1. Southern University and A & M College
2. I. Progress Report of 2005-2006 AEP Strategic Objectives
3. III. Proposed Budget
   1. Effective Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 2007
4. IV. Program Description & Data
   1. A. Overview
   2. B. FACULTY
   3. C. STUDENTS
   4. IV. APPENDICES (Provide table of contents)

Southern University and A & M College

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I. Progress Report of 2005-2006 AEP Strategic Objectives

Please list your Department Objectives with related information as stated in your current Assessment and Effectiveness Plan (AEP) for 2005-2006 . If you have more than three objectives and additional areas are needed to list all of your objectives; please edit the form as necessary.

Departmental Objective 1. :

University Strategic Goal Reference:

University Strategic Objective Reference (optional):

Plans for meeting Objective:

Means of Assessment:

Results:

Use of Results:

Additional Resources Required for Implementation: (If none please indicate otherwise elaborate.) Category Description of Need Cost Personnel: Salaries (Include Fringe Benefits @24%) Graduate Assistants Other Compensation Travel Operating Services Supplies Professional Services Equipment Major Repairs Other Total

Departmental Objective 2. :

University Strategic Goal Reference:

University Strategic Objective Reference (optional):

Plans for meeting Objective:

Means of Assessment:

Results:

Use of Results:

Additional Resources Required for Implementation: (If none please indicate otherwise elaborate.) Category Description of Need Cost Personnel: Salaries (Include Fringe Benefits @24%) Graduate Assistants Other Compensation Travel Operating Services Supplies Professional Services Equipment Major Repairs Other Total

Departmental Objective 3. :

University Strategic Goal Reference:

University Strategic Objective Reference (optional):

Plans for meeting Objective:

Means of Assessment:

Results:

Use of Results:

Additional Resources Required for Implementation: (If none please indicate otherwise elaborate.) Category Description of Need Cost Personnel: Salaries (Include Fringe Benefits @24%) Graduate Assistants Other Compensation Travel Operating Services Supplies Professional Services Equipment Major Repairs Other Total

Please list your Department Objectives with related information for 2006-2007. These will constitute your Assessment and Effectiveness Plan (AEP) for 2006-2007 . If you have more than five objectives and require additional areas to list all of your objectives; please edit the form as necessary. You should use this portion of the form to report any new objectives which apply to Section IV., A. Overview, Student Learning Outcomes, #7 d.(1); Section IV., B. Faculty, Faculty Productivity, #13; Section IV., C. Students, Student Satisfaction #12 b.

Departmental Objective 1. :

University Strategic Goal Reference:

University Strategic Objective Reference (optional):

Plans for meeting Objective:

Means of Assessment:

Results:

Use of Results:

Additional Resources Required for Implementation: (If none please indicate, otherwise describe.) Category Description of Need Cost Personnel: Salaries (Include Fringe Benefits @24%) Graduate Assistants Other Compensation Travel Operating Service Supplies Professional Services Equipment Major Repairs Other Total

Departmental Objective 2. :

University Strategic Goal Reference:

Plans for meeting Objective:

Means of Assessment:

Results:

Use of Results:

Additional Resources Required for Implementation: (If none please indicate, otherwise describe.) Category Description of Need Cost Personnel: Salaries (Include Fringe Benefits @24%) Graduate Assistants Other Compensation Travel

Departmental Objective 3. :

University Strategic Goal Reference:

University Strategic Objective Reference (optional):

Plans for meeting Objective:

Means of Assessment:

Results:

Use of Results:

Additional Resources Required for Implementation: Category Description of Need Cost Personnel: Salaries (Include Fringe Benefits @24%) Graduate Assistants Other Compensation Travel Operating Services Supplies Professional Services Equipment Major Repairs Other Total

Departmental Objective 4. :

University Strategic Goal Reference:

Plans for meeting Objective:

Means of Assessment:

Results:

Use of Results:

Additional Resources Required for Implementation: (If none please indicate, otherwise describe) Category Description of Need Cost Personnel: Salaries (Include Fringe Benefits @24%) Graduate Assistants Other Compensation Travel Operating Services Supplies Professional Services Equipment Major Repairs Other Total

Departmental Objective 5. :

University Strategic Goal Reference:

Plans for meeting Objective:

Means of Assessment:

Results:

Use of Results:

Additional Resources Required for Implementation: (If none please indicate, otherwise describe) Category Description of Need Cost Personnel: Salaries (Include Fringe Benefits @24%) Graduate Assistants Other Compensation Travel Operating Services Supplies Professional Services Equipment Major Repairs Other Total

Additional Objectives may be added as desired.

