College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
State of the College Address
September 16, 2014
Kent Sandstrom
Dean of AHSS
What Did We Accomplish?
Teaching Activities
Student Credit Hours= 95,291 (+4,858)
Production FTE = 148.2 (+14.4)
AHSS Majors = 2,004 (+178)
Graduate students = 321 (+93)
Degrees Conferred* = 501 (+95)
*404 baccalaureate degrees and 97 graduate degrees
What Did We Accomplish?Professional & Community Service
Served as officers, board members, and editors or reviewers for numerous professional associations and disciplinary journals; Also hosted notable scholarly conferences (e.g., CMOTA)
Provided leadership to regional human rights coalitions, housing authorities, arts groups, corrections agencies, and a variety of NGOs
Coordinated a diverse array of community engagement projects, including community studies, literacy projects, arts and social engagement activities, outreach to New Americans (Kevin Brooks), and service learning projects (Patty Corwin)
What Did We Accomplish?Research and Creative Activities
146 Peer-Reviewed Publications
(+34)
76 National or International Presentations (-13)
169 Juried Presentations, Performances, or
Exhibitions
(+16)
59 Research Grants and Contracts for (-3)
$2,031,243 in annual expenditures
What Did We Accomplish?Distinguished University & Scholarly Awards
Waldron Award for Research Excellence (Robert L.) Tapestry of Diversity Award (Miriam Mara) Tapestry of Diversity Award (Clifford Canku) Tapestry of Diversity Award (Louise Hanson) NDSU Staff Excellence Award (Michele Sherman) NDSU Horizon Alumni Award (Amy Uthus) Faculty Fulbright Award (John Cox) Fulbright Student TA Awards (Kate T., Emily G., and
Annie G. – Belgium, Turkey, and Slovak Republic)
* Members of our college have received more than 20 distinguished scholarly and university awards in the past 2 years
What Did We Accomplish?Distinguished Scholarly Awards
Kevin Brooks – Awarded a Bush Fellowship to improve and expand English language learning opportunities for new Americans and immigrants in Fargo-Moorhead.
Michael Strand – Granted a Bush Fellowship to increase his knowledge of the fields of rhetoric and communications, to leverage this knowledge to deepen his artistic practice, and to engage in “system hacking” for the public good.
Amy O’Connor – Awarded an NSF Grant for a collaborative research project entitled “Mind Mapping Consumers’ and Activists’ Responses to NGO-Corporate Partnerships”
Dan Pemstein – Received an NSF Grant for a collaborative research project entitled “Institutions and Development: A Disaggregated Historical Analysis”
What Did We Accomplish?Distinguished Scholarly Awards
Gary Goreham – Awarded an NSF TCUP grant in partnership with Sisseton-Wahpeton Tribal College to develop and evaluate a Behavioral Sciences degree program.
Bradley Benton and colleagues – Awarded an NEH Scholarly Editions and Translations Grant. Their project, entitled “Rise of the Chichimeca,” will produce a translation of Historia de la Nación Chichimeca by Don Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl (ca. 1578-1650).
Chris Whitsel – Received a research grant from the US Dep’t of State to engage in fieldwork, submitted a successful collaborative grant application to NDSU FORWARD, and received a seed grant from Nazarbayev University. (Also published 3 articles and a book chapter.)
What Did We Accomplish?
Key College Goals Attained in AY 13-14 Implemented the UNITE Initiative Increased the Size and Diversity of the Faculty Increased Faculty Involvement in Grant Seeking and
Sponsored Research Formed and Revitalized Centers for Research and
Community Engagement Welcomed and Integrated ALA into the College Supported Equity and Diversity Initiatives Expanded Development Efforts and Alumni Outreach
What Did We Accomplish?Department of Communication
Served more than 350 majors and 42 grad students
Received 5 grants ($124k), including 1 NSF grant
Published 44 scholarly works: 4 books, 17 ISI-equivalent publications, 16 other peer-reviewed articles, and 8 book chapters
Presented 34 scholarly papers at regional, national and international conferences
Successfully tenured and/or promoted 4 faculty
What Did We Accomplish?Books Published by Communication Faculty:
Dr. Ross Collins, Editing Across Media. Content and Process in a Converged World. McFarland and Co. Publishers.
Dr. Elizabeth Crawford, Tobacco Goes to College: Cigarette Advertising in Student Media, 1920-1980. McFarland.
M. Bartanen and Dr. Robert Littlefield. Forensics in America: A History. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
Dr. Pamela Lutgen-Sandvik. Workplace Bullying—A Nasty Piece of Work. ORCM Academic Press.
What Did We Accomplish?Department of English
Served 118 majors and 36 graduate students
Received 15 grants ($69k) Published 36 peer-reviewed articles and chapters; Presented 35 papers at scholarly conferences; Successfully tenured and/or promoted 5 faculty; Supported 2 UNITE spousal hires
Dr. Amy Rupiper Taggart published the 2nd edition of A Guide to Composition Pedagogies; Dr. Gary Totten was selected as Editor-in-Chief of MELUS
Dr. Kelly Sassi spearheaded efforts to establish the Red River Valley Writing Project as an National Writing Project site at NDSU
What Did We Accomplish?School of Music
Served 122 majors and 42 graduate students
Delivered16 juried presentations and performances; Engaged in dozens of international and regional tour and invited performances; Received 2 grants ($22k) and published 3 peer-reviewed works
Choral faculty, especially Mike Weber and Char Moe, edited the proceedings monograph published by the American Choral Directors Association documenting the CMOTA symposium; Also guest edited the March 2014 special issue of the Choral Journal, the academic journal for choral music with a circulation of over 80,000.
