friendly relationships and create networks in the international arena of academics and industrialists who share the common interest in liquid crystals.

Profile: Hiroshi Yokoyama, D.Engr., has served as director of the Liquid Crystal Institute since 2011. He joined the Liquid Crystal Institute in 2009 as an Ohio Research Scholar and professor in the Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program. Before joining the Liquid Crystal Institute, he served for seven years as director of the Nanotechnology Research Institute (NRI), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), one of the biggest government-funded research organizations in Japan, with more than 2,500 higher-level technical staff.

He earned a Doctor of Engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology and worked for the Electrotechnical Laboratory (the predecessor of AIST) since 1979. He has been active in the research of liquid crystals and surface analysis, and has published more than 260 original papers in peer-reviewed journals. He has been prolific in grant activities including one of Japan’s largest awards, ERATO, the Nanostructured Liquid Crystal Project ($30 million for 5 years).

He served as editor-in-chief of the Japanese Journal of Applied Physics and regional editor for Asia, Nanotechnolog y, IOP. He is currently associate editor of The European Physics Journal E: Soft Matter and Biological Physics, Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals and Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter.

Direct Report: Andrew M. Tonge, Ph.D.Chair, Department of Mathematical SciencesProfessor, Department of Mathematical Sciences

B.A., M.A., and Ph.D., University of CambridgePostdoctoral Experience, Paris and Cambridge

Responsibilities: The chair is the chief administrative officer of the department and reports directly to the dean of the college. The chair provides leadership, gives direction and oversees planning for the future of the department across Kent State University’s eight-campus system. The chair manages the financial affairs of the department and is responsible for attracting and retaining outstanding faculty, students and staff. As provided for in the Collective Bargaining Agreement, the chair, after consultation with faculty and departmental committees, is responsible for appointments to various administrative and service positions in the department and for recording, maintaining and implementing the policies and procedures stated in the faculty handbook. The chair is an ex officio, nonvoting member of all departmental committees. The chair maintains an active research program and teaches regularly.

Profile: Andrew M. Tonge, Ph.D., came to Kent State in 1985 and has been chair of the Department of Mathematical Sciences since 2001. He has B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Cambridge, with postdoctoral experience in Paris and Cambridge. He held prior positions at the Université d’Orléans and Brunel University, and visiting positions at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and the Universidad de Sevilla. He served as acting chair of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science in 2000-2001.

Tonge teaches the full range of mathematics courses. His research is at the interface of mathematical analysis and algebra. He is the author of more than 35 research articles and is co-author of the research monograph, Absolutely Summing Operators. He has presented his work at many international venues and has organized international conferences. In addition to his research in mathematics, he has a commitment to mathematics education, with service at local, state and national levels. He has been PI or co-PI on NSF and state grants totaling more than $2 million.

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Direct Report: Keiran J. Dunne, Ph.D.Chair, Department of Modern and Classical Language StudiesProfessor of Translation Studies

Ph.D., French Civilization, The Pennsylvania State UniversityD.E.A., Université des Sciences Humaines de Strasbourg Maîtrise, Université de Haute-Bretagne/Rennes II, France

Responsibilities: The chair of the Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies oversees a complex department that offers a broad array of undergraduate and graduate programs. The chair’s responsibilities include the following:• Providing academic and administrative leadership for the department;• Developing, updating, implementing, and coordinating the teaching, research and service

missions of the department;• Overseeing the budgetary, personnel and program activities of the department;• Coordinating faculty promotion, tenure and reappointment reviews and making recom-

mendations to the college dean;• Overseeing the development, implementation and revision of new and existing

academic programs;• Overseeing curriculum development; • Coordinating faculty workloads;• Developing the course schedule;• Representing and promoting the department within the university and

external community;• Spearheading efforts regarding curricular innovation and improving recruitment and

retention initiatives across all programs;• Raising and supporting research productivity and grantsmanship in the department; and• Upholding the department’s responsibility to maintain fiscal stability.