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III. Proposed Budget

Department Name: ___________________________________________         

Department Head : _________________________

D ESCRIPTION (Be specific)	R ATIONALE ( Reference related strategic objective/s}	Existing Program	New or Expanded Program	E STIMATED C OST
P ERSONNEL : S ALARIES ( I NCLUDE FRINGE BENEFITS @ 24%)
G RADUATE A SSISTANTS
O THER C OMPENSATION
T OTAL P ERSONNEL S ERVICES
T RAVEL
O PERATING SERVICES
S UPPLIES
P ROFESSIONAL S ERVICES
E QUIPMENT
M AJOR REPAIRS
T OTAL F UNDING

NOTE: If additional expenses need to be included but do not fall within any of the categories listed above please add the categories and data that apply.

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IV. Program Description & Data

1. Need: Briefly describe the academic or administrative department including the greater College or Unit of which it is a part. State the basis of demonstrated need for the program to be continued.

2. Arrangements with industry, government, or the community: Describe

3. Curriculum

        a. Outline

         b. Degree Requirements (provide page/s of location in the University Catalog)

c. Semester/year major courses last offered

Course Number	Course Name	Year Last Offered	Semester Last Offered

d. Graduate courses (if applicable, provide page/s location in the University Catalog)

e. Curricular changes

f. Relation to trends within discipline

g. Comparison to similar programs (Survey three programs with similar degree requirements and compare

course offerings, student performance, and other significant factors).

         h. Role of service/general education courses

i. Use of technology

j. Strengths and weaknesses

4. Diversity : How do program offerings reflect or encourage a multicultural perspective?

5. Resources

        a. Clerical support

b. Facilities

c. Instructional Equipment and Technology (Is it adequate, functioning, up to date? Describe and assess)

1. Computer Access
2. Faculty
3. Student

        d. Library holdings

        e. Impact of LEQSF funding

6. Governance

        a. Chair

                  1) How has the Chair promoted the interests of faculty, students, and the program in general?

                  2) What might the chair to improve leadership in each of those areas?

b. Committee Structure and Membership (List)

c. Conformance with Policy

7. Student Learning Outcomes/Assessment:

Please address the following questions.

a. How do you know what your students should know and be able to do?

b. What should your students know and be able to do?

c. What do your student know and are able to do?

d. How do you know what your students know and are able to do?

1. List a minimum of five Student Learning Outcomes and indicate those which require the greatest amount of improvement. As previously noted, you should state them in the form of Objective/s in Section Il . AEP Strategic Planning Objectives for 2005-2006.

2. For programs which were reviewed in the previous year by Academic Program Review or a specialized accreditation agency , list your short term plans for improvement of all problem areas related to curriculum, and how you have addressed them. If this item is not applicable, please disregard.

Assessment: Please provide documentation for the following questions, the Appendix can be used for this purpose if needed.

Identify three specific assessment tools already in use to measure student learning outcomes (i.e., Departmental Comprehensives, Internships, portfolios, capstone courses, senior projects, etc.). For each assessment tool report the current results to form a baseline for future goal setting/comparison.

1. College/School Faculty Status and Demographics: If you have had no changes in this area since the submission of your Fall Faculty Report (administered by the Office of PAIR), disregard this item. If you have had faculty changes since last fall, please note them in the chart below

Faculty Name	Tenure Status	Employment Status (full or part) time	Highest Degree Level	Degree Granting Institution	Date Hired	Gender	Ethnicity

2 . Diversity

Ethnicity Gender Tenure Status Full time/Part time % of Department % of College or School % of University Black, Non-Hispanic White, Non-Hispanic Hispanic Asian or Pacific Islander American Indian or Native Alaskan

