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PART
I: QUALITATIVE INFORMATION
- Assessment
- Active student learning opportunities:
- Strategies to improve P-16
teaching and learning: The Department of Biological Sciences is part
of the MSNS program that is designed to allow practicing teachers to
come back to campus in the summers to complete a Masters degree in
field in three summers. This program is extremely popular and allows
many junior high and secondary science teachers to become certified in
more than one area (chemistry, biology, physics, earth sciences)
and/or allows teachers to get more training in their chosen field.
Currently there are approximately 40 students enrolled in this
interdisciplinary program.
- Collaborative activities
with business/industry: The Department of Biological Sciences has had
a formalized internship agreement with the City of Charleston (water treatment facility)
and the Illinois Natural History Survey (Lake Shelbyville Laboratory)
for the past decade. Students from our program work in these
facilities essentially every summer and often during the school year.
We have also had an agreement with the Illinois Department of Natural
Resources who pick several students (usually Graduate Students)
annually to intern for a 12-month period.
- Pass rates on any
professional/ occupational licensure exams:NA
- Faculty Achievements: Faculty in the Department of
Biological Sciences have been incredibly active in the area of
publications, acquisition of extramural and intramural grants,
receiving awards and holding offices in scientific societies. Since the
formation of the Department in 1999, it is in these areas and the
mentoring of students where the department has made the greatest
strides. During 2001-date, the Biologists have published over 60 full
length peer-reviewed publications, presented over 120 posters, podium
presentations and abstracts and 13 faculty have received extramural
funding totaling over $1,000,000! In addition, faculty have/held
offices is regional, national and international societies and many
faculty routinely review manuscripts and grant proposals for a wide
variety of scientific journals and funding agencies (e.g., NSF, NIH,
USDA, etc.).
- Student Achievements
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PART
II: QUANTITATIVE INFORMATION
BIO Data
Spreadsheet (Excel)
- Enrollment:
Undergraduate: 460;
Graduate: 34
- Degrees: Undergraduate:
7;
Graduate: 10
- Student Major Statistics
- Full-time students:
Undergraduate: 442;
Graduate: 30
- Part-time students:
Undergraduate: 18;
Graduate: 4
- Diversity:
Undergraduate: 45;
Graduate: 0
- ACT: Undergraduate:
22.57
- GPA: Undergraduate: 2.9;
Graduate: 3.1
- Faculty Statistics
- Total faculty headcount:
32
- Total FTE faculty: 32
- Full-time faculty: 32
- Part-time faculty: 0
- # faculty on leave: 1
- Total tenured/tenure
track faculty:23
- Faculty break down by
rank:
- Professor: 6
- Associate: 14
- Assistant: 3
- Instructor:9
- # w/Terminal degrees: 24
- Total
annually-contracted faculty: 9
- # w/Terminal degrees: 1
- Non-negotiated part-time
faculty: 0
- Gender: 22 males, 10
females
- Diversity: 2 non-white
- Credit Hour Production
Total: 15,563
- Discipline cost per
credit hour by level: $225.78
- Direct Cost Per Credit
Hour Total: $121.00
- Freshman-Sophomore
Retention Rate: 82%
- Average Actual Hours to
Degree: 143
- Required Hours to Degree:
120
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