Profile: Keiran Dunne holds a Ph.D. in French civilization from The Pennsylvania State University, as well as a D.E.A. from the Université des Sciences Humaines de Strasbourg and a maîtrise from the Université de Haute-Bretagne/Rennes II in France. He teaches graduate courses on computer-assisted translation, software localization, project management and the language industry. His primary research interests are localization, project management, quality manage-ment, terminology management and French cultural history (1870 to present). He is the editor of the collective volume Perspectives on Localization (2006), the co-editor of the collective volume Translation and Localization Project Management (2011) and the author of the monograph The Tour de France 1903-1998: A Window on Twentieth Century French Cultural History (2013). He is a member of the American Translators Association; IEEE; the IEEE Professional Communication Society; the International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies; and the Project Management Institute.

Direct Report: Amoaba Gooden, Ph.D.Chair, Department of Pan-African StudiesAssociate Professor, Department of Pan-African Studies

M.A., Africana Studies; M.A., History; and Ph.D., Africana Studies, Temple University

Responsibilities: The chairperson is the administrative officer of the department and, thus, is directly accountable to the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. The chairperson is charged with bringing the vision of the department forward and is responsible for recording, maintaining and implementing the department’s aims and objectives, as well as the policies and procedures contained in the department handbook.

She is also responsible for insuring that such policies, objectives and procedures are in conformity with the University Policy Register and the Collective Bargaining Agreements. The chairperson shall be an ex officio, nonvoting member of the Faculty Advisory Committee, and as such, shall be charged with the responsibility and authority to represent the department in collegial and university matters. The chairperson is also expected to consult with the department faculty before making decisions and/or recommendations to a higher academic officer.

Profile: Amoaba Gooden, Ph.D., is an associate professor and chair of the Department of Pan-African Studies. She has M.A.s in Africana studies and history, and a Ph.D. in Africana studies from Temple University. Her research is international in scope and concentrates on three aspects of the African Diaspora: (1) Health and Well-being, (2) Migration, Transnationalism and Identity of African Canadians, and (3) Citizenship and the African Caribbean Diaspora. Gooden was recently recognized as one of the top 25 African-American Professors in Ohio.

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Direct Report: David W. Odell-Scott, Ph.D.Professor and Chair of Philosophy

B.A., Texas Christian UniversityGraduate Divinity School, Boston UniversityM.Div., Vanderbilt University Ph.D., Vanderbilt University

Responsibilities: The department chair is the chief administrative officer of the Department of Philosophy and reports directly to and is accountable to the dean of the college. The chair provides leadership, gives direction and oversees planning for the future of the department. The chair manages the budget and financial affairs of the department and is responsible for the attraction and retention of outstanding faculty and staff for the department. The chair is responsible for recording, maintaining and implementing the policies and procedures stated in the department handbook through regular and thorough consultation with the Department Faculty Advisory Committee, which is a committee of the whole full-time, tenure-track faculty in the department, as well as the department’s various committees as provided in the Collective Bargaining Agreement.

The chair is an ex officio, nonvoting member of all department committees and may make appointments as necessary to department committees and to the various administrative and service positions in the department, in consultation with the Faculty Advisory Committee.

Profile: David Odell-Scott, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of Philosophy at Kent State University. His doctorate in philosophy is from Vanderbilt University (1989), where he also earned a Master of Divinity in religion studies (1980). Odell-Scott earned a B.A. from Texas Christian University (1975), and attended Boston University’s graduate Divinity School (1976). He teaches courses in Comparative Religion, Philosophy of Religion, Ancient Greek Philosophy, and 20th-century Continental and American Philosophy. He served as past program chair for the Semiotics and Exegesis section in the Society of Biblical Literature (ACLS member) from 2003-2012, and is the Founding Co-Director of the Ohio Pluralism Project, an affiliate of the Pluralism Project at Harvard University. His published research incorporates philosophical disciplines in the critical study of ancient religious artifacts and manuscripts. He is the author of two books (Oxford University Press & T.&T. Clark International), editor of two books (T.&T. Clark International, Kent State University Press), contributor of half a dozen articles to books, encyclopedias, dictionaries and handbooks published by Oxford and Cambridge University Presses, Chalice, and T.&T. Clark, as well as more than a dozen articles.

