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A Decade of Change a Closer Look at University Improvements Since 1986 -( L61S~ UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA • COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS VOLUME NINETEEN • NUMBER ONE WINTER 1996 A Decade of Change A Closer Look at University Improvements Since 1986 he University of Minnesota has worked hard over the T past ten years to improve the educational experience of our students while maintaining our excellence in research and service to the state of Minnesota. Our efforts have paid off, and we're pleased to share some of the good news with you. Alumni feedback has been an important part of our continued progress, and our response to your input has helped create this remark­ able, measurable change. The following are changes that affect undergraduate education: • The Twin Cities campus was rated as one of the 25 "best buys" in under­ graduate education among national universities by U.S. News & World Report in 1995. • Class hours taught by full professors: 1986: 23 percent 1995: 40 percent • Classes taught by teaching assistants: 1986: 32 percent 1995: 14 percent • Average class size: reduced 23 per­ cent on Twin Cities campus. Mean class size: 1986: 32.6 students 1996: 27.7 students CoNTINUED ON PAGE Two A hackysack player on Northrop Mall today DECADE OF CHANGE FROM PAGE ONE • Freshmen living on cam­ - Goal for 2000: 100 per­ pus: cent system wide 1986: 45 percent 1995: 70 percent • Technology is being used to improve student services, A DECADE OF CHANGE .............................................. 1 • Student/ advisor ratio in including e-mail for all stu­ CLA lower division, a 50 dents and touch-tone tele­ FROM THE DEAN ........................................................ 3 percent improvement: phone and World Wide McKNIGHT PROFESSORS ........................................... 4 1986: 577 to 1 Web access to key student 1996: 275 to 1 services such as registra­ COLLEGE NEWS ............... ·································· ......... 5 tion, course drop I add, • Four-year graduation rate grade reporting, and finan­ FACULTY PROFILES ..................................................... 6 (all campuses): cial aid status. 1986 entering class: THE SPECTRUM .. ......................................................... 8 9.9 percent • Students are voting with 1991 entering class: their feet: Freshmen appli­ CLA ANNUAL REPORT .............................................. 9 18.7 percent cations are up 24 percent in HELPFUL HINTS ................. ..................................... ... 17 the past two years. • Five-year graduation rate Freshman enrollment AwARDS AND AccoLADES ........................................ 18 (all campuses): increased by 791 students. 1986 entering class: ALUMNI PROFILES ..................................................... 20 30.7 percent • Applications for honors 1990 entering class: programs were up 71 per­ PHILANTHROPY .......................................................... 22 37.9 percent cent in CLA in the past two (goal for the 1996 enter­ years. ing class is 50 percent) • Based on the ratio of CLN-~ • 67 percent of first-year admissions applications students in fall1995 are in received to students accept­ the top quartile of their ed, the University has gone Volume Nineteen, Number One class. from last place to third CLA Today is published three times a year by the place in "selectivity" in the CLA Office of External Relations, 225 Johnston Hall, 101 Pleasant St. S.E., Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, • Number of entering stu­ Big Ten in the past two for alumni and friends of the College of Liberal Arts. dents satisfying the years. CLA Today is available in alternate formats upon request. University's preparation Please call the CLA Office of External Relations, requirements: • On the Twin Cities cam­ 612/624-5275, or fax us at 612/624-6839. 1985: 17 percent pus, 378 courses in inten­ The University of Minnesota is an equal opportunity educator and employer. 1995: 85 percent sive writing across the cur­ Editor riculum have been added in Jennifer Arnie • Classroom structure stan­ 66 different academic Coordinators dards have been developed departments to help stu­ Carole Arwidson and Kristen Kokkinen, The Lawlor Group and a plan implemented to dents develop better writ­ Designers bring all classrooms up to ing skills no matter what Jennifer Arnie standard, with a goal of their major field. Michael Challeen, Studio A Electronic Publishing & Design moving from the traditional Student Interns lecture environment to one • In the past two years, stu­ Demian Brink where "interactive learn­ dents on the Twin Cities Sara N. Thomalla ing" can take place. campus have increased Communications Advisory Committee their average course credit Barbara Becker, Director of Student Academic Support Services • Twin Cities classroom load from 11.8 credits to Mary Hicks, Director of Development space now meeting all 12.2 credits. Courtney Jaren, Assistant to the Dean University standards: 34 Clayton Tenquist, Coordinator of Alumni Giving and Programs percent Tom Trow, Director of Community-Cultural Affairs - Goal for the end