DIVISION OF ACADEMIC AFFAIRS

EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT AND PROVOST

J. Randall O’Brien

The purpose of the Division of Academic Affairs is to provide a quality educational program for all the students of Baylor University. This is accomplished directly through the services of 755 full-time teaching faculty members, 409 full-time staff members, 50 department/division chairs, 49 directors of institutes/ centers/special programs, 28 professional librarians, 21 associate/assistant deans, and 12 academic deans. The day-to- day execution of the educational mission of Baylor University could not be achieved without the able and faithful work of these individuals.

ACADEMIC INITIATIVES:

Policy and Procedure Review with Suggested Revisions: Over time, inconsistencies and inaccuracies have crept into our university faculty policies. This has been a source of complaint from faculty, and certainly potential difficulties. Accordingly, the Provost’s Office is working, in consultation with Faculty Senate, various academic units and the Office of General Counsel, to edit and bring into harmony the following policies:

Carr P. Collins Outstanding Professor: Dr. Michael F. Korpi, Professor of Communication Studies and Director of the Telecommunication Division of the Department of Communications Studies, was voted by the senior students as the 2006 Carr P. Collins Outstanding Professor. Required to deliver a special lecture on a subject of his or her choice during the spring semester, Korpi delivered his presentation on May 8. The recipient was recognized at spring commencement and received a cash award of $10,000.

Cornelia Marschall Smith Professor of the Year Award: Dr. Kevin Pinney, Professor of Chemistry was selected by a faculty committee as this year’s recipient of the Cornelia Marschall Smith Professor of the Year. On an annual basis a faculty member who makes a superlative contribution to the learning environment at Baylor by exemplary teaching, research, and service receives this $20,000 award. Dr. Pinney will present a public lecture during the fall semester.

Master Teacher Designation: Baylor awarded the master teacher distinction, Baylor’s highest faculty honor, to the following faculty members during the fall performances of Pigskin Revue: Dr. D. Thomas Hanks, Jr., Professor of English, and Dr. Gerald R. Powell, The Abner V. McCall Professor of Evidence at Baylor Law School.

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PERSONNEL:

Effective May 1, the Office of the executive Vice President and Provost was restructured. At that time the titles of the Vice Provosts were adjusted to reflect more precisely their areas of responsibility: Naymond H. Keathley, Senior Vice Provost; James Bennighof, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Policy; Elizabeth Davis, Vice Provost for Financial and Academic Administration; Larry Lyon, Vice Provost for Institutional Effectiveness; and Truell Hyde, Vice Provost for Research.

Debi Talley joined Carol McCullough and Donna Stewart to complete the support staff. She works directly with Vice Provosts Davis, Bennighof, and Keathley.

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SENIOR VICE PROVOST Naymond H. Keathley

In the reorganization of the Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost, nine institutes and centers which answered to the Provost but which were independent of each other and not directly related to any of the colleges and schools were placed under one umbrella to be supervised by the Senior Vice Provost. These units include the Center for Christian Ethics, the Center for International Education, the Center for Jewish Studies, the Center for Ministry Effectiveness and Educational Leadership, the Center for Religious Inquiry across the Disciplines, the Institute for Faith and Learning, the Institute of Oral History, Baylor University Press, and the Mayborn Museum Complex. The directors of the units will now meet together five times each year (twice each semester and once in the summer) to relate to each other, to communicate about the activities of each unit, and to share mutual concerns. The first meeting was held May 23.

In addition to assisting the Provost as needs arise, the Senior Vice Provost has also been charged:

• To supervise the support staff in the Provost’s Office (meetings are now held bi- weekly);

• To study and recommend new initiatives for increasing summer enrollments (one “think tank” session with selected faculty has been held and a Summer Enrollment Task Force is being formed);

• To assist with or conduct as needed administrative interviews with prospective faculty (five interviews were conducted in May);

• To work with Elizabeth Davis in Faculty Development (planning is underway for the New Faculty Orientation and the New Faculty Mentoring Program);

• To work with Elizabeth Davis in scheduling and planning the fall meeting of the Big 12 Provosts Meeting which Baylor will host (meeting has been coordinated with Larry Lyon who will host the Big 12 Graduate Deans at the same time, November 5-6);

• To have conferences with students, faculty, and staff about particular complaints or issues.

3 VICE PROVOST FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS AND POLICY James Bennighof

The following responsibilities have been carried out during the 2005-06 school year by the office of the Vice Provost for Academic Administration, recently retitled Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Policy:

Regularly assigned:

• Worked with academic units throughout the university on curriculum development:

Represented Provost’s office in development and approval process for new and revised degrees, majors, minors, and concentrations, examining programs with regard to internal coherence and consistency and coordination with existing programs. Newly approved programs processed by the VPAA have included -- College of Arts and Sciences: B.A. major in Medical Humanities; -- School of Education: Dance minor; -- Graduate School and Hankamer School of Business: Joint Master of Health Administration and Master of Business Administration

Approved curriculum action forms that initiated, terminated, or (most often) revised individual courses (approximately 325 June-May).

• Monitored tenure-track review process, communicating with deans to assure that they conduct annual reviews for tenure-track faculty at appropriate times and helping to manage cases in which special circumstances apply.

• Supervised production of 2006-07 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalogs, monitored production of Seminary and Social Work Catalogs, and refined process of importing information from Banner system to catalogs.

• Monitored accreditation process for programs within Baylor, centralizing data for multi-year cycles for all accreditation processes.

• Supervised selection process for the third annual $20,000 Cornelia Marschall Smith Professor of the Year Award (received by Kevin Pinney).

• Supervised selection process for the $10,000 Collins Outstanding Professor Award (received by Michael Korpi).

• Participated in Provost interviews of prospective faculty.

• Monitored distance learning courses taught by other institutions in Texas.

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• Supervised Director of Baylor University Press during a year of continued growth and consolidation (additional details provided in separate report).

• Supervised Director of the Mayborn Natural Science & Cultural History Museum Complex (additional details provided in separate report).

• Supervised Director of Oral History Institute (additional details provided in separate report).

• Participated with Provost’s office in policy development and responses to faculty concerns.

• Monitored submission of faculty workload reports to Office of Information Management and Testing Services.

• Represented Provost’s office on Student-Athlete Task Force.

• Represented Provost’s office in Crisis Management efforts, both in responding to Hurricane Rita and in developing long-range Crisis Management plan.

• Coordinated faculty who organized Baylor’s Constitution Day presentation in September.

• Monitored and assisted with the process of resolving student overload problems during the 2005 summer sessions.

• Represented Provost’s office in some regards with respect to international programs—assisted in visit and discussions with St. Andrews University regarding the establishment of a Baylor study abroad program there; continued communication with United Board for Christian Higher Education about Baylor’s hosting of their Fellows.

• Traveled on student recruiting trip to Oklahoma in January.

• Represented Provost’s office at conference of the Greater Western Library Alliance, exploring issues of changing technology and dissemination of research.

• Participated on committee charged with revising the Honor Code for the University.

• Maintained contact with some activities related to the fine arts at the University.

• Maintained association with home unit, the School of Music, teaching one class in the fall and several individual students in the spring, participating in departmental matters, and continuing personal creative and professional efforts.

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• With Tiffany Hogue, Assistant Provost, continued process of reviewing all faculty personnel policies and working with the administration, Faculty Senate, and other applicable parties to (1) ensure that policies reflect current practice; (2) make policies clear and consistent with one another; (3) reach approval for policy revisions that were already underway; (4) make urgently-needed policy revisions; and (5) keep a record of additional policy issues so that they could be addressed after the initial process was completed.

• Represented Provost’s office in an ad hoc capacity with respect to occasional issues such as parental concerns, potential external sponsorship of new programs, etc.

6 VICE PROVOST FOR FINANCIAL & ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATION Elizabeth Davis

The Vice Provost for Financial and Academic Administration serves as a link between the Provost’s Office and other parts of the university for which an academic presence is desired. Additionally, faculty development activities fell under this purview during 2005-2006. In the future, faculty development programs will be shared with the Senior Vice Provost.

Financial and Administrative Activities

Any financial matter requiring Provost approval is managed by the Vice Provost for Financial and Academic Administration. Many times faculty or deans will call for guidance on an issue before putting forth a formal request. Therefore, a lot of my time is spent in an advisory capacity. The following list includes some of my activities this year: • Salary/raise pool management for all academic units – managed the salary amounts as well as advised on contract negotiations involving financial commitments from the university. • Summer sabbatical/semester leave – worked with the Provost to evaluate sabbatical recommendations from deans and/or sabbatical committees and to determine recipients of these leaves within budget constraints. • Faculty position requests – worked with the Provost and VP for Finance and Administration to evaluate academic unit requests for faculty positions and to determine how the limited funds were to be allocated among the units. • Staff positions requests – worked with the Provost and VP for Finance and Administration to evaluate academic unit requests for staff positions and to determine how the limited funds were to be allocated among the units. • Worked with various academic units to solve resource needs, e.g., helped the School of Social Work and Truett Seminary secure the funding for and interview for a joint budget officer.

I met monthly with the following Financial and Administrative committees headed by Reagan Ramsower: • Personnel Matters Committee • Financial Modeling Team • Accounting and Financial Reporting review

Finally, the Director of the Retired Professors and Administrators Program reports to me. The program runs very well on its own, though sometimes the director needs some financial resources for the program or representation to the Provost on an issue.

7 Enrollment Management

Activities with the Enrollment Management group were largely dominated by the retention task force and the desire to improve retention among our students. I chaired the Common Experiences task force which was charged to evaluate, modify and create programs for incoming freshmen. That was a daunting task this year, and much of my time was consumed with this group, including a First Year Conference in February where I learned best practices at other universities. In addition to tweaking Welcome Week and Orientation, the task force developed University 1000. This program is designed to replace what was known as Chapel Fridays, and will serve to help transition students from high school to college. A smaller group of task force members (Jimmy Diaz- Granados, Betsy Vardaman, Glenn Blalock and I) created curriculum and recruited and trained faculty and staff leaders. The program will go “live” during Welcome Week 2006, and by all accounts, faculty are excited to be involved with this program. This same Common Experiences task force created a Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) for University 1000 that has now been combined with an undergraduate research program (QEP) for consideration by the President’s Executive Council.

Other activities with Enrollment Management included involvement with admission policies/decisions for the Fall 2006 class, development of a clearer university withdrawal process, and a presentation at a recruiting reception in Katy, TX.

Faculty Development Activities

The New Faculty Orientation was held for the seventh year on August 15 – 16, 2005. Twenty new incoming tenured and tenure-track faculty members participated in the orientation, which introduced them to the mission and culture of Baylor. Topics on day one included a faculty panel on faith and learning, the history of Baylor and calling as a Christian teacher/scholar. Day two took on a more operational flavor with topics including library and electronic resources, faculty policies, procedures and the law, enrollment and retention issues, and research support.

In addition, an orientation for new lecturers was held on August 15, 2005. Twenty-one new lecturers participated.

A second faculty development initiative, the New Faculty Mentoring program, entered its seventh year. Each new professor was paired with a tenured faculty member either in the new faculty member's department or in a closely related department. The tenured faculty member was asked to mentor the new faculty member and to help him or her become integrated into the Baylor community. As part of the mentoring program, the new faculty members met twice each semester for dinner on Tuesday evenings after which they heard presentations from senior Baylor faculty on student learning and engagement, grants and contracts, the tenure process, and publishing. Twenty-three new faculty and their mentors participated in the program.

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Dr. Laine Scales, Associate Professor of Social Work and Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Professional Development, and by Dr. Thomas Hanks, Professor of English directed the annual Summer Faculty Institute May 31 – June 30, 2005. Faculty participants read and discussed effective teaching pedagogy, the value of technology for teaching and research, the co-inherence of teaching and scholarship, and integrating faith and learning in teaching and scholarship.

The Faculty Development Committee awarded over $13,000 in University Teaching Grants to 15 Baylor Faculty Members. These grants are available in amounts up to $1,000 to support faculty expenses (travel, conference fees, etc.) that relate directly to improving in-class teaching. The committee decided at their final meeting in May 2005 to increase the grant award to a maximum of $1,500 for the next academic year. The committee also endorsed the Quality Enhancement Plan for a Center for Teaching and Learning. The Vice Provost for Financial and Academic Administration served on the QEP team to quantify the financial impact of the plan.

Other Activities • Inauguration Steering Committee • Vice President for Development Search Committee • NCAA Steering Committee • SACS review for non-academic departments • Ben Williams Scholarship Program review • Willow Creek Planning Team • Graduation marshal • Chapel Friday leader

9 VICE PROVOST FOR RESEARCH Truell Hyde

The primary goals of the Office of Vice Provost for Research are to nourish and strengthen both undergraduate and graduate research at Baylor University in direct support of Vision 2012. To accomplish these goals requires the cultivation of a research climate on campus as well as the altering of perception off campus. The Vice Provost for Research is charged with changing both of these by providing the resources and infrastructure necessary to allow Baylor’s current faculty to pursue external grants and contracts successfully while establishing the environment needed for Baylor to recruit and retain top-tier students and faculty.

Academic Year 2005/2006 Initiatives

• Establish a One-Stop Shop for Research in Pat Neff Hall • Status – Both the VPR and the OSP Offices are located within Pat Neff. The OSP office was completely restructured in December of 2005 and a new Director and Assistant Director put in place. The new director (Russell Brewer) has been involved in grants research administration for over seventeen years with his most recent position prior to Baylor being Texas A&M where he was the Director of the OSP (TEES). In addition, a new grants person and a new electronic research administrator have been added to the Office of Sponsored Programs during the past year. Additional information can be found at www.baylor.edu/osp. • An Assistant Vice Provost for Research (Jan Nimmo) was hired in the spring 2006 semester. Ms. Nimmo comes to Baylor with experience in research administration and technology transfer as the Director of the OU OSP. The faculty also have access to both a Research Project Manager and a web programmer through the Office of the VPR. Development of IP/tech transfer capability continues with the completion and approval of an updated IP policy, the addition of a paralegal to strengthen overall compliance control, ongoing training for personnel within the VPR office and Office of General Counsel and the establishment of the Committee on Intellectual Property, Technology & Commercialization. Additional information can be found at www.baylor.edu/research.

• Establish electronic grants management for the faculty and administration • Status – COEUS (MIT’s electronic grants management software) was purchased in the spring of 2006 to provide Baylor faculty and staff with a fully integrated electronic grants management system. The initial software implementation phase (OSP, Budget, HR, VPR) is scheduled to be completed by August, 2006. Subsequent phases (scheduled for implementation during the spring of 2007) will provide Baylor faculty with a powerful tool for personal grants management as well as increased efficiency for grant submission. Once active, COEUS will also give the VPR access to numerous reporting options currently not available. Additional information can be found at coeus.mit.edu.

10 • Establish electronic compliance management on the web • Status – The initial compliance module (IRB) is now on-line with a second (IACUT) scheduled to become active within the next year. A stand-alone compliance website is under development and scheduled to be on-line by September, 2006. • All research committees as required by federal law have been examined and modified (where necessary) to insure compliance. Ongoing compliance efforts are being conducted out of the VPR and OSP offices. This has been greatly enhanced by the appointment within OSP of a grants compliance person.

• Provide expanded electronic research databases at a single on-campus website • Status – Baylor continues to hold subscriptions to the major electronic research databases including the Community of Science, the Grant Advisor, GrantsNet, the Illinois Researcher Information Service and InfoEd International. All databases are on-line and accessible to any faculty member through the research website. Training and support is also available via the Office of the VPR and Electronic Libraries. Additional information can be found at www.baylor.edu/vpr/index.php?id=16698.

• Establish an enhanced Baylor research presence on the web • Status – Baylor’s research website is now on-line at two separate sites. The first is located at www.baylor.edu/research and is designed to act as a PR site for Baylor scholarship. The second is located at www.baylor.edu/vpr and acts as the primary internal faculty research support site. Both sites are scheduled to undergo major upgrades over the coming year. The VPR electronic research e-newsletter is now published on a semester schedule.

• Provide upgraded research infrastructure • Computing resources • Status - I2 capability will be completed this calendar year.

• Establish an on-going Baylor research presence at the national level • Status – Visits by the VPR continue with various NSF, DOE, DOL, Department of Education, FAA and NASA divisions, as have visits with Baylor’s representatives in both the House and Senate. These newly opened connections have resulted in the President and VPR being invited by Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson to attend the annual meeting of the Texas Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine since its inception. (www.tamest.org) • Seven appropriation requests were submitted to the Texas delegation during early 2005 in concert with the Office of Public Affairs covering multiple research initiatives. • Visits to Los Alamos and Sandia National Labs as well as meetings with the British Consul-General have been accomplished.

11 • The faculty ‘inside the beltway’ travel program is on-line as well with Baylor faculty visiting the BNL, DOE, NCSE, NIH, NSF and the NREL over the past several years alone. • In September of 2005, Baylor University was awarded membership in the Universities Space Research Association, a private non-profit organization established by the National Academy of Sciences. This independent consortium, established in 1969, is comprised of 97 U.S. universities offering graduate programs in space sciences or aerospace engineering. USRA member institutions act together as a council providing research and program guidance to NASA, with NASA grants and contracts funding most USRA activities. (www.usra.edu) • During the spring 2006 semester, Baylor University was awarded "research university" status with "high research activity." Recently, the Carnegie Foundation developed three new categories of doctorate-granting institutions: research universities with "very high" research activity, research universities with "high" research activities, and doctoral/research universities. The new classification moves Baylor into a category with such universities as Auburn, Boston College, Brigham Young, Clemson, Georgetown, Temple, Texas Tech, Nevada, Oklahoma and Wake Forest. Substantial research institutions, such as Cal Berkeley, Harvard, the University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M, are included in the "very high" research category. Additional information can be found at www.baylor.edu/pr/news.php?action=story&story=40799.

• Establish an on-going Baylor presence at the local and state level and with regional industry • Status – Visits by the VPR with the city and various local and state agencies continue. Additionally, Baylor now has several collaborative agreements with the city or local industrial partners in place as delineated in the 2006 Baylor Research Magazine. • As part of the continuing effort to reach outside the University, Baylor research commercials are now playing on the website, Baylor TV and during various sporting events. The third issue of Baylor’s research magazine was mailed in March of this year (and is available in pdf format on the web under the research website) with next year’s issue currently under development. The current Research magazine is structured around the interaction between Baylor faculty and local, regional and national industry with particular emphasis on the state’s cluster initiative. Copies of Research06 can be found at www.baylor.edu/research/index.php?id=19942.

• Establish an on-going Baylor presence at the Big 12 level • Status – The VPR continues to serve as a member of the operating committee for the Big 12 Center for Economic Development, Innovation and Commercialization. This group is exploring methods for leveraging the academic strength of the Big 12 in research endeavors. Being at the table offers valuable opportunities for Baylor faculty.

12 • Provide expanded grant / research resources at a single on-campus site • Status – The restructured URC program now provides faculty with expanded research opportunities while VPR internal funding programs allow matching grants funding, large equipment proposal funding, schlorship support program funding and faculty beltway travel funding. Program details, guidelines and application procedures can be found on the research website in addition to ‘lay abstracts’ of the final reports for previous year’s awardees. Numerous training programs are also in place including grant-writing workshops (at least twice a year) that are open to all faculty and staff. Additional information can be found at www.baylor.edu/vpr/index.php?id=16766.

• Establish an enhanced Baylor research presence on campus • Status – VPR Colloquium Series – The Office of the VPR continues to bring outstanding scholars to campus on a regular basis as part of the VPR Colloquium series. During the spring 2006 semester, Nobel Laureate Dr. Russell Hulse (1993 Nobel Prize in Physics) presented a talk on the discovery of the binary pulsar as part of the VPR’s faculty research appreciation program. A list of current and past speakers is available on the research website.

• Establish a Baylor research / commercialization presence on campus • Status – Baylor Advance Research Institute (BARI) – Preliminary steps have been taken to establish the BARI as a Commercialization Center on the Baylor campus. Once accomplished this will allow appropriate leveraging of the old physics / chemistry space to provide start-ups with a full range of support.

VPR Direct Reports

Office of Sponsored Programs

Proposals/Grant Awards For the 2005-06 fiscal year (the most current figures available), the Office of Sponsored Programs and Contracts submitted 161 proposals to external funding sources in the amount of $44,270,316. Actual expenditures for the 2005-06 fiscal year totaled $9,903,637.

Grant Proposals Submitted During Fiscal Year (June 1 through May 31) 161

Faculty Receiving All or Part of Their Summer Pay Off Grants and Contracts 56*

Total Amount Requested Through Externally Submitted Proposals $44,270,316

Total Expeditures (grants and contracts) Awarded During Fiscal Year $9,903,637

*Anticipated number – Actual data will not be available until after closing

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Institute for Air Science Center for Renewable Aviation Fuel Development

BIAS had 50 students enrolled in various classes and 13 graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Aviation Sciences. BIAS students re-established the flight club during 2005/2006 reorganizing it as “The Baylor Aviation Organization.” They have been active with local Boy Scout troops teaching the aviation merit badge and speaking at troop meetings. They have also organized their attendance and exhibit at an air show in Kingsville, Texas, helping to recruit new students and have been a great asset at the Baylor Spring and Fall Premieres. We were all pleasantly surprised when parents of current students stood during the spring premiere and gave testimony praising our program and how it had benefited their sons. Many BIAS students are taking part in research activities, some of them providing their time on a volunteering basis, others being paid by grants and contracts. BIAS added three new graduate students to the IMES graduate program with students from Florence and Portugal visiting Baylor and a Baylor student sent to Lisbon under the IMES/FIPSE scholarship. Despite losing the BIAS Assistant Director (Monty Suffern) and a part time lecturer (Bobby Dimitrov), which created a great strain on the administrative end of the department, BIAS was able to find temporary solutions that worked well for our students. We had our first graduate teaching assistant filling the part-time lecturer void. His first student evaluation was extremely good and he is a real asset to our department. Larry Olson from ASU also helped us during the past year filling the need for an atmospheric scientist to teach air quality and atmospheric chemistry classes. He was able to teach a course since his university is a partner in the FIPSE grant we were awarded from the US Department of Education. We are very hopeful that the precarious situation of BIAS will be rectified during the June review.

BIAS personnel participated during 2005/2006 in multiple conferences including one jointly organized by BIAS and FUNGLODE (Global Foundation for Development and Democracy) in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. BIAS personnel also participated in conferences as part of the “World Fuel and Refining Conference” in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and in meetings in Brazil with the Brazilian Aviation Authority and the USA Embassy. A conference and exhibit at the “Renewable Energy on the Hill” at the Capitol in Washington, D.C. and meetings at the FAA Technical Center in Atlantic City were also attended. A paper was presented at the IASH Conference in Barcelona Spain and a presentation was made at the International Symposium on Alcohol Fuels (ISAF). (Grazia Zanin is a member of the International Organizing Committee and helped to organize the symposium with UC Riverside) in San Diego, California. A presentation to the Austin Experimental Aircraft Association chapter on “Ethanol as an Aviation Fuel” and a series of meetings at TCEQ in Austin, Texas, on the TEXAS II Air Quality Program were also attended by BIAS personnel. Additional conferences included HARC and TREIA conferences in Houston: presentations, exhibit and meetings; a

14 presentation at the Astoria Community College in Astoria, Oregon and meetings with aviation communities in Oregon and with Environ in Santa Rosa, California; Meetings in the Dominican Republic with all of the stakeholders of the Green Airport program; a University wide seminar presented by BIAS alumnus Stuart Bothwell on” Opportunities within the field of aviation;” a visit by Dr. Bill Hume, Environment Canada, to provide a seminar to the BIAS students on the Alberta’s Oil Sands environmental impacts; a visit and seminar to the BIAS students of Dr. Wolfgang Junkermann, a prominent German atmospheric scientist who had participated in the 2006 Mexico City Air Quality Study; Dr. Shauck presented a seminar to the IMES students at ASU; and a presentation and BIAS display and exhibit at the Renewable Energy Expo and Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada; A series of presentations, keynote addresses and papers were given during this month by Dr. Shauck in Florida at events organized by the Global Renewable Energy Company, in Brisbane, Australia (Ethanol 2006 Australia), in Kiev, Ukraine (Conference on “Chemmotology Problems” –Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine) and in Brussels, Belgium (Workshop on “Future Aviation Fuels” and “World Fuels and Refining Conference”). Summer 2005 funded programs included: 1. NETAC Air Quality Monitoring; 2. FAA – renewable aviation fuel programs and 3. FIPSE – IMES (International Master in Environmental Sciences) program.

Institute for Biomedical Studies

The Institute of Biomedical Studies (www.baylor.edu/biomedical_studies) awarded three Ph.D. degrees and three M.S. degrees in Biomedical Studies in 2005-2006. There were six new students accepted into the program, bringing the total enrolled to 27 with 25 working toward the Ph.D. degree and 2 toward the M.S. degree. Base Ph.D. stipends were increased to $16,500/year, although the average PhD stipend is presently $19,100 ($21,500 for students in Dallas, $17,250 for students in Waco). Two new Waco faculty members (Skurla and Willoughby) were added to the program, and three additional appointments are in progress (Baker, Brooks, and Massengale).

A primary accomplishment has been the strengthening of our formal relationship with BUMC, including the negotiation of a formal agreement between BU and BRI. This agreement resulted in a substantial increase in direct BRI support ($64,495 in 2004-2005; $131,076 in 2005-2006; $148,922 projected for 2006-2007). At least one additional PhD stipend will be paid directly by a Dallas PI, thereby increasing the overall Dallas financial support of the program. Student stipends have been increased and currently the average Dallas stipend is $21,500. Five new faculty appointments have been made for Dallas faculty (Nouri-Shirazi, Connolly, Pascual, Zurawski, and Palucka) and two additional appointments are in progress (Pollo and Chaussabel). These appointments correspond to a ~60% growth in faculty participation from Dallas. Dallas faculty participation in the development of new courses has also been substantial. BMS faculty in Dallas have been awarded >$2M in new research grants and have published a number of original manuscripts where their BU affiliation is included on papers published with BU students.

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Center for Applied Geographic and Spatial Research (CAGSR)

CAGSR (www.baylor.edu/CAGSR) provides both research and teaching support to numerous departments and administrative units at Baylor University. The Center continues to work closely with the Office of the Vice Provost for Research and other research units to identify research opportunities, put together interdisciplinary research teams and pursue funding sources in multiple venues and specialization areas. Specifically, considerable effort has gone into conducting research in developing and applying watershed water quality and quantity modeling systems. CAGSR continues to distribute the GRASS geographic information system to educational and research institutions as well as to government agencies, placing Baylor University at the forefront of this technology. CAGSR is jointly supported by the College of Arts and Sciences, the Hankamer School of Business, and the University. CAGSR staff work with faculty and staff in nine academic departments in research related activities and support, participating in funded research with faculty in the departments of geology, biology, information systems, social work, school of education and environmental studies. CAGSR staff also teach academic courses in both the College of Arts and Sciences and School of Business and are currently assisting with developing a Geography program by providing instruction and resources for GIS courses as well as physical geography coursework.

Major research initiatives within CAGSR are supported via external funding totaling over $1,000,000. In cooperation with the department of Biology and the City of Waco, CAGSR’s portion of a US-EPA funded project from 2003-2005 totals roughly $347,000 for watershed management on Lake Waco. Utilizing these monies, CAGSR is supporting four PhD candidates and two Masters candidates. CAGSR also developed the proposal for the Lake Whitney Reservoir Project, and with the assistance of the VPR and the Office of Public Affairs has been able to secure $400,000 in funding for a two-year project. This work also involves the departments of Geology and Biology. In addition to faculty and staff, this project will support two additional PhD candidates. Currently, CAGSR is working with the VPR and the Office Public Affairs to secure an additional $500,000 in funding for the project. Additional smaller funded projects have also been completed with several different departments and agencies.

Center for Astrophysics, Space Physics & Engineering Research (CASPER)

CASPER (www.baylor.edu/CASPER) continues to conduct theoretical and experimental research in astrophysics, complex plasmas, shock physics, protoplanetary evolution, grain charging within astrophysical environments, early universe cosmology, compact objects, superstring theory and M-theory. The addition of a third theoretical research group in 2006 provides Baylor students the

16 opportunity to study compact objects and black holes among other cosmological topics. All research is directly integrated into CASPER’s educational program as well as its large, high impact educational outreach programs. The Center’s three theoretical research groups operate out of the BSB on the Baylor University campus while CASPER’s experimental research is conducted within the Hypervelocity Impacts and Dusty Plasmas Lab (HIDPL) on the Texas State Technical College Waco campus. Educational research and outreach programs as well as in-service training opportunities are located on both campuses with the Physics Circus operating primarily out of the Mayborn Museum. The Center boasts a completely renovated, industry-standard lab environment utilizing research teams involving graduate through high school students, and supporting an outreach program into neighboring K-12 classrooms reaching over one thousand students during 2005/2006 alone. Directed by Dr. Truell W. Hyde, CASPER brought a second GEC rf reference cell equipped with a S100 nanomanipulator system on-line this year. The Zyvex S100 system was installed in the lab as part of a $750,000 grant and is one of only two in the United States with the other located at MIT. A two- stage light gas accelerator system is under construction to complement the existing single-stage accelerator already in use.