What Did We Accomplish?Department of Visual Arts
Served 70 majors and established an Art Ed major
Published 9 peer-reviewed works; Delivered 21 invited national or international presentations, and engaged in 31 juried presentations
Prof. Kimble Bromley celebrated a solo exhibition in the Plains Art Museum entitled “The Moby Dick Series.”
Dr. Kristi Groberg was a panel presenter at the ASEEES conference in Boston, and Prof. Su Leggat received a legacy grant through the Lake Region Arts Council to work with MN students to create an exhibit focusing on community and social media.
What Did We Accomplish?Department of Modern Languages
Served 46 majors and delivered 4 scholarly papers at regional, national, and international conferences
Dr. Gwen Stickney edited two volumes of Bulletin of the Comediantes
The department won a Development Foundation Grant to contribute a Caribbean collection (primarily Afro-Hispanic and Francophone) to the NDSU library.
Four ML faculty members (J. Hageman, C. Hawley, P. Homan and C. Saar) served as executives or chairs on regional and national professional organizations
What Did We Accomplish?Criminal Justice & Political Science
Served 435 majors and 15 graduate students
Published 15 peer-reviewed works and received 3 grants ($32k)
Delivered 13 scholarly papers at regional, national, and international conferences
Dr. Carol Archbold’s research on changes for policing in ND oil boom areas received considerable media attention. It resulted in a coauthored article, “Policing the Patch,” which was published in Police Quarterly, the flagship journal for police studies.
What Did We Accomplish?Architecture & Landscape Architecture
Served 312 majors and 82 grad students
Received 5 grants ($12.5k) and published 8 peer-reviewed articles
Prof. Steve Martens and Prof. Ronald Ramsay completed a book, Buildings of North Dakota, that will be published early next year by the U. of Virginia Press.
Profs. Heather & Dominic Fischer recently had a grant proposal recommended for full funding by the North Central Regional Center for Rural Development. Their project on preservation planning will address issues of boom and bust in fracking communities in western ND.
What Did We Accomplish?History, Philosophy & Religious Studies
Served 127 majors and 26 graduate students
Published 15 peer-reviewed works, including 7 books; Delivered 17 scholarly papers at regional, national, and international conferences; Received 4 grants ($46k)
Dr. Angela Smith and her digital history students produced a historical documentary about Melvina Massey, an African American madam who operated a brothel in Fargo between 1886 and 1911.
Several notable faculty pubs, including 3 recent books
What Did We Accomplish?Recent Books Published by HPRS Faculty:
Dr. Sean Burt, The Courtier and the Governor: Transformations of Genre in the Nehemiah Memoir. Journal of Ancient Judaism Supplements 17. (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2014).
Dr. Anthony Flood, The Root of Friendship: Self-Love and Self-Governance in Aquinas (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2014).
Dr. Mark Harvey, ed., The Wilderness Writings of Howard Zahniser (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2014).
What Did We Accomplish?Dep’t of Sociology & Anthropology
Served 112 majors and 24 graduate students
Published 18 peer-reviewed works; Delivered 20 scholarly papers at regional, national, and international conferences
Received 17 grants ($876k in awards;158k annual exp.)
Dr. Chris Whitsel coauthored 3 articles and a book chapter; also presented a paper at an int’l conference
Dr. Gary Goreham and his students conducted a community development analysis for Wadena, MN
What Did We Accomplish?Department of Theatre Arts
Served 55 majors; Engaged in 26 juried performances/ presentations and 11 local and university performances; Delivered 2 national presentations; Recently received a Bush Foundation grant ($50k)
Celebrated the 100th anniversary of LTC and organized a distinctive symposium entitled “Playing on Common Ground: Theatre and the Complex Communities of the 21st Century.”
Katie Guzzi, advisee of Prof. Mark Engler, won the region V award (in 7-state region) for her sound design of Handing Down the Names and brought her design to the National Festival at the Kennedy Center.
What Did We Accomplish?Dep’t of Emergency Management
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Served 76 majors and 18 graduate students
Published 6 peer-reviewed works
Delivered 16 scholarly papers at regional, national, and international conferences
Granted the International Association of Emergency Managers' 2014 Academic Recognition Award, to be received at IAEM’s Annual Conference (November 2014). The award is in recognition of the department's contributions to EM as an academic discipline and professionalizing field.
Where Are We Headed?Key Goals and Priorities:
Continue increasing the number of faculty
Increase the quality and distinction of our academic programs
Increase faculty scholarship (e.g., refereed publications and juried exhibits, performances, or presentations) by 5-10%
Continue to enhance faculty involvement in sponsored research
Where Are We Headed?Key Goals and Priorities:
Create and revitalize centers for research, innovation, and community engagement
Sustain initiatives to enhance and support gender equity, especially in leadership roles
Increase the diversity of the students, faculty, and staff in the college
Expand the number of grad students and grad programs, particularly in areas such as design, entrepreneurship, and social engagement
Reasons for Optimism
We’ve made steady and important progress
We’re getting recognition and support
We have good leaders in the college
We have an excellent work ethic
We define and enact higher education as a
special calling
More Reasons for Optimism
We have a solid plan for the future
We’ve made 20 great faculty and staff hires
this year!
We have crucial insights to share about the
pressing issues of the day and how to think
critically, act thoughtfully, and live well
Best Reason for Optimism
YOU!We have a very talented, dedicated, and
engaged group of people in the college!