3. College/School Faculty Productivity

Professional Activities	2000- 2001	2001-2002	2002-2003	2003-2004	2005-2006	2006-2007
Number of Student Credit Hours (SCH)
Credit Hours (SCH) Per FTE Faculty
Number of Refereed Publications
Number of Book Chapters/Other Papers Published
Other Papers presented
Number of Manuals
Number of Creative Products/Performances
Other
Number of Funded Research Proposals
Number of Active Sponsored Projects (Board of Regents: Respond if Applicable)
Number of Research Competitiveness Awards
Number of Stimulus for Excellence in Research Award
Number of Industry Ties Award
Number of Departmental Enhancement Award
Number of Graduate Fellowship Award
Number of Endowed Chair Award
Number of Endowed Professorships
Total State Program Funding (including LEQSF)
Total Federal Program Funding
Total Foundation Program Funding
Total Private Sector: Business & Industry Funding
Other Services

4. Faculty Publications for current year ( Please list alphabetically and format in either correct MLA or APA format ; vitae are supporting documents but do not replace the need to fill out other items).

5. Papers Presented, Sessions Chaired, and Creative Works Performed for current year (List by author, title, conference, location, date under applicable category)

6. Faculty Currently Holding Offices in Professional Organizations (List)

7. Grant Activity for current year (List in following table)

Principal Investigator	Co-Investigators	Title	Description	Granting Agency	Amount Requested	Status

        

8. Faculty Awards for current year (For example: “Teacher of the Year”)

Faculty Member	Award

9. Professional Development Activities for current year

Faculty Member	Professional Development Activity

10. Teaching Load, Advising Load, Office Hours Kept, Number of Course Preparations per Semester

Faculty Member	Teaching Load	Advising Load	Office Hours	Number of Course Preps

11. How is teaching effectiveness assessed in your program with methods beyond the Evaluation of Faculty by Students survey?

If so, describe your methods and how the results are used to improve teaching.

12. What mentoring mechanisms are in place to facilitate teaching and research skills across the department?

13. Assessment of Faculty Productivity: What percentage of your faculty took part in developmental activities (travel to conferences, workshops, short courses) during the last year? What is your goal (%) for the next academic year)? As previously noted, you should state them in the form of Objectives in Section ll . AEP Strategic Planning Objectives for 2005-2006.

14. To what degree do the collective research and teaching of the faculty reflect current trends in the field?

15. How are faculty encouraged to share their scholarly efforts and areas of investigation?

16. Describe your recruitment practices and how they create a faculty which is diverse in both background and identity. For example, where are job vacancies listed? Are underrepresented ethnic/gender groups actively recruited? Do faculty hold terminal degrees from a variety of institutions?

17. Describe the orientation and evaluation procedures for new, adjunct, and part-time faculty.

18. What staffing changes have occurred, and what are the long-range hiring plans?

19. What resources exist for faculty development and travel? On what basis are these distributed?

Please append current Vitae which reflect any changes in Faculty productivity for the past year.

1. Graduate Placement

(Identify the College or Department)

Degree/s Awarded	Name of Graduate	Graduate Major	Name of Graduate or Professional School where Graduate has enrolled	Employer	Indicate if Employment is related to Graduate's Major with an "X"	Indicate if Graduate has left Louisiana with an "X"

2. How are majors recruited? What steps were taken in the last two years to increase recruitment of majors?

3. What scholarships exist for students?

4. What brochures, websites, newsletters, or other supporting materials exist for students and when were they last updated (list)?

5. What are the admission policies and practices for majors? (Please reference page/s in the University Catalog)

6. How are students advised?

7. List the number of Honor or Field organizations?

         How many (or what %) students/ majors participated in these organizations?

         How can that number be increased?

8. Other honors or works presented by students: (List)

9. How does the department assess student satisfaction with the program?

(Please include in Appendix copies of instrument s utilized)

a. What Key issues are identified?

        (Note: You can download ACT Student Opinion Survey and Graduate Student Survey results for your program from the internal DocuShare website . However, if you had fewer than ten students who participated in the surveys your results will not be available)

         b. How is this information used for improvement?

         If you have new goals in the coming year for the improvement of student satisfaction or new uses for the information already acquired, please respond in the form of objective/s in Section ll . AEP Strategic Planning Objectives for 2065-2007.

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