CASPER was accepted during 2005/2006 as a member of the Coalition for Plasma Science, a group of universities committed to plasma science research and education. (www.plasmacoalition.org) CASPER is also an integral member of the state’s nanotechnology workforce development iniative. (www.nanotechnologyworkforce.com) Finally, Baylor University and CASPER was awarded membership in the Universities Space Research Association, a private non-profit organization established by the National Academy of Sciences in September of 2005. This independent consortium, established in 1969, is comprised of 97 U.S. universities offering graduate programs in space sciences or aerospace engineering. USRA member institutions act together as a council providing research and program guidance to NASA, with NASA grants and contracts funding most USRA activities. (www.usra.edu)

CASPER faculty and staff produced over twenty-three publications and made fifteen presentations at conferences around the world during the 2005-2006 academic year. CASPER is primarily supported by external funding (conservatively over $1,000,000 last year) but is also jointly supported by the College of Arts and Sciences (Baylor University) and the Texas State Technical College at Waco. There are currently four postdoctoral fellows, twelve (12) Ph.D. students (including one from the School of Education), one (1) M.S. student and between twenty (20) and thirty (30) active undergraduates working within CASPER. Two (2) Ph.D. degrees, two (2) M.S. degrees and several B.S degrees were awarded to CASPER students during 2005-2006.

17 Center for Reservoir and Aquatics Systems Research

CRASR (www.baylor.edu/crasr) is an interdisciplinary, organization created by Baylor University in collaboration with the City of Waco to foster needed inter- and multidisciplinary research focused on aquatic resources. Although only in its third year of existence, CRASR is already making a significant difference in regional water-related issues. CRASR is directed by Dr. Robert Doyle (Biology) and the Baylor Board of Directors consists of Steve Dworkin (Geology), Bryan Brooks (Environmental Studies) and Joseph White (Biology).

CRASR added both staff and faculty during the 2005/2006 year. A staff lab manager (Mr. Thad Scott) was hired on external funds and under his direction, the CRASR lab is now compliant with EPA mandated QA/QC methods for analysis. Dr. Jason Belden (Env. Studies) also joined CRASR during the fall semester and will provide much-needed expertise in aquatic chemistry to CRASR. Additionally, the hiring of Dr. Emily Willingham (Biology) will soon bring expertise in endocrine disruptors impacting vertebrates in aquatic environments.

To facilitate EPA funding, CRASR developed an EPA Quality Management Plan (QMP) that was approved during 2005/2006 by EPA. This provides CRASR the capacity to run projects under high-quality QA/QC guidelines. Dr. Steve Dworkin serves as CRASR’s QA officer. This past year CRASR also made significant progress in developing a shared lab facility and an outdoor experimental facility (the Baylor Experimental Aquatic Research- BEAR Facility). The primary CRASR lab (located in BSB C.343) is a shared lab which is now equipped with over $100,000 in analytical equipment paid for either from funded projects or from Baylor start-up funds. Current equipment includes a Lachate Autoanalyzer, a Total Organic Carbon Analyzer, a Tissue Digesting System and a HPLC Analytical System.

CRASR also developed several major research efforts during 2005/2006. These include the Lake Waco Comprehensive Study (over $1.1 million of project funds were used by CRASR scientists to evaluate key water-quality related issues for this reservoir), the Transition Zone Index Development and Validation Project (a TCEQ three-year $600,000 project to understand the key factors regulating water quality in the “transition zones” of reservoirs), the Nutrient Criteria for Wadeable Streams (USEPA - $210,000), the Refinement and Validation of Habitat Quality Indices (HQI) and Aquatic Life Use (ALU) Indices for Application to Assessment and Monitoring of Texas Surface Waters ($132,000 - TCEQ via TAMU), and the Lake Whitney Comprehensive Assessment: Phase I. ($1.07 million in federal appropriations through the office of the VPR and contracted to CRASR via USEPA and DOE).

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Reports of the Deans of the College and Schools

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COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES Deleted:

Lee Nordt, Interim Dean ______

The College of Arts and Sciences is the foundation upon which all Baylor students’ educational experiences build. Skills in critical thinking, problem solving, and oral and written communication are informed by introductory courses such as religion, literature, the arts, science, history, and politics. Under the expert mentoring of our faculty, over half of the undergraduate students at Baylor combine these experiences with advanced development of their minds and capabilities within our 26 undergraduate departments and affiliated degrees, and 23 Master’s and 15 doctoral programs. Upon graduation they are prepared to move successfully toward additional degrees or directly into the world of work. It is our great hope that the culture of discovery, the commitment to civil society, and the Christian values that undergird the academic community at Baylor not only will Deleted: - nourish our students’unique, individual lives, but will also foster their development as imaginative, engaged leaders who will use their skills and character to address the needs and challenges of the larger world.

This report organizes accomplishments of the 2005-2006 academic year, according to the applicable 2012 imperatives.

I. Teaching: The Core of Our Academic Mission

A central part of the College’s teaching mission is the creation of a community, in which students, faculty, and administrators are engaged in learning and discovery. The College has at the heart of its identity and heritage the relationship between professors and students. It continues to be important to everything we do—to enriching conversation, to serving others, and to nurturing the life of discovery. In 2005-06, more than 6,709 (56.7%) of the University’s undergraduate students and 592 (27.5%) of its graduate/professional students enrolled for their major fields of study in the College of Arts and Sciences.

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Number of Undergraduate Student Majors 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 5,333 5,203 5,339 5,589 5,763 6,134 6,156 6,458 6,650 6709

Number of Graduate Students 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 529 515 484 467 518 550 557 577 607 592

Three faculty received Outstanding Faculty Awards at the May 2005 commencement ceremony:

• Dr. David Eldridge, Department of Biology, Outstanding Teaching Award for tenured faculty. • Dr. Dianna Kendall, Department of Sociology, Outstanding Research Award for tenured faculty. • Dr. Christopher Bader, Department of Sociology, Outstanding Research Award for non-tenured faculty.

The Carr P. Collins award is to honor outstanding teachers at Baylor, and the recipient is selected by vote of the senior class. This year’s recipient, Dr. Michael Korpi, Professor and Director of the Telecommunications Division of the Department of Communication Studies, is a producer of documentaries and researcher in new communication technologies.

The Cornelia Marchall Smith Award for outstanding undergraduate teaching was awarded to Dr. Kevin Pinney, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry. His specialty area is organic chemistry with an emphasis on anti-cancer research from which he has received significant research funding and numerous patents, published in top-tier journals, and conducted numerous speaking engagements.

Dr. Eric Rust received the 2005-06 Baylor Centennial Professor Award for his research project on “How Christmas Became the Celebration of the German Tree of Life: The Repaganization of a Christian Feast in Hitler’s Navy.”

Dr. Rosalie Beck received the Distinguished Service Award for Outstanding Contributions to Baptist History from the Baptist History and Heritage Society.

21 In 2005, the College celebrated the contributions of the following retiring professors:

• Sociology professor Tillman Rodabaugh (34 years) • Communication Sciences & Disorders professor David Rivers (25 years) • English professor J.R. LeMaster (25 years) • Religion professor Daniel McGee (40 years) • Religion professor W. Winfred Moore (16 years)

The College expresses its gratitude for their teaching, scholarship, and service and for the impact they have made on our academic programs and on our community as a whole.

A significant part of this teaching contribution and commitment to student learning is revealed in the 2004 report of the Washington-based American Council of Trustees and Alumni, which inspected the core requirements of undergraduate programs at fifty leading universities in the United States. These universities ranged from those in the Ivy League, the Big Eight, and the Big Twelve to the Seven Sister Universities in New England and the Atlantic Coast Conference. In its report, The Hollow Core: Failure of the General Education Curriculum, a Fifty College Study, the Council named Baylor University as the only institution to receive a grade of A. The benefits of a core curriculum, the report emphasizes, are three-fold: a true core helps develop the writing, quantitative, and analytical skills necessary to perform well in our contemporary economy; the core nurtures habits of mind and thought essential to a democratic society; a core curriculum enriches the person—and without it “students are apt to miss out on their best opportunity to partake of the life-enriching elements of our civilization— literature, philosophy, art, music.”

Great teaching is difficult to measure, but all of us recognize and feel its impact. The following are representative examples of academic and servant leadership displayed by College of Arts and Sciences students through competitions, internships, and service to the community:

• Aerospace Studies. Despite a 30% nationwide reduction in AFROTC scholarships, Baylor’s detachment yielded is largest scholarship class ever.

• Art. Eleven students attended regional and national conferences. The Allbritton Institute sponsored student trips to The Netherlands, New York City, Chicago, and San Antonio.

• Biology. Undergraduate majors continue to grow at a rapid rate, and now total 1023. Graduate student numbers have also reached an all time high.

• Chemistry and Biochemistry. Taylor Wooten, undergraduate student of Dr. Kevin Pinney, was selected to present a Pulse Student Lecture, and in addition received the Wallace Daniel Award for Undergraduate writing.

22 • Classics. Undergraduate students won numerous ribbons at the National Greek Formatted: Bullets and Numbering Exams, including the Eta Sigma Phi Prize. The department is one of the top- ranked in the country in undergraduate education.

• Communication Studies. Forty-five students attended the National Association Formatted: Justified, Bulleted + Level: 1 + Aligned at: 25.2 pt + Tab of Broadcaster’s Convention. The Baylor Debate Team was ranked #15 in the after: 43.2 pt + Indent at: 43.2 pt, nation. Tabs: Not at 56.1 pt

• Family and Consumer Sciences. Six students participated in professional workshops and conferences. Fifty students were placed into internship programs, with five placing at nationally competitive sites and seven at state and regional competitions.

• Journalism. Numerous students won first place awards from the Texas Intercollegiate Press Association.

• Psychology/Neuroscience. Four undergraduate Honor’s theses were completed. Formatted: Justified, Bulleted + Level: 1 + Aligned at: 25.2 pt + Tab after: 43.2 pt + Indent at: 43.2 pt, • The following graduate programs are nationally ranked according to U.S. News Tabs: Not at 56.1 pt and World Report: Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders 62nd, Clinical Psychology 77th, and Biomedical Studies, 90th. According to the most recent National Research Council report the Department of Religion ranks 31st.

II. Connecting the Classroom to the World

The College supported numerous programs to connect our students with national experts in the arts, humanities and social sciences. The individuals invited to campus this year enriched our conversations and intersected our academic community in multiple ways. In 2005-06, our programs included the following:

The 23rd Annual Beall-Russell Lecture in the Humanities featured Alexander McCall Smith, who has written more than 50 books, including the nationally acclaimed No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series. Deleted: <#>¶ • The Beall Poetry Festival originated in 1994, with a generous grant from Mrs. Virginian B. Ball of Muncie, Indiana to honor her parents and encourage the writing and appreciation of poetry. In the last decade, the festival has become one of the most significant poetry festivals in the United States. The 2006 event featured internationally famous poets Heather McHugh and C.K. Williams, and Elizabeth Spires as the Virginia Beall Ball Lecture on Contemporary Poetry.

• The AFROTC Distinguished Lecturer Series brought to campus dignitaries such as Major General Charles Baldwin (Chief of Chaplains) and Mr. William Truesdell (Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force).

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• The 27th Charles Edmondson Lectures in History, was delivered by Dr. Charles Reagan Wilson, Professor of History and Provost at the University of Mississippi. He spoke on "Southern Missions: Taking Southern Religion to the World” and “The World Comes South: Globalization and Southern Religion.”

• The 12th Annual Women’s History Month Lecture was delivered by Dr. Constance B. Schulz, Professor of History at the University of South Carolina. She spoke on “Virgins and Vamps: Images of American Women in nineteenth- Century Stereographs.”

• The 13th annual J. Harry and Anna Jeanes Academic Convocation was addressed by Baylor alumnus Beau Egert, Director of Texas Governor Rick Perry’s Faith-Based and Community Initiative at the OneStar Foundation. Top students were recognized in the College of Arts and Sciences, Honors College, and Schools of Business, Education, Engineering/Computer Science, Music, Nursing, and Social Work.

• The 3rd annual Hugh and Beverly Wamble Lecture on Religious Liberty was delivered by Dr. Peter Berger, Director of the Institute on Culture, Religion and world Affairs at Boston University. Dr. Berger presented “Religion and Global Pluralism.” The lecture is co-sponsored by the J.M. Dawson Institute of Church- State Studies.

• In spring of 2006, the Herbert H. Reynolds Lecturer in the History and Philosophy of Science was Professor Alfred Tauber, Director of the Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Boston University. His address was “Science & Reason, Reason & Faith: A Kantian Perspective." • The 12th Annual Laura Blanche Jackson Lecture in World Issues was Deleted: <#>¶ delivered by Charles Hill, International Security Studies Professor at Yale University. His topic was “The Role of the U.S. in the World Today”.

• The M. D. Anderson Art Lecture, was given by Dr. David Wilkins, Professor Emeritus in the H.C. Frick Department of the History of Art at the University of Pittsburgh. He spoke on “Engaging the Spectator: Narrative Details in Italian Renaissance Religious Art.”

• The 36th Annual Gooch-Stephens Lectureship, held in the spring of 2006, featured Dr. Stephen J. Lippard, Arthur Amos Noyes Professor of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His presentations were "Platinum Anticancer Drug Chemistry--Mechanism and New Constructs" and "Non-Heme Iron and Biological Oxidation of Hydrocarbons."

24 • Martin Museum of Art/University Art Gallery Presentations featured ten exhibits in its galleries that attracted more that 6300 visitors.

• The eighth annual Allbritton Lecture was delivered by Dr. Wanda Corn on “Ways of Seeing: The Art of Normal Rockwell.”

• Professor Michael Zuckert, the Nancy R. Dreux Professor of Political Science at Notre Dame, delivered the Robert T. Miller Distinguished Lecture in Political Science.

III. Students and Faculty: Teaching through Collaboration

Collaborative research and discovery, involving students and faculty, represent a primary College initiative. In many ways, they are expressions of teaching of the highest order, in that such teaching involves students in engaging the major questions and exploring the intellectual boundaries of academic disciplines. Such efforts have always been priorities, and the College has continued this year to keep them at the forefront. Through collaborative research and discovery, education becomes a partnership, in Deleted: which the responsibility for growth belongs to everyone; intellectual connection between students and faculty, as well as between disciplines, flourish. They help to change the Deleted: culture of an institution toward collaboration. In 2005-06, we had many examples of such teaching, including the following:

• The Second Baylor Leadership Seminar was sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences and offered to twenty outstanding seniors who plan to go directly into the work force. The two-day workshop was held in the spring of 2006 and led by Mr. Louis Blair, executive director of the Truman Scholarship Foundation in Washington, D. C.

• Faculty and students in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, working collaboratively, organized and completed the third summer Camp Success program, where children with reading and language problems from the community were able to come to Baylor and improve their reading skills. The program is sponsored by the Scottish Rite.

• The students and faculty in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders provided more than 18,000 hours of speech pathology and audiology services to speech/hearing impaired individuals in the community. The speech and hearing services offered by the department is the largest outreach program to the community of any such department in the country.

• Students and faculty in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders have been working with the deaf population of Honduras on mission trips for several years. This year completes the planning phase and begins the execution of a deaf education program that is being offered for teachers of the deaf in Honduras as a joint effort between Baylor, a university in Honduras, and

25 the New Life Deaf Ministry. It will be the first time teachers in Honduras will be receiving training in deaf education.

• The ongoing feasibility study of the Waco Mammoth Site by the National Park Service (NPS) for possible inclusion into the park system is a particularly exciting project for our students. The Departments of Museum Studies and Geology are involved in various research aspects helpful the NPS special resource study team.

• The Communication Studies Department hosted six panels led by Baylor faculty and attended by majors and other students on Scholars’ Day. In the fall the debate program hosted a public debate with the Japanese International Debate Delegation.

• In May the faculty and students in the Department of Communication Studies hosted the 8th annual Black Glasses Film Festival and Screenwriting Contest, involving approximately fifty student entries.

• Professors in the College of Arts and Sciences mentored forty-three of the fifty- seven seniors who completed their research theses within the Honors Program, May 2006. The faculty of the College also contributed time and effort to many other aspects of the Honors Program, including many professors leading Honors Colloquia and supporting outstanding students’ bids to win national and international scholarships. Professors volunteered to serve on seven Fulbright interview panels, three Marshall Scholarship interview panels, eight Truman interview panels; they also wrote recommendation and endorsement letters for various competitions. Under the direction of professors in the College of Arts and Sciences, Baylor students Victor Chavez, Amelia Din, and Hannah Zdansky won Fulbright Scholarships; Jamie Gianoutsos won a Marshall Scholarship; Elaine Yeung was selected as a finalist for the Truman Scholarship; Cathryn Hughes and Holly Briggs won Goldwater Scholarships; and Kandra Stauffer won a DAAD Scholarship for study in Germany.

• Two endowments were conferred to the Geology Department: the Jeanne Spencer-Jenness Geology Library endowment and the James W. Dixon Undergraduate Field Assistant Award. Dr. Ken Carlile also provided a major gift for the renovation of the Carlile Geology Research Building.

• Within the Philosophy Department, Drs. Doug Henry, Margaret Tate, Jim Marcum and Robert Kruschwitz planned and executed the first Bio-Medical Ethics Conference in the fall of 2005, which was highlighted by a number of national speakers.

• Freshman Academic Seminars: The College offered five sections of FAS 1302 classes in fall 2005. Topics included the following: “American History through the Lens of Scholarship and the Lens of Film;” “Medicine and Meaning: Suffering, Ethics, and Hope;” “Exploration of Continental Global Food Issues;”

26 and “Law and Society in Transition (two sections). These writing-intensive courses, originally set to substitute for English 1302, are limited to 20 students and are built on challenging, cutting edge topics. Following the spring 2006 approval of requested curriculum changes, these courses will now be listed as choices in their respective core areas of the Bachelor of Arts and certain Bachelor of Science degrees. This change will allow the College to expand the range of topics and encourage further development of freshman seminars beyond the courses already being offered.

• The Baylor University Model United Nations Team had two students win awards at the Small Delegation competition at Georgetown University MUN conference and the Harvard University MUN conference.

• The Baylor Model Organization of American States (MOAS) Team won the Outstanding Delegation Award, along with six individual awards in San Antonio, Texas this past year. Dr. Joan Supplee of the Department of History is director of the MOAS program at Baylor.

IV. Strengthening the Curriculum

The primary goals of the College of Arts and Sciences are to nourish and strengthen the liberal arts and sciences that, historically, have been the core of the University’s undergraduate academic program. This core has also provided the foundation on which our graduate and professional schools have built. The College places especially high value on teaching and service, as well as scholarship and research, seeing them as interrelated and essential. Deleted:

• The Department of Statistical Science. The proposal for an undergraduate B.S. major has been approved by the Arts and Sciences curriculum committee and will be implemented the fall of 2006.

• The College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Business agreed to eliminate the Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration degree. The Business initiated the move because of poor student performance and inability to properly advise.

• The Department of Environmental Studies offered for the first time: Environmental Toxicology, Wildlife Management, and Applied General Ecology, to enhance their undergraduate program.

• Three staff members have been hired to operate the newly formed CASA (College of Arts and Sciences Advising) program to assist students and departments with annual advising of students. All departments will soon require mandatory advising of all majors.

• The Department of Communications Sciences and Disorders Speech Pathology program was re-accredited by their national accrediting agency (ASHA). The

27 Department of Family and Consumer Sciences was fully accredited in Interior Design, as well as receiving full departmental accreditation.

• The Department of Communication Studies added two new speech courses and expanded the Baylor in New York program. They, along with the Department of Journalism, are developing a proposal to create a School of Communication within the College for more effective strategic planning and fund raising.

• The Arts and Sciences curriculum Committee approved eight new course offerings for the Department of English, including an undergraduate capstone course. Five new graduate seminars were approved to bolster their Ph.D. program.

• The Department of Political Science will initiate their recently approved Ph.D. program in the fall of 2006, and the Department of History doctoral proposal is awaiting approval.

• The Department of Geology established a required grant writing course for its graduate students.

V. Supporting Teaching and Scholarship through Technology

The Arts and Sciences Technology Center (ASTC) continued to enhance the computer technology infrastructure supporting teaching and scholarship. Under the leadership of Dr. Viola Osborn, the Technology Center strengthened this infrastructure in several concrete ways:

Coordinating projects related to computer lab and presentation classroom maintenance: • In cooperation with the departments and ITS/ Electronic Library, the ASTC staff upgraded equipment in nine computer teaching labs. In addition, the College replaced equipment, including computers and projectors, in 14 presentation classrooms and assisted in the development of five new presentation classrooms for the Anthropology, Forensic Science, and Archeology Department. This fiscal year three departments received new mobile presentation units for use in multiple classroom areas.

• This year, with the cooperation of Classroom Technology Services in the Electronic Library, ASTC initiated a redesign of the control system panels for 21 of the presentation classrooms in the Baylor Sciences Building. This redesign corrects problems that the faculty noticed in the interface on the control panels. Programming of the new interface will be completed early in 2006-07. In addition, as part of the university initiative, the College of Arts & Sciences is working with ITS in the planning process for security cameras for the academic buildings. In the 2005-06 fiscal year funding was secured to purchase equipment for three buildings: Baylor Sciences Building, Castellaw Communications Center, and Sid Richardson Science Building.

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• During 2005-06 the ASTC staff worked closely with the academic departments to file stolen equipment reports, communicating with the Department of Public Safety and the Risk Management Department, and encouraging the departments to develop security measures for audio-visual and computer equipment. Loss of computer and audio-visual equipment was reported and replacement funds requested for three departments in the College.

Maintaining records of computer equipment and supporting faculty use of computer technology: • ASTC has created an accurate computer inventory for over 100 presentation classrooms and mobile units, 23 departmental computer labs, and the 1,200 computers in faculty/ staff offices and research labs in the College of Arts & Sciences. The inventory is implemented within a relational database for the classrooms and computer labs. Also, in conjunction with the Arts & Sciences Dean’s Office, the Provost’s Office, and the Office of Strategic Planning, ASTC is developing a procedure to address the policy issues and equipment specifications for grant purchases and new faculty startup purchases.

• Over the past few years, faculty within the College of Arts & Sciences began to investigate the use of classroom response systems. The Arts & Sciences Technology Center staff provided assistance to faculty who had decided to use a classroom response system (“clicker system”), known as eInstruction. We demonstrated the use of the system, installed the software in the presentation classrooms, and acted as a communication channel between the faculty member and the vendor to resolve problems. ASTC encouraged the Electronic Library to review the options for this instructional technology and to adopt central support for the faculty, once the campus selected a standard for classroom response systems. By the end of 2005, the campus selected eInstruction as the standard and reached an agreement with the vendor to provide the faculty with the needed hardware and software for classroom implementation.

• In order to prevent classroom disruption caused by malfunctioning equipment, the ASTC staff has been proactive in checking the equipment in 100 presentation facilities on a three-month rotation. We schedule demonstrations of the equipment for the faculty each week, assist faculty with departmental software on the instructor workstations, and maintain up-to-date instructions for each classroom in PDF format, accessible through the Web.

• In an effort to improve our understanding of the state of the equipment in presentation classrooms, the ASTC staff performed the analysis, design, programming, testing, and documentation of a database system with Web access to record the periodic checks of the classroom equipment. This online system is available to the ASTC staff and to the Electronic Library staff for data entry and reporting.

29 • During 2005-06, the College increased the number of technical staff that provides support to the faculty and students. First, we filled the ASTC position of Systems Application Support Specialist to work with the faculty, primarily in the sciences, on Linux/ Unix system issues. In addition, ASTC requested and received a classroom support position within the Electronic Library to provide assistance to the faculty using presentation facilities. ASTC developed a Service Level Agreement, outlining expectations for classroom support provided by the new staff member. This position will be filled early in the 2006-07 fiscal year.

College of Arts & Sciences Expenditures for Instructional Technology, 1998-2005

Year 1998-99 1999-00 2000-01 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06

Expenditures 697,571 551,270 717,725 989,790 1,200,416 587,245* $415,536 $405,690**

*The expenditure lines for technology were cut twice, in October 2003 and January 2004, from the original budget of $1,128,025. **Preliminary data, as of May 31, 2006.

VI. Developing an Outstanding Faculty

The academic year 2005-06 saw numerous awards and appointments recognizing faculty achievements for teaching, scholarship, and service beyond the Baylor campus. These recognitions are part of a sustained effort to connect the community to a larger regional, national, and international setting. Graduating seniors, in speaking about their experiences at Baylor, repeatedly have emphasized professors who cared for them as individuals, who nurtured them, opened them up to a larger world, pushed them to reach beyond themselves, encouraged them to discover, and challenged them to excel. Such qualities may be found in the faculty whose contributions were recognized, in various ways, this year as follows:

• Dr. Gordon Stone, Robert A. Welch Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, was recognized by a special issue of the journal Inorganica Chimica Acta. The issue surveyed his contributions to chemistry and carried 37 scientific articles by contemporary inorganic chemists dedicated to the career of Professor Stone.

• Dr. Cory Carbonara, Department of Communication Studies, continues to in his appointment by the White House to serve as a delegate to the International Telecommunications Union.

30 • The second Horton Foote American Playwrights Festival was held in the fall of 2005, honoring playwright Romulus Linney. The event featured the professional production of Heathen Valley.

• Dr. Stan Denman and Marion Castleberry, Department of Theatre Arts, won national accolades by their performances in Horton Foote’s play The Traveling Lady, the first professional Off-Broadway Production in New York City by Baylor faculty. It resulted in a nomination for the prestigious Drama Desk Nomination for Outstanding Revival of a Play.

• Dr. Jay Dittman, Department of Physics, led an invitation for Baylor to join one of the world’s largest experimental physics collaborations at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago. The collaboration consists of only 59 universities from around the world.

• From the Department of Theatre Arts, Professor DeAnna Toten Beard’s original play God and Mammon was selected for the Water Tower Out-of-the-Loop Festival in Addison, Texas and for the Ensemble Studio Theatre’s Octoberfest in New York City.

• Dr. Naymond Keathley, Department of Religion, was appointed Senior Vice- Provost and Dr. Randall O’Brien Executive Vice-President and Provost at Baylor University.

• Dr. Jeter Badsen, Department of Religion, received the Lewis W. Newman Award from the In-Service Guidance Association for excellence and leadership in the ISGA national professional organization.

• Dr. Jack Tubbs, chair of the Department of Statistical Science, is serving as president of the Southern Regional Committee on Statistics.

• Dr. M.B. Frisch was the invited keynote speaker at The Health Professional’s Conference in the People’s Republic of China.

VII. Connecting Research to Teaching and the Classroom

The university looks not only inward but outward to society, to which it has provided enormous benefits. A large part of the wealth of our nation has come from ideas generated on our campuses, ideas that have contributed to the health of our citizens, and not only their physical, but also their mental health. During a time which places so much emphasis on the here and now and on digestible slogans, it is the liberal arts and sciences that especially promote the capacity for reflection, for thinking beyond the exigencies of the moment, and for cultivating the life of the mind. The increased attention given to scholarship, professional presentations, and external funding is part of an effort to increase the national visibility of our academic programs.

31 The following represents only a sampling of the publications this year:

• Dr. Kieran McNulty, articles in Modern Morphometrics in Physical Anthropology, Journal of Human Evolution, and the American Journal of Physical Anthropology.

• Drs. Bryan Brooks and Kevin Chambliss, “Determination of Select Antidepressants in Fish from an Effluent-Dominated Stream,” Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 24:464-469.

• Dr. Alden Smith, The Primacy of Vision in Virgil’s Aneneid, The University of Texas Press.

• Dr. Lorynn Divita, "And why do you worry about clothes?: Environmental ethics and the textile complex,” Perspectives on Science and the Christian Faith 57:34-42.

• Dr. Jeff Hamilton, “The character of Edward II: The letters of Edward and Caernarfon reconsidered,” in The Age of Edward II, ed. G. Dodd and A. Musson, Boydell & Brewer Ltd, UK.

• Christopher Bader, Carson Mencken, James Parker, “Where have all of the communes gone?”: Factors influencing the success and failure of religious and non-religious communes, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 45:(1).

• Mikeal Parsons, Heidi Hornik, Illuminating Luke: The public ministry of Christ in Italian renaissance Painting, T&T Clark International.

• DeAnna Toten Beard, “The power of Woman’s influence: Nineteenth-century temperance theatricality and the drama of Nellie H. Bradley,” Theatre History Studies 26.

• Hui Chang, Jesse Oakes, Anders Olsson, Luminita Panaitescu, Mark Britt, Christopher Kearny, Robert Kane, “Synthesis and in vitro biological evaluation of aminal and thioaminal analogues of cordycepin,” Letters in Drug Design & Discovery 2:133-136.

• The Department of Art faculty displayed work in 10 international juried exhibitions, 25 national juried exhibitions, and 13 regional juried exhibitions.

• The Department of Biology faculty published 22 journal articles and delivered 44 papers at professional conferences

• The Department of English faculty published over 40 journal articles and three books.

32 • The Department of Geology faculty published 20 journal articles.

• The Department of Philosophy faculty published 3 books, edited 10 books, published 18 journal articles, and delivered 75 presentations.

• The Department of Psychology and Neuroscience faculty published 16 journal articles and gave 26 presentations at professional conferences.

• The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry faculty published 56 journal articles, books, technical reports, and chapters in books; filed and received eighteen patents; and made thirty-nine presentations at national and regional meetings.

• The Department of Statistical Science faculty published 35 journal articles, and gave 10 presentations at national and international meetings.

• The Department of Political Science faculty published 2 textbooks, 2 journal articles, delivered 4 presentations at national and international meetings, and gave more than 25 public lectures, speeches, and interviews.

• The Department of Physics faculty participated in over 60 scholarly publications and proceedings, and attended 28 conferences.

• The Department of Mathematics faculty published more than 40 journal articles.