Direct Report: Jim Gleeson, Ph.D.Chairperson, Department of Physics Professor, Department of Physics

B.Sc. (Hons.), Physics, The University of Alberta M.Sc., Physics, The University of British Columbia Ph.D., Physics, Kent State University

Responsibilities: • Chief academic and administrative officer of department .• Reports to dean, College of Arts and Sciences. • Manages administrative, budgetary and academic affairs of department,

including matters pertaining to faculty, staff and students. • Implements university, college and departmental policy. • Adheres to shared governance through consultation with faculty and

Faculty Advisory Committee.

Profile: • Joined Kent State faculty 1997. • Researcher in experimental condensed matter physics. • More than $7 million funding from National Science Foundation,

Office of Naval Research, Department of Education and others. • More than 65 peer-reviewed publications.

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Direct Report: Andrew Barnes, Ph.D.Chairperson, Department of Political ScienceAssociate Professor, Department of Political Science

B.A., Government, College of William & MaryM.A., Politics, Princeton UniversityPh.D., Politics, Princeton University

Responsibilities: Together with the faculty, collaboratively develop and execute plan for departmental growth and evolution. That general task entails a wide range of other responsibilities, including the following:• Attract and retain excellent faculty and students.• Manage departmental budget.• Study and react to enrollment patterns (currently focusing on our

gender imbalance).• Market our programs.• Foster collegiality among faculty of different specialties, backgrounds and

programmatic focuses.• Oversee processes of reappointment and tenure; evaluation of nontenure-track and part-time

faculty, including at the Regional Campuses; merit distribution; teaching-load assignment; course planning; online education, especially in our M.P.A. program.

Profile: Positions at Kent State• Assistant Professor (2001-2007)• Associate Professor (2007-present)• Graduate Coordinator (2006-2009)• Undergraduate Coordinator (2011-2012)• Department Chairperson (2012-present) Selected publications• Owning Russia: The Struggle over Factories, Farms, and Power (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006).• “From the Politics of Economic Reform to the Functioning of Political Economies,”

Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, 20:2 (Spring 2012), 79-85. (Special Issue, “Twenty Years since the Collapse of the USSR: What Have We Learned?”)

• “Comparative Theft: Context and Choice in the Hungarian, Czech, and Russian Transformations, 1989-2000,” East European Politics and Societies, 17:3 (Summer 2003), 533-565.

• “The Russian Politics Course: Remembering Why We Got into This Business in the First Place,” AAASS NewsNet, 47:5 (October 2007), 13-17 (with Juliet Johnson).

Selected courses taught• The Politics of Oil• Russian Politics and Economics• Politics of the Global Economy• Proseminar in Transnational and Comparative Politics (graduate)• College Teaching in Political Science (graduate)

Direct Report: Maria S. Zaragoza, Ph.D.Chair, Department of PsychologyProfessor, Department of Psychology

Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University

Responsibilities: The department chair is the chief administrative officer of the department and reports directly to and is accountable to the dean of the college. The chair provides leadership, gives direction and oversees planning for the future of the department. The chair manages the budget and financial affairs of the department, and is responsible for attracting and retaining outstanding faculty and staff for the department. The chair is responsible for recording, maintaining and implementing the policies and procedures outlined in the handbook through regular and thorough consultation with the department faculty, as provided in the Collective Bargaining Agreement.

The chair is an ex officio, nonvoting member of all department committees and may make appointments as necessary to department committees and to the various administrative and service positions in the department, in consultation with the Faculty Advisory Committee.

Profile: Maria Zaragoza, Ph.D., is professor and chair of the Department of Psychology at Kent State University. She earned her Ph.D. in experimental psychology from The Johns Hopkins University. Her research on memory and cognition has been supported from grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Mental Health. She serves on several editorial boards and grant panels, and is a member of the Governing Board for the Society for Research in Applied Cognition (SARMAC).