of 1996-97 school year: 50 percent system wide 2 c~ CLA Welcomes New Dean, Steven J. Rosenstone I am pleased to introduce to you the new Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, Steven J. Rosenstone. Steven's selection followed a five-month national search, and many of you who met him during the past few months know that he brings a fresh vision and dynamic leadership to the College. Steven earned a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California-Berkeley and was a faculty mem­ ber at Yale University before going in 1986 to the University of Michigan, where he served as pro­ gram director in the Institute for Social Research. He is an eminent scholar of elections, voting and political participation, as well as an award-winning teacher. I know you will join me in welcoming Steven to the College and to Minnesota. - Mary Hicks, Director of External Relations Those of you who have Our student body is better more intense, and the top packed up your families prepared than ever. Even research universities in the and moved to a new state with more selective admis­ world are already trying to Steven J. Rosenstone know that the process can sions, applications are on lure our best faculty to be daunting. Surrounded the rise and our incoming greener pastures. Any seri­ classrooms, research facili­ by boxes, you make count­ freshman classes are ous erosion of the tenure ties, studios and computing less small decisions about increasingly diverse. The system- a system that technology. what to take, what to leave, cover story of this issue fur­ protects the free exchange We must also work to how to organize for a new ther illustrates CLA's of ideas, that permits facul­ enhance excellence in life. Then, somehow, the achievements and progress ty to take risks or to take on undergraduate education. move is done - you arrive over the past decade. projects that have long lead CLA graduates must be and once again, surround­ times - will undermine critical thinkers who can ed by boxes, you take stock. Challenges the ability of this College to problem-solve and deal Despite the exhaustion, Despite all the good recruit and retain the finest with complex social, politi­ there's a great sense of news (and there is much scholars, artists and teach­ cal and economic issues. excitement, of possibility. more), CLA faces many ers. To build we need to CLA graduates must also I begin my term as dean challenges. Our ability to strengthen, not weaken, be creative thinkers who of the College of Liberal recruit and retain the very our ability to compete for are imaginative and inven­ Arts still surrounded by best faculty is being eroded the services of the most tal­ tive, and who are able to boxes but buoyed by high by fiscal constraints and by ented and creative people forge new ideas, innovative hopes and aspirations and increasing competition in the world. perspectives and new by my confidence in the among the top institutions. visions. Finally, CLA grad­ commitment, dedication, Reductions in federal and The Future uates must be equipped to creativity and energy of the state support for higher We have already begun think and communicate College's faculty, staff, stu­ education, basic research the process of strengthen­ effectively across social, dents and alumni. I am also and the arts threaten the ing the faculty - nearly 40 cultural, national and intel­ deeply grateful to deans College's ability to prepare faculty searches are now lectual boundaries. Julia Davis and Robert Holt students to be leaders in underway, many funded I invite you to join us as for their sage advice and business, industry, govern­ by new money from the we embark on this period counsel, which ensured a ment, the arts and the acad­ University's strategic of innovation and growth. smooth transition in the emy. CLA now receives investment pool. All I look forward to your College's leadership. While only 17 percent of the departments have complet­ counsel and to working we face some formidable University's budget, ed strategic plans for their together with you in this challenges, our future is though we do 50 percent of futures. But continuing collaborative effort. bright with the potential for the undergraduate teaching enhancement of the facul­ innovation and growth. and 24 percent of all teach­ ty's teaching, and their Led by a world-class fac­ ing. scholarly and artistic ulty, the College has a Competition within the achievement, will require vibrant intellectual base. academy has never been resources such as salary support and investments in 3 CL~ McKnight Grant Honors Top Professors The Distinguished McKnight University Professorship Program rewards the published internationally. He is cur­ University's highest achieving faculty members who have recently attained full rently working on a model of professor status and who bring renown and prestige to the University. Mexico's 1994-95 debt crisis with Associated with the professorship is a $100,000 grant to be used for research, research economist Harold Cole of cholarly or artistic activities. The first ten recipients of the McKnight award the Federal Reserve Bank of were chosen in spring 1996.
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