College of Arts and Sciences Expenditures for Faculty Development (Travel), 1998-2005

Year 1998-99 1999-00 2000-01 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06

Expenditures 257,256 328,478 345,179 398,809 451,804 400,984 $404,127 $452,109 (in dollars) *Preliminary data as of May 31, 2006

College of Arts & Sciences Summer Faculty Sabbatical Awards, 1998-2005

Year 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 Number 20 19 21 26 33 29 31 31 32 of Awards

33 College of Arts and Sciences Graduate Support, 1998-2005

Year 1998-99 1999-00 2000-01 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06

Stipends 3,279,228 3,436,130 3,785,014 4,337,958 6,255,453 7,256,538 $8,498,229 $8,498,229 & Tuition (in dollars) Stipends 1,744,029 1,815,211 2,009,345 2,777,619 2,933,001 3,175,737 $3,665,064 $3,915,378

VIII. Developing External Resources to Support Teaching and Research

While grant-writing has been for many years a part of Baylor’s academic culture, especially in some departments, the last four years have seen a significant expansion of these efforts. We still have a considerable distance to travel before reaching the level we need to attain. In conjunction with the Office of Sponsored Programs, the Vice Provost for Research, and departmental chairpersons, the College has supported an infrastructure encouraging an increased number of grant submissions. Such trends suggest not only aspirations, but engagement and prominence nationally. Some examples are as follows:

• In the Department of Biology, eight faculty managed a total of twenty-three grants at a total annual value of approximately $1,600,000.

• In the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry had over $1,000,000 in grant proposals funded.

• The Department of Geology faculty were awarded approximately $500,000 in external grant funding.

• The Department Communication Sciences and Disorders raised more than $350,000 in grants, gifts, and endowments.

• The Department of Physics faculty received 13 grants, including $360,000 from the Department of Energy.

• The Department of Political Science received $127,000 in grants for support of post-doctoral and graduate students.

• The Department of Psychology and Neuroscience maintained $241,000 of external grants, including one from the National Institute of Health.

• The Department of Statistical Science received a three-year grant from the Eli Lilly Foundation for $225,000.

34 • In the Department of Sociology and CRIAD faculty are managing more than $5,000,000 in external grants, including from the Bureau of Justice Research, the Lilly Foundation, and the Texas Governor’s Office.

• The Department of Environmental Studies, working collaboratively with other departments, closed $567,572 in external grants, continued to manage $747,643 in external grants, and brought in $790,426 in new external grants.

College of Arts and Sciences Grant Proposals, 1998-2006

Year Number of Grant Number of Grant Proposals Proposals Funded 1998 56 20 1999 56 22 2000 55 24 2001 66 32 2002 68 27 2003 85 21 2004 (spring semester only) 54 16 2005 118 20 2006 72 44* *grants written in 2005 or 2006 and awarded in 2006

IX. New Appointments

Searches were concluded for new chairpersons in several departments in the College. It is pleasing to report that, in each of these cases, offers were extended to the department’s top choice, following discussions between the search committee (where applicable) in each department and the administration.

• Dr. Jamie Diaz-Granados, Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, internal appointment as departmental chair.

• Dr. David Garrett, Associate Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders, internal appointment as departmental chair.

• Dr. Lance Littlejohn, Professor of Mathematics at Utah State University, as chair of the Department of Mathematics.

• Colonel Daniel Leonard, Vice-Wing Commander at Lajes Field, Azores, Protugal, as Commander of AFROTC.

35 • Dr. Jonathan Kvanvig, chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Missouri, as Distinguished Professor of Philosophy.

• In the fall term of 2006, we will be privileged to welcome 16 new assistant, associate, and full professors to the faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences. These candidates were recommendation by the department to the administration and were subsequently approved. The new faculty received their doctoral degrees from universities such as Notre Dame, Penn State, Virginia, and Texas.

X. Initiate Outstanding New Academic Programs in Selected Areas

In October of 2004 the Board of Regents approved upgrading the Medical Humanities Formatted: Justified, Indent: Left: minor to a program and moving it into the College of Arts and Sciences, making Baylor 0 pt, First line: 0 pt one of the few institutions in the country with a Medical Humanities Program for undergraduates. The program promises to further strengthen Baylor’s tradition of participation and leadership in healthcare education, and will give Baylor premed and pre-health students a distinct advantage when they apply for admission to medical schools and other health professional schools. This year the faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences unanimously approved the Medical Humanities major because of student demand. Drs. James Marcum and Michael Attas continue to co-direct this important program and have developed an advisory board. Formatted: Justified, Indent: Left: The Center of Reservoir and Aquatic Systems Research (CRASR) is a primary 0 pt initiative of the College and its faculty, as well as the center itself, is already gaining a Formatted: Justified, Indent: Left: 0 pt, First line: 0 pt great deal of regional and national attention. This interdisciplinary program devoted to theoretical and applied study of reservoir systems, our water supply, and water related issues deals with a key issue in the stewardship of our natural resources. CRASR is directed by Dr. Robert Doyle of the Department of Biology. This past year they received numerous research grants to study water quality of local lakes and streams. They recently established a shared lab and outdoor experimental facility at the Waco Wetlands locality.

Consultants reviewed the newly formed Department of Anthropology, Forensic Science, and Archaeology (split from the Department of Sociology and Anthropology), and made substantial curricula and programmatic recommendations. A departmental chair search is underway. Max Courtney, lecturer, was hired to support the Forensics program by teaching a methods and drug analysis course.

XII. Emphasize Global Education

Building on a strong foundation previously established in the College, faculty and students have increasingly sought to connect the campus with communities in Central Texas and--from those communities—to the world. In an age of globalization, such connections are essential to overcoming parochialization, to fostering better understanding of diverse cultures, and to exploring international relationships that define

36 our place in the world. Study abroad, language study, international programs, and relationships with international scholars and universities are essential components of endeavors, whose importance cannot be overemphasized for our students as future leaders.

• In 2005, 61% of the international/summer programs at Baylor came from the College of Arts and Sciences (20 of 33).

• The Languages Acquisition Center continues to provide the latest technological support for ancient and modern languages. A staff director has been appointed to run the day-to-day operations.

• The Department of Political Science has 166 B.A. majors in International Studies.

• Dr. Brad Owens participated in the development of the Center for Democracy at the University of Dohuk in northern Iraq.

• The Department of Church-State Studies co-sponsored conferences with other organizations in Moscow, Russia with the Institute of Culture, Religion, and world Affairs at Boston University. Funding was provided by the Bradley Foundation and Metanexus Institute.

• Elizabeth Vardaman will co-direct symposia for the National Association of Fellowship Advisors on “Higher Education in the United Kingdom and Ireland” at Cambridge University and at University College Dublin in June-July 2006. Representatives from 37 U. S. universities and 30 United Kingdom and Irish universities will attend.

We have been saddened this year by the deaths of two professors—Drs. Daniel Wivagg and Carl Vaught--both of whom were among our finest teachers and were currently very active as teachers and scholars. The Departments of Biology and Philosophy respectively have greatly missed their presence, but more broadly across the campus students and faculty have felt the loss of the joy and the love of students and learning that characterized both men. Their presence among us was a gift.

We express our gratitude for the dedicated faculty and staff who serve our students and the University in a variety of important ways. While many individuals go unmentioned by name in this report, their contributions each day provide the foundation for our academic programs and their success. In the College office, such dedicated individuals collectively offer key services in degree planning, advisement, planning, and counseling, and they perform these crucial tasks in a professional and skillful way. The same dedicated services may be found in departments throughout the College. They are vital to our academic mission. For them and for the support of the University we are extremely thankful.

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HANKAMER SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

Terry S. Maness, Dean

Baylor Business graduates are individuals with well developed business skills. In addition to state-of-the-art skill development in the functional areas of business – accounting, finance, marketing, information technology, management and others – Baylor Business students develop “ethics skills” that yield credibility and true leadership potential in today’s organizations.

As we look forward, the activities of the Hankamer School of Business are guided by seven initiatives.

Active Learning At Hankamer, we offer unique opportunities for our students to get hands-on experience in preparation for their career. For instance, every freshman business student takes part in the New Venture Challenge, for which they develop a business concept and business plan – complete with financial projections and marketing strategy – and then sell the idea to judges posing as venture capitalists. Our real dollar student-managed investment portfolio topped a market value of $6.5 million this year and the finance department hosted the third annual Texas Investment Portfolio Symposium. Several student teams entered regional, national, and international competitions with great success. The Baylor accounting/tax student team was selected as one of five universities to compete nationally in the xTAX finals competition in Washington, D.C. Students in our BEST class (the senior honors class) competed in three national business plan competitions. One of the teams competed in the finals at Ball State University. A business school SIFE (Students in Free Enterprise) team was 2nd runner-up in a regional competition in Dallas. In addition as a part of a SIFE community outreach program students completed projects with Mission Waco, University Middle School, the World Hunger Relief Farm, Senior Ministries, Big Brother Big Sisters, and the Heart of Texas Financial Literacy Coalition.

Research Our faculty provide thought leadership in several research areas such as entrepreneurship, business ethics, sales management, healthcare economics and virtual team management, to name a few. In addition, Dr. Carlos Moore received The Editor's Choice Award for Best Empirical Paper by the Journal of Small Business Management and a number of our faculty members are publishing in the top journals of their field. In March, we published our first issue of a newsletter highlighting research at the Business School.

38 In October, we hosted a Sloan Industries Symposium about the use of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Integrated Supply Chains. In March we hosted the third annual Texas Investment Portfolio Symposium and in April, the Sixth annual Texas Finance Festival, hosted by the Finance Departments of Baylor and the University of Texas, brought together over fifty nationally recognized finance scholars from the country’s major universities to discuss innovations in finance. The corporate sponsor was ConocoPhillips. Also in April, we hosted the Big XII MIS Research Symposium.

Students, Faculty, and Staff At the Hankamer School of Business, we aim to attract, support and retain diverse and highly qualified students, faculty, and staff. We are enhancing our efforts to recruit quality students to the business program and these efforts will increase in the years to come. We added two new assistant professors and one associate professor to the accounting program and three new faculty in our department of Management. We recruited well from such doctoral programs as Indiana University, Michigan State, and Texas A&M, to name a few. The new faculty members are capable of helping us move into the top-tier of business programs nationally. Many of our faculty members serve on editorial review boards for major journals — including two e-journals on the Internet as well as two in-house journals, one in information systems and the other in entrepreneurship. Several faculty won university-wide recognitions, including Dr. Tom Kelly, director of the Center for Economic and Business Research, who received the University’s Distinguished Service Award. Ms. Martha Agee, lecturer in Accounting and Business Law, received the University’s Outstanding Non-Tenured Teaching Award. Dr. Chuck Delaney received the university teaching award for Tenured faculty. Externally, Dr. Charles Davis was recognized for outstanding service by the Accounting, Behavior and Organization section of the American Accounting Association and Dr. Kathy Hurtt was recognized for distinguished service in AIS education by the Information Systems section of the American Accounting Association. Finally, Dr. Ray Bagby was invited to be a Fellow of the International Council for Small Business.

Faith and Ethics Our faculty conduct research and publish in the area of ethics in business with a Christian perspective and we will enhance support of research in this area as we go forward. Our annual Business Ethics Forum has grown since its inception, involving the greatest number of students we have had to date. We have continued our monthly ethics discussion breakfast meetings with about 10 different faculty members each semester led by the Chavanne Professor of Christian Business Ethics and Dr. Mitch Neubert was appointed to hold the Chavanne Chair for Christian Business Ethics to begin in the fall 2006 semester.

Globalization Today’s marketplace is unobstructed by national boundaries. The competitive environment is growing even more so, but exciting new opportunities are opening for those who have the skills to operate on a global stage. Our entrepreneurship program has partnered with the School of Engineering to create the Baylor International Technology and Entrepreneurship course of study in Maastricht which combines business and

39 engineering students from Baylor and the University of Maastricht. The McBride Center for International Business continues to be a great asset to Baylor and the business school. The Center organized and hosted a Free Trade in the Americas Conference in fall 2005, which brought together numerous dignitaries from governments all over the Western Hemisphere to campus. Keynote addresses were given by Mr. Richard Fisher, President of the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank and Dr. Supachai Panitchpakdi, past director general of the World Trade Organization. Faculty members participated in an academic exchange program at Caen University in France, while students in our BEST program visited Prague and the Czech Republic. Our Dallas Executive MBA students visited Warsaw and Milan while our Austin/Waco EMBA students visited Stockholm and Budapest as a part of their respective global strategic management course.

Career Development The Hankamer School of Business seeks to foster opportunities for career development and to enhance the placement of our students in the workplace. We recently added a position to our career services staff of the business school focusing on internships and have developed a career development module as a part of our MBA curriculum. Activities in this area will continue to develop and strengthen in the coming years.

Relationships Baylor’s business school has many stakeholders, each with a vested interest in the success of our institution. This includes students, parents, alumni, corporate recruiters and our academic colleagues at other business schools around the world. To build and nurture these relationships, we will continue to create new channels of communications and interaction with these important constituents. Our Ben Williams Distinguished Speaker series provides a strong connection with our campus community and the Waco community with such noted executives as Mr. John Bogle, founder of Vanguard Group, Mr. Mark Hurd, CEO of Hewlett-Packard, and Mr. Gary Keller, owner of Keller Williams Realty. The director for Hankamer’s Communications and Marketing area continues to lead the effort to build equity in and awareness of the Baylor Business brand. Efforts in media relations have dramatically increased our faculty exposure in national media outlets. In addition, our newly created Baylor Business Network alumni program is receiving strong support from alumni. We now have active chapters operating in Houston, Dallas, Ft. Worth, Austin, New York, and Denver. In addition we have had initial meetings with our alumni in Southern California and San Antonio. Our alumni magazine, Baylor Business Review, continues to receive awards including a recent Gold Medal from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) and elicits significant positive comments for its design and content from all categories of stakeholders.

Finally, our programs are appearing in a variety of rankings and we continue to strive to improve these national rankings through the activities of our seven initiatives.

40 Program Rankings Undergraduate Program Baylor University’s Hankamer School of Business is ranked among the top 25 private undergraduate business school programs in BusinessWeek’s 2006 rankings of the Top 50 Undergraduate Business Schools. Among private schools, Baylor ranked 23rd. Overall, Baylor ranked 38th among all undergraduate programs, earning an A+ in facilities and services. Students ranked the program in 17th place.

Baylor University's Hankamer School of Business tied with ten other schools for 66th place in the "Best Undergraduate Business Programs" category in the 2006 edition of America's Best Colleges survey released August 19 by U.S. News & World Report. Hankamer placed 12th among business schools without a doctoral program and 24th among private schools. Last year, Hankamer was ranked in 77th place.

MBA Program The MBA program, climbing 13 spots on the list since last year, is ranked 77th in the U.S. News "Top Graduate Schools" list, placing it in the top 19% of accredited business schools. In addition, the MBA program is one of the "Top 80 Business Schools in America," in The Princeton Review.

Executive MBA Program On a worldwide basis, the Baylor Executive MBA program takes first place for percentage of women students enrolled. Students express high satisfaction with the program for helping them achieve their goals. In fact, worldwide, Baylor ranks 8th place in this category. Baylor's Executive MBA program has a very strong international component, as evidenced by its 15th place ranking in the United States for international course experience. Baylor is ranked 25th overall among private schools in the United States. These rankings are based on The Financial Times 2005 EMBA rankings.

Entrepreneurship Program The Entrepreneurship program is ranked 10th by U.S. News and nationally ranked by Entrepreneur magazine.

Accounting Program The Accounting program is ranked 24th in the nation by Public Accounting Report and is nationally recognized for the high pass rate by its graduates on the CPA exam.

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SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Deborah L. Johnston, Interim Dean

The mission of the Baylor University School of Education is to prepare within a Christian environment, educators who are committed to transformational leadership and service. Our vision is that the Baylor University School of Education will be nationally recognized for its leadership, innovation, and Christian influence by: • Preparing the best teachers and professional educators in America Baylor graduates have long been respected and sought after as teachers and educational leaders. Baylor teachers have a commitment to service and leadership and possess the character, values, and commitments necessary for shaping young peoples’ lives. A School of Education that can produce graduates with vision, ability, character, and courage holds a unique place in American higher education, one at the intersection of rigorous academic training and a calling to public service. • Creating workable models and solutions for educational practice and policy We are committed to providing solutions, not just ideas or theories. Our tradition of partnerships and engagement with schools and communities leads us to caring about day-to-day practice and workable answers to educational problems. Our faculty scholarship and service is oriented towards integration, application, and engagement. Our solutions are grounded in our Christian values and commitments. • Providing leadership for renewal in schools and in other faith-based colleges Many Baylor School of Education graduates are in positions of leadership and influence in education. We plan to increase this impact in the future by enhancing the skills and commitments of students in our new programs. Our faculty provide leadership through increasing levels of impact-oriented scholarship and service. Our job is not only to transform ourselves, but to help others do the same.

• Providing leadership for service in careers or advanced study other interdisciplinary fields The Department of Health, Human Performance and Recreation offers undergraduate degrees that prepare graduates for careers in Athletic Training, Community Health, Exercise Physiology, Health Science Studies (Pre-medicine, Pre-Physical Therapy, Pre-Dental), Physical Education Teaching/Coaching, and Recreation and Leisure Services. The Department also has nationally recognized master’s degree programs in Exercise Physiology, Health Education, Sport Pedagogy, and Sports Management as well as an internationally recognized PhD program in Exercise, Nutrition and Preventive Health. These programs are designed to prepare competent educators, allied-health professionals, and researchers for careers that serve people by promoting health and wellness through education, exercise, nutrition, rehabilitation, and/or research.

42 The School of Education focused work in three areas that the President and Provost strongly urged change: increase undergraduate enrollment in Teacher Education, reduce the cost of instruction, and constructively address the programs in Educational Administration. The SOE leadership organized our efforts around four primary foci:

¾ Program Level Analysis and Management Strategies - Ongoing o Teacher Education – Increase enrollment, increase curricular flexibility and reduce barriers to students ƒ Curricular revision in the teacher education program continues. We have identified ways to increase curricular flexibility for upper classman and transfer students while providing innovative program options for incoming freshmen. We continue to work on curricular options. o Educational Administration – is charged to provide a doctoral program proposal. ƒ The Masters Degree and Principal Certification program is prepared to recruit students pending the approval to hire qualified replacement faculty. This program is proposed as the K-12 School Leadership Academy in partnership with WISD and other public school districts. Other EDA graduate program proposals are being developed. o Adjustments in faculty load assignments were made to address the cost issue. o Target other identified programs in the SOE that have low enrollment.

Enrollment: The School of Education’s total undergraduate enrollment increased this fall (2005) to 923 undergraduate students compared to 830 students in 2004. Therefore, we believe that our overall enrollment has stabilized. The greatest growth in enrollment occurred in the Department of Health, Human Performance and Recreation where the enrollment grew from 287 students in 2004 to nearly 400 students. The Teacher Education enrollment went from 543 students in 2004 to 523 students in 2005.

The total 2005 graduate enrollment is 259 students, down from 286 in 2004. A primary cause of the declining graduate enrollment is the graduation of students in the Educational Administration programs that are no longer admitting students. Focused attention to quality in programs, faculty, and students this year has positioned us to move forward for renewal, innovation and change. The School of Education is committed to becoming a clear, distinctive Christian voice and example for educational quality in Texas and the nation.

43 ¾ School-based Enrollment Management Strategies – Due August 1, 2006 o Develop a structured recruitment plan and improved data utilization o Targeted student recruitment

The restructure of the Student and Information Services area has allowed for a more centralized comprehensive approach to meeting the student’s needs for key services in degree planning, advising, certification, and retention issues. New enrollment management initiatives, that include structured recruitment strategies and enrollment targets, allow the SOE to achieve both annual and long-term enrollment management, school-based recruitment, and retention goals for all undergraduate programs. These initiatives play a crucial role in realizing the enrollment goals that we have set.

¾ Public Relations and Marketing Message Strategies – Due July 1, 2006 o Develop school and program level marketing messages

The faculty teams will present to the School both an undergraduate and graduate message and marketing campaign.

¾ School-based Endowment and Development Strategies – Due August 1, 2006 o Established a dedicated SOE Endowment Team o Encourage faculty involvement o Re-establish the SOE Advisory Board of Alumni o Develop a comprehensive list of development opportunities and targets for the SOE and departments.

The university’s restructure, training opportunities and the assignment of a development officer dedicated to the SOE will greatly improve the facilitation of development efforts on behalf of the unit.

During the 2005-06 year the School also spent significant time and energies preparing for both NCATE (National Council for Accreditation for Teacher Education) and SACS (Southern Association of Colleges and Schools) accreditation activities. The March 2006 NCATE accreditation review visit resulted in a preliminary report stating that we met all focused visit standards (met all but one of the standards at the advanced level) and we will receive the final accreditation report in October, 2006.

The Professional Development School Coordinating Council continued to work toward creating positive educational experiences for Baylor students and faculty while enhancing the educational opportunities for students, teachers and administrators in WISD and three surrounding area school districts. We have currently reached capacity with regard to available placements for candidates in WISD with ten (10) fully staffed Professional Development School sites and six (6) additional campuses at which Baylor candidates have been placed for field experiences. As a result, we expanded into three nearby school districts, Connally ISD, Robinson ISD and Midway ISD, as Partnership Districts

44 for additional candidate placements. Involvement in the PDS Project, one focused on urban school districts, allows Baylor University to work closely with school districts to improve teacher quality and student achievement in the Waco community.

The faculty in the School of Education in 2005-06 have been very productive in the areas of teaching, scholarship and service. The faculty have published five books and over seventy articles in peer-reviewed journals. They have collectively presented over 159 state, regional, national or international presentations and are extremely professionally active. During the 2005-06 academic year, the SOE received more than $1.4 million in new and existing grant awards from state, federal, or private sources.

The faculty in the School of Education have been actively involved in developing curriculum that reflects the mission of Baylor University, the needs of communities, schools, agencies, and academic rigor. These efforts yielded significant results. A summary of each department’s work is provided below.

Department of Educational Administration

The Department of Educational Administration is responsible for developing leaders in the areas of K-12 and higher education, an endeavor that exemplifies Baylor University’s historic commitment to Pro Texana. The state of Texas currently confronts a critical need for competent, ethical, and value-centered leaders in public education. Because of its traditional links to church and state (Pro Ecclesia, Pro Texana), Baylor is uniquely and strategically positioned to help meet that need.

Higher Education Administration

In 2004-2005, the faculty in the Department of Educational Administration phased out the Scholars of Practice Doctoral Program. Faculty are currently developing a proposal for a new doctoral program in educational leadership (either an Ed.D. or a Ph.D.) that will reflect a proper balance on teaching, leadership, administrative practice, research, and service to the profession. Successful implementation of the proposed doctorate at Baylor will require adequate resources to support graduate faculty in teaching, research, publication, and professional travel and to underwrite competitive scholarships and stipends for outstanding doctoral students who may have numerous options for graduate study.

K-12 School Leadership Academy

In concert with efforts to re-activate the doctoral program in educational leadership, faculty in the department have been working with the university administration and public school leaders to reactivate the Master of Science in Education with Principal Certification. The Baylor University Leadership Academy is a result of those deliberations. The final draft of the proposal was submitted to the Dean of the School of Education on March 3, 2006. Scheduled to begin in the Fall 2007, the Leadership Academy focuses on development of K-12 educational leaders who can

45 facilitate superior student performance. Program objectives include the following: (1) to develop the necessary professional knowledge base in candidates for school principalships, (2) to develop the necessary skills and disposition in candidates, (3) to instill in students the appropriate ethics and values that are essential in educational leaders, and (4) to offer a master’s degree leading to a Texas school principal certification.

Key elements of the 42 semester-hour Master’s Degree Program include the following: a cohort arrangement with small classes, an emphasis on field-based and problem-based learning, on-going internships throughout the program, two-years of mentoring by experienced principals, employment as summer school principals, and partial tuition scholarships. To be considered for the Program, candidates must be employed and nominated by a sponsoring school district and satisfy all Graduate School admissions criteria. Candidates with exemplary records of classroom teaching and instructional leadership will be given preferential consideration.

The leadership academy will engage teachers as instructional and administrative leaders while they pursue the master’s degree and will greatly expand Baylor’s reach and impact on developing school leaders in Central Texas. The academy will model state-of- the-art professional development techniques that prepare instructional and administrative leaders for public schools in the 21st century.

Department of Educational Psychology

The Department of Educational Psychology has undergone some fundamental changes this year programmatically as well as with personnel. These are outlined below. Programs Special Education (BSEd). Special education continues to operate a small but excellent program through the Teacher Education program. There are two full time faculty who administer and teach in the program. It continues to attract preservice teachers with a passion for educating children who have learning problems and require special services. Also considered as “special education” is Gifted and Talented. We continue to attract 20+ students who desire this additional certification. Counseling (MSEd). Dr. Richard Watts left Baylor last year leaving a new professor and a veteran professor to administer and build the counseling program. Unfortunately, the “community counseling” track was unable to survive (note. – there are two tracks in counseling: community and school). In the fall of 2005 the EDP faculty voted to discontinue the community counseling track, but to reinforce departmental support of the school counseling track. This support continues despite a recent announcement by the newest professor in the program to announce her departure after this summer. A request is/has been made to replace her position; however, it appears that school counseling is in jeopardy as well. Fine students are still interested in this degree, becoming certified and employed immediately following graduation (some are employed prior to graduation), and the state of Texas badly needs school counselors. We remain

46 hopeful that we can retain this program, but much of this hope resides in replacing faculty. School Psychology (EdS). The School Psychology program plans to submit an application for NASP approval (National Association of School Psychologists) during the fall 2006 semester. This last year saw the addition of a third required full time faculty member to the school psychology faculty as well as some final adjustments to course sequencing, program requirements, and experiences for students. A new effort at recruiting high-quality students was also instituted this last spring. Doctoral (PhD). The doctoral program continues to attract better students from a diversity of backgrounds. Seven students defended their dissertations this year and graduated. Most graduates have had little difficulty finding positions of employment in the academy or private sector. Personnel Many changes occurred for EDP faculty this year. Dr. Julie Ivey began her first year in a tenure track position (assistant professor) and is dedicated to the school psychology faculty primarily. A successful search for a tenure track professor resulted in the hiring of Dr. Alex Beaujean who begins fall 2006 as a primary member of the PhD faculty. Ms. Pat Arredondo was promoted to full time lecturer. As noted above two faculty losses were incurred. Dr. Richard Watts left during the summer of 2005; Dr. Gail Roaten announced her resignation effective August 2006. Both of these faculty members were dedicated to the counseling programs. A final loss, though expected, will affect the department’s research core courses. Our post-doc, Dr. Loretta Rudd, finished her two-year appointment and has moved on to Texas Tech with an appointment in a tenure track position. State of the Department The department remains equipped with excellent faculty. Their research productivity is high and their teaching is of high-quality. With the loss of key faculty, the department must make some difficulty decisions regarding how best to use resources and build a research capacity for other advanced programs. The goals of the department align well with the 2012 Vision as well as the still developing SOE Strategic Plan.

Department of Curriculum and Instruction

The Department of Curriculum and Instruction is committed to providing excellence in teacher and educator preparation at both the undergraduate and graduate levels of instruction. We support the mission of the School of Education which is to prepare within a Christian environment, educators who are committed to transformational leadership and service.

Undergraduate Program

The Professional Development School Model (PDSM) of teacher preparation has successfully graduated two full senior classes of teacher education candidates who received baccalaureate degrees. The teacher education candidates and faculty who comprise the field-based teacher preparation program (PDSM) continue to receive high

47 praise from both local professional educators and national scholars in teacher education. Program planning and evaluation at the undergraduate level is ongoing and has included an array of individuals across the campus and in the community. The National Council for Accrediting Teacher Education (NCATE) has provided a preliminary oral assessment of the undergraduate PDSM of teacher preparation and has indicated its continued accreditation support of this innovative teacher preparation program.

Faculty and staff from the School of Education, College of Arts and Sciences, local public and private school districts, and other community stakeholders continue to meet to discuss and implement curricular and pedagogical program improvements and innovations that will provide more programmatic flexibility for and increase student enrollment from both Baylor University freshman and internal/external transfer students. Examples of these program revision initiatives provide more flexibility for internal and external transfer students, students who have significant external commitments (i.e. athletes), and increasing teacher education student enrollment while retaining a commitment to rigor as required by the PDSM philosophy are: • Programmatic course scope and sequence flexibility providing more options for students to select two of three foundations courses (TED 2380, 2381, 3380) instead taking all three courses; providing students who are out of course sequence additional field-based course opportunities during fall, spring, and summer semesters (TEDs 2320, 2330, 2340, 3620-21, 3630-31, 3640-41); and, accepting more substitution courses from the College of Arts and Sciences for internal and external transfer students. • Innovative program design for secondary education certification that targets internal and external transfer students, general studies students, and post- baccalaureate students seeking initial certification. This program design provides more opportunities for students to receive both initial certification and a master’s degree in a shorter period of time. • Revised scope and sequence for all certificate levels (e.g., EC-4, 4-8, and 8-12) providing more course flexibility, fewer field-based requirements, and exploration of a Bachelor of Arts degree plan model to better facilitate internal and external transfer students’ needs. • Identifying students and constituencies interested in alternative certification/non- certification options (e.g., private school partners, non-certification programs, post-baccalaureate certification and graduate). • Efficient faculty to students course scheduling that has a positive impact on FTEs (e.g., decreased number of smaller sections through larger section combinations; wider distribution of 3-2 and 4-4 course loads)

Graduate Programs

The Department of Curriculum and Instruction continues to provide scholarly and practitioner-oriented leadership in education through its graduate programs. Graduate programs in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction seek to prepare students for professional roles in teaching, curriculum development and administration, instructional technology, and related areas. Each program emphasizes the development of an eclectic

48 understanding of educational processes and systems as well as an expertise in a specific area. The balance between theory, research and practice leads to the development of a professional educator able to implement a broad range of instructional programs in a variety of settings.

