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STEM to STEAM to STREAM: Balance and Realignment for Humanities Francis C. Dane & Courtney D. Watson

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STEM to STEAM to STREAM:Balance and Realignment for Humanities

Francis C. Dane & Courtney D. Watson

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Initial Issues (2010)• Arts & Sciences described as “our Gen Ed people”

– General Education faculty don’t need equipment

• Degree programs within department treated as consolation degrees or precursors to clinical graduate programs– Clinical graduate programs did not value graduates from Arts & Sciences programs

• Almost no one in College conducting research– No dedicated research space available to faculty– Most faculty not trained to conduct research

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“Real College” Solution• Faculty scholarship• Enhance internal grant program• Revise Plans of Study to prepare students for graduate programs

• Adopt concept of service courses• Revise faculty evaluation process• Promote evidence‐based assessment• Adopt Arts & Sciences first mentality• Expand committee involvement throughout College

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Substantive Change • Changes—both small and significant—became the hallmark of our path

forward. • Humanities & Social Sciences became more ambitious with our goals. • Honors Program; GEN 100; Freshmen Reading Program• Expansion of course offerings• New English courses; revision of many courses based on assessment

feedback. • Encouraging scholarship and travel.

• Assisting faculty new to scholarship• Resources, mentorship, support, promotion

• New faculty, new energy• Renewed service

• Encourage not just service, but service leadership. • Prior Learning Assessment• Film Series • Jefferson Thinks • Collaboration

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Positive Improvements• Improved collegiality and faculty morale

• ‘Real college’ mentality• Faculty interact more with each other• More faculty interested in promotion

• Community outreach • Local Office on Aging Meals on Wheels • GTO Cadets • Student volunteers • Leadership Roanoke Valley

• Collaborations across the college• Sustained interaction with every department• Involvement in new initiatives in other departments

• New courses• Graduate programs• Student interviews

• New courses and work on new minors• We’ve created a larger conversation at the college. • Excitement about the future. • Stronger department better-equipped to deal with challenges.

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Program Closure Reactions • Increased focus on student recruiting independent of 

Admissions– Merit Scholarship– Articulation agreements– Science Festival– Additional community involvement– Eventual change in Director of Admission

• Increased focus on retention– College orientation courses– Three‐day orientation for first‐time, full‐time students– Success Coaching– Data‐driven changes across College

• Maintained focus on scholarship

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Scholarship Productivity• Polk, E. L., Bowersock, A., & Johnson, S. B. (submitted). Improving Medical Students' Obesity Care Perceptions and Competencies By Teaching Lifestyle Medicine During M3 Clerkship. Abstract submitted to the 

American College of Lifestyle Medicine Annual Meeting 2017.• Dane, F. C. (2017, August). Research: Connecting Simulation with Best Practice. Keynote address presented at the annual meetings of the Virginia State Simulation Alliance, Charlottesville, VA, August 1, 2017.• Bowersock, A. & Jeffries‐Heil, R. (submitted). How to Get Into Higher‐Ed: Non‐Traditional Pathways to EIM Career Success. Abstract submitted to ACSM Health and Fitness Summit 2018.• Trilk, J. & Bowersock, A.  (accepted). Exercise Science in Medical Education. Presentation accepted for the World Congress on Exercise is Medicine® and World Congress on the Basic Science of Muscle Hypertrophy, 

American College of Sports Medicine, Minneapolis, MN, May 29 – June 2, 2018.• Dane, F. C. (2018). Evaluating research: Research methods for people who need to read research (2nd Ed.). Los Angeles, CA: Sage Publications.• Rao, J. & Criss, A. K. (2017). Novel Antimicrobial Peptides to Combat Drug Resistant Pathogenic Bacteria. Grant obtained from 4‐VA Collaborative Research Grants Program. ($29,500)• Watson, C. D. (accepted). When travel becomes tourism: The business of being Hemingway. Paper accepted for presentation at Paris Est Une Fête…Hemingway’s Moveable Feast, Paris, France, July, 2018• Fox, E. A., Chandrasekar, P., Tegge, A., Franck, C. T., Bickel, W. K., Bhandari, S., Brown, B., Crawford, J, Gathalian, K., Koffarnus, M. N., Marshall, P. A., Mellis, L., Perry, E., Pope, D., Quisenberry, A. J., Snider, S. E., and 

Reese, R. C. (2017, September). Behavioral science: Social interactome. Presentation to the Introduction to Scieneering Seminar, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA.• Dane, F.C., Watson, C. D., & Montgomery, A. (accepted). STEM to STEAM to STREAM: Balance and realignment for humanities. Panel discussion to be presented at the meetings of the American Conference of 

