Title of the Project: Enhance the salary of MIS Assistant Professor position
| Responsible Persons: |
Position is held by Professor R.A. Taylor.
Professor Taylor is supervised by Dr.Greg Broekemier, Chair of the Department of Marketing and MIS.
Bruce Forster, Dean, College of Business and Technology |
Brief descriptive narrative, including accomplishments and goals:
Professor Taylor is expected to be engaged in teaching research, and service. He has taught 113 students, and he has a co-authored paper which has accepted for publication by the European Journal of Operations Research. He completed the dissertation for his Ph.D., which will be awarded this in May 2006.
Measures of impact resulting from Programs of Excellence Funding:
- Publications: a co-authored paper has accepted for publication by the European Journal of Operations Research.
- Number of Students Benefited: 113 students benefited form instruction from Professor Taylor in Management Information
- Enhanced Services to the State: Professor Taylor has been active with the Buffalo County Economic Development Council. He is particularly interested in Information Technology based businesses in the region.
Expenditures: $25,000
Title of the Project: Enhance the salary of ITEC Assistant Professor position
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Position is held by R.C. Shava.
Professor Shava is supervised by Dr. Kennard Larson, Chair of the Department of Industrial Technology.
Bruce Forster, Dean, College of Business and Technology |
Brief descriptive narrative, including accomplishments and goals: Dr. Shava is expected to be engaged in teaching research, and service. He taught 143 students during the academic year.
Expenditures: $25,000. (included under “Faculty (new) Salary Enhancements” in the Summary Spreadsheet, Academic Equipment funds distribution for FY 06.
Measures of impact resulting from Programs of Excellence Funding:
- Number of Students Benefited: 143
Expenditures: $25,000
Title of the Project: Enhance Teacher Education Faculty HireExpenditures: $25,000 These funds were added to funding in an existing lecturer position to hire a tenure track faculty member.
| Responsible Persons: |
Dr. Dennis Potthoff, Chair, Department of Teacher Education
College of Education
Marilyn Hadley, Dean |
Accomplishments and goals:
Dr. Cheryl Young was hired (Ph.D. from University of Central Florida in 2005) She has expertise in Special Education, a high need position that serves elementary education, special education and early childhood education programs. Dr. Young brings 20 years of recent K-12 teaching experience to our faculty.
Dr. Young’s impact has been immediate. Instructionally, she was immediately assigned to teach the field-based special education methods and strategies block (TE 463 and TE 464 is a five credit hour experience). Dr. Young is working closely with K-12 based special educators to create powerful linkages between the theory base and the world of practice. This course, and the field experience that accompanies it, is the single most significant pre-student teaching experience for each class of approximately 30-35 SPED K-6 majors.
Dr. Young is off to a great beginning as a scholar. In addition to completing her dissertation and doctoral studies, she co-authored Chapter 11 of a recently published textbook, Instructional Patterns: Strategies for Maximizing Student Learning. Dr. Young made two professional presentations (one international and one regional).
Measures of impact resulting from POE funding:
- Publications: One Textbook Chapter
- Presentations: 2
- Educational Innovations: Person primarily responsible for Field-based Methods Block of SPED K-6 majors
- Number of Students Benefited: 35 UNK students per year plus the K-12 youngsters with whom they work in the TE 464 field experience
- Enhanced Services to the State: Valued Added to P-12 schools
Overview: The remaining key expenditures of priority program funds all relate to programmatic renewal. This specifically includes curriculum renewal, upgrades of curriculum materials, and collaboration with the Network of Partner Schools. Because it is not possible to separate out the measures of impact as per four discrete funding categories, in several places I have reported the same impact data. It is also likely that the statistics are underreported in that we are still working to identify the best strategies for gathering impact data from Departments, who deliver secondary and/or K-12 teacher endorsement program, and who are advantaging priority program funds.