Masters of Science in Education and Strickland Scholars Masters of Science in Education and Initial Teacher Certification Program

The success of the Strickland Scholars program continues to be represented through increased numbers of post- baccalaureate teacher education candidates seeking both a masters degree and initial teacher certification (e.g., 8 candidates 2005; 17 candidates 2006). In addition, to the Strickland Scholars program the Department of Curriculum and Instruction offers traditional master’s degrees that provide both practitioner-oriented and research-based instruction in such cognate areas as: Education Philosophy, English/Language Arts Education, Mathematics Education, Science Education, Social Studies Education, Technology Education, and many other cognate areas of study and practice. Both the Strickland Scholars and traditional Master of Science in Education program continues to provide graduate study opportunities for an average of 29 students per year.

Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) and Proposed Ph.D.

The Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) degree in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction continues to provide both research-based and practitioner-oriented professional development for educators throughout the nation. During the 2005 academic year the Department of Curriculum and Instruction provided opportunities for students to pursue and receive their Ed.D. degree. These emerging scholars in turn have assumed positions of leadership in universities and education entities across the nation. Annually the Ed.D. program serves 16 students on average with 5 graduating each year.

The Department of Curriculum and Instruction continues to pursue the approval of a Ph.D. program. The goal of the proposed PhD in Teacher Education to be offered by the Department of Curriculum and Instruction is to prepare graduates to hold faculty and leadership positions in university teacher education programs. There is a strong demand for individuals with academic qualifications and K-12 teaching experience to fill these positions. Preparing individuals for this area will enable Baylor graduates to influence generations of future teachers in both public and private schools.

The program will consist of four blocks of instruction and a professional seminar. Each block of study will include of required and/or prerequisite courses representing core knowledge or proficiencies and student selected courses to develop specialized knowledge in the student’s area of interest. The program will focus on practical applications of theory and research. The minimum number of hours required to complete the Ph. D. in Curriculum and Instruction will be sixty-six.

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Undergraduate Program

The Department of HHPR offers undergraduate programs in Athletic Training, Community Health, Exercise Physiology (formerly Health/Fitness Studies), General Studies, Health Science Studies (Pre-Med, Pre-PT, Pre-Dental), Physical Education (Teaching & Coaching), and Recreation and Leisure Services. Over the last few years, the Department of HHPR has grown from approximately 243 undergraduate students (F02) to 467 undergraduate students (S06). This represents a 92% overall growth rate and includes a 14% growth during the 05-06 academic year. Most students have been attracted to the Athletic Training, Exercise Physiology, Health Science Studies (Pre-Med, Pre-PT, Pre-Dent), and General Studies programs although the Community Health, Physical Education, and RLS programs have also experienced a resurgence in growth. Interest in our undergraduate programs and courses has resulted in a 26% increase in credit hour production this year (at least a 10 year high). The Department of HHPR now generates 60% of the credit hours within the SOE and teaches 78% of the students enrolled in SOE courses. Major initiatives this year included: 1.) departmental restructuring to identify a program director and contact person for each undergraduate program; 2.) updating web pages for each program; 3.) revision of the Physical Education program to provide more flexibility for entering and transfer students who want to teach/coach; and, 4.) enhanced marketing efforts designed to increase enrollment particularly in the Physical Education and Community Health programs. The Physical Education and Community Health programs have increased the number of majors from 3- 5 to approximately 16.

While the Department of HHPR has experienced significant growth, we are now at the point where the University is accepting more students than we have the faculty resources to accommodate in some programs (i.e., Athletic Training, Exercise Physiology, and Health Science Studies). The university must consider enrollment goals for each of our programs in its recruitment efforts as well as provide additional faculty and graduate assistant resources in order to accommodate this growth.

Graduate Program

The Department of HHPR has a MSEd program with program emphasis areas in Exercise Physiology, Health Education, Sport Management and Sport Pedagogy as well as a Ph.D. program in Exercise, Nutrition, and Preventive Health. Over the last four years, the graduate programs in HHPR have grown from approximately 50 students to 100 - 120 students. The PhD program currently has 17 students. Our first five PhD students will graduate this year and 11 new PhD students will be here in the fall (four students will be paying tuition themselves).

Major initiatives this year included initiation of comprehensive exams for all programs; obtaining endorsement of the Exercise Physiology program by the National Strength & Conditioning Association; adding a strength & conditioning emphasis within the exercise

50 physiology program; submission for endorsement of the exercise physiology program by the American College of Sports Medicine; and, enhanced marketing and support that has increased enrollment in the Sport Pedagogy and Health Education programs. Growth in the HHPR graduate programs has been limited due to lack of University supported graduate assistantships and lack of faculty resources to supervise theses and dissertations.

Summary and Goals

Growth in HHPR undergraduate and graduate programs has been attributed to the following: 1. Visionary leadership that has resulted in revision and/or development of high quality academic programs that are accredited and/or or endorsed by appropriate agencies and professional groups; 2. Markedly improved laboratory and research facilities that have allowed undergraduate students opportunities to participate in a variety of research and community outreach programs; 3. A reduction in faculty teaching loads that has allowed for a substantial increase in scholarly productivity among faculty members and brought national recognition to our programs; 4. Active student engagement in research and community-based outreach and research programs; 5. Significant procurement of external funding (nearly 8 million dollars so far) that has provided additional resources to the department to support faculty members and students; 6. Implementation of a web-based, e-mail, and radio marketing program that has increased awareness about our programs, marketed to undeclared majors; and promoted our programs online; 7. Addition of key faculty members in niche areas of research that have helped raise academic standards; attracted students; and, enhanced scholarly productivity; and, 8. Strong support from the majority of new and existing faculty members to help develop nationally renowned undergraduate programs in HHPR as part of the 2012 Vision.

51 SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE

Benjamin S. Kelley, Dean

Baylor’s School of Engineering and Computer Science enjoyed an eventful and beneficial year in 2005-06. The school welcomed its second largest freshman class ever, and easily it’s most talented class ever. The School of Engineering and Computer Science continues to be Baylor’s highest ranked academic unit in the US New and World Report ranking, although it fell to twenty first place from fourteenth the previous year. Both individual faculty members and student teams were recognized nationally for their achievements.

Student Successes The average SAT score of the 200 fall 2005 ECS freshman was greater than 1250, which was nearly twenty points higher than the previous record and sixty points higher than the University average. The most popular ECS major of the fall 2005 incoming class was Mechanical Engineering. Additionally, student retention within the school, particularly between the freshman and sophomore years, is at an all time high and approaching Baylor’s overall average. The major causes for these improvements are attributed to (1) early intervention measures taken by Associate Dean Steve Eisenbarth and Student Success Specialist Rishi Sriram in the freshman courses that identify students having academic or other difficulties, and (2) the continuing influence of the ECS Living- Learning Center, which completed its second year of operation. In a partnership with Career Services, for the first time ever, ECS students participated in a Career Fair program aimed at science, engineering and technology students. Nineteen technology- oriented companies and 183 students participated in the fair that was held on February 15, 2006 in the atrium of the Baylor Sciences Building. Plans are already underway to improve next year’s fair. In April, 2006, nearly 200 students from ECS and other areas of Baylor participated in the hosting of the 30th Annual ACM International Collegiate Program Contest World Finals in San Antonio. The Opening Ceremony included a performance by the Baylor Symphony Orchestra and remarks from President Lilley. Members of Baylor’s 1982 championship team, coached by Dr. Don Gaitros, were honored at the contest on the 24th anniversary of their victory. Baylor has been the headquarters for the ACM ICPC since 1989. Dr. Bill Poucher, ICPC Executive Director, received a congratulatory award for his leadership in the ICPC and Mr. Pat Hynan, Computer Systems Manager, was honored for continuing contributions. Lecturer Bill Booth conducted a day-long competitive learning workshop for select San Antonio-area students during the event. Two teams from Russia emerged victorious amid the field of eighty two finalists. Though Baylor’s programming team did not advance to the World Finals this year, several other teams of ECS students were successful in other national competitions. Alan Lamb (ME) and Hunter Smith (ECE) were members of the Baylor team that won one gold, one silver, and one bronze medal at the Destination Imagination Global Finals. In bringing home the gold, the team finished first in the improvisational challenge “on Safari,” with a team from the University of Texas finishing second. At the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) District E Conference, a team of

52 mechanical engineering students won first place in the design contest. Their design was of a device using a “slip and puff” set of switches that can assist a quadriplegic in casting a rod and reel. The Baylor team consisted of David Heffley, Scott Hemmen and Joel Sanders. Lorenzo Amos was elected as the student section represented for ASME District E. As the Grand Prize Winner of the Education Design Showcase sponsored by the College Planning and Management Magazine, Ryan Richards was awarded a scholarship. His essay focused on the influence that residing in the North Village has had on his overall Baylor experience. Fifteen ECS students jointed Dr. Bill Jordan and Lecturer Brian Thomas in Kenya as a part of Baylor in Africa ’06 sponsored by University Ministries. The teams designed and implemented a power distribution system using a wind turbine in the Kibera slums in Nairobi and a water sanitization system at the Christian Deaf School in Oyugis. Another Baylor team consisting of MBA students won the Hoover award at the Global Social Venture Competition for their business plan related to the Kenyan wind-turbine project. This award was for the most innovative, realistic, and feasible project. A student team consisting of Howard Huang, Chris Culver, Micaela Landivar, and Jason Poel were invited to present their research at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry during the 10th annual March Madness of the Mind exhibition sponsored by the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance and the Lemelson Foundation. This team has been working with Dr. Walter Bradley on technologies to aid developing nations in producing value-added products from coconuts. Roman Aman (ME) won an award in the “elevator pitch” competition at the Baylor Entrepreneurship Day for explaining his ideas for a hard-top convertible business with brevity and clarity. In addition to several faculty members, nine students made presentations during the ECS Scholars Day coordinated by Cheryl Tucker, Assistant to the Dean. Computer Science student Matija Zgaga, a member of the varsity tennis team, won the Sherwood Collegiate Cup, outlasting a competitor from Stanford.

Faculty Achievements Dr. William M. Jordan joined Baylor as Chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department, having previously served in a similar capacity at another institution. Mr. Matthew H. Aars joined the Computer Science Department as a Lecturer and Dr. Peter M. Maurer was name Graduate Director for Computer Science. Dr. Jim Farison, chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering was named Fellow by the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) for his outstanding contributions to the Society. The Grade of Fellow is one of unusual professional distinction and conferred by the Board of Directors upon an ASEE member with outstanding and extraordinary qualifications, and experience in engineering education, and ASEE contributions. Dr. Russ Duren was invited to make a presentation to the National Academy of Engineering. His presentation centered on his expertise in military avionics and projected future contributions. Dr. Greg Speegle and Dr. Ken Van Treuren were promoted to the rank of Professor. Dr. Speegle has served on the faculty since 1990 and earned his bachelors degree from Baylor and his Ph.D. from the University of Texas. Dr. Van Treuren has served on the faculty since 1998 and earned his Ph.D. from Oxford. Senior Lecturer Cindy Fry coordinated “Evening of Fun and Research” during National Engineers week. Dr. Greg Hamerly and Dr. Van Treuren made presentations on machine learning and turbine blades. Three papers presented at the ASEE Gulf Southwest

53 Conference, whose topics were appropriate technology in Kenya, ECS LLC admission criteria, and technology/business study abroad, with co-authors of Walter Bradley, Rishi Sriram, Leigh Ann Marshall, Mary Abrahams, Kasper Boon, Cindy Fry and Brian Thomas won a best paper award. Dr. Bob Doty’s work with Lab View in engineering courses was posted on National Instruments web site. Dr. Byron Newberry completed a research sabbatical on the ethical and social responsibilities of engineers. Eunjee Song, a Ph.D. candidate in computer science at Colorado State University will join the ECS faculty next year.

54 GRADUATE SCHOOL

Larry Lyon, Dean

The 2005-2006 annual report of the Graduate School is presented in three parts: (1) indicators of the size and quality, (2) graduate programs with exceptional achievements, and (3) special initiatives sponsored by the Graduate School.

(1) Indicators of Size and Quality:

Applications We received 1833 applications for the 2005-2006 academic year, up a total of 23.4% over the last five years. The number of applications for the 2005-2006 academic year is down by 115 applications from the prior academic year, which is likely because the School of Social Work’s applications are no longer included, as it became a separate school in 2005-06.

Enrollment A total of 1,171 graduate students under the purview of the Graduate School were enrolled on the Waco and Dallas campuses and another 119 on campuses in San Antonio and at West Point, N.Y., during the Fall of 2005. Doctoral student enrollment for Fall 2005 was 473 (or 40% of total graduate enrollment), setting an all-time high for doctoral enrollment at Baylor.

These 1,171 graduate students comprise 8% of Baylor’s total enrollment; that rises to 15% when our military students in San Antonio and West Point and our professional students from seminary and law school are included. Baylor’s proportion of graduate and professional students is relatively low. Notre Dame’s graduate and professional students comprise about one-quarter (24%) of their total enrollment. At SMU, graduate and professional students account for almost half (44%) of the total student body.

Test Scores The mean GRE score (verbal plus quantitative) for graduate students rose from 1120 in the Fall of 2004 to 1141 in the Fall of 2005. This is an all-time high for the GRE at Baylor. GMAT scores, used primarily by the Hankamer School of Business, are down slightly from 588 in Fall 2004 to 582 in Fall 2005, reflecting a national trend.

Religion, Gender and Minority Status In Fall 2005, 49% of our graduate students were female; 28% of our graduate students were classified as belonging to an ethnic minority, and 15% were international with China and India as the two largest providers.

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Degrees Awarded In 2005-2006, the Graduate School awarded 498 master's degrees, 14 Doctor of Physical Therapy degrees (the new entry-level degree replacing the Master of Physical Therapy), 2 education specialist degrees, and 89 doctoral degrees (including Ph.D., Psy.D., D.Sc.P.T., Ed.D.). This is the highest annual total of doctoral degrees ever awarded by Baylor University.

(2) Programs with Exceptional Achievement:

The most recent U.S. News & World Report rankings for graduate and professional programs listed eight programs and schools under the Graduate School that are among the top national programs.

Physical Therapy is ranked at number 5 nationally. Our Healthcare Administration program is ranked number 20; Communication Disorders is 62nd in the nation. The Louise Herrington Nursing School is number 58. Clinical Psychology and the Hankamer School of Business rank at number 77. The Master’s in Social Work enters the rankings at number 87. Baylor’s Biomedical Studies program ranks 90th.

(3) Special Initiatives Sponsored by the Graduate School:

Young Christian Scholars Through a generous donation to the University, three Young Christian Scholars studied in doctoral programs at Baylor during the 2005-2006 year. These scholars are faculty members from church-related schools who return to their home institutions upon graduation. The student from Abilene Christian University graduated in May 2006 with an Ed.D. degree in Educational Administration. Another, from Lubbock Christian College, is a Ph.D. student in Religion. The third student, from Incarnate Word in San Antonio, is pursing a Ph.D. degree in Statistics.

Graduate School Travel Awards 2005-2006 The Graduate School offers financial support for graduate students to travel to professional meetings and deliver papers based on their program research. A total of 114 travel awards were granted (a 4.5% increase over last year), representing 24 graduate programs (a 20% increase over last year) and totaling $29,900 (a 7.6% increase over last year). The proportion of doctoral awards increased from 69% to 78%, representing further progress toward 2012 objectives.

Stipend Enhancement Awards The Graduate School offers stipend enhancements to exceptionally strong applicants. This year, 98 graduate students in 17 programs received stipend enhancement awards. Included in this number are 17 doctoral Presidential Scholars, whose academic qualifications are clearly “tier one,” whose support for Baylor’s mission is strong, and who receive a higher level of enhancement that other strong doctoral students. The

56 number of students receiving enhanced stipends and the number of Presidential Scholars are all-time highs for Baylor.

Electronic Dissertations and Theses In Fall 2005, the Graduate School implemented the electronic dissertation and thesis (EDT) initiative. Graduate students no longer submit paper copies, but digital documents that are stored on the Baylor Libraries server and with ProQuest, a national archiving service. This new practice places Baylor in the top half of Big XII universities.

Preparing Future Faculty for Scholarship and Teaching The Graduate School sponsored two interdisciplinary seminars for doctoral students. The Fall seminar focused on interdisciplinary scholarship (GRD 6102) and “Introduction to College Teaching and Learning” (GRD 6101) offered in the Spring, introduced various teaching philosophies and methods. This year the seminars enrolled 28 students from 16 doctoral programs.

Graduate Student Association The GSA launched several new initiatives in addition to their social events, including new workshops for their professional development (on dissertation/ thesis success and job success). The Interdisciplinary Scholars’ Forum had a record number of papers submitted (32) with six presenters selected to present. Spring highlights included an awards reception and a dialogue with President Lilley in April.

New Living and Learning Community for Graduate Students This year we established a “living and learning” graduate community to be launched Fall 2006 at a privately managed apartment, The Quadrangle, located at 5th Street and Daughtrey. This community provides affordable graduate housing for families and singles and a place where scholars and their families may gather for social, spiritual, and academic pursuits. A common room was renovated for seminars and events and a graduate student family will serve as community coordinators. Graduate students and their families will move into the 38 units this summer.

New Orientations Three new orientations for students and faculty were launched this year. In Fall, Orientation for New Graduate Students initiated 180 new students into the Baylor family and provided practical information for newcomers, introductions to key campus leaders and a lunch with Graduate Program directors. The half-day Orientation for New Graduate Research Assistants and Graduate Teaching Assistants addressed topics such as grading, testing, writing, harassment, student discipline policies, and FERPA regulations for GTAs as well as the essentials of grant funding, the Institutional Review Board, and other items of interest for GRAs. In Fall 2005, we launched a half-day training for six New Graduate Program Directors who received training on budgets, recruitment, mentoring graduate students, and other topics. A follow-up session in Spring provided these new GPDs with additional support as they moved from faculty in new administrative roles.

57 Military Programs Two new initiatives were implemented in 2005-2006. The contract for the Baylor-Army Master of Science in Nutrition program, to be taught at Ft. Sam Houston, was successfully concluded. Final academic approval awaits the July meeting of the Regents. The program anticipates approximately 12 graduates annually, with the first class to begin in October 2006.

The second program enables Baylor-Army alumni with the Master of Physical Therapy to take additional coursework (approximately 12 hours) to meet the requirements of the new Doctor of Physical Therapy degree. These courses are taught entirely online, by faculty away from Waco, to students located stateside and internationally; as such this is Baylor’s first full curriculum taught entirely via distance education. The program fee paid by students covers all expenses such that Baylor realizes net revenue.

58 SCHOOL OF LAW

Bradley J.B. Toben, Dean

Introduction The Law School continues to thrive and gain increasing recognition and profile within legal education, the profession, and beyond. Our formula – putting students first; honing our reputations as teacher/scholars with something meaningful to share with the practicing profession; and applying our resources wisely to garner a maximum benefit that will advance our reputation, has proven, time and time again, to be a remarkably successful strategy. The program is at home in the Sheila and Walter Umphrey Law Center, which is arguably the finest law school facility in the nation.

Mission Our mission statement has for years been publicized regularly to our various constituencies. We publicize it because it is highly distinctive among law schools. Specifically, Baylor Law School seeks high profile recognition, both within the legal education community and within the profession, as one of the best practice-oriented schools in the nation. Our faculty is committed to teaching our students to be lawyers and not simply to the teaching of law, per se. We are very proud of the characterization given to us a few years ago by the Princeton Review as the “Marine Corps of law schools.” We are proud of a faculty that is very actively engaged in scholarship that speaks meaningfully to a profession that is a protector of the democratic freedoms and the rule of law that have distinguished our nation in the world and in history.

Top Tier Ranking Accomplished The 2006 U.S. News & World Report ranks our advocacy program at #6 in the nation (we were at #6 in 2005, but tied with six other schools; this year we are the sole occupant of the #6 position; #7 in 2004, #11 in 2003 and #16 in 2002). We are at the top of the second tier (of four tiers) of general rankings in U.S. News & World Report, at #51 (we were #52 in 2005). In 1999, 2000, and 2004, Baylor Law School previously made it into the first tier (at #50 in '99, at #49 in '00, and at #50 in ‘04). There are currently 193 ABA accredited law schools in the nation.

Applicant Pool For the 2006 yet-to-be-matriculated Fall class, the applicant pool is above 2,434. From this pool, we will matriculate approximately 70 students in August, 2006. Overall applications (Fall, Spring and Summer combined) increased 157.8% from 2001 to 2006 (in 2001 we had a total of 1,662 applications for all three classes; in 2006 we have a total of 4,284 applications).

Matriculation Credentials The combined LSAT (Law School Admission Test) and UPGA (undergraduate grade point average) matriculation credentials of the Fall 2006 class will likely exceed those of

59 the Fall 2005 class, which also were again record-breaking, as has been the case for several years. The 75th and 25th percentiles for the LSAT and UPGA for the Fall 2005 matriculation class were:

75th UPGA percentile, 3.92/4.00; 25th UPGA percentile, 3.51/4.00.

75th LSAT percentile, 165 (a 165 LSAT is in the top 8th scoring percentile nationally); 25th LSAT percentile, 161 (a 161 LSAT is in the top 16th scoring percentile nationally).

Class Composition Within our student enrollment, 82.2% of the students have their prior degree(s) from institutions other than Baylor. Our students represent 137 degree-granting institutions and 33 states. Among our students, 45% are women. Our minority student enrollment stands at 13% (based upon Fall ’05 enrollment). We are hopeful that the representation of minority and ethnic students will increase in the post-Grutter environment (by virtue of Title VI funding, the Law School previously was bound by the Hopwood case).

Bar Exam Baylor Law School, among the nine law schools in Texas, was #1 on the July 2005 bar exam and also #1 on the February 2006 bar exam, continuing our unmatched record of success on the Texas bar exam (the exam is given twice a year, in July and in February). This success is on account of: (1) our committed faculty members who are focused upon the enforcement of true rigor and exacting academic standards; and (2) a curriculum that accurately reflects practice realities and trends and which is very traditional, but which the law faculty is always refining. Consistent success on the bar is one indicator of the validity of our approach to, and philosophy of, legal education.

Career Services Office For the graduates of the 2005 class, the employment rate was 97%. Our graduates are placed in a broad array of venues, representing a variety of practice areas, settings, and geographic areas. Our graduates are in great demand because of the recognized quality of our program and the distinctive preparedness of our graduates as they enter into the responsibilities of practice and client representation.

Interscholastic Advocacy Competitions This past year, Baylor Law School participated in a broad array of interscholastic competitions in mock trial, moot court and client counseling. Our students devoted countless hours of their time to prepare for these competitions under the supervision of their coaches. As a result, Baylor’s advocacy teams have had another successful year.

Baylor won the American Bankruptcy Institute National Bankruptcy Moot Court Competition in New York. Baylor’s team worked together to emerge on top of a field of 52 teams from around the nation to win the national title, following upon our national title win last year in the prestigious annual Trial Advocacy Competition sponsored by the Association of Trial Lawyers of America.

60 The Texas Young Lawyers Association Moot Court Team turned in an impressive performance at the Texas Young Lawyers Association Moot Court Competition. In the round-robin preliminaries, Baylor was the only team to go undefeated, losing only three total ballots in seven victorious rounds of oral arguments.

In the 2005 Mack Kidd Administrative Law Moot Court Competition, three of the Baylor advocates ranked in the top five oral advocates, finishing third in the competition, which involved sixteen teams from the various Texas law schools.

Baylor was among a select group of schools that saw both of their teams advance in the National Criminal Procedure Moot Court Competition. Baylor was the only school to place two teams in the top ten, the teams finishing second and fifth respectively.

The American Bar Association Moot Court team dominated the regional competition in Washington, D.C. Out of 27 teams competing, Baylor entries were the top two teams. The two Baylor teams each went undefeated through five rounds of arguments, defeating teams including Georgetown, Duke, Washington University-St. Louis, George Washington University, and Washington & Lee.

Enrollment Strategy We anticipate that the Fall ’06 enrollment will be, as planned, 15-25 students less than the Fall ’05 enrollment of 438. A Vision 2012 imperative for the Law School is to eventually reduce student enrollment from its traditional target level of 400 (a target in place for almost four decades) to a new target level of approximately 390. We have occasionally “swung” to either side of that target, e.g., we had 389 students in the Fall 2000, 425 in Fall 2001, 438 in Fall 2002, 440 in Fall 2003, 425 in Fall 2004 and 438 in Fall 2005. Increased enrollment has been a result of a sharply escalating demand and a consequent less predictable matriculation rate. While over-enrollment due to demand may appear to be a positive development, it is not healthy for the academic environment and is at odds with what we know is necessary to advance our school further in recognition. This planned lower enrollment level will both further enhance the closeness of the learning environment and will allow us to be even more selective in our admissions.

Student Scholarship Resources The Law School’s first and foremost priority in its resource development program is the substantial augmentation of our student scholarship resources. As we have generated additional endowment, restricted and operating funds, we have prioritized the use of our funds on a purpose – student scholarship funding – that most directly and immediately improves our program, consequently heightening the quality of our matriculating students. The most important key to the further advancement in the reputation of the Law School and profile lies, in large part, in our ability to “buy” the best students. The Law School traditionally has taken significant principal responsibility for its gift development and will continue to do so in increasing our endowed scholarship resources.

61 Tuition Rate Since the early 90’s, the Law School tuition rate has been uncoupled from the University rate and has been raised very gradually toward the median rate for private law schools. This has allowed us to “ratchet” up student quality alongside of tuition increases, which have been well received in the market as our program quality and reputation have correspondingly improved. The additional resources have been used principally to underwrite student scholarships to attract the best qualified students. Tuition for 2006-07 is $717 per quarter hour ($30,114 per academic year, based upon an average 42 quarter hours per academic year). Median private law school tuition rates are approximately $30,400 for the current 2005-06 academic year (we are hence at our longstanding goal of being near the national median tuition rate for private law schools). In fact, as noted, applications are at record setting levels and entering student credential levels are higher than ever.

ABA Accreditation and AALS Membership Affirmation In February 2005, the Law School was visited by a site inspection team from the American Bar Association and from the Association of American Law Schools for the purpose of affirmation of our ABA accreditation and AALS membership. This was a regular, every-seven-year visit. Our last site team visit, which was notably successful, was in 1998.

The ABA/AALS factual report from last year complimented the Law School on virtually every aspect of our program: the quality of our students, faculty and staff; the excellence and distinctiveness of our program of education; the health of our finances and our magnitude of resources; our efficient and effective operations; the productivity and work ethic that characterizes the entire Law School community; our effective governance structure; our outstanding outputs (bar exam and placement); our stellar facilities, and our overall effectiveness and success in mission fulfillment.

The ABA and AALS committees have, as part of the process, requested further information bearing on diversity matters and employment policies, as well as further information regarding library acquisitions, reference services and upper-class writing experiences.

This was, as in 1998, a highly successful reinspection. Very significantly, neither the AALS (which as a learned society holds faculty scholarship and diversity as “core values”) nor the ABA, noted -- for first time in our institutional memory -- concerns regarding faculty scholarship productivity or institutional support. As noted earlier, this is a huge accomplishment for our faculty and a tribute to focused effort in these endeavors regarding scholarship in recent years.

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School of Music

William V. May, Dean

The 2005-2006 academic year brought new vigor and excitement to the School of Music, in part, due to the hiring of a new Baylor President from our discipline and all the resulting opportunities to showcase the School during the inaugural festivities. Professional activities of the School of Music faculty as well as student and alumni achievements remained at very high levels this year and a very strong entering freshman class portends great things for our future. As I consider my sixth year as School of Music dean, I am delighted by the successes that we have experienced in our continuing quest for excellence and recognition as one of America’s finest music schools and I remain humbled and honored by the opportunity to lead such terrific people.

State of the School Our enrollment management models have kept the School of Music student population at about 333 students (±20) each year since 1998. Such stability allows us to focus on steadily improving the talent levels among incoming students in all areas. However, the very large number of Baylor applicants in general this year caused by necessity many changes in the way Baylor’s Admissions Office operated. One byproduct of those changes was a diminished ability on the part of the School of Music to predict with precision our 2006-07 freshmen enrollment. Huge student interest in the School of Music and the lack of some of our time-tested predictors caused us to accept a much larger than normal entering class for the 2006-07 academic year. Since 2000, we have averaged 90 new freshmen per year. Next year we will enroll about 120 freshmen, an eventuality that inevitably will tax our infrastructure.

As in the past, music performance and music education majors are the most numerous among our students, accounting for almost 90% of our student population. About 80 graduate students, mostly music performance majors, enrich our overall program by providing musical role models for their younger peers. A group of degree programs with smaller numbers of students round out our offerings. Among the most successful of these programs are those in composition and piano pedagogy.

The School of Music’s curriculum is designed to provide students the skills and knowledge required for making a living in music professions. It is a highly focused, no frills curriculum that emphasizes musical performance in all areas and, as a result, attracts highly gifted, very serious student musicians. This approach allows us to operate in the most financially frugal manner and at the same time provide the Baylor/Waco community with musical performances and recitals, over 300 in number during the past year, of the highest caliber.

63 Faculty Achievements School of Music faculty occupy positions of leadership and prominence literally worldwide. This year faculty scholarly activities of international scope were particularly numerous and important. For example, music theorist Tim McKinney was featured at the International Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference at the University of Durham, England; historian Laurel Zeiss was an invited authority at Great Britain’s celebration of Mozart’s 250th birthday; church musician Terry York’s book, Rehearsing the Soul, was translated into Chinese and will be featured at The World Association of Chinese Church Music in Bali, Indonesia; trumpet professor Wiff Rudd was a featured performer at the International Trumpet Guild Conference in Bangkok, Thailand; organist- in-residence Joyce Jones published a new book of hymn settings, Worship the King; hymnologist David Music published “Selection of Shaped-Note Folk Hymns” in Recent Researches in American Music; and Robin Wallace was invited to Yale University to report on “Three Decades of Beethoven Criticism.” I mention all these achievements specifically because I believe that many people mistakenly think that our faculty focus almost exclusively on performing. To the contrary, School of Music faculty are major contributors in academic research as well.