Academic Deans, in consort with the Association of American Colleges and Universities, January 24‐27, 2018, Washington, DC.• Watson, C.D. (accepted). At Sea (novella). The Eunoia Review. Scheduled for publication in November, 2017• Rao, J., Susanti, D., Childress, J. C.,  Mitkos, M. C., Brima J. K., Baffoe‐Bonnie, A. W., Pearce, S. N., Grgurich, D., Fernandez‐Cotarelo, M. J.,  Kerkering, T. K., & Mukhopadhyay, B. (in press). Tn2008‐Driven 

Carbapenem‐resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii isolates from a period of increased incidence of infections in a southwest Virginia hospital. Journal of Global Antimicrobials and Resistance. (Highlighted authors were undergraduate Biomedical Science students at the time the research was done.)

• Hanson, M. G. (submitted). Mechanisms determining synaptic preservation and survival of motor neurons. National Institutes of Health R15 Program. $313,000.• Watson, C. D. (2017, October). The View from Whitehead Street: Travel, Tourism, and the Commodification of Ernest Hemingway. Paper presented at Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, 

Savannah, GA, October 5. • Watson, C. D. (2017). At sea (novella). The Eunoia Review, October 6, https://eunoiareview.wordpress.com/2017/10/06/at‐sea/• Watson, C. D. (submitted). Tourist trap: Literary tourism in the south. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company. (invited book proposal)• Dane, F. C. (2017). Research on meditation and heart health (blog). Mindfulness Institute of the Roanoke Valley. https://www.mindfulroanoke.org/blog/meditation‐and‐heart‐health• Hanson, M. G. (2017). Protective properties of GFD15 on CLPTM1 in inhibiting neurodegeneration. Jefferson College of Health Sciences, $4,000.• McAllister, M. S. (2017). An evaluation of instructional cadaveric dissection videos towards enhancing learning in gross anatomy. Jefferson College of Health Sciences, $4,000.• Watson, C. D. (2017). Internal Travel Grant to present at Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, $1,000.• Rao, J. (invited). A Power House ‐Multidrug‐Resistant and Carbapenen1 Resistance Acinetobacter baumannii Encountered in Southwest Virginia Hospital. Invited presentation for International Conference on 

Microbiology & Infectious Diseases in Rome, Italy. Scheduled for presentation in July, 2018.• Watson, C. D. (in press). Hard Time (short story). In G. Faulkner, L. Mundell, & B. Olsen (Eds.) nothing short of: selected tales from 100 Word Story. San Francisco: Outpost 19. • Bowersock, A.H. (submitted). Toolkit for sports and life. [Review of the book The Playbook, by Kwame Alexander]. AfterSchool Today.• Polk, B., Bowersock, A., & Johnson, S. (submitted). Improving medical students' obesity care perceptions and competencies by teaching lifestyle medicine during clerkship blocks. American Journal of Lifestyle 

Medicine.• Rao, J. (revision submitted). Identification of genomic changes in mycobacterium tuberculosis strains responsible for drug resistance in a south Indian patient population. Submitted to Jefferson College of Health 

Sciences Internal Grant Program, $2,200.• Davies, R., Ghosh‐Dastidar, U., Knisley, J., & Samyono, W. (Submitted) Toward revealing protein function:  Identifying biologically relevant clusters with graph spectral methods.  To appear in Algebraic and 

Combinatorial Computational Biology, Elsevier, 2018.• Davies, R., Jenkins, A., & Macauley, M. (Submitted) Regulation of gene expression by operons:  Boolean and logical models. To appear in Algebraic and Combinatorial Computational Biology, Elsevier, 2018.• Reese, B., Quisenberry, A. J., Pope, D., Bhandari, S., Bickel, W. K. (submitted) An internet‐acquired recovery sample: A descriptive study from the International Quit & Recovery Registry. Poster (submitted) for 

presentation at the Ninety‐Eighth Annual Convention of the Western Psychological Association, Portland, OR. (April, 2018)• Reese, B. (2017). The 13th step: Thriving in recovery. Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse Publishing • Parish, D. C., Goyal, H., and Dane, F. C. (submitted). Mechanism of death: There’s more to it than sudden cardiac arrest. Journal of Thoracic Diseases.• Hanson, G. M. (submitted). Assessment of clptm1 and gdf15 toward the amelioration of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in zebrafish. Research Acceleration Program, Carilion Clinic, $38,668.

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Productivity• Scholarship (Fall 2017 only)

– 10 presentations– 12 manuscripts submitted– 7 grant proposals submitted– 4 faculty with current funding

• Science Festival sponsored by Wells Fargo• Increased enrollment

– Biomedical Sciences enrollment doubling last two years– Honors Program established and growing– Elective courses developed and growing– High student satisfaction ratings and comments

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