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Program Review of The College of Social Sciences University of Hawaii, Mãnoa39947Edward Donnerstein. Dean of the College of Social ami Behavioral Scie college_of_social_sciences_program_reviewences. University of ArizonaJudith A. Howard. Dean of the Division of Social Sciences, University of Washington.Steven J. Rosenstone, Vice President for Scholarly and Cultural Affairs, University of MinnesotaGary Sandefur, Dean of the College of Letters and Science.University of Wisconsin-Madison1Pr college_of_social_sciences_program_reviewogram Review ofThe College of Social Sciences, University of Hawaii, Mãnoa May 14, 2009College OverviewIntroduction: The College of Social Sciences iscollege_of_social_sciences_program_review
one of eighteen colleges and schools at the University of Hawaii. Mãnoa. The college is comprised of ten academic departments, and tlưee programs. ThProgram Review of The College of Social Sciences University of Hawaii, Mãnoa39947Edward Donnerstein. Dean of the College of Social ami Behavioral Scie college_of_social_sciences_program_reviewof all the instruction on campus, and award about 24% of the campus's baccalaureate degrees. Psychology. Political Science, and Sociology ate among the campus’s ten most popular undergraduate majors.The faculty are engaged in a broad range of research endeavors from a host of epistemological perspec college_of_social_sciences_program_reviewtives that address some of the most fundamental questions of about human behavior and the workings of local, national, and international political, socollege_of_social_sciences_program_review
cial, economic, and cultural institutions. More than at most mainland institutions, teaching and research across the college have a unique focus on etProgram Review of The College of Social Sciences University of Hawaii, Mãnoa39947Edward Donnerstein. Dean of the College of Social ami Behavioral Scie college_of_social_sciences_program_reviewuces graduates who lead public and private enterprises in Hawaii and across Asia. The college tliinks globally and draws upon its unique strengths to advance teaching, research and outreach. There is also a stronger emphasis on public outreach than at many other institutions.The college strives to f college_of_social_sciences_program_reviewoster a vibrant academic climate that supports outstanding scholarship through interaction and intellectual dialogue among students and faculty, in thcollege_of_social_sciences_program_review
e classroom, in research, and in public forums. It strives to advance outstanding scholarship (the creation and application of new knowledge as well aProgram Review of The College of Social Sciences University of Hawaii, Mãnoa39947Edward Donnerstein. Dean of the College of Social ami Behavioral Scie college_of_social_sciences_program_reviewissues.We were tremendously impressed with the quality of the faculty and staff, the quality of the research, the quality of the academic programs, and the quality of the students with whom we met.The scarcity of resources greatly limits the college's potential for effective teaching, breakthrough r college_of_social_sciences_program_reviewesearch, and dynamic public sen ice. There are too few faculty FTEs. too few academic advisors, inadequate staff support, too few graduate fellowshipscollege_of_social_sciences_program_review
, inadequate research support, technology, laboratories, research space, and support for grants administration.Beyond resources, there is a need for mProgram Review of The College of Social Sciences University of Hawaii, Mãnoa39947Edward Donnerstein. Dean of the College of Social ami Behavioral Scie college_of_social_sciences_program_reviewrricular oversight: four-year graduation rates); strategies to provide competitive compensation (especially in the context of Hawaii's cost of living); strategies to lead a coordinated university-wide approach to information technology: strategies to build the university’s research infrastructure: a college_of_social_sciences_program_reviewnd strategies to build the fundraising operations needed to raise significant private funds. The lack of effective campus and university-wide leadershcollege_of_social_sciences_program_review
ip on these and other fronts greatly limits the college's potential for effective teaching, breakthrough research, and dynamic public sen ice.2Over thProgram Review of The College of Social Sciences University of Hawaii, Mãnoa39947Edward Donnerstein. Dean of the College of Social ami Behavioral Scie college_of_social_sciences_program_reviewOver the years ahead, declining state support may lead to cuts both in rhe college’s budget and in the number of FTF faculty.Compared to the other arts and science colleges al the University of Hawaii. Manoa. the College of Social Sciences selves about the same number of students (as measured by stu college_of_social_sciences_program_reviewdent semester hours per faculty FTF.) as do the colleges of Natural Sciences and Alts and Humanities. The college of social sciences serves about as mcollege_of_social_sciences_program_review