Music faculty also are active performers. Faculty recitals and concert appearances as soloists, too numerous to mention individually, literally spread the Baylor name across our great nation from Deborah Williamson’s solo recital in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Krassimira Jordan’s numerous performances along the east coast.

School of Music faculty were honored by their peers as well. Tim McKinney was named the Distinguished Alumnus of the University of North Texas College of Music for 2005; the American Viola Society’s Maurice Riley Award went to Kathy Steely for “distinguished contributions to the Viola in Teaching, Scholarship, Composition, and Service;” and composer Scott McAllister produced a large number of well-received new works, including Concerto for Trombone and Orchestra, which was premiered by the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra and played by Baylor trombone virtuoso and faculty member, Brent Philips.

Student Achievement Baylor’s large musical ensembles were invited to perform in prestigious venues this year. The Baylor Wind Ensemble performed for both the American Bandmaster’s Association conference and the College Band Directors National Association convention (our Symphonic Band also performed at this conference, a rarity for an institution’s “second” band); the Baylor Men’s Choir enjoyed a mission tour to Africa; Baylor ShowTime! is the invited choral ensemble for the AIMS Institute in Graz, Austria; and the Baylor Symphony dazzled attendees at the international conference of computer scientists in San Antonio. One of the rapidly rising programs in the School of Music, the Baylor Jazz Ensemble, enjoyed its most significant year ever with an invited performance at the Texas Music Educators Association conference; a spring break tour to Costa Rica; and campus performances with Grammy Award winners, Maria Schneider and Wycliffe Gordon.

64 Individual student achievements were notable as well. Matt Shipes, euphonium student, won first place in the regional and third place in the national competitions of the Music Teachers National Association; Amanda Wenglar, trombonist, for a second time was a finalist in the International Trombone Association competition; music education graduate students, Melanie Braucht and Stephanie Andrews, swept all prizes in the Texas Music Educators Association scholarly essay competition; organist, Monica Harper took second place in the prestigious Albert Schweitzer Organ Competition; and Baylor singers took home a host of prizes from the annual National Association of Teachers of Singing competition.

Church Music Baylor’s Church Music program continues to gain national prominence. The fourth annual Alleluia! Many Voices, One Song conference brought enormous attention to Baylor in this discipline. A new doctorate in church music has been proposed and now awaits funding. When that program is in operation Baylor will have all the elements in place for recognition as the nation’s leader in the preparation for church music careers and in the practice of church music.

Baylor’s Window Because programs in the School of Music garner such high visibility, one of my goals is to foster positive public imagery for the entirety of Baylor University through our musical offerings. Examples of success in this arena abounded this year. Christmas at Baylor, our hour-long television special, aired again this year. It has reached literally millions of viewers nationally and remains a highly acclaimed testament not only to our commitment to musical excellence, but also to our Christian faith. Our popular radio program, Music at Baylor, continued in its sixth successful season featuring exceptional musical performances and interviews by Baylor School of Music faculty and students twice weekly on KWBU-FM. The School of Music Distinguished Artist Series continued to enrich the campus community with stellar artists. This year’s offerings included the So Percussion Group; jazz artist Maria Schneider; organist Dame Gillian Weir; and the Washington Symphonic Brass. Additionally, the School of Music hosted a performance by the Dallas Symphony conducted by Baylor alumnus Gian Carlo Guerrero.

Leaders in the world of music continued to enrich our curriculum with their presence on campus. This year our students enjoyed personal contact with world-renowned mezzo- soprano, Denyce Graves; pianists, Philippe Bianconti and Marc-André Hamelin; composers Wilfried Westerlink and Frank Ticheli; the Vortex Tuba Quartet; Trombones de Costa Rica; and a host of others.

School of Music Summer Music Camps brought hundreds of junior and senior high school musicians to campus. This not only contributes to the University’s recruiting efforts, but also infuses the University with significant income.

Future Needs and Priorities Facilities needs. The Waco Hall East, Waco Hall, Roxy Grove Hall complex has served us so well for so many years, but now has fallen into severe and unsightly disrepair. The

65 School of Music has forwarded a proposal for the much needed McCrary Building Phase II; however, this project cannot come to fruition soon enough to overlook the immediate needs of the Waco Hall complex. The Waco Hall building must be upgraded until the McCrary Phase II project can become a reality. The current state of Waco Hall East and Roxy Grove Hall is an embarrassment to us all.

Scholarships. Scholarships remain the highest priority in fund raising for the SOM. During my time here as dean, our scholarship endowment has double and next year the earnings from those account will provide $750,000 in scholarship aid for 2006-07 music students. As dramatic as that sounds, the reality is that Baylor provides another $900,000 from the general fund in music scholarships simply to hold us at the 50th percentile among our peer private institutions’ investment in their music student scholarships. Clearly, there are daunting challenges before us in scholarship fund raising, yet we have a renewed optimism and spirit under our new administration.

66 LOUISE HERRINGTON SCHOOL OF NURSING

Judy Wright Lott, Dean

The Louise Herrington School of Nursing faculty and staff have had significant accomplishments over the past year and have made significant contributions in the area of teaching, service, and scholarship.

The undergraduate program received continued approval with commendations from the Board of Nursing of the State of Texas due to the high success rate of our students on the nursing licensure examination. In response to the critical nursing shortage, we increased admission into the nursing major. Anticipated undergraduate enrollment for the upper division courses for fall is approximately 274. Pre-nursing enrollment continues to remain strong. Increased demand has led to an overall increase in the academic credentials of nursing students. As always, all our graduates have jobs prior to graduation. Over 90% of graduates remain in Texas, the majority in Dallas.

The graduate program, ranked 58th by the US and World News Report on Higher Education, continues to grow and improve. Dr. Mary Brucker, an internationally- renowned nursing educator will be assuming the position of graduate program director on July 1, 2006. Dr. Brucker has extensive experience in graduate nursing education, practice, and scholarship. Under her leadership, the graduate faculty will evaluate the existing programs and make changes to increase the quantity and academic quality of graduate students. The faculty will be developing and implementing new programs of study to meet recent national recommendations for advanced practice nursing education. The national professional organizations recommend that all nurse practitioner education programs award the doctor of nursing practice (DNP) degree by 2015.

The family nurse practitioner (FNP) and neonatal nurse practitioner (NNP) program graduates score well on the national certification examinations required for practice. The Advanced Nursing Leadership and Management graduate track has been closed by the faculty, based upon internal analyses of outcomes. An executive nurse leadership program may be developed to replace this program in the future, pending further study. All graduates of the master’s program had secured employment prior to graduation. A proposed Adult Health Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) program has been approved by the faculty and the University Graduate Council and is pending review and approval from the Board of Regents.

Donations to the LHSON endowed scholarship programs have remained strong, through contributions to existing scholarship programs and creation of new scholarship endowments. The major endowment from Mrs. Louise Ornelas has performed well for the past two years; projected earnings for this academic year are close to $800,000.

The LHSON will discontinue the HRSA rural health clinic after three years of operation on June 30, 2006. This decision was based upon the departure of the project director, as

67 well as evaluation of the impact of the project on the community, the LHSON, grant objectives, and achievement of Baylor 2012 imperatives. The clinic was a valuable resource to the small population of Itasca; however, the resources provided by the HRSA grant were not sufficient to offset the time, effort, and faculty and financial resources required to maintain the clinic and did not meet the educational objectives for undergraduate or graduate nursing students. The LHSON maintained its close association with the Agape Clinic, an urban health care clinic in which health care is provided by health professional volunteers at no cost to the client.

The LHSON faculty and staff participated in many mission activities. The LHSON maintains an exchange agreement with the University of Cordoba, Argentina. Dr. Lyn Prater is visiting the Department of Nursing to assist the nursing faculty in setting up a clinical laboratory this summer. LHSON FNP faculty and students participated in two medical mission trips to Mexico, and a group of undergraduate students, faculty, and the Director of Student Services participated in a mission trip to Mexico. Mrs. Lori Spies, the lead FNP faculty and Missions Coordinator, organized a nursing mission trip to Uganda, in which five FNP students participated. This group provided much-needed health care to children residents of three orphanages.

Many LHSON faculty members are involved in service activities including parish nursing, geriatric health care, adolescent health care and counseling, youth activities, and shut-in meal delivery. Dr. Charles Kemp, Senior Lecturer in the LHSON was chosen by the Baylor University Alumni Association as the recipient of the Abner V. McCall Humanitarian Award for his long history of volunteerism and his selfless contributions of time and energy to community healthcare through the Agape Clinic and other projects. Dr. Kemp also received the Outstanding Faculty award from Elsevier Publishing Company. Nursing students from across the country nominated faculty for this award and Dr. Kemp, nominated by our students, was selected as the first recipient for his contribution to nursing education. Dean Lott has been invited to participate in the Oxford Round Table (Oxford University, England) in August. She will deliver a paper on international recruitment of nurses with a focus on the rights of individual nurses, ethical implications, and responsibilities of recruiting institutions.

The faculty has significantly increased scholarship activities over the past two years. I am extremely proud of faculty accomplishments; samples of the major journal publications are listed below. In addition, many faculty served as contributors or editors of journals or textbooks.

Sample Faculty Publications:

Faucher, MA. How good is the science connecting environmental exposures to health? J Midwifery Womens Health. 2006; 51: 1-2.

Nibert, AT, Young, A., Adamson, C., Spurlock, D., & Hanks, C. Debate regarding interpretation of HESI exit examinations scores. Journal of Nursing Education. 2005. 44: 101-106.

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Kemp, C. Cultural issues in palliative care. Seminars in Oncology Nursing. 2005; 21: 45- 52.

Kemp, C. Potyk D. Cancer screening: principles and controversies. Nurse Practitioner. 2005; 30: 46-50.

Lott, J. W. State of the science: neonatal bacterial infection in the early 21st century. J Perinatal Neonatal Nursing. 2006; 20: 62-70.

Askin, D. F., Bakewell-Sachs, S., Columbo, C., Lott, J. W, & Rosenberg S. Near-term infants. What experts say health care providers and parents need to know. AWHONN Lifelines. 2005; 9: 456-462.

McEwen, M. & Farren, E. Actions and beliefs related to hepatitis B and influenza immunization among registered nurses in Texas. Public Health Nursing. 2005; 22: 230- 239.

Nunnelee, J. The power of pets. Advanced Nurse Practitioner. 2005. 13: 92.

Alford, D. M., Karas, D., Lueckenotte, A., Melillo, K. D., Nunnelee, J., Scanland, S., Steinberg, K.E., Walent, R., & Zhan, L. Legal issues in gerontological nursing part 1: Abuse and neglect of older adults. Journal of Gerontological Nursing. 2006; 32: 10-20.

Alford, D.M., Karas, D., Lueckenotte, A., Melillo, K. D., Nunnelee, J., Scanland, S., Steinberg, K.E., Walent, R., & Zhan, L. Legal issues in gerontological nursing part 1: Responsible parties and guardianships. Journal of Gerontological Nursing. 2006. 32: 15- 18.

Prater, L. & McEwen, M. Called to nursing: perceptions of student nurses. J. Holistic Nursing. 2006; 24: 63-9.

Yantis, M.A. & Neatherlin, J. Obstructive sleep apnea in neurological patients. A Review. J Neurosci Nursing. 2005; 37: 150-155.

69 SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK

Diana Garland, Dean

Introduction to the Youngest School The Baylor School of Social Work is the youngest school at Baylor. Social work education began in the 1960s at Baylor with an undergraduate major. For 30 years, it was located in the Department of Sociology in the College of Arts and Sciences. Many social work alumni went on to other universities to complete the Master of Social Work degree. If they felt called to work with congregations and in faith-based organizations and missions, they attended one of three Baptist seminary social work programs. In 1997, as a result of denominational controversy, all accredited seminary social work educational opportunities ended, leaving no place to prepare at the graduate level for social work in the church and its missions and ministries. As a direct result, Baylor began offering the Master of Social Work degree in 1999, and at that time, the Baylor School of Social Work was created as an independent department within the College of Arts and Sciences.

In the years since its creation, the School of Social Work has rapidly risen to national leadership in the field of church social work and in research that informs professional knowledge and skills for addressing religion and spirituality in all social work practice fields. In June 2005, the School of Social Work actually became a freestanding “school” in administrative structure, on par with the seminary and the law school. The mission of the school is to prepare social workers in a Christian context for worldwide service and leadership.

To gear up for our new administrative responsibilities, we have been busy this year revising policies for the degree programs, publishing our first catalog, and developing administrative policies and procedures. We developed our own logo and communications strategic plan designed to recruit the best students and to connect with and support the work of congregations, denominational agencies, and religiously- affiliated organizations that seek our graduates and our research-based resources. Our independence gives us increasing recognition as the national leader in social work education for the church and its ministries.

The School is home to three centers. The Center for Family and Community Ministries provides national leadership and training experiences for congregational leaders and the professional staffs of faith-based child and family service agencies. The Center for Gerontological Studies leads the development of effective services and models of care for our rapidly growing population of senior adults. The Center for Literacy came to us as a transfer from the School of Education this year, because it is such a good fit with the work we are doing. This center develops models for literacy education and workforce development, with a primary focus on schools and congregations who are serving families for whom English is a second language.

70 Ranking and Accreditation The young School of Social Work is ranked in the top 100 graduate schools in the latest ranking of social work programs in the 2005 U.S. News and World Report (87th). This first-time achievement for the school is even more significant because of the historic bias among social work educators against the integration of religious faith with social work education—a central theme in our program. In June 2005, the School of Social Work received reaffirmation of accreditation for eight years, with commendations, from the Council on Social Work Education. The council praised the strong and committed faculty, sound practicum relationships, outstanding practicum process, and values-based curriculum, among other accolades.

Students and Alumni Over the past 5 years, since the School of Social Work was created as a department within the College of Arts and Sciences, the graduate program has grown over 400 percent, from 17 students in 2000 to a student body this past year of 73 Master of Social Work students. During that same period, the baccalaureate program has also grown 65 percent, from 87 undergraduates majoring in social work to 132 students. We graduated 39 MSWs and 22 BSWs in this past academic year. With new admissions, our student body in the 2006-2007 is estimated to be 77 MSW students and 140 BSW students. Our ability to grow further is limited by our facilities and by available scholarship funds.

We are attracting outstanding students, students who feel called to serve and are committed to preparing for that service, as this quote from a freshman undergraduate student exemplifies:

I believe social work is a profession that is close to God’s heart because its primary mission is to care for the “least of these.” I can think of nothing more satisfying than living life close to God’s heart.

Of our 73 MSW students, 25 are completing the rigorous dual MDiv/MSW degree, which requires a minimum of four years of full-time study, in order to be fully prepared to serve the church in any role.

Upon graduation, some of our BSW students stay to complete their MSW degrees. Others have been accepted and are receiving scholarships to attend some of the best MSW programs in the country, including this year the University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis, and Columbia.

This year’s alumni survey indicated that 90% of our MSW alumni and 58% of our BSW alumni are currently employed in social work. None of our alumni reported having difficulty finding employment; many who were not employed were seeking advanced degrees. Of those taking the licensure examination, 100% of MSW alumni and 94% of BSW alumni report passing on the first attempt. A survey of their employers indicates that the preparation of our students is “excellent” in every category evaluated.

71 The statistics are important, but the words of our alumni more effectively communicate the outcomes of our program. A recent BSW graduate, currently working in a religiously-affiliated child and family services agency, wrote this to the faculty in an e- mail:

“It is funny to say, but work is my whole life right now. I am so glad that God brought me to this job because it has allowed me to learn so much more about foster care. I can honestly say that I love my job. I go home at night and hope that the right decisions are made knowing that kids’ lives are in our hands. But, when I see a foster child smile and call their foster parents “mom” and “dad” it makes it all worth the effort. I have been given the opportunity to help people find each other in the time of their life that they both need it and that has given me more happiness than I ever imagined.”

Class Composition Our 73 graduate students come to us from 47 degree-granting institutions and 22 states. During this year, our ethnic minority undergraduate student enrollment stood at 32% and in our graduate program at 12%. We are striving to increase our minority and ethnic student enrollment by increasing our scholarship support and building partnerships, such as our agreement with Baptist University of the Americas, a Hispanic Baptist undergraduate school in San Antonio.

Student Scholarship Resources A major priority for the School of Social Work is growing our student scholarship resources. Social workers called to serve in the church’s ministries and missions cannot afford large educational debts. This year’s survey of alumni indicates a median salary of our alumni of $30,000 to $45,000. Of the more than 200 undergraduate and graduate students in our School, almost all are on financial aid, 66 percent work their way through school and 47 percent graduate in debt. That debt has increased from an average of $14,755 in 2004 to $26,646 in 2006.

We have been working to address the needs of our students, and this will continue to be a top priority for development efforts in the school. Endowment for scholarships has increased from $123,789 in 2000 to more than $1 million currently. During the 2005- 2006 school year, our 73 graduate students received a total of $549,906 in tuition remission and $123,843 in scholarships and fellowships, or an average of $8,983 in financial assistance each. But tuition and mandatory fees for these students will be $22,714 in the coming year. The school has even fewer financial resources for undergraduate students; we provided only $4,100 through school to all of our undergraduate students in the past year.

Publications and Research The 13-member faculty continues to publish prolifically, with 51 publications during this academic year, for an average of almost 4 each. These publications include15 peer-

72 reviewed journal articles, 8 invited journal articles, 19 peer-reviewed web publications, 8 book chapters, and one edited book. The faculty frequently engages students as co- authors, mentoring them in writing and publication; 20 of this year’s publications included students as authors. The subjects of the faculty’s publications reflect our mission, including research on the nature of faith and religion in social work practice, working with religiously-motivated volunteers, responding to clergy sexual abuse, the history of missions and social work, supporting caregivers of persons with Alzheimer’s disease, and social work education.

Highlights of the Year What follows are a few of the many highlights of the year:

1. Sponsored by the school and Texas and national Woman’s Missionary Union, five representatives from Baylor School Work spent a week in the Republic of Moldova, the poorest nation in Europe with high rates of human trafficking. We are developing a partnership there with a Baptist undergraduate social work program that has very limited resources, in order to provide them with assistance and to give our students the experience of social work practice in this different cultural setting.

2. Faculty members Diana Garland and Jon Singletary received two grants (The Louisville Institute, a Lilly Endowment program, and the A.L. Mailman Family Foundation) totaling nearly $80,000 to conduct the first major national study in 25 years of congregation-based early childhood education and family support.

3. Faculty members Jim Ellor, Helen Harris, and Dennis Myers received a $75,000 grant from the Hartford Foundation to strengthen our gerontology curriculum and provide student internship stipends.

4. Faculty member Helen Harris received a $12,000 grant from the Mary Hill Davis Offering of Texas Baptists for student internships in congregations, Christian Women’s Job Corps, and other social service ministry opportunities.

5. We launched the “church social work network” and offered “alumni-by- choice” status to alumni of the closed Baptist seminary social work programs. Woman’s Missionary Union (WMU) recognized our school as bearer of the heritage of Baptist social work education for the church. This heritage began in 1907 with the founding of the WMU Training School in Kentucky. We have embraced this heritage and are preparing to celebrate this next year 100 years of social work education.

6. The School of Social Work held its first Practice Colloquium in April, featuring 39 workshops led by our graduating MSW students featuring their research. They offered certified continuing education to professionals from the community who attended. The content of the workshops was outstanding and

73 was met with rave reviews. As a consequence, this colloquium will become an annual event.

7. Also in April, our student organization led a panel for the Baylor community on the topic of immigration entitled “Who is my neighbor?” Because of the timeliness of the topic, two local television stations and the newspaper covered the panel extensively, with about 75 persons in attendance.

8. In May, four students from the Baylor School of Social Work were able to take lessons learned about social movements and public policy on a congressional visit to Rep. Chet Edwards (D – TX). Regional organizers from Bread for the World, a grassroots Christian citizen’s movement against hunger, arranged the visit after an undergraduate class and a graduate class conducted research on efforts to address hunger and poverty. Edwards used the research of the students and was impressed with their passion for the poor. As a consequence of their visit, Edwards signed the Hunger Free Communities Act.

9. The faculty and staff began strategic planning based on a process called “appreciative inquiry,” which involved 70 hour-long interviews with our Board of Advocates, faculty and staff, students, deans from leading social work schools, nationally renowned researchers in our field, and leaders in research on religious life. The interviews identified our strengths and future opportunities. We will build on the findings from this study in an ongoing planning process.

Financial Support During this academic year, the school received a total of $242,145 in gifts and grants to the school. These funds included income from conferences and other services, individual and foundation gifts to the school for general use and for student stipends and scholarships, and research grants and projects. (Note: this figure is subject to revision upward with the final ledger reconciliation at the end of the fiscal year.)

The pressing need for physical space has brought into sharp focus the need to develop additional financial support for the school. Therefore, we have begun an intentional effort to identify funding for a building for the school. During the year, we hosted gatherings of alumni and friends in three states, and I have also traveled extensively during the spring semester, meeting individually with more than 40 friends and supporters of the school.

Challenges The following challenges face us in the coming academic year:

1. We hope to launch fundraising for new space. We are currently “pot-bound,” to use a gardener’s metaphor. In the past 10 years, we have grown from 4 faculty members to 14, and from 75 students to 220. We have added three centers. The growth is Comment [BL1]: What is the basis for this figure?

74 thrilling; our space is not. The school currently occupies temporary commercial space on the ground floor of the Speight parking garage. We have filled every square inch of available space, even turning closets into windowless cubicles. Our one classroom is too small for most of our classes, in addition to the fact that one classroom is not enough for two growing degree programs We have to borrow classroom space across the campus and adjust our schedules according to classroom availability rather than the educational needs of our students. We need a larger, permanent space in which we can expand our roots to be even more fruitful.

2. We will continue to emphasize raising scholarship support for our students.

3. We want to develop a global focus to prepare students for service worldwide. That focus needs a faculty member dedicated to this initiative and resources for developing partnerships in global settings.

4. We have proposed the launch of a Ph.D. program. Given the leadership we are already providing in research for social work in the church and its missions, a Ph.D. program will allow us to expand this role and prepare leaders to expand what we are able to currently at Baylor and to disseminate our work to other Christian universities who need doctorally prepared faculties committed to the church and its ministries.

75 GEORGE W. TRUETT THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

Paul W. Powell, Dean

Student Recruiting Truett Seminary continued an aggressive program of student recruiting and hosted or attended 70 recruiting events around Texas and beyond. While the recruiting program comes in contact with a large number of prospective students, it has been set apart among other seminary recruiting programs by establishing close, personal contact throughout the recruiting process and having the ability to travel cross-country. We had over 60 individual student visits this past year, outside of our three Previews (at which we had 106 prospective students and 23 guests).

Master of Divinity - Application and Enrollment Numbers The number of inquiries for fall 2005 and spring 2006 enrollment was 1008. The number of prospective students initiating application for spring/fall enrollment has continued its rise from 220 in 2004/05 to 222 in 2005/06. The total non-duplicating head count for all Truett Seminary academic programs was 386 in 2005/06. Truett graduated 49 students in 2006.

Doctor of Ministry - Enrollment and Graduation Numbers The Doctor of Ministry program will have at least 53 students enrolled for the 2006-07 school year. Twelve of these students will be new to the program. Two students graduated in May 2006, and three students are expected to complete degree requirements during summer 2006.

Financial Aid Truett Seminary continues to offer first-class theological training at a tuition level comparable to Southern Baptist seminaries. The tuition rate is on a par with other affiliated Cooperative Baptist seminaries. Additionally, Truett’s rate of tuition is less expensive than many other seminaries. According to our incoming students’ survey, Truett’s tuition and scholarship opportunities are one of the top five reasons that students inquire and apply to Truett.

Faculty and Staff The seminary faculty engaged in a successful search for a theology professor, Dr. Paul Sands, who will begin in the fall 2006 semester and also named Dr. Joel Weaver as permanent lecturer in Biblical Languages after a national search. Kay Boatman was added as Financial Manager of Truett Seminary and the School of Social Work.

Faculty and Staff Development The fifteen full-time faculty members published two books, fifteen articles, and submitted four books and twelve articles for publication. The faculty presented twenty-

76 five conference papers. Faculty served as interim pastors in five churches; one is pastor of a new Hispanic church start. The faculty preached or led conferences in fifty-seven churches. The seminary also provided opportunities for staff members to receive administrative training.

Master of Theological Studies The seminary graduated its first two M.T.S. students in the May 2006 graduation. The program is limited to students who are enrolled in other masters programs at Baylor.

Lectures Rev. Dr. Eugene Peterson, Professor Emeritus of Spiritual Theology at Regent College, delivered the Parchman Endowed Lectures on October 18-20, 2005. Dr. Bruce Winter, Warden of Tyndale House, Cambridge, England, gave the lecture for the Minette and Huber Lelland Drumwright, Jr. Endowed Colloquium in New Testament Studies on January 17, 2006. Dr. David Coffey, President of the Baptist World Alliance made a special appearance at the Truett chapel service on February 28, 2005.

Other Educational Opportunities Extended by Truett Truett Seminary has begun a Bivocational/Small Church Certificate of Ministry program. This two-year, home study program is targeted for small church and bivocational pastors/staff to improve their skills in becoming more effective ministers of Christ, and we now have over 100 students enrolled. This summer we are expecting 20 students to attend our first Preaching Skills session. Truett issued ministry certificates to five Korean students at the Global Baptist School of Theology in June, 2006.

Development The university continues receiving gifts for endowed scholarships as many churches and individuals have pledged to be a part of the “500 Club.” The Seminary is asking for 500 churches or individuals to give $30,000 for endowed scholarships for students. As of May 31, 2006, over 400 churches and individuals have become a part of this club. Some individuals have given from $500,000 to $1,000,000 to this cause. The endowment at the Seminary as of April 30, 2006, is over $30 million. The Paul and Jane Meyers Foundation donated the funds to endow the William M. Hinson Chair of Christian Scriptures. Dean Powell has set an aggressive goal of raising $10 million in gifts and pledges for the next year.

Public Relations The Seminary evaluated its strategic plan for public relations and church relations and continued to place advertisements in strategic Baptist publications including The Baptist Standard and Baptists Today. Display space was secured at the BGCT, the Texas Evangelism Conference, the Hispanic Evangelism Conference, the Cooperative Baptist

77 Fellowship General Assembly and CBF meetings in various states, the Mexican Baptist Convention, Congreso, Texas Baptists Committed, the African-American Baptist Fellowship, and various other college and university conferences and seminary days. Dean Paul Powell continued to mail monthly pastoral newsletters to all Texas Baptist pastors and quarterly newsletters to the Friends of Truett mailing list. Truett sponsored seven pastoral conferences, including the first annual Cowboy Church Conference and the first annual Christian Ethics Conference.

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THE HONORS COLLEGE

Thomas S. Hibbs, Dean

Introduction The Honors College, an exclusively undergraduate educational unit at Baylor University, contains four programs—Baylor Interdisciplinary Core, Great Texts Program, Honors Program, and University Scholars Program. The Honors College offers interdisciplinary curricula designed to challenge and assist highly motivated students to integrate their learning across a variety of disciplines, to ponder the issues raised in primary texts from the ancient world to the present, and to reflect critically upon the complex relationship between a liberal education and their professional and vocational plans.

To achieve these aims, the Honors College is especially concerned with (1) promoting its intellectually stimulating and rigorous curriculum to potential students of Baylor University and aiding them, once they arrive, in achieving academic excellence; (2) recruiting faculty committed to the integration of scholarship and teaching; and (3) fostering a communal setting which promotes interaction between faculty and students and allows for the integration of serious discussion of important issues and great texts into the very fabric of student life at Baylor.

Student Recruitment, Enrollment, and Retention The faculty and staff of the Honors College have been energetically involved in the recruitment of new students to Baylor. Working closely with Admissions staff, we make regular contact (via e-mail, regular mail, and, where encouraged by Admissions, by telephone) with prospective students who meet the Honors College profile. Program representatives and/or the dean have attended: Fall, Winter, and Spring Premieres; the Academic Success Fair; Sic ‘Em Bear Days; the Invitation to Excellence; Parents’ Weekend; and various orientation activities.

After two years of huge, and nearly overwhelming, increases in the numbers of entering freshmen into the Honors College, the incoming numbers appear to have stabilized. The Baylor Interdisciplinary Core’s incoming enrollment looks to be solid again. The Great Texts Program, the youngest of the programs in the Honors College, is experiencing rapid growth, from 3 sections with approximately 45 students in Fall 2002 to 26 sections with more than 440 students in Spring 2006. Six graduating seniors in Spring, 2006 were Great Texts majors—in the first year in which students could have completed the program. Perhaps what is most impressive is that the attrition problem that has plagued the Baylor’s Honors Program for decades is being corrected. In the four years since the inception of the Honors College, the percentage of students graduating in four years from the Honors Program has nearly doubled. Moreover, the quality of the incoming classes continues to be strong. Incoming SAT averages for the Honors Program continue to hover in the mid-1300’s, while the average score for University Scholars freshmen for

79 Fall 2006 is 1450. The Honors College continues conversations with a number of professional schools, including The School of Nursing, The Hankamer School of Business, and The School of Engineering and Computer Science, to aid those schools in the recruitment of highly qualified students and to establish clear tracks in the Honors Program for students in these professional schools.