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Direct Report: Richard T. Serpe, Ph.D.Chair, Department of SociologyProfessor, Department of Sociology

Education:Ph.D., Indiana University

Responsibilities: The chair of the Department of Sociology is the chief administrative officer and reports directly to the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. The chair provides leadership through planning and projecting the current curricular operations of the department and in looking forward to continue the development of the department through the recruitment of faculty and doctoral students. The chair is responsible for the fiscal matters of the department, maintaining and implementing the policies and procedures of the department handbook and various CBAs of the university. The chair is an ex officio, nonvoting member of all department committees and may make appointments to committees based on the guidelines and procedures of the department handbook.

Profile: Richard T. Serpe, Ph.D., is professor and chair of the Department of Sociology at Kent State University. Prior to joining Kent State University, he was professor of sociology and director of the Social and Behavioral Research Institute at California State University, San Marcos, from 1993 to 2005. From 1987 to 1993, he was an associate professor of sociology and director of the Social Science Research Center at California State University, Fullerton. He began his academic career as an assistant professor of sociology at Purdue University. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from Indiana University in 1985. He is the past editor of Sociological Perspectives. His most recent publications appear in the Handbook of Social Psycholog y, Social Psycholog y Quarterly, Social Psycholog y and Education, the Handbook of Identity Theory and Research and Sociological Perspectives.

Professor Serpe is a sociological social psychologist who has been working in the area of identity theory for the past 30 years. He is also an applied survey researcher. Serpe has conducted or directed more than 270 research projects funded by several private foundations, public and private organizations, local, state and federal agencies. His expertise includes both quantitative and qualitative data analysis. Serpe’s research projects have used several different data collection methods: mailed surveys, face-to-face interviews, telephone interviews, demographic analysis, focus groups and nominal groups.

Organizational Chart

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TIER ONE 1. Enhancing Student Success. The college has increased recruitment and retention of undergraduate students through enhanced advising, faculty development, enhanced advising and student connections.

2. Research and Creative Activity. The College of Arts and Sciences is the engine of research activity at the university, generating more than 50 percent of all extramural funding in the university and 77 percent of all annual research expenditures. We have substantial room for growth in sponsored program activity and are planning for expansion of this mission.

3. Matching Budget to Mission. The college has faced substantial fiscal challenges in recent years. Through curricular innovation, reorganization and improved fiscal management and governance changes, the College of Arts and Sciences has been able to improve and expand its academic missions at both the unit and college levels while eliminating significant fiscal challenges.

4. Strategic Coordinated Faculty Hiring. Many new tenure-track hires were hired in specific disciplines in which Kent State could build on areas of academic strength. Targeted areas have been highly successful in enhancing our research portfolio. This coordination of hiring of faculty across units and colleges will continue.

5. Establishing Excellence in STEM Education. The College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Education, Health and Human Services collaborated on establish-ing a center of excellence in STEM education. The center has created a highly collab-orative culture that brings to bear the expertise of faculty from multiple disciplines to focus on student learning and literacy in the STEM disciplines. Goals include greatly increasing the extramural funding, extending collaborative STEM activities to community partners and enhancing Kent State’s national reputation as a leader in understanding the cognitive processes involved in learning and literacy.

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TIER ONE 1. Focus on Academic Excellence. Enhancing undergraduate education to meet the learning needs of 21st-century students is the critical goal of departments and programs in the College of Arts and Sciences. Our faculty members are develop-ing new programs and concentrations, revising existing curricula, incorporating high-quality distance-learning courses, and expanding internship and other experiential learning opportunities. Faculty are also developing new graduate degrees, such as the master’s degrees in geographic information science, public history, Arabic translation, public administration and criminology and criminal justice — many of which will be delivered online. Our focus on academic excellence will help us recruit new students and graduate better-prepared students.

2. Focus on Student Success. Our departments are also focused on attracting and retaining students in their undergraduate and graduate programs and increasing the diversity of students in those programs. Departments and faculty are developing recruitment plans and materials, focusing on career pathways and career development within advising and curriculum and revising programs to reduce time to degree.

3. Focus on Faculty and Capacity for Ground-breaking Research. The College of Arts and Sciences — its departments and faculty — are committed to hiring new faculty who not only enhance the instructional mission of the unit and college, but also raise the research profile of the university. The college and departments are also increasing research productivity by encouraging and supporting increases in proposal submission and quality.