any majors per faculty 1'Tii as docs the College of Natural Sciences, but about 21% more majors per faculty 1 IL than docs the College of Arts and HumProgram Review of The College of Social Sciences University of Hawaii, Mãnoa39947Edward Donnerstein. Dean of the College of Social ami Behavioral Scie college_of_social_sciences_program_reviewnd Literature. Average class size in the College of Social Sciences is 26 - comparable to the average class size in the college of Natural Sciences, but 30% larger than the average class size in the college of Arts and Humanities and 73% larger than the average class size in the College of Languages college_of_social_sciences_program_review and Literature.There is no transparency in the method by which the university funds the College of Social Sciences. The university's allocation of recollege_of_social_sciences_program_review
sources seems to be driven by historical forces rather than the number of students served. the research infrastructure needed to advance knowledge, orProgram Review of The College of Social Sciences University of Hawaii, Mãnoa39947Edward Donnerstein. Dean of the College of Social ami Behavioral Scie college_of_social_sciences_program_reviewe college's faculty and academic programs to reach their full potential.Faculty: Although the overall size of the faculty has grown modestly since 2003. the faculty is small relative to its peers and relative to the number of students it serves. Many members of the faculty have won national and inte college_of_social_sciences_program_reviewrnational recognition for their research and public service. The junior hires in recent years have been outstanding and these colleagues are already mcollege_of_social_sciences_program_review
aking significant contributions to their departments, college, and university. There are generational divisions within several departments regarding tProgram Review of The College of Social Sciences University of Hawaii, Mãnoa39947Edward Donnerstein. Dean of the College of Social ami Behavioral Scie college_of_social_sciences_program_reviewof mid-career faculty members.rhe college anticipates a substantial number of retirements over the next five years and the college needs to plan for these transitions. The university should consider creating a phased retirement program as a way to facilitate faculty transition and to enable more pre college_of_social_sciences_program_reviewdictability in collegiate planning. There is ambiguity among departments about what will happen when retirements occur. Greater clarity is needed to icollege_of_social_sciences_program_review
nsure programmatic strength and to enable units to plan strategically for the near and long term. Several departments have hired probationary faculty Program Review of The College of Social Sciences University of Hawaii, Mãnoa39947Edward Donnerstein. Dean of the College of Social ami Behavioral Scie college_of_social_sciences_program_reviewlished ways to deal with the different levels of research activity among the faculty. Research inactive faculty members have heavier course loads than do the research active faculty members.3The modest faculty salaries coupled with Hawaii’s high cost of living make it difficult to recruit and retain college_of_social_sciences_program_review outstanding faculty and place substantial burdens on all faculty, especially junior faculty members who find it especially difficult to afford to livcollege_of_social_sciences_program_review
e in Hawaii.Research: We are impressed by both the level and quality of faculty research. Cher the past five years, funding of sponsored research has Program Review of The College of Social Sciences University of Hawaii, Mãnoa39947Edward Donnerstein. Dean of the College of Social ami Behavioral Scie college_of_social_sciences_program_review the National Geographic Society, and a variety of other agencies. These accomplishments are particularly impressive in light of the significant institutional obstacles that the faculty face.Research facilities, space, laboratories, equipment, and technology are woefully inadequate. There is insuffi college_of_social_sciences_program_reviewcient assistance for grant submission and grant administration, so much so that a number of faculty are disinclined even to seek grant support. The uncollege_of_social_sciences_program_review
iversity’s low indirect cost recovery rate and its internal method for distributing ICR means that inadequate funding comes to the units that must impProgram Review of The College of Social Sciences University of Hawaii, Mãnoa39947Edward Donnerstein. Dean of the College of Social ami Behavioral Scie college_of_social_sciences_program_review The consequences of this for faculty careers are considerable - especially for junior faculty. There are instances in which it has taken three years to get a lab up and running - half of the pre-tenure years.There is inadequate administrative leadership for research on the Mãnoa campus. The sense w college_of_social_sciences_program_reviewe had is that everyone says leadership for advancing research is someone else’s responsibility. Though most faculty praise the work of the Social Sciecollege_of_social_sciences_program_review
nce Research Institute, there is widespread understanding that the level of administrative support it provides grant recipients is inadequate. Indeed,Gọi ngay
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