Honors College Living-Learning Center A partnership between the Honors College and the Office of Campus Living & Learning, the HC-LLC opened during Fall 2004. Honors College male students are housed in Alexander Hall, with their female colleagues next door in Memorial Hall. The Honors College-Living and Learning Center features permanent offices of Honors College faculty members; on-site classrooms; and numerous events, including specially scheduled lectures, informal social activities, and book and film club discussions. By early May 2006, the HC-LLC was already full for Fall 2006. BIC and Modern Foreign Languages professor Xin Wang continues in his capacity as Faculty-in-Residence in an Alexander apartment.

Student Achievement Our students continue to distinguish themselves in a number of ways. A remarkably high percentage, up to 90% in University Scholars and Great Texts, of our graduating students go on to graduate or professional schools. The Pulse, a scholarly journal by and for Baylor undergraduates, had another successful year under the leadership of faculty sponsor Dr. Susan Colón and her staff of 20 students. In what has become a much- anticipated annual event, Taylor Wooten, from University Scholars and the Baylor Interdisciplinary Core, delivered a public lecture based on her essay, published in the Pulse, and selected by the staff as the best essay in the journal this year. It was another banner year for distinguished fellowships and scholarships for graduating Honors College seniors. Jamie Gianoutsos, from the Honors Program and Great Texts, won a Marshall Scholarship and will be studying at Queens College at the University of Belfast in Northern Ireland. Hannah Zdansky, from University Scholars and Great Texts, won a Fulbright Scholarship and will be studying at Trinity College at the University of Dublin in Ireland. Sarah Gibson, from the Baylor Interdisciplinary Core, received a Fulbright scholarship to study in England.

Administrative Appointments Dr. Alden Smith, Associate Professor and Interim Chair of Classics, Director of the University Scholars Program, and Associate Dean of the Honors College, stepped down from his position as Director of the Honors Program, a position he filled on an emergency basis after the untimely death of Dr. Ray Wilson. Replacing him, effective June 2006, as Director of the Honors Program is Dr. Andrew Wisely, Associate Professor and Director of German, Russian, and Japanese in Modern Foreign Languages, College of Arts and Sciences. Meanwhile, Dr. Smith was appointed to another term as Director of the University Scholars Program. In December, 2005, the Honors Program hired Anna Shaw

80 as an Academic Student Support Specialist. In March 2006, the Honors College hired Petra Carey as Coordinator of Summer Programs, Communications, and External Relations.

Faculty Scholarship and Recognitions Faculty members in the Honors College are publishing books and articles at a remarkable rate, even as they deliver papers at prestigious conferences. Faculty gave invited presentations at prestigious universities throughout the United States and in Austria, Denmark, Italy, China, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.

We are especially proud that, this year, one of our professors, Dr. Sarah Jane Murray from Great Texts, won the Outstanding Professor Award for Teaching by a Tenure-track professor, and another, Dr. Douglas Henry from Great Texts, received the Outstanding Faculty Partner Award from the Division of Student Life. Dr. Henry also received a $500,000 grant for the Institute for Faith and Learning, for which he serves as Director.

Special Events The Honors College hosted/co-hosted several visiting lecturers on the Baylor campus throughout 2005-2006, including: (1) Russell Hittinger, Warren Chair of Catholic Studies, Department of Philosophy and Religion, University of Tulsa, “Subsidiarity, Authority, and Juridical Persons” and discussion of the introductory chapter of “First Grace: Recovering Natural Law in a Post-Christian World” (public lectures, co-hosted with the Departments of Philosophy and Political Science, September); (2) Eugene McCarraher, Villanova University, “Enchantments of Mammon” (public lecture, co- hosted with The Institute for Faith and Learning, October); (3) Giuseppe F. Mazzotta, Chairman of the Department of Italian at Yale University and the Sterling Professor of Humanities for Italian, “Dante’s Quest: Inferno I and II” (public lecture, co-hosted with the Department of Philosophy, January); and (4) Carson Holloway, William E. Simon Visiting Fellow, James Madison Program, Princeton University, “Music, Passion, and Politics: A Classical View of a Contemporary Controversy” (Honors College Living- Learning Center Lecture Series, February). [The Baylor Center for Jewish Studies, directed by Dr. Marc Ellis, University Professor, in conjunction with the Hannah Arendt Institute of Dresden University, will be hosting an international conference, “Hannah Arendt in the 21st Century: A Global Discourse,” on November 9-12, 2006, on the Baylor campus. The Honors College has been asked to participate in this celebration of the life and work of Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt.]

On February 27-28, 2006, the Honors College hosted a visit by Dr. Gayla McGlamery, former co-director of the Honors Program, member of the English Department, and member of the Honors Program Review Committee for Loyola College (Maryland). Loyola is in the midst of a comprehensive review of its Honors Program and members of the Review Committee are making visits to honors programs around the country to gather advice and information. Their research indicated that the various honors options offered through Baylor’s Honors College might provide insights into particular problems Loyola is attempting to address through their review.

81 The fourteenth annual J. Harry and Anna Jeanes Academic Honors Week, held April 18- 21, 2006, was organized and overseen by the Honors College for the third year. This event, endowed by Harry and Anna Jeanes in 1993, is an ongoing recognition and celebration of the rigorous and exciting undergraduate experience provided for our students. Honors Program seniors contributed by presenting the results of their research in seventeen sessions, held over three days in the Honors College Living-Learning Center, which were open to all interested Baylor faculty, staff, and students and their families. Presentations by a record fifty-five of the program’s seniors—out of its program record sixty plus May, August, and December graduates—testified to the Honors Program’s continuing promotion, among students from all across campus, of academic engagement and mentoring through the vehicle of undergraduate research. The Academic Honors Convocation on April 19, attended by Mr. Jeanes, was a celebration of scholarship and academic community. The Convocation, which was expanded in 2005 to recognize outstanding students campus-wide, this year honored outstanding students from the College of Arts and Sciences, the Hankamer School of Business, the School of Education, the School of Engineering and Computer Science, the Honors College, the School of Music, the Louise Herrington School of Nursing, and the School of Social Work. With this record participation, the event was relocated to Barfield Drawing Room in the Bill Daniel Student Center. President John Lilley, in his first Convocation appearance, welcomed all attendees, thanked the Jeanes for their generous endowment, and delivered the Invocation. Dr. Alden Smith, Associate Dean of the Honors College, former Director of the Honors Program, and Director of the University Scholars Program, introduced the keynote speaker, Mr. Beau Egert, Director of the Governor’s Faith-Based and Community Initiative, OneStar Foundation, Austin, Texas, who is a Baylor honors graduate. Mr. Egert, in turn, addressed attendees on “Doctis Docendis: Teachings Worthy of Learning.” Executive Vice President and Provost Randall O’Brien recognized the graduating honors seniors in attendance, Phi Beta Kappa inductees, and the Outstanding Students and their department chairs/program directors University-wide. Dr. O’Brien then concluded the Convocation program with the announcement of Dr. Kevin G. Pinney, Professor of Chemistry, as the third recipient of the Cornelia Marschall Smith Professor of the Year Award. The week’s activities concluded with the annual banquet at Harrington House honoring Honors Program graduating seniors and their faculty mentors. This banquet, held on April 20, is a time for reflection on the students’ research, theses, and overall academic achievements in the Honors Program by both the mentors and the students themselves.

For the first time during Academic Honors Week, a reception was held on Thursday, April 20, in Memorial Drawing Room of the Honors College Living-Learning Center to honor outstanding first-year students. Freshmen who made a 4.0 gpa in Fall, 2005, were invited to attend this time of good food, fellowship, and academic recognition; and over fifty freshmen attended. Additional invitees included academic deans, members of the Enrollment Management Task Force, Phi Beta Kappa faculty, and other interested faculty campus-wide.

82 21st CENTURY BAYLOR UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

William B. Hair III, Interim Dean

“Connecting people with ideas in support of teaching, learning, scholarship and academic distinction”

21st Century Library: Improved services and information resources by: • Completing the redesign and transition of Central Libraries’ web pages into the CMS, including creating and strengthening the web presence for each group within the Library • Completing conversion of serials staff processes to Millennium Serials module • Increasing the on-line presence of the Electronic Library through use of Infoclips (video tutorials) and web forms to streamline communication and better facilitate service requests • Establishing an ERM (Electronic Resources Management) system task force to begin the implementation of this module from III • Implementing new web page to inform departments of newly acquired materials in their disciplines • Implementing RefShare, a web-based service through which personal databases of research citations (stored in RefWorks) can be shared • Re-engineering the communication process for renewal lists of subscriptions and standing orders using web pages • Coordinating guest access to Baylor’s network • Completing the move of services and data from old unsupported servers to new servers located in the ITS server room • Providing seminars and instruction opportunities for electronic resources • Continuing to enhance and promote the use of audio reserves • Developing and implementing web-based appointment requesting for consultation services • Playing an active role in the new student orientation program including interest session presentations, resource tables staffing, and web site information delivery for the promotion of student technology on campus • Playing an active role in Baylor Premiere events by hosting tours of the library • Implementing Odyssey electronic document delivery module within OsoFast • Redesigning OsoFast pages to share the look and feel of the library’s CMS pages

Enhanced access to information resources by: • Continuing to update the electronic resources database with data from BearCat • Completing second phase of Oral History transcripts, reviewing record load and needed access

83 • Providing EZProxy URLs in BearCat for electronic resources that are not accessible through Serials Solutions • Continuing the implementation of the BEARdocs institutional repository • Assisting with the implementation of an electronic theses and dissertations submission and archiving system • Insuring future access and quality of materials with initial steps in Preservation by adding UV filters for Rare Book and Scholar’s Collection Rooms • Examining new options within the BearCat system to improve the BearCat user interface • Providing trial access to potential new electronic resources and gathering faculty and student responses to those resources • Implementing a mechanism to highlight specific electronic resources – particularly under-utilized resources • Promoting ongoing services, tools, and resources to faculty, staff, and students, including Baylor Digital Library (CONTENTdm), BEARdocs, BearSpace, RefWorks, RefShare, TurnItIn, and the libraries’ electronic resources • Investigating options for providing access to electronic resources to guests who are physically present in the library • Making use of RSS technology to provide subject-based information to Baylor faculty, students, and staff • Insuring future access and quality of materials with initial steps in Preservation: o Replacing microfilm boxes with acid free boxes & tags o Retesting and identifying worst damage to microfilm due to “Vinegar Syndrome” o Developing web page for Collection Disaster information • Conducting inventory of 20% of the Central Libraries “General collection” • Extending OpenURL functionality to allow direct access from citation databases to full-text journal articles

Strengthen instructional programs and education services by: • Providing web conferencing collaboration services for faculty, staff and students using the Elluminate Live conferencing system • Implementing web-based assessment of library instruction classes • Implementing use of a web form for requesting library instruction • Improving the Blackboard Learning Management system by: o changing the portal look and feel, o introducing additional RSS features, o programming a building block to combine courses and monitor enrollment, o programming a building block that can load final grades into Banner • Providing support for survey/assessment tools, such as Perception and SNAP, used for academic research and program evaluation • Providing support and training for Graduate Teaching Assistants in the use of education technologies

84 • Encouraging collaboration among faculty members for sharing of best practices in teaching with technology through the Baylor campus Blackboard User Group and Blackboard Users community • Expanding the video production services offered by the Digital Media Studio (DMS) through the training of the DMS staff and installation of superior video production equipment • Investigating the possible provision of academic video streaming services that would enable faculty members to visually deliver information and instruction to their students • Organizing and linking to research handouts • Providing document and meeting collaboration capabilities for faculty and staff using the Microsoft SharePoint Services collaboration system Strengthened personnel development by: • Developing and presenting informal workshops to train new staff and improving and refreshing skills of existing staff • Providing instructional workshops and individual consulting for faculty, students, and staff to assist them with improved use of electronic resources and academic technology tools Enhanced and improved physical space by: • Contributing to the planning for new and renovated spaces in the libraries • Continuing to manage shelf space challenges Advanced digitization capabilities for Baylor’s collections by: • Continuing the digitization and cataloging of the Spencer Sheet Music collection in the Crouch Fine Arts Library by implementing Phase II (African American Sheet Music) • Providing consultation services on digitization issues • Investigating the digitization of sound recordings for the Black Gospel Music Restoration Project

Maximized the library materials budget by: • Collecting usage statistics for electronic resources and providing information in useful formats in order to make informed collection development decisions • Negotiating pricing options for electronic resources with vendors and publishers • Spending library material budget to within 1 percent of allocation • Continuing project to move from print journal subscriptions to electronic access when contractual agreement guarantees ownership of and access to back files Enhanced information technology support in academic areas by: • Providing support for 300+ electronic resources, 18,000+ e-journals, BearCat, BEARdocs, and other technologically based research resources and tools • Providing FAQ documents for the HEAT Knowledgebase • Investigating the use of Screencorder to provide InfoClips • Upgrading the HPC compute farm with the addition of a new quad-processor Linux OS-based Opteron

85 • Retasking one of the academic AlphaServers and migrating clients from current OpenVMS cluster onto “new” AlphaServer • Providing ongoing support for individual faculty in their computational research endeavors • Updating operating system and layered software products on OpenVMS and Linux academic computing systems • Expanding the capacity and performance of the HPC cluster environment by replacing the network infrastructure and adding 64 Gb of memory and 3 Tb of disk space • Managing and providing support for more than 1,250 computers in 54 facilities across campus • Upgrading hardware and/or software in the following general access computer facilities: Moody Garden Level, Prichard Family Information Commons, Information Commons in Stacey Riddle, Library Workstations, ADA Workstations, Education LRC, Writing Center • Upgrading hardware and/or software in the following departmental computer facilities: Athletic Laptops, Men's Basketball, Language Acquisition Center (MFL), Mathematics, Fashion Design, Statistics, Biology, Residential Technology, and English • Upgrading hardware and/or software for Library kiosks/student workstations • Consolidating storage and processing of all library checkout laptops to the Prichard Family Information Commons • Reducing public computer system image creation time by automating and streamlining processes and maintaining robust documentation • Reducing login time on standard computer lab images • Completing a security audit of all ICS-supported machines on campus to ensure physical and low-level system security • Developing and maintaining an ICS wiki for technical and procedural documentation • Creating a web site for information and resources about Baylor-owned Academic Software • Creating and distributing installers for the full suite of Autodesk Software • Completing technology upgrades for Bennett Auditorium and Draper 116 • Implementing the next phase of the Videoconferencing strategic plan • Assuming scheduling responsibilities for Draper 206 • Decommissioning Waco Hall East 210 and evaluating the possibilities of relocating facility • Modifying Social Work videoconferencing room for ease of use and enhanced organization • Installing videoconferencing room for Engineering and Computer Science • Installing additional videoconferencing room for School of Nursing • Improving the information available from AMX MeetingManager, the campus- wide asset management and control system • Evaluating student response systems with consideration for determining campus standard

86 • Providing AV consulting for the Lady Bears Locker Room upgrade • Installing Nursing 210, new technology classroom for BUSON • Completing technology installation for the new Student Foundation meeting room • Managing the installation of 3 new technology classrooms and upgrade of 2 other rooms for the new department of Anthropology, Forensic Science and Archeology in Marrs McLean Science • Completing Draper 109 and MMG 304 technology classroom upgrades • Completing technology upgrades for Arts and Sciences technology classrooms Improved service to clients by: • Improving the data gathering, analysis, and reporting of usage statistics in computer facilities • Creating an interactive community for use by lab attendants • Conducting a usage survey to evaluate student satisfaction with technology services on campus • Enhancing the PawPrints student print management system by: o Fully implementing a departmental printing code system, including advertising and enforcing transition from manual method to d-codes o Creating automatically-generated reports o Automating the monthly PawPrints billing system o Implementing a pay-as-you-go print system for library guests • Examining the possibility of providing color printing services in the Moody Garden Level Computer Facility • Creating a website providing Baylor's response to the Educause document entitled "Student Guide to Evaluating Information Technology on Campus" • Coordinating regular meetings for all campus academic technology directors to promote the exchange of technology information and foster an environment of collaboration between academic technology centers

Armstrong Browning Library

Continued to strengthen its collection by: • Purchasing select materials from the Victorian era, from both U.S. and world markets • Acquiring a concentration of materials by and about authors such as, Matthew Arnold, Charles Kingsley, George MacDonald and John Henry Newman • Seeking materials specifically by and about 19th century women poets. The collection is now one of the largest in the world – possibly the largest

Improved the Library’s international visibility by: • Hosting visiting fellows and related organizations, including Joe Phelan (De Montfort), John Woolford (University of Manchester), Christopher Ehland (University of Wurtzburg) and Prof. Mihaela Irimia (University of Bucharest). • Attending international meetings of the Browning Society (Vallombrosa in September; Westminster in December)

87 • Sponsoring or co-sponsoring international meetings and conferences, such as the Anthology of European Romanticism, co-sponsored with the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Baylor University Press; an international George MacDonald conference (September 2005); and an Elizabeth Barrett Browning conference (April 2006) led by Dr. Alison Chapman of Glasgow University • Working on cooperative advanced degree programs with other major universities, including Bucharest, Paris, Texas A&M, and others

Baylor Collections of Political Materials

Provided access to collections by: • Completing processing for Penn Jones and Caso March papers • Inventorying Bob Platt materials as they arrive • Continuing work on Jack Hightower and Bob Bullock papers Managed current digital projects by: • Scanning Project 9/11 newspapers • Scanning Hightower scrapbooks • Converting Penn Jones cassettes and videos to digital • Purchasing equipment for conversion of materials to digital format Encouraged use of collections through exhibits by: • Preparing Jack and Colleen Hightower Reception Area exhibits • Partnering with Moody Library to display BCPM materials • Upgrading exhibit area with custom exhibit cases • Preparing online exhibits Enhanced BCPM online presence by: • Updating web pages for Penn Jones, Case March, Bob Platt, and JFK Materials Increased the BCPM’s visibility by: • Encouraging membership in THE STANDING COMMITTEE (Annual giving society) • Working with Bullock former staff members to raise money for the Bullock Endowment • Developing plans for special collections room • Working cooperatively with library development to raise funds for special projects • Holding an annual Open House during national archive’s week • Providing articles for library publications and professional newsletters • Providing monthly reports and periodic reports to donors Strengthened collection development by: • Partnering with donors of papers to encourage archiving of papers • Developing long-term relationships with possible future donors • Encouraging members of the Coalition on Political Assassinations and similar groups to utilize BCPM as a repository for materials related to JFK

88 • Acquiring a concentration of materials related to Project 9/11 and the JFK assassination • Constructing a special collections temperature-humidity controlled room to house rare materials from donors

The Texas Collection

Supported the mission of the University by:

• Resuming the cataloging of the map collection after completion of an inventory • Requesting additional graduate assistants to provide mature support throughout the library • Implementing a program of regular grant writing to support special research and other projects • Developing plans for university-wide public programming at Baylor- Independence, TX, and sponsoring the event during the spring of 2006 • Continuing to address the problems created by a severe shortage of space for library and archival holdings in The Texas Collection

Library Advancement and Special Projects

Increased library endowments by: • Collaborating with University Development to create a plan for locating and cultivating new major donors • Providing additional financial resources for the purchase of electronic, print and primary source materials for Moody/Jones, The Texas Collection, the Baylor Collections of Political Materials, Armstrong Browning Library • Establishing an endowment for the Geology department that will be the model for working with other areas on campus in creating special endowments • Building the corpus of the Baylor Book Society and the Electronic Library Endowment permitting the libraries to increase purchases from the interest generated from these cooperative funds Improved and enhanced library facilities by: • Securing the financial resources to replace and upgrade the technology and furniture in the Crouch Fine Arts Library, Moody Increased the libraries’ annual undesignated gift revenues by: • Collaborating with University Development to promote gifts by parents and alumni to the Library’s Excellence Fund • Recruiting new members to the Library Fellows and maintaining the level of sustaining members • Recruiting new members to the Guardian Angels and THE STANDING COMMITTEE and maintaining the level of sustaining members Increased library marketing and visibility by: • Publishing Access and Connect! twice a year • Updating the Library Advancement website

89 • Promoting the two international conferences held by the Armstrong Browning Library • Educating others on the importance of having facsimiles for student research during an 11-day tour of Ireland in late May, early June 2006 • Providing more opportunities for the library story to be told through roadshows and public speaking engagements • Collaborating with Baylor Public Relations on strategies to enhance the libraries image on and off campus • Promoting the Ferguson-Clark Author Lecture Series Enhanced collections by: • Securing funding to purchase rare manuscript facsimiles to facilitate first-hand student learning in the Classics, BIC and Honors Areas • Building the Armstrong Browning Library’s endowment for rarities • Securing additional funding for the Black Gospel Music Restoration digitizing project through grant writing and personal appeals • Acquiring personal libraries and collections

90 Key Statistics Baylor University Libraries 2001-2006

2001/02 2002/03 2003/04 2004/05 2005/06 Volume Count Books, Journals, Scores 2,158,417 2,140,168 2,165,992 2,214,058 2,245,322 Print Volumes Added 30,169 38,730 35,601 37,897 33,774 Microform Pieces 1,975,269 2,059,235 2,117,565 2,157,058 2,197,980 Audiovisual Items 165,956 175,420 179,648 199,668 203,746 Serial Subscriptions 18,969 18,940 20,027 18,589 22,746

Electronic Resources Log Ons 189,598 260,090 359,575 433,793 406,473 Searches 1,123,749 2,137,504 3,260,666 3,435,345 3,369,263 Full-Text Retrievals 387,559 537,747 667,490 728,151 614,975 Web Page Viewsυ 1,255,431 1,474,366 1,360,239 1,917,961 2,070,092 Web-Based Resources 233 260 328 312 320 E-books 26,458 32,217 32,353 59,796 70,432 E-journals 13,860 16,736 18,910 37,866

BlackBoard Usage Student Use 77% 84% 91% 94% Faculty Use 38% 45% 54% 61% Number of Courses 1,617 2,221 3,085 3,732

Gate Count 1,184,757 1,282,089 1,251,364 1,122,600 1,107,815

Professional Staff 50 52 52 48 46 Support Staff 91 91 91 88 85

Materials Used Circulated 279,178 252,309 283,246 252,696 336,682 In-House 135,444 110,695 106,136 110,060 102,312

Group Instruction Classes/Presentations 709 1,216 1,118 1,289 1,269 Persons Served 11,144 14,777 13,686 14,814 13,293

Interlibrary Activity Items Supplied 24,507 30,568 33,914 36,006 34,487 Items Received 14,428 16,624 17,554 17,081 15,459

Total Expenditures $13,581,403 $14,222,959 $13,904,245 $12,051,849 N/A

υ A page view is a hit to any file classified as a page; a hit counts files of any type. These include the main library web site, ABL, BCPM, Texas Collection, Nursing LRC, Electronic Library, Electronic Resources Database, Library Advancement and the Browning database.

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Reports of the Directors of the Centers and Institutes

92 CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN ETHICS

Robert B. Kruschwitz, Director

Financial Resources The Center received grants from Cooperative Baptist Fellowship ($10,000), the Valparaiso Project on the Education and Formation of People in Faith ($5,000), as well as other gifts and sales totaling just over $6,000. Total income from external sources this year was about $21,000.

Personnel and Offices Dr. Robert B. Kruschwitz is Director of the Center. Elizabeth Sands-Wise, Administrative Associate, manages the Center’s office and assists in implementing the Center’s programs and publishing projects. The Center’s office suite, Morrison Hall 239, includes a reception area, two offices, and a storage closet for back issues of the Center’s publications.

Programs The Center has published Christian Reflection: A Series in Faith and Ethics each quarter since Fall 2001. The most recent issues are Cloning (Summer 2005), Mysticism (Fall 2005), Singing Our Lives (Winter 2006), and Marriage (Spring 2006). These publications provide Christian laypersons with thoughtful reflection and reliable guidance in engaging the ethical dimensions of today’s world. Each ninety-six-page issue brings together commissioned articles, inspirational pieces, book reviews, interviews, artwork, worship aids, and hymns on a single ethical theme. Currently over 4,500 individuals receive a free subscription. A number of church groups ordered multiple copies of back issues for group study. Christian Reflection and associated lesson materials are available on the Center’s web site, www.ChristianEthics.ws.

The Bound! Mission Travel Journals publishing project was launched in Summer 2003 to produce inexpensive travel journals to enrich Baylor University students’ short-term mission work. For instance, for the Africa ’05 mission project the Center commissioned fourteen new articles or devotions and produced 160 copies of Bound! In the future Bound! will be produced for groups sponsored by other universities and by churches. Each book is custom-designed with materials from the Bound! library and assembled into a 150-200 page spiral-bound travel journal. Short articles and devotions are chosen for the mission team’s specific destination and ministry.

The Center cosponsored the first annual Baylor University Medical Ethics Conference, October 13-15, 2005. In addition to cooperating with IFL to plan and administer the program, the Center developed a 125-page reader of case studies and short articles for the participants. In April 2006 the Center received a grant of $45,000 through the Baylor Horizons Renewal Grant to support the Medical Ethics Conference in 2007, 2008, and 2009. After this, the conference should be self-sustaining.

93 Editorial Board for Christian Reflection Members of the Editorial Board for Christian Reflection during 2005-2006 were Dr. Robert Kruschwitz, General Editor; Dr. William Shiell (Senior Pastor, First Baptist Church, Knoxville, TN), Proclamation Editor; Dr. Heidi J. Hornik (Baylor University), Art Editor; and Dr. Norman Wirzba (Georgetown College), Review Editor. Each editor proposes contributors for Christian Reflection to Dr. Kruschwitz, who issues all contributor contracts.

Advisory Board Members of the Advisory Board for the Center are Todd Still (Truett Seminary), Margaret Tate (Philosophy Department), and Ralph Wood (Religion Department).

Public Relations The Center exhibited at the general assemblies of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (Grapevine, TX, June 2005); Ecclesia Project (Chicago, IL, July 2005); Baptist General Convention of Texas (Austin, TX, November 2005), and Waco Baptist Association (Waco, TX, October, 2005).

The Center exhibited at these conferences and events: George W. Truett Theological Seminary Orientation Day (Baylor University, September 2005), Baylor University Medical Ethics Conference (Baylor University, October 2005), and Global Christianity: Challenging Modernity and the West (Pruit Memorial Symposium, Baylor University, November 2005).

Copies of Christian Reflection were provided for distribution at annual general assemblies of Alabama CBF (March 2006), Georgia CBF (March 2006), Louisiana CBF (March 2006); North Carolina CBF (March 2006), Virginia CBF (March 2006), Kentucky CBF (April 2006), Oklahoma CBF (April 2006), Florida CBF (April 2006), South Carolina CBF (April 2006), and Tennessee CBF (April 2006).

The Center’s website, www.ChristianEthics.ws, makes Christian Reflection materials available in PDF format. Individual articles, reviews, art discussions, hymns, worship plans, and study guides are easy to locate and download. During the first eleven months of this fiscal year, the web site averaged 3073 page hits per month, or just over 100 page hits per day.

Dr. Kruschwitz was invited to present workshops based on Christian Reflection at the Learner’s Café Series at First Baptist Church in Calgary, AB (July 2005).

Fund Raising All fund-raising efforts for the Center have been done by the director, in cooperation with the Development Office, through grant proposals to CBF, Valparaiso Project, Lilly Endowment, Baylor Horizons Program, and Louisville Institute, and through personal contacts and correspondence with individual donors. In response to a fund-raising email and letter to Christian Reflection subscribers in 2005-2006, the Center received $2,949.50 in donations from individuals and groups.

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CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION THE JO MURPHY CHAIR IN INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION

William A. Mitchell Professor and Director

The Center for International Education (CIE), consisting of both the Areas Studies Program Directors and the International Students and Scholar Services, supports Baylor University’s mission by providing scholarship and service, by “sending Baylor to the world,” and by “bringing the world to Baylor.”

The 2005-2006 academic year was a time of remarkable progress in both academic scholarship and service provided for international study aboard experiences and international exchange programs. Additionally, we have placed more emphasis on recruiting international students for our campus. We continue to respond to global security challenges, but are moving forward as we place increased emphasis on safety and security for our students, faculty, and staff. We are pleased with our progress toward Imperative Eleven of Vision 2012, and the Center continues toward the goal of internationalizing our campus.

In the 12 month period of summer 2005 through spring 2006, 855 students studied in 49 programs in 25 countries which represented four semester programs, 21 summer study abroad programs, and 24 exchange programs.

The Glennis McCrary Goodrich International Scholarship, based on merit and need, now makes it possible for more students to participate in international education. During this third year of the program, 46 students received $78,000.00 in scholarships.

The Center’s Focus on Scholarship and Service

A significant endeavor of the DCIE during the past year included leading Baylor’s efforts in rebuilding higher education in Iraq. With extraordinary support and encouragement from the entire CIE staff and the Provost and VP for Academics, Dr. Mitchell led his third trip to Iraq in December 2005 with a team of four Baylor professors (Drs. Bill Hair, Larry Lehr, and Brad Owens) where they assisted the Iraqis in creating and inaugurating a Center for Democracy at Dohuk University. The delegation held a news conference for print and visual media in Iraq upon their return to Waco. In addition to these local interviews, Dr. Mitchell was interviewed by Julie Carlson, for Baylor Website, “Baylor Professors Dedicate Center for Democracy and Diplomacy at Iraq’s Dohuk University,” and live by Fox News (with Dr. Owens). Additional coverage was by Michael Blume and Charles Hodges, Texas State Network, who interviewed Dr. Owens. Further coverage was in Mitchell’s interview with The Baylor Lariat, “Spreading democratic cheer.”

95 Mr. Yunus Doğan, President, Atlas Texas, Construction & Trading, Inc., project sponsor, visited the Center to negotiate a research proposal with Dr. Mitchell, project principal, to explore research on The Past, Present and Future Human Environment of French Colonized African States: An Assessment and Recommendation for Humanitarian Action. This research proposal has been submitted for a $750,000 grant.