4. Focus on Facilities. Departments and faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences see the design and renovation of buildings across the college as a critical focus in the coming years. STEM departments, in particular, identify the design and renovation of the buildings in the Science Mall as a very high priority. The faculty and departments see dedicated research space and renovation of instructional lab space, as well as the updating of equipment and instrumentation, as critical support for the instructional and research missions of the university.

5. Focus on a Global Perspective. Departments and faculty see enriching the global perspective of our students as a high priority. Faculty are developing new curricula and programs with emphases on global preparedness, global literacy and cross-cultural competence, focus on second-language acquisition and expansion of education-abroad opportunities. A new program in cultural anthropology, global literacy courses in modern and classical language studies, and several new short-term, education-abroad programs point to our faculty’s interest in bringing a global perspective and experience to our students.

TIER ONE 1. Enhance Student Success. The college is poised to bring together a number of student-focused initiatives to develop and implement a student-centric model for 21st-century education. Through our experiences with learning communities, we see an opportunity to dramatically increase student success and retention, especially in the first two years of enrollment, and a concomitant increase in graduation rates. Both will also more closely align the college with the Ohio funding model.

2. Diversify Our Student/Faculty Body. The college has significantly expanded our efforts to diversify our student body and the faculty that provide their instruction. There is substantial opportunity to increase our successes to date through faculty hiring for diversity and expanding our cooperative agreements with Northeast Ohio educational partners who can serve as a pipeline for a diverse student body.

3. Expand Our Research and Creativity Mission. With the expectation for signifi-cant faculty retirements in the next two-year period, the college will have resources to invest in new coordinated faculty hires in key disciplinary niche areas with a focus on significantly expanding growth of research and creative activity.

4. Leverage the Investment in the Science Mall Renovations. The $80 million in-vestment in the renovations and new building inclusive of the departments of Physics, Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Biological Sciences provides an outstanding oppor-tunity to substantially expand the research and educational missions of these three departments, as well as create new opportunities for research and educational collabo-rations across STEM units.

5. Expand Community-based Partnerships. The college has made important prog-ress in enhancing the college’s and university’s public partnerships. These partnerships are poised to greatly expand the college’s success in advancing both the educational and research missions of the College of Arts and Sciences and in providing an impor-tant public face to the university’s commitment to the citizens of Ohio.

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TIER ONE 1. Reconcile the Responsibility Center Management (RCM) Budget Model With a Sense of Unit-level Stewardship. The RCM budget model has presented challenges in insuring that unit-level mission drives resource planning and allocation. It remains a challenge to develop a sense of stewardship among faculty, staff and administrators in a manner that leads to the collaborative enhancement of academic mission all within the context of transparent budgeting.

2. Maintain a Culture of Research Excellence in an Era of Diminishing Support for Research. The College of Arts and Sciences is the engine of research and creative activity at the university. This activity is directly transferable to the classroom and enhances the university’s ability to recruit a high-quality undergraduate and graduate student body. Our recruitment of research productive faculty will continue to be supported and enhanced with our attention to raising pro-motion and tenure standards across the college. Rigorously exercising these standards will remain a constant focus at the unit and college levels.

3. Optimizing the Academic Missions of the College to Ensure Its Success. Remaining competitive in the academic environment requires constant review of disciplinary programs to remain both academically relevant in a field and attractive to prospective students. While many departments are nimble in their curricula and research foci, others still need to undergo changes, sometimes dramatic. This effort is made challenging (both more and less) using a RCM-budget model.

4. Meeting Student Demands With an Aging Infrastructure. While ultimately this is a monetary challenge, meeting the needs of students with an aging infrastructure is increasingly difficult. Enrollments have continued to increase, both in terms of head-count and student quality. It is increasingly difficult to physically accommodate the need for additional teaching space of a quality that is attractive to the high-performing students.

5. Meeting the Multiple Demands of Teaching, Research and Service. As the largest college at Kent State University, arts and sciences is challenged in maintaining a healthy balance between expectations for excellence in research and education, while maintaining a high level of service. Many of these challenges can be met by increased efficiencies and sharing of resources and services, something the college is working toward more efficiently doing.

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