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PART I: QUALITATIVE
INFORMATION
- Assessment
- Departmental
Assessment Plan
- 2003 review completed successfully. Next review scheduled for 2011.
- IBHE
Alumni Survey results
- Undergraduate
Student Survey Results: NA
- Accreditation reports/results: English Language Arts Combined 6-12 Program, National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) / National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE), January 30, 2002
- Active
student learning opportunities: Faculty-student
collaborations:
- EIU
Undergraduate Research Awards (2 students and faculty sponsors/advisers)
- Graduate
Assistant Mentoring Program in Teaching (10 students)
- Graduate
Assistant appointment to Writing Center (11 students)
Internships (include student teaching)
- numerous student teachers, as part of teacher certification process
- student internships in professional writing in business, public relations, education (8 students)
Practica
- Graduate Practicum in the Teaching of Writing (15 students)
Other
- Undergraduate
student representatives on major departmental committees
(3 students)
- Strategies
to improve P-16 teaching and learning: Professional development
for practicing educators
- English/EIU annual Literature Conference for Secondary-School Teachers (40 in attendance)
- twice-yearly English and English Education Student Conference (85 students)
Formalized partnerships with P-12 schools/districts
- partnership with three local high schools in which teacher certification students collaborate with high school teachers to design assignments for and respond to essays written by high school students (40 students)
Other
-
English and Sigma Tau Delta English Honorary High School Writing Contest, involving several local area high schools
- Pass rates on any professional/ occupational licensure exams: Illinois Certification Testing System: EIU English pass rate = 100%; State average pass rate = 85-89%.
- Faculty Achievements:
- EIU
Distinguished Faculty Award; EIU Faculty Laureate; Illinois Arts Council
Awards (2); EIU Achievement and Contribution Awards in Balanced Category
(4); EIU Faculty Development Grants (4); Graduate Program Initiative
Award;
Grants:
- Illinois
Humanities Council; National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar;
Redden Grant; EIU CFR Summer Research Grants; Illinois PT3 Education
Grant; EIU Technology-Enhanced and -Delivered Education Grants (1);
Offices:
- Editor, Chaucer Review; Articles Editor, Thomas Wolfe Review; President of International Lawrence Durrell Society; President and Secretary, UPI/EIU; Phi Beta Kappa; numerous offices held in national and international professional societies and organizations;
Publications:
- 4 books;
1 book translation; 7 articles/chapters
in scholarly book-collections; 20 articles in scholarly journals; 35
creative pieces (poetry, fiction, essay, and drama); 18 book reviews
Presentations:
- numerous (too numerous to list here) scholarly presentations and creative-writing readings at numerous local, regional, national, and international conventions and venues
Community Service Projects
- numerous instances of active community service to civic, educational, and religious organizations and institutions
- Student
Achievements:
Awards:
- Livingston
Lord Scholarships (4); Sigma
Tau Delta Midwestern Regional Award; EIU Williams Graduate Travel Awards
(2); EIU Undergraduate Research Awards (2);
Attainment Fund Scholarships (2); Martin
Luther King Scholarship; Hobart F. Heller Awards (2); Eunice Dougherty Awards
(2); Warner Presidential Awards in English (3); Isabel McKinney Scholarships
(9); Howard Deforest Widger Scholarship; English Alumni Scholarship; Betty
J. Hawkins English Scholarship; Robert V. Wharton Scholarship; Genelle Voight
Jackson English Scholarships (4); Distinguished Graduate Student Award; Literary
Essay Awards (8); Winnie Davis Neely Award;
Graduate School Acceptances:
- 8
students, at such schools as Purdue; Univ. of Illinois; Univ. of Wisconsin,
Madison; Indiana Univ.; St. John's College; Oklahoma State Univ.; University
of Illinois, Chicago
Jobs:
- numerous jobs teaching at secondary- and middle-level schools in Illinois; assistant editorships in publishing; technical writing; public relations; business, corporate, and public service (NGO) positions
PART II: QUANTITATIVE INFORMATION
English
Data Spreadsheet (Excel)
- Enrollment:
Undergraduate: 302; Graduate: 37
- Degrees:
Undergraduate: 79; Graduate: 12
- Student
Major Statistics
- Full-time
students: Undergraduate: 286; Graduate: 20
- Part-time
students: Undergraduate: 16; Graduate: 17
- Diversity:
Undergraduate: 31; Graduate: 3
- ACT:
23.31
- GPA:
Undergraduate: 2.99; Graduate: 3.55
- Faculty
Statistics
- Total
faculty headcount: 67
- Total
FTE faculty: 67.00
- Full-time
faculty: 67
- Part-time
faculty: 0
- #
faculty on leave: 2
- Total
tenured/tenure track faculty: 43
- Faculty
break down by rank:
- Professor:
25
- Associate:
7
- Assistant:
11
- Instructor:
24
- #
w/Terminal degrees: 43
- Total
annually-contracted faculty: 24
- #
w/Terminal degrees: 3
- Non-negotiated
part-time faculty: 0
- Gender:
34 males, 33 females
- Diversity:
5
- Credit
Hour Production Total: 24,317
- Discipline
cost per credit hour by level: $258.68
- Direct
Cost Per Credit Hour Total: $154.60
- Freshman-Sophomore
Retention Rate: 76%
- Average
Actual Hours to Degree: 135
- Required
Hours to Degree:
- English Major: 120
- English Major with Teacher Certification: 120-122
- Master of Arts in English: 30-32
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