Scholarship (Presentations and Publications) Dr. Mitchell’s article (with James Warhola, University of Maine), “The Warming of Turkish-Russian Relations: Motives, and Implications,” was accepted for publication by the Journal of Demokratizatsiya, Summer Volume, 2006.

Dr. Mitchell’s article (with Justin Page), “Turkish Homeowners Demand an End to Earthquake Devastation,” In Global Corruption Report 2005: Corruption in Construction and Post Conflict Reconstruction was published in summer 2005 and presented at the 10th annual Creations @ Baylor scholar’s exhibit.

In March, Dr. Mitchell along with Dr. Lizbeth Souza-Fuertes and graduate assistants Robin Crouch and Jodien Matos, presented papers in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates. Dr. Mitchell presented (with Crouch) “Women in Turkey: An Assessment of Progress Towards Leadership,” while Dr. Fuertes (with Matos) presented “Latin American Women: New Trajectories and Contributions to Social Change.”

Linda Klatt participated in a panel presentation on “Preparing for Leadership Roles in International Education” at the AIEA conference in San Diego in February and at the NAFSA conference in Montreal in May.

Other Scholarly/Creative Activities/Services Dr. Mitchell and Catherine Catlin participated in the “Chapel Friday Seminar” classes for Baylor freshmen.

Dr. Mitchell chaired “Global Christianity: Challenging Modernity and the West” for the 2005 Pruit Memorial Symposium on Pluralism & Christian Identity in Asia.

Dr. Mitchell (Colonel, USAF, Retired) was guest speaker for the Veteran’s Day Memorial Service, Baylor University.

Ms. Linda Klatt was nominated for and elected to the voluntary service position as president of the Baylor Round Table.

Executive Boards Dr. Mitchell represented Baylor University at the David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies Executive Board Meeting and Workshop in Hong Kong.

Dr. Mitchell, executive board secretary for the Consortium on Global Education, met the CGE Board at Baylor in November.

96 Dr. Mitchell attended the Baylor “Students in Crisis” committee meetings to address needs and solutions for victims of Hurricane Katrina

Dr. Mitchell, executive board member, and Linda Klatt, executive board secretary, participated in the Mid-American Universities International (MAUI)/Big 12 Conference in September at Oklahoma State University. The universities in MAUI/Big 12 work together to actively promote overseas educational opportunities for students and international teaching, consultation and research opportunities for faculty.

Global Lecture Series The CIE Global Issues Lecture Series, coordinated by Dr. Lizbeth Souza-Fuertes, Director of Latin America Studies, included the following presentations by Baylor faculty: “The Emerging Middle-Class in China Today,” by Dr. Xin Wang; “Religious Difference and the Intensity of Post-Communist Ethnic Conflict,” by Dr. Christopher Marsh; “From Habur Gate: Kurdistan, Iraq and the World,” by Dr. Brad Owens; “Hugo Boss, Lula Bye?: New Directions in Latin American Politics,” by Dr. Joan Supplee; “The Historical Roots of Caring: The Impact on Immigration Today,” by Dr. Gaynor Yancey, and “Types of Terrorism: Lessons from Colombia,” by Dr. Victor Hinojosa. Campus visitors participating in the Series included: “The Chinese in Cuba: from early ‘coolieism’ and erasure to a newfound cultural presence,” by Dr. Ignacion López-Calvo; Beliefs and Current Events Related to Islam,” by Mr. Al Siddiq; “Civil Society & Individual Rights in Russia,” by Dr. Alexander Agadjanian; “New Orleans in the 18th Century: Efficient Project of the Spanish Enlightenment,” by Dr. García-Castellón; “Women, Islam and the Veil in Egypt,” by Dr. Mary McCullough; “No Smoking: The Politics of a Global Movement,” by Dr. Donley Studlar; and “Geopolitical Perspectives from the Republic of Turkey,” by Dr. Mehmet Tomanbay.

Area Studies Programs Professor Julie deGraffenried was appointed the Associate Director of Slavic and East European Studies and Dr. Sara Alexander has been nominated by Dr. Mitchell to serve as Interim Associate Director of African Studies for a three year term starting in August 2006. Area Studies Directors at Baylor receive one workload unit for their time in this research and teaching field. They usually work far in excess of this time. There has been significant progress by the directors during this academic year. This will be clear from the following.

Asian Studies (Dr. Christopher Marsh, Director) The biggest accomplishment this year for the Asian Studies Program, however, was the receipt of a 3-year grant worth $1.8 million dollars from the Templeton Foundation to study religion and nationalism in China. The Asian Studies Program will collaborate with the Department of Sociology and CRIAD, with whom the grant was written, to put these resources to good use.

Dr. Christopher Marsh, had his third book published, Unparalleled Reforms: China’ Rise, Russia’s Fall, and the Interdependence of Transition. Dr. Marsh also had articles published in The National Interest, The Journal of Church and State, and

97 Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, and presented several lectures across the country, including at Columbia University and Boston University. The associate director, Dr. Xin Wang, had an article accepted for publication in the prestigious Journal of Contemporary China, and presented papers at professional conferences.

The Asian Studies Program began the year by co-sponsoring with the Baylor Kung Fu Club a martial arts workshop over Labor Day weekend. Attended by 100 people from across the country and the globe, the workshop was a great recruiting tool, and highlighted the many ways in which Asian culture and society is taught here at Baylor. Quite significantly, the workshop was the subject of a full-page write-up in the magazine Inside Kung-Fu, the country’s leading magazine in the area.

Latin American Studies (Dr. Elizabeth Souza-Fuertes, Director) In June 2004, there were no majors or minors below the senior class level in the LAS program. There were six seniors with a Latin American Studies major and one senior with a minor. Of the majors, two graduated in December 2004, and four graduated in May 2005. The student with a minor also graduated in May 2005. Consequently, since there were no freshmen, sophomores or juniors majoring or minoring in Latin American Studies, the Director basically re-started the LAS program in June 2004. As a result of this renewed emphasis we now have five majors, and four minors.

Dr. Fuertes was selected to serve as the project coordinator for the United States on the international project “Latin American Thought in the Twentieth-Century from the Perspective of the Human Condition,” which focuses on the values of ideas over the essence or supposed human nature, human being’s relationship with nature, God, the State, school, civil society, race, social class, solidarity, etc., and the role education plays in the process of human improvement. This project will be published both in book format as well as on the Internet. Dr. Fuertes’ scholarship is very commendable and includes The Myth of Racial Democracy in Contemporary Brazilian Literature. Accepted for publication with contract by Edwin Mellen Press. Additionally, she has presented seven refereed papers at national and international conferences and directs two study abroad programs including The Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico (Monterrey Tec University and the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUC-Lima).

Dr Souza is organizing the Thirteenth Joseph Vélez Latin American Studies Conference: “Latin America and Globalization: Immigration, Exile, Democracy?” for February 22-23, 2007. This program was initiated by Dr. Joseph Vélez, the first director of Latin American Studies at Baylor who also conducted the first ten. .

For the ninth straight year, Baylor’s Model Organization of American States (MOAS), advised by Dr. Joan Supplee, dominated a MOAS simulation sponsored by the World Affairs Council of San Antonio, Texas. MOAS team also traveled to Washington, D.C. and excelled in passing over a dozen resolutions.

98 Middle East Studies (Dr. Mark Long, Director of Middle East Studies) Dr. Long advised the Model Arab League team students who won four major awards at the Annual Model Arab League competition at North Texas State University. New courses were added in Middle East Studies minor in religion, history and Church- State Studies. Enrollment in Arabic is up 50% over last two years, and plans are underway to develop a major in Middle East Studies.

Dr. Long’s refereed article "Men who Love Death: The Army and Saddam Hussain” was accepted for publication in the Turkiye Journal for Administrative Sciences. His intensive research has included invitations at the Institute for National Security Studies, A Department of Defense conference on al-Qaida and WMD. He is completing his article on al-Qaida and has frequent video and print media interviews on developments in the Middle East. His frequent national presentations include all military services, including the prestigious USA Army's Command and General Staff College.

Slavic and Eastern European Studies –SEES (Dr. Michael Long) Dr. Julie deGraffenried was selected as the Associate Director. Prof. deGraffenried also taught a new course—SEES 2381/ HIS 2381. This new course allows SEES to have two course offerings under its own prefix. It also provides a mechanism for making the intro course more complete.

SEES also played host to Dr. Anatoly Leonov, Professor of Russian at Voronezh State University—Baylor’s exchange university in Russia. Dr. Leonov met students and guest taught Russian language classes on a few occasions from 13 August to 5 September. I took Dr. Leonov on a tour of Texas, including the Gulf coast, Houston, San Antonio, Austin and the Hill Country. Several Russian language students also took Dr. Leonov to Six Flags in Arlington.

It is difficult to state how many majors there are in SEES. Students very often take classes then declare the major later. Both sections of the two introductory classes were quite full with more than 20 students enrolled each semester. It is expected that the addition of the new course as well as Prof. deGraffenried’s participation will lead to an increase in student interest in the major.

The exchange with Voronezh University is thriving. In the fall 2006 semester, 2 Baylor students will attend VSU, making a total of 12 Baylor students who have participated on the exchange; two of these have participated for 2 semesters. Other exchange opportunities in Prague, Czech Republic and in Zagreb, Croatia are being explored.

Global Christian Ventures (Dr. McManness, Director) Dr. McManness led the Baylor in Denia summer study abroad program in Denia, Spain. 25 students participated in 2 Spanish classes each plus a week of service in Kid’s Camp 4 hrs. per day. Kid’s Camp is a ministry of the Colegio Alfa y Omega where preschool-6th grade children participate in day camp activities led by our Baylor students.

99 Dr. McManness also served on ad hoc committee to reassess study abroad budget differences in budget from those of conference participants. Furthur, she recruited students for various opportunities of service, among them Teach for America, Texas Teaching Fellows, EduEspaña (opportunity from Spanish government for students to live in Spain for a year while teaching English), and Baylor’s year long program for teaching in Thailand. Also recruited students for various teaching positions at private Christian schools in Waco, Plano, TX and Shell, Ecuador. She also helped find mission opportunities for students in the Dominican Republic in conjunction with Baylor in the Dominican Republic study abroad program.

The Center's Focus on "Sending Baylor to the World”

Study Abroad Programs Baylor continues to participate in a number of consortiums which give students additional international study options such as the Consortium of Global Education (CGE)--a consortium of Baptist universities and colleges, UTRECHT--a consortium of European institutions, LEWI--Hong Kong Baptist University and MAUI/Big 12—Mid-America Universities.

Global education opportunities were widely publicized on campus and promoted at campus Study Abroad Fair events each semester; at Fall, Winter, and Spring Premieres; at Parents’ Weekend; at Invitation to Excellence; and at numerous freshman orientation sessions.

Baylor in China, Baylor in Dominican Republic, and Baylor in Brazil are newly introduced summer study abroad programs. Dr. Mitchell assessed the London Great Britain summer study abroad during in July. Additionally, he led his 10th summer study aboard program in Turkey and Greece.

Exchange Programs The DCIE and Chair of Modern Foreign Languages negotiated for and completed a Spanish language program with the Centre Lingüístico Conversa in Costa Rica. Negotiations are well underway for a semester exchange program at Beijing University.

To explore and develop new exchange programs and to renegotiate existing ones, Dr. Mitchell and Linda Klatt traveled to London, England to visit two potential affiliates: Centers for Academic Programs Abroad (CAPA) and Foundation for International Education (FIE). He also explored programs at Centro Lingüístico Conversa, and St. Andrews in Scotland (with Drs. Beaty and Bennighof). In cooperation with MAUI/Big 12. Dr. Mitchell and Dr. Souza-Fuertes visited the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú to evaluate a potential student/faculty exchange.

Mr. Jorg de Vette and Ms. Yvette Froeling, Center for European Studies (CES) Maastricht, visited campus to discuss Baylor’s Maastricht exchange agreement. Dr. Mitchell, Dr. Greg Speegle and Mary Abrahams traveled to Maastricht to negotiate

100 dorms and programs with the CES. Dr. Nirund Jivasantikarn, President of Yonok College, Thailand, visited the Center to discuss the Yonok exchange agreement.

Dean Thomas Hibbs presented a proposal to partner with the University of Dallas/Rome campus for a semester exchange program for the Honors College. A possibility of a full London exchange to include Regents College and FIE and which would offer group semester programs for Baylor students has been an ongoing effort. who coordinated ongoing higher education projects with CIE and with Dr. Lilley. Mr.

Dr. Lizbeth Souza-Fuertes is working with the DCIE to develop an exchange program with Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC-Santiago).

Global Networking CIE is working to develop strategies for developing a network between BU study abroad program participants and BU alumni living/working abroad. The CIE also has been working with the Department of Residence Life on the possibility of establishing a Global Village Living and Learning Center.

The Center’s Work in “Bringing the World to Baylor”

International Student and Scholar Services/ International Students The CIE provided orientation and immigration services to 409 international students and scholars from 76 different countries on the Baylor campus. Top fields of study are Computer Science, Chemistry, Biology, and Business. Over the past decade, the numbers of international students have grown slowly and steadily (an increase of about 40% since 1996). Today, however, with the more stringent visa requirements and increased competition from other English speaking countries, we "just about held steady,” but we must actively recruit in order to obtain our Vision 2012 Imperative Eleven goal of increased international students on campus. Recruiting efforts are underway with our advertising in an international publication (Hobson’s International), and by participation in a Texas coalition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Commerce. International students pay the same tuition as U.S. students, but because they are not eligible for federal aid, any scholarships which can be provided for them have a strong impact on their decision to attend.

Recruiting for International students Dr. Mitchell, Alexine Burke, International Student Advisor, and Cathleen Catlin, Study Abroad and Exchange student advisor, attended a recruiting fair in Ankara and Istanbul, Turkey. Dr. Mitchell, Dr. Carolyn Bishop, President of CGE, and Linda Klatt met the Thailand Minister of Education and participated in an intensive recruiting fair in North and South Thailand. Ms. Beth Walker also recruited for Baylor during her visit to Thailand.

Research Universities such as Baylor are well aware that international students are important for bringing diversity and sensitivity understanding to a campus. The ISSS seeks to include them in activities throughout the campus and community, creating the

101 opportunity for them to receive from, as well as give to, those with whom they interact in their new setting in the USA. Approximately 400 American and international students participated in the People Around the World Sharing (PAWS) program, managed by Ms. Beth Walker, which connects international and USA students. More than one hundred community families participated in the Welcome Families program.

During the spring semester, the Center hosted International Week, including a Film Festival, Study Abroad Photo Contest, an International Coffee Hour, and Food Fest, at which international students served their country’s culinary specialties to students, faculty, and community guests. The CIE responded to over two hundred requests from the news media, professors, coaches, students, families, community and campus organizations, churches, businesses, and others wanting to connect with international students.

Through the Baylor Internationals in the Schools Program, international students spoke in classrooms to more than 200 students and participated in the Waco ISD "Partners in Education" program and in the International Panel on Education for the “Teen Leadership Waco” program.

Ms. Linda Klatt and Ms. Cathleen Catlin attended the NAFSA Annual Conference in Canada. Ms. Beth Walker was a staff participant in the Baylor and Thailand program.

International Scholars/Guests at Baylor Dr. Manuel García-Castellón, Professor of Latin American Colonial Literature at the University of New Orleans, also a Katrina disaster victim, was a Visiting Research Faculty during the fall semester.

Ambassador Luis Gallegos, Ecuador, was hosted at Baylor for a brief meeting with Dr. Lizbeth Souza-Fuertes, Director of Latin America Studies.

Mr. Takuma Sato, from Hosei University, Japan, visited for mentoring in Human Resources.

Dr. Chung-Tzer Liu, from Taiwan, visited for mentoring in Information Systems

Professor Alka Lyall, from India, mentored in Education (Fellow of the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia.

DCIE hosted Mr. Gunchin Luvsandorj, Presidium President for the State of Darkhan, Mongolia and Mrs. Batdulam Jambadoo, Foreign Affairs Officer for the State of Darkhan. The delegation visited Baylor to build relationships with the U.S. government agencies and to better understand our economic and educational systems. They were also able to attend the Spring Study Abroad Fair. This was publicized in an interview with Mitchell in The Baylor Lariat, “Study abroad fair connects students, dignitaries” and the Waco Tribune Herald “BU hosts 2 Mongolian dignitaries.”

102 Other international visitors to campus included: Dr. Mehmet Tomanbay, Member of Parliament, Grand National Assembly for the Republic of Turkey. Dr. Tomanbay was guest lecture for classes and a speaker for the Global Issues Lecture Series. While in Waco, he was interviewed by the Baylor Lariat, “Turkish dignitary to lecture on political perspectives,” and live by Channel 10 News.

Vice-President, Dr. Iwama, Seinan Gakuin University, visited campus to discuss the exchange agreement and attend the inauguration of President John Lilley.

Professor Shen Mingbo, Tsinghua University, China, an exchange scholar, taught Chinese for the MFL department.

Dr. Anatoly Leonov, Professor of Russian at Voronezh State University, visited Baylor for the presidential inauguration.

This report does not include the teaching, counseling, and advising activities of Dr. Mitchell. He has taught 8 courses during the past year.

The Director of the Center for International Education and its entire faculty and staff wishes to thank Mrs. Jo Murphy for making possible the work of the CIE as it continues to play an important role in internationalizing the campus and in fulfilling Baylor University’s mission of educating students for worldwide leadership and service, in particular with the goal and charge of Imperative Eleven of Vision 2012.

103 CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES

Marc H. Ellis, Director

New Location

In the Spring (2005) the Center for American and Jewish Studies was granted new space and during the Summer it was completely renovated. We moved to the new location at 133-137 Marrs McLean Science Building in the Fall 2005, and held our Grand Opening in October. During the academic year we were granted Room 131, and we have applied for funds to renovate.

Name Change: Center for Jewish Studies

In Fall 2005 the name of the Center was changed to the Center for Jewish Studies and Dr. Ellis’ title reflects that change also.

New Website

Our newly redesigned website - www.baylor.edu/Jewish_Studies - is up and in accordance with Baylor standards. Students can find all class resources and links to Blackboard through the website, as well as listings for current events. Past events are also posted on the website along with news articles and galleries of photographs. A link to the Center for Jewish Studies library, as well as links to Jewish Resources to include: Jewish Databases and Indexes, Libraries and Archives, and News and Listserves. Archives from the previous years events can also be accessed from the website, including pictures and articles. A section to the Jewish Studies library is another important part of the website.

Library

The Jewish Studies Library has over 3,000 volumes, and now with the new locale, all the volumes are accessible to the public in one specific location, with regular hours. The books are labeled, and we have worked closely with the library, specifically Carol Scheutz, in making sure that everything is in order. A new vertical file has been established with archival materials. A media library is also part of the library materials.

Dr. Marc H. Ellis

Classroom Teaching

Fall 2005: CHS 4365 Jewish Philosophy Spring 2006: CHS 3308 Hitler and the Holocaust; CHS 4304 Modern Judaism

104 Thesis Direction

Spencer Holleman, MA: “Origins and Implications of the Holocaust: Social, Moral and Institutional Dimensions.”

Sasha Ross, MA: “The Dilemma of Justice: How Religion Influences the Political Environment of Post-1948 Israel and Palestine.”

PUBLICATIONS:

Books

Reading the Torah Aloud: A Journey of Lament and Hope (forthcoming from Fortress Press in 2006)

Translation into Mandarin Chinese of Out of the Ashes: Israel and Palestine: The Search for Jewish Identity in the Twenty-First Century and published in Taiwan by New Century Press in 2005.

Major Reviews and Commentary:

Seth Farber, “Marc Ellis’s Messianism and Theological Rationale for Solidarity with the Palestinians,” European Judaism 38(Spring 2005): 110-126.

Radicals, Rabbis and Peacemakers: Conversations with Jewish Critics of Israel, ed. Seth Farber (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 2005), 222-247.

Articles:

“Jewish Constantinianism and the Emergence of the Jewish Prophetic,” in Radical, Rabbis and Peacemakers: Conversations with Jewish Critics of Israel, ed. Seth Farber (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 2005), 222-247.

“Holocaust, Christian Zionism and Beyond: A Jewish Theology of Liberation After,” Challenging Christian Zionism: Theology, Politics and the Israel- Palestine Conflict (London: Melisende, 2005): 169-178.

“Suelle guerra civile ebraica e il nuovo profetico,” in Qui:, appunti dal presente no. 12 (Ottobre 2005): 37-60.

“9 apriele. Deir Yassin e il futuro ebracio. Ricordare e resistere,” Qui, appunti dal presente no. 11(Guigno 2005), 91-102.

“After Arafat: Mapping a Jewish Palestinian Solidarity,” Journal of Church and State 47 (Winter 2005): 7-18.

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PAPERS, LECTURES and SEMINARS PRESENTED

Fall, 2005

“Auschwitz and the Future of Justice and Reconciliation,” Keynote Address, Genocide Generation: Remembrance and Reconciliation or Repetition? Conference, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Canada.

“Experiences of Liberation/Readings and Interpretations of the Book,” International Forum: The Way of Liberation of the Faiths in the Mediterranean: Towards a Liberation Theology of the Children of Abraham, Pax Christi Italia, Bari, Italy.

“Truth: Israel and the Spirit of Yom Kippur,” Coe College Department of Religion and Philosophy, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

“Constantinian Judaism and the Politics of Israel,” Conference on Theology and Politics in the Holy Land, Texas Lutheran University, Seguin, Texas.

“Jews of Conscience and the Future of Palestine and Israel,” Plenary Address, Ending the Silence: Working for a Just Peace in Palestine and Israel Conference, Mountainview Presbyterian Church, Denver, Colorado.

Spring 2006

“Seizing the Moment-A Jewish Theology of Liberation for the 21st Century – Keynote Speaker at the Annual Conference of the Society of Jewish Ethics, in Phoenix, Arizona.

“Peace and Religion - a Contradiction?” at the Convent of St. Anne, Tantur, Israel.

“Another Kind of Politics: A Jewish Theology of Liberation for the 21st Century, Keynote Lecture at Sapir College, Israel.

“On the Shema and the Prophet Martyr: A Jewish Reflection on the 26th Anniversary of the Martyrdom of Archbishop Oscar Romero,” Rome, Italy.

“Martin Buber - Ebrei - per la pace” Department of Science of Education, University of Bethlehem.

106 Programs and Events

October 17th - Clash of Civilizations? An Islamic Perspective Brown Bag Lunch with Dr. Mohamad G. Alkadry.

October 18th - Grand Opening of the Center for Jewish Studies and Three Women from Jerusalem Three women from three different faith backgrounds - Jewish, Christian, and Muslim - share their one vision. We held a luncheon at the Center and then a lecture with the Three Women at Alexander Hall to a standing-room only crowd of students and faculty.

November 4th - Marc Chagall and the Jewish Art Renaissance Brown Bag Lunch Lecture with Dr. Seth Wolitz, who holds the Gayle Chair in Jewish Studies at the University of Texas who spoke on the art of Marc Chagall, in conjunction with a special viewing of 10 Chagall lithographs on loan from Baylor's Martin Gallery of Art.

November 5th - Film Series: Trembling Before G_d Movie explores a variety of contemporary social and religious questions through a unique cultural lens. Co-sponsored by Baylor's Women's Studies Program.

November 10th - Discussion on Hannah Arendt A discussion of German Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt and her Jewish heritage by Prof. Dr. Dr. Gerhard Besier.

November 18th - Discussion with Edward Linenthal A discussion with Dr. Edward Linenthal, who reflected on his book Preserving Memory: The Struggle to Create America’s Holocaust Museum.

January 25th - Film Series: Ararat "Ararat" is a story about Armenian Genocide and the life of a mom and son facing the past of Turkey's denial of a catastrophe.

February 2nd - Jewish Memory, Jewish History: The Case of the Wandering Jew Visiting Professor, Alfred I. Tauber, Director, Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Boston University.

February 8th - Genocide & Film Series Event: Rabbit Proof Fence A powerful true story of hope and survival of a young aboriginal girl.

February 9th - Celebrate Difference! Is the other, Other? Or is the Other, same? Baylor students gather in diversity to listen to a variety of diverse experiences.

107 February 16th Baylor Muslim Students Speak Out "More than 250 people, primarily Baylor students, heard Hoda Said, a 20-year-old junior, and Nohayia Javed, a 19-year-old senior, explain why the controversial cartoons have caused such a stir, followed by a question-and-answer session" (from a story in The Waco Tribune Herald)

February 10th - 11th Annual Retreat 2006: Faith on the Margins Held at Three Mountain Retreat in Clifton, Texas. Guest Speakers: Dr. Marc Chmiel, Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb

February 15th - Film Series: The Killing Fields In 1975, during the rule of Pol Pot, it was estimated that 2 million Cambodians (approximately 30% of the Cambodian population during that time) were forced into the countryside and to labor camps.

February 21st - Ask Rabbi Milgrom Recently, the Center welcomed Rabbi Jeremy Milgrom to speak in our new series "Ask the Rabbi." Rabbi Milgrom, ordained within the Conservative Movement, is an Israeli who lives in Jerusalem. He is internationally known for his work on Non-Violence as a way to integrate spirituality and politics in Israel and the world at large. While here Rabbi Milgrom participated in Professor Ellis' Holocaust class and an expanded Modern Judaism/brown bag lunch format. There he spoke and responded to questions of what it means to be Jewish, just and compassionate in the context of Israel and the global scene. We are pleased to announce that Rabbi Milgrom has agreed to come back our way next year and become an active participant in the ongoing work of the Center.

February 22nd - Film Series: The Grey Zone A true story of the special squads of Jewish prisoners (Auschwitz's sonderkommandos) who faced moral dilemma of helping to exterminate fellow Jews in exchange for a few more months of life.

April 4th - Ask the Rabbi Series: Ask Rabbi Rotem Rabbi Rotem is a local rabbi, and comes from Israel. He, took spoke to combined classes, and specifically about the Israeli elections, Hamas, and the Future of Israel and the Palestinians.

April 5th - Crumbs From the Table A musical exploration of Jewish philosophy by Music Composition Major, Eric Evans employing the philosophies of Hannah Arendt, Martin Buber, Emmanuel Levinas, and Abraham Heschel using a fusion of electronic instrumentation.

April 11th - Passover Seder Students joined Professor Ellis and his family for a Passover Celebration at their home. During this time, the story of Passover was read and discussed; traditional refreshments were served.

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April 25th - 5th Annual Holocaust Remembrance, Music for the End of Time - Music From the Death Camps Commemorating holocaust and genocide through a medium of music. Quartet for the End of Time--The Abyss of the Birds by Olivier Messiaen with Amanda Posey, Clarinet; Selections from I Never Saw Another Butterfly Music by Lori Laitman, Text by Children of the Holocaust, with Kristen Miller, Mezzo Soprano and Nathan Payton, Saxophone; 1938-1945 Reminiscences, Suite for Solo Piano 3. March 15, 1939, Occupation; Auschwitz – Corpse Factory by Karel Berman (1919-1995) , with Dr. Brian Marks, Piano, and Brainwash by Ben Johansen and Yu-Chun, Percussion/Multimedia.

April 25th - Holocaust Remembrance Day Film: The Armenian Genocide A documentary of the first genocide in the 20th century. Over 100 students attended this event.

April 25th - A Panel Discussion: Religion and Genocide: Never Again? - April 25th Panel members: Dr. Marc H. Ellis, Center for Jewish Studies; Dr. A. Christian Van Gorder, Department of Religion; Dr. George w. Gawrych, Department of History; Ms. Amy Comer, Sociology Student, on the topic of Genocide

109 CENTER FOR MINISTRY EFFECTIVENESS

W. Winfred Moore, Director

Financial Resources Program fees and gifts from individual donors, foundations, churches and other institutions have funded the operating budget for the Center for Ministry Effectiveness as well as scheduled seminars and retreats for ministers, spouses and lay leaders. Although personnel salaries and benefits continue to be underwritten through the overall budget of the university, special gifts and program fees have exceeded other expenditures and will provide funding for coming scheduled events. New donors have been added to those who have given consistently since the Center’s beginnings, but the director and council members continue to enlist new supporters while cultivating the existing list.

Personnel Our Assistant Director, Dodie Jackson, retired January 31, 2005. We advertised and received many applications for the position and on September 1, 2005 hired Julie Covington, a Baylor graduate and former assistant director of the Piper Child Development Center. We have delayed the filling of an approved part-time position until we see what new plans and challenges will require. Louine Adams, who is in a part-time position, stepped up and kept the office running during the time of January to September, 2005 while we were seeking a full-time assistant director. There is a budget allocation for a student worker and we plan to investigate the need to fill this position this year. Effective June 1, 2006 Dr. Donald Schmeltekopf will become the new director of the center upon Dr. Moore’s retirement. In September of 2005, Dr. Moore and Dr. Schmeltekopf consulted and proposed to the administration a new change to the Center’s name and received approval. The center is now titled Center for Ministry Effectiveness and Educational Leadership. The new name of the center reflects a complimentary and expanded mission that in addition to the traditional role of work with ministers and churches, the Center will now also work with Baptist schools, especially our Baptist universities in Texas. Offices for the Center for Ministry Effectiveness and Educational Leadership are located on the fourth floor of Pat Neff, Suite 403.

Programs During the past budget year the number of sponsored events was limited due to preparations for the transition of the new Director and Assistant Director. Throughout the year, however, more than 361 people participated in the events sponsored or co- sponsored by the Center. As a result of the Church Staff Retreat in 2004 where Dr. Dallas Willard was our keynote speaker, we are still mailing CDs of his messages literally around the world.

This year the center hosted a smaller church ministers and lay leader’s conference at Baylor, a retired ministers and missionaries luncheon and seminar on the Baylor campus

110 which had the largest attendance ever, and a symposium on congregational worship. The center also co-hosted multiple planning meetings with representatives from the BGCT, pastors, Texas Baptist university academic officers, and lay leaders to investigate the possible collaborations with the BGCT and Texas Baptist schools to provide leadership training for Texas pastors, staff, lay leaders, and university leaders.

Members of Baylor’s administration, faculty, and staff have participated in all of these seminars, luncheons, planning meetings, and conferences.

Council of Advisors The Council of Advisors for the Center met twice during the year: September and February. Not only does this council generate ideas for programs and encourage the financial stability of the Center, but its members also support the seminars and retreats by providing leadership and by participating in as many events as their schedules will allow.

Web Page and Public Relations The staff has maintained current information on the Center’s website and has continued to invite on-line requests for information and/or registration for events. The Center sponsored a table at the annual meeting of the Waco Baptist Association. This upcoming year Julie Covington, the assistant director, will be the secretary for the Waco Baptist Regional Network’s (formerly named Waco Baptist Association) annual meeting. The center is also at work in building an electronic database for means of communicating with our constituents

Both the director and the assistant director attended annual meetings of the Waco Baptist Association in October and the director attended the Baptist General Convention of Texas meeting in Austin.

Fund Raising Fund-raising efforts for the Center have been initiated by the director primarily through personal contacts and correspondence with individual donors. Again, we are thankful that gifts have exceeded expenditures for the year.

111 CENTER FOR RELIGIOUS INQUIRY ACROSS THE DISCIPLINES

Byron Johnson, Director

CRIAD exists to involve scholars having many different interests and approaches in creative efforts to grasp the complexities and interconnections of religion in the life of individuals and societies. The aim is to combine the highest standards of scholarship with a serious commitment to faith, resulting in studies that not only plumb basic questions, but produce results that are relevant to religious organizations, that address moral controversies, and contribute to social health. Although CRIAD only began in August, 2004, it already has engaged the active participation of anthropologists, criminologists, economists, historians, philosophers, physicians, medievalists, sinologists, sociologists, and theologians. Moreover, there has been far more collaboration across disciplinary lines than might be expected, with the result that a set of research initiatives have taken shape.

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

Courses Taught:

Byron Johnson, Professor of Sociology, Director of CRIAD Fall 2005: SOC 5301 Social Deviance

Rodney Stark, Professor of Sociology, Distinguished Senior Fellow, CRIAD Fall 2005: SOC 5341 Introduction to the Sociology of Religion SOC 5V99 Thesis Spring 2006: SOC 5V71 Special Topics/Sociology SOC 5V99 Thesis SOC 6V99 Dissertation

RESEARCH AND SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES

Publications:

Byron Johnson, Professor of Sociology, Director of CRIAD

1. The Bible Literacy Report: What do American Teens Need to Know and What Do They Know? (2005) Scholarly Advisor, The Bible Literacy Project, Inc. 2. “Gender, Religiosity, and Reactions to Strain among African Americans,” 46 (2): 323-358 (2005) Sociological Quarterly, with Sung Joon Jang,

112 3. The Difference Marriage Makes: Religion, Race, Gender, and Relationships in Urban America, Monograph prepared for the Anne E. Casey Foundation, May 2005, with Bradford W. Wilcox and Nicholas Wolfinger. 4. Reducing Woman Battering, book chapter, in Natalie J. Sokoloff (ed) Domestic Violence at the Margins: Readings on Race, Class, Gender, and Culture Rutgers University Press (2005).

5. Faith Based Approaches to Correctional Issues. Monograph prepared for the National Institute of Corrections and the Federal Bureau of Prisons, October 2005. 6. The Bible Literacy Report II: What University Professors Say Incoming Students Need to Know, (2006) Scholarly Advisor, The Bible Literacy Project, Inc. (2006). 7. An Empirical Assessment of Bible Literacy in America, The Bible and the Academy, Scripture and Hermeneutics Series, Volume 9, May 2006.

Rodney Stark, Professor of Sociology, Distinguished Senior Fellow, CRIAD

1. Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success (2005). Random House: New York.

This book has received enormous press and praise and has been reviewed in many national print media outlets as well as being featured as the cover of the New York Times Book Review on Christmas day 2005 (see Appendix A).

2. The Rise of Mormonism (2005). Columbia University Press, New York. 3. Rodney Stark, Eva Hamberg, and Alan S. Miller. "Exploring Spirituality and Unchurched Religions in America, Sweden, and Japan." Journal of Contemporary Religion. 20 (2005): 1-21. 4. Massimo Introvigne and Rodney Stark. “Religious Competition and Revival in Italy.” Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion. 1 (2005) Article 5: www.religjournal.com.

Yunfeng Paul Lu, Post-Doctoral Fellow, CRIAD

1. Lu, Yunfeng and Graeme Lang (Forthcoming, 2006). “Impact of the State on the Evolution of Sects.” Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review. 2. Lu, Yunfeng (Forthcoming, 2006). “Religion in Modern China.” In Encyclopedia of the World and Its Peoples. London: Brown Reference Group. 3. Lu, Yunfeng. 2005. “Entrepreneurial Logics and the Evolution of Falun Gong.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 44 (2): 173-185. 4. Lu, Yunfeng. 2005. “Helping People to Fulfill Vows: Commitment Mechanisms in a Chinese Sect.” In State, Market, and Religions in Chinese Societies, pp183- 202, edited by Fenggang Yang and Joseph Tamney. Boston: Brill.

113 5. Graeme Lang and Yunfeng Lu. 2005. “Assimilation of ‘new age’ beliefs into cults and new religions in East and Southeast Asia.” In New Age, edited by Michaela Moravčíková, 306-353. Bratislava: Ústav pre vzťahy štátu a cirkví.

We released a series of high-impact CRIAD Research Reports in January of 2006. These reports were previously released between 2001 and 2003, at the University of Pennsylvania, where I formerly directed the Center for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society. These reports are an effort to take important journal articles that are often difficult to read and understand and to convert them into lay-friendly publications that journalists and policy-makers can comprehend, appreciate, and use effectively. The University of Pennsylvania has given us permission to release the reports under CRIAD and Baylor University’s name as well as make them available on our current website www.criad.org (see Appendix B). In an effort to widely disseminate research produced by CRIAD scholars, we will continue to release new CRIAD Research Reports in the future.

Presentations, Lectures, and Other Scholarly Activities:

Byron Johnson, Professor of Sociology, Director of CRIAD 1. University Lecture, Morehead State University, “Is Religion Good for Society?” Jan. 2005. 2. Keynote Speech: Restorative Justice Network, San Antonio, TX, April 2005. 3. The George B. Beto Chair Lecture, Sam Houston State University, April 2005. 4. Chair, Public Hearings on Faith Based Approaches to Corrections, National Institute of Corrections, Washington, DC, June 2005. 5. “Domestic Violence and Missing Persons,” Department of Justice, Philadelphia, PA, July 2005. 6. CRIAD hosted a national conference on Establishing Fatality Review Teams, funded by a grant from the Department of Justice, Phoenix, AZ, August 2005 (attendance – 281). 7. Invited Lecture – “The Ties that Bind,” Witherspoon Institute and Princeton University, November 2005. 8. Invited Lecture – Evaluation Research,” 28th Annual Governor’s Volunteer Leadership Conference, Dallas, Texas, November 9, 2005. 9. CRIAD Conference Co-sponsorship - Jews and Evangelicals: Uneasy Allies? December. The Jew-Evangelical conference brought together key Evangelical and Jewish scholars as well as lay leaders and was featured in 133 newspaper articles across the country (see Appendix C). 10. Invited Advisor, Domestic Violence Unit, The Home Office, London, England, December 19, 2005. 11. Academic Consultation, Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University, United Kingdom, December 20, 2005.

114 12. Academic Consultation, St. Edmund’s College, Cambridge University, United Kingdom, December 20, 2005.

Rodney Stark, Professor of Sociology, Distinguished Senior Fellow, CRIAD Rodney Stark gave the highly anticipated inaugural Templeton Lectures at Vanderbilt University during the Spring 2006 semester. These four highly-regarded lectures were attended by more than 1,000 people and were filmed for broadcast by the Nashville PBS affiliate (see Appendix D).

Lecture 1 -- The Market Approach to Understanding Religion. Tuesday, February 14th, 2006 6:00PM Reception 5:00 – 6:00 PM Vanderbilt Student Life Center* 310 25th Avenue South

Lecture 2 -- Subsidized Religions: 6000 Years of Negligence and Laxity Tuesday, February 28th, 2006 6:00PM Reception 5:00 – 6:00 PM Vanderbilt Student Life Center* 310 25th Avenue South

Lecture 3 -- Religious Competition and Roman Piety Tuesday, March 14thth, 2006 6:00PM Reception 5:00 – 6:00 PM Vanderbilt Student Life Center* 310 25th Avenue South

Lecture 4 -- Christian Establishments and the Neglect of Faith Tuesday, March 28th, 2006 6:00PM Reception 5:00 – 6:00 PM Vanderbilt Student Life Center* 310 25th Avenue South

Stark continues to give many interviews to local, regional, and national print as well as radio and television outlets regarding his books and research. He is clearly one of the country’s most sought-after speakers on religion.

Under Stark’s leadership, we successfully launched this year a major online journal featuring research on religion from multiple disciplinary perspectives. We expect this peer-reviewed journal to be one of the top journals in the field over the next two to three years. The Interdisciplinary Journal for Research on Religion (IJRR) can be located at the following web address: www.religjournal.com. Submissions to IJRR are reviewed within several weeks and the author(s) receive a decision immediately. Papers accepted for publication are placed on the website immediately. We believe this unprecedented turn-around will help make IJRR a popular choice for scholarly submissions.

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The Inaugural CRIAD lecture was given in November 2005, by Dr. Arthur Schwartz, Senior Vice President of the John M. Templeton Foundation (see Appendix E).

Grant Activity:

A list of the grants we have received over the last 20 months is provided below. We will be applying for additional grants over the next few months and have identified a number of additional areas for which we will be seeking external support in the not-too-distant future (see Appendix F).

1. Title: National Domestic Violence Fatality Review Initiative. Sponsor Name: Office on Violence Against Women, Office of Justice Programs, Department of Justice Award date: June 2004 Project Period: June 2004 – June 2006 Award amount: $820,000

The National Domestic Violence Fatality Review Initiative (NDVFRI) is funded through an $820,000 grant awarded by the Office on Violence Against Women, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. Based at Baylor University, the NDVFRI is the first of its kind, creating a clearinghouse and resource center dedicated to domestic violence fatality review (www.NDVFRI.org). Currently 30 states have some form of domestic violence fatality review. Domestic violence fatality review requires a paradigm shift from a culture of blame to a culture of safety in which deaths are reviewed through a lens of preventive accountability. With trust, honesty, and candor, communities can establish reliable systems that value accountability and help prevent future death and injury from domestic violence. Specifically, the Initiative has the following objectives: (1) Preventing domestic violence homicides and domestic violence in general, (2) Preserving the safety of battered women, (3) Holding accountable the perpetrators of domestic violence, (4) Identifying gaps in service delivery as well as ways to remedy these shortcomings among organizations, and (5) Providing technical assistance to the states developing and continuing their fatality review work.

2. Title: Baylor Longitudinal Study of Religious Belief and Values Sponsor Name: John M. Templeton Foundation Project Period: January 2005 – December 2007. Amount Funded: $716,000

The Baylor Longitudinal Survey of Religious Behaviors and Values - We received a three-year grant for $716,000 from the John M. Templeton Foundation, to conduct a nationally representative multiyear study of religious values, practices, and behaviors, with a specific focus on consumption of religious goods and services (see Appendix G for a copy of the instrument). Using a host of new survey items that improve upon previous work, the study will yield new data to more systematically explore and better understand

116 what sometimes appears to be an ambiguous relationship between trust, civic engagement, and religion. It partnering with the Gallup Organization, we believe this cutting-edge study has the potential to generate data that may well cause scholars to rethink our currently used measures of religious commitment or devoutness, as well as various theories linking the influence of religion to civic engagement, spiritual capital, and many other important social and behavioral outcomes. Baylor’s public relations firm, Lipman-Hearne has been retained to assist with the marketing of the research to come from this unprecedented survey. A fall press conference to announce the initial survey results will take place in September.

3. Title: The Empirical Study of Religions in China Sponsor Name: John M. Templeton Foundation Award Date: March 2006 – February 2009 Amount Funded: $1,730,000

The Empirical Study of Religions in China – We received in April a three-year grant in the amount of $1,730,000 from the John M. Templeton Foundation to launch an unprecedented series of empirical studies on religion in China. Probably the most significant current religious development in the world is the very rapid growth of Christianity in China. When the Marxists came to power in 1949 and expelled all foreign missionaries it was estimated that there were perhaps 2 million Christians in China. Now, after decades of repression, a renewed Chinese Christianity has burst forth and their numbers are variously estimated at 50 to 120 million, and growing. With the generous support of the Templeton Foundation, the Empirical Study of Religions in China (ESRIC) will create a new program dedicated to generating ground-breaking scholarship and thus build a new field of empirical research on religion in contemporary China. The emphasis will be on enabling Chinese scholars to do the primary research. To this end, ESRIC proposes to be a catalyst by pursuing the following objectives: a) providing ongoing training and support to a number of highly qualified Chinese post-doctoral and research fellows; b) hosting in China an annual summer institute on the social scientific study of religion; c) hosting at Baylor an annual winter workshop on advanced research methodology; d) translation into Chinese of influential Western works and providing free access to a major on-line journal dedicated to comparative studies of religion; e) in collaboration with the Gallup Organization, conducting a nationally representative survey in China, whose focus is on religion, religious practices, beliefs, and values; f) providing support for small-scale research projects in China; and g) drawing upon the expertise of Chinese and American scholars we will publish journal articles, book chapters, and widely accessible books on the role of religion in contemporary China. Dr. Carson Mencken, associate professor of sociology at Baylor University, is the ESRIC project director. Assisting Mencken will be associate project directors Byron Johnson and Rodney Stark. The Summer Institute on the Social Scientific Study of Religion in Beijing is taking place in July.

4. Title: Faith and Community Technical Support. Sponsor Name: Office on Violence Against Women, Office of Justice Programs, Department of Justice

117 Project Period: April 2006 - December 2007 Award amount: $2,975,035

Faith and Community Technical Support - We have just received almost $3,000,000 from the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW), an agency within the Department of Justice that focuses on legal and policy issues related to domestic violence, to launch a national faith-based and community organization pilot program addressing domestic violence and child victimization in rural communities. The Faith and Community Technical Support (FACTS) program is ideally equipped to act as an intermediary for both the OVW and small faith-based and/or community programs in order to locate potential sub-awardees, oversee a national grant competition, disseminate grant sub- awards and provide technical assistance to sub-awardees in rural communities. FACTS is a collaboration between staff at the Montana Office of Victim Services and the principal project staff at Baylor University. FACTS team members have extensive experience working with rural programs and small faith-based and/or community organizations that serve victims of domestic violence (www.DVFACTS.org). In addition, FACTS personnel have published extensively in these areas, producing materials utilized widely by federal programs working with the issues of domestic violence.

5. Title: Initiative on the Economics of Religion Sponsor Name: John M. Templeton Foundation Project Period: May 2006 – April 2009 Award Amount: $378,862

The Initiative on the Economics of Religion - The role of religion in economic performance has become an increasingly popular topic among economists. A well- publicized finding by Barro and McCleary (2003), funded by the John Templeton Foundation, is that stronger religious beliefs within a country are associated with higher rates of economic growth. To date, though, researchers have not adequately explored the institutional mechanisms through which religion might impact growth, in effect leaving mainly a “black box” linking religion and economic growth. The proposed initiative is composed of five parts. The first three directly explore the link between religious beliefs and some of the important practices and institutions known to promote economic growth and development. These focus on (1) the connection between religion and the rule of law and control of corruption, (2) the complementarity of spiritual, human, and religious capital in fostering economic growth, and (3) the historical role of religion in focusing economic actors on cooperative equilibria that may have led to growth. The fourth and fifth parts of the proposed initiative explores how state intervention in religious markets affects the level of religious involvement, thereby providing insight into the best ways in which government can influence an economy via the religious market.

118 6. Title: National Domestic Violence Fatality Review Initiative. Sponsor Name: Office on Violence Against Women, Office of Justice Programs, Department of Justice Bridge Grant Project Period: August 2006 – January 2007 Award amount: $125,000

Funding for this grant is set to be renewed in February of 2007 for an additional two years. This “bridge” funding is to carry us to through January of 2007, and the next two- year grant cycle. During this bridge period we will carry-on the same activities outlined in the discussion above.

SCHOLARLY ENGAGEMENT

Over the last year, a steadily increasing number of scholars at Baylor University have agreed to be CRIAD affiliated faculty. Our strategy is to identify Baylor faculty with an interest in the study of religion and to support as well as platform their research in a number of different ways. This impressive list of junior, mid-level, and senior scholars from diverse fields and disciplines includes:

Christopher Bader Thomas S. Kidd Francis Beckwith Christopher Marsh Susan Bratton Carson Mencken Wallace Daniels Charles North Kevin Dougherty Jerry Park Stephen Evans Mikeal Parsons Paul Froese JoAnn Tsang Carl Gwin Robert C. Roberts Barry Hankins Wade Rowatt David Lyle Jeffrey John F. Tanner Robert Kruschwitz Daniel Williams Ralph Wood

We also have two post-doctoral researchers, Dr. Paul Lu (in-residence) and Dr. Margarita Mooney (non-resident at Princeton University). We are now recruiting post-docs for our Templeton Funded China project and hope to have five or six post-docs in-residence on or before June of 2007.

We will have at least two visiting professors next year and intend to build the visiting professor pool to a minimum of five to ten within the next several years.

Over the next several weeks and months we will enlist an impressive group of key academic scholars as well as religious leaders who will join us as CRIAD non-resident fellows.

119 SERVICE ACTIVITIES

1. Member, George W. Bush Presidential Library Committee 2. Faculty Mentor, Kevin Dougherty, Assistant Professor of Sociology 3. Guest Speaker, Graduate Christian Student Association, October 13, 2005. Talk title: “Research as a Mission Field.” 4. Participant, White House National Conference on Faith Based and Community Initiatives, Washington, DC, March 1, 2005. 5. Consultant to the Department of Defense. 6. Consultant to the Department of Justice. 7. Board Member, Metanexus Center for Religion and Science (2002-2005). 8. Board Member, National Institute of Corrections, Federal Bureau of Prisons, Washington, DC (2005 to present). 9. Board Member, Center for the Study of Latino Religion, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN (2003 to present). 10. Senior Fellow, Witherspoon Institute, Princeton, NJ (2003 to present). 11. Advisor, Spiritual Transformation Project, Metanexus Institute, Philadelphia, PA (2002 to present). 12. Research Area Consultant, Unlimited Love Project, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (2001-2005). 13. Chair, Advisory Board - Texas Demonstration Project, OneStar Foundation, Office of Faith Based and Community Initiatives, Austin, TX (2005 to present). 14. Member, Governor Perry’s Volunteer Awards Committee (2005, 2006). 15. Advisor, Big Brother and Big Sisters of Central Texas (2005 to present). 16. Special speaker – The Potter’s House, Dallas, Texas, October 12, 2005. a. The Role of the Church in Confronting Domestic Violence. 17. Special 3 part speaking series at Highland Baptist Church, Waco, Texas. a. The Purpose Driven Led Life, October 26, 2005 b. What is Good about Order and Disorder in Our Lives? November 2, 2005 c. Reconciling Vocation and Calling, November 9, 2005

120 INSTITUTE FOR FAITH AND LEARNING

Douglas V. Henry, Director

The 2005-2006 annual report of the Institute for Faith and Learning (IFL) addresses: (1) outstanding achievements, (2) major activities, and (3) significant partnerships.

(1) OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENTS

Grant Award for Baylor Horizons. In December, IFL concluded a $2 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. for Baylor Horizons: Called to Live, To Lead, To Serve. At the Endowment’s invitation, Dr. Henry authored a $500,000 “sustainability” grant proposal that with matching funds will support a $1.1 million budget over the next three years. Awarded in March, the grant will support Baylor Horizons’ aims to (1) help students examine the relation between their faith and vocational choices, (2) provide opportunities for students to explore Christian ministry as their life’s work, and (3) equip faculty and staff to teach and mentor students more effectively.

Outstanding Faculty Partner Award. Under Dr. Dub Oliver’s leadership, Student Life recognized Dr. Henry with its annual Outstanding Faculty Partner Award. Since the award cites work on behalf of Baylor Horizons, recognition belongs to IFL’s entire staff. The citation reads: “This grant has helped us be much more intentional as we have gone about our central purpose of helping students discover a sense of calling in their lives. This $2 million grant allowed us to begin the Department of New Student Programs . . . , place Resident Chaplains in our residence halls . . . , and launch our discipline-specific mission trips . . . , among many other things.”

Publication of Christianity and the Soul of the University. Dr. Henry joined Dr. Michael Beaty in editing Christianity and the Soul of the University: Faith as a Foundation for Intellectual Community. The book explores how reflective Christian faith can unify the intellectual life of the university. Released last month, it includes chapters from Joel Carpenter (Calvin), Jean Bethke Elshtain (Chicago), Richard Hays (Duke), David Lyle Jeffrey (Baylor), and John Polkinghorne (Cambridge).

(2) MAJOR ACTIVITIES

Young Scholars in the Baptist Academy. Along with Georgetown College, IFL sponsors Young Scholars in the Baptist Academy, an initiative to advance understanding of Baptist faith and intellectual life, with special attention to the vocation of the Baptist scholar and teacher, through summer seminars. The 2nd annual seminar was held August 3-7, 2005 at Regent’s Park College, Oxford under the hospitality of the Rev. Dr. Paul Fiddes. The 3rd annual seminar will be held July 25-28, 2006 in Oxford with Drs. Curtis Freeman (Baptist House of Studies, Duke Divinity School) and E. Glenn Hinson (Baptist Seminary of Kentucky) as senior consultants.

121 Medical Ethics Conference. On October 13-15, 2005, IFL convened the 1st annual Baylor University Medical Ethics Conference. Co-sponsored with the Center for Christian Ethics and the Medical Humanities Program, the conference was designed as a forum for practicing health care professionals who seek to pursue their vocation ethically, faithfully, and knowledgeably, and it featured nationally prominent experts in medical and health care ethics with credentials in law, medicine, philosophy, and theology. Invited speakers included three past or present members of the President’s Council on Bioethics. Around 75 total participants were involved, and evaluations underscored the importance of continuing the work begun by the conference.

Pruit Memorial Symposium. The 2005 Pruit Memorial Symposium was held November 10-12, 2005 on Global Christianity: Challenging Modernity and the West. The program addressed Christianity’s worldwide growth and its relationship to modernity/postmodernity, secularization, colonialization, decolonialization, nationalism, internationalism, and globalization. Plenary speakers included David Bebbington (Stirling), Paul Freston (Calvin), Mark Noll (Wheaton), Dana Robert (Boston), Lamin Sanneh (Yale), and Brian Stanley (Cambridge). Over 90 plenary and concurrent session papers were given by scholars from around the U.S. and the world. Plans are underway for the next Pruit Memorial Symposium, slated for November 9-11, 2006 on the theme of The World and Christian Imagination.

Vocation, Liberal Learning, and the Professions Retreat. With the Provost’s Office, IFL co-sponsored a faculty retreat for 40 of Baylor’s academic leaders, including the President, the Provost, deans, and department chairs and program directors. Held at Laity Lodge during May 15-19, 2006, the retreat aimed to (1) acquaint participants with a theological understanding of vocation, (2) explore the implications of Christian calling for academic life in both its teaching and scholarly dimensions, (3) enhance readiness to help mentor students effectively in discerning and responding to their own Christian vocation, (4) introduce participants to one another in a way that invites solidarity and builds community, (5) facilitate the development of understanding and trust across disciplines, denominational perspectives, and other institutional divides, (6) afford opportunity for initiating new friendships conducive to charitable discourse and cooperation within the university, (7) offer leisure sufficient for the renewal possible through solitude with God, (8) encourage thoughtful faith through a simple yet rich daily liturgy, and (9) render healing within the community through reconciliation with one another and God.

Crane Scholars Program. The Crane Scholars Program mentors academically gifted students, nurtures them as Christian scholars, prepares them for top-tier graduate schools, and seeks to see them return to service within church-related higher education. This year, 6 faculty members invited nearly 50 students to their homes for semi-weekly dinners to explore the calling of the Christian scholar-teacher. Ten additional faculty mentored seniors in the program. Students attended a fall conference at the University of Notre Dame, and also a spring retreat at Moon River Ranch led by the Rev. Dr. Simon Oliver of the University of Wales, Lampeter.

122 Electronic Newsletter. IFL continued publication of its bimonthly electronic newsletter, featuring commentary, news, and faith and learning opportunities of interest to the Baylor community and beyond. Nearly 500 subscribers were in place at the conclusion of the 2005-2006 year. Details and back issues are available at www.baylor.edu/IFL/newsletter/signup.htm

(3) SIGNIFICANT PARTNERSHIPS

Christian Scholar’s Review. A journal sponsored by 50 sister institutions, Christian Scholar’s Review embraces the following statement of purpose: “The Christian scholar, experiencing the redemptive love of God and welcoming the enriching perspective of divine revelation, accepts as part of his or her vocation the obligation not only to pursue an academic discipline, but also to contribute toward a broader and more unified understanding of life and the world. This vocation therefore includes the obligation to communicate such an understanding to the Christian community and to the entire world of learning.” Dr. Henry serves on the journal’s editorial board, and Dr. Barry Hankins serves as the journal’s associate editor for history. IFL currently distributes quarterly issues to 465 Baylor faculty members. Four Baylor faculty members were featured as authors over the past year, including Dr. Stephen Evans, the 20th recipient of the Charles J. Miller Christian Scholar’s Award for the best article of the year. Regents who wish to receive the journal will be added to IFL’s quarterly distribution list upon request.

Council for Christian Colleges and Universities. The Council for Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU) is an international association of Christian colleges and universities that aims to advance the cause of Christ-centered higher education and helps institutions transform lives by faithfully relating scholarship and service to biblical truth. As an affiliate member, Baylor benefits from CCCU’s $10.5 million budget, 65 employees, and more than 100 programs and services designed to meet the needs of Christian colleges and universities. On behalf of Baylor, Dr. Henry serves as the university’s contact person to CCCU.

Lilly Fellows Program National Network of Church-Related Colleges & Universities. The Lilly Fellows Program (LFP) brings together 81 church-related institutions that represent diverse denominational traditions, institutional types, and geographic locations. The LFP seeks to explore the relationship of Christianity to the academic vocation and to strengthen the religious nature of church-related institutions through its activities and publications. Dr. Henry and Dr. Michael Beaty serve as Baylor’s representatives to the LFP. Baylor has been the beneficiary of around $300,000 in recent grant funding through this partnership.

123 INSTITUTE FOR ORAL HISTORY

Rebecca Sharpless, Director

Excellence in Personnel During 2005-2006, the Institute for Oral History enjoyed stability and strong collegiality among its faculty and staff. Editor Leslie Roy Ballard, Senior Editor Elinor Mazé, Associate Director Lois Myers, Director Rebecca Sharpless, and Administrative Associate Rebecca Shulda continue to be an extremely compatible group. Sharpless will join the faculty of Texas Christian University in August 2006, and a search will occur during 2006-2007 for her replacement.

Thirty-fifth Anniversary Celebration The Institute for Oral History celebrated its thirty-fifth anniversary with an address by Dr. Edward T. Linenthal, editor of the Journal of American History, on “Historical Memory and the African American Landscape.”

Visiting Fellow The visiting fellow for 2005-2006 was John Hayes, a doctoral candidate from the University of Georgia, researching a dissertation entitled “Bringing Up Johnny Cash: Religion in the Rural South, 1930s-1940s.”

Productivity in Interviewing The year 2005-2006 featured interviewing in a variety of areas, with a total of ninety-one interviews conducted. Faculty Research Fellows were Sheila Gloer, School of Education, interviewing the man who created the movement of middle schools; Robert Miner, Department of Philosophy, researching the history of the University Scholars Program; James Moshinski, School of Business, investigating the funeral industry in Texas; and Joe C. Yelderman, Jr., Department of Geology, interviewing people with knowledge of a uranium boom in the 1970s. Myers and Sharpless continued work in projects on Baylor, Texas, Baptists, Women in Ministry, and Central Texas. We have enjoyed the services of several fine volunteers as well. See also the section on contract work below.

Completion of Memoirs for The Texas Collection In 2005-2006, we deposited fourteen volumes of memoirs in the archives. These include a total of twenty-seven interview transcripts, 977 pages, and 46.53 hours of recording. The interviews represent a variety of topics.

Classroom Teaching Sharpless taught History 5367 “Seminar in Oral History,” History 2365 and History 2366 (History of the U.S.), and BIC 2344, “The U.S. in the World,” and served on dissertation committees in the School of Education and the Department of Church-State Studies, and thesis committees in American Studies, Museum Studies, and the Department of History. She also taught one meeting of a graduate seminar at the University of North Texas.

124 Mazé assisted in teaching a seminar session in the history department, and Mazé and Myers taught oral history for two classes in cultural anthropology.

Publications: The AltaMira Press published The Handbook of Oral History, a major scholarly reference work, in February 2006, edited by Myers, Sharpless, and former director Thomas Charlton, with the editorial assistance of Ballard. It contains essays by Mazé and Sharpless. With coeditor Melissa Walker of Converse College, Sharpless published Work, Family, and Faith: Rural Southern Women in the Twentieth Century, with the University of Missouri Press. Myers and Sharpless both have essays in the book. At least two books appeared in 2005-2006 using interviews from the oral history collection: Freedom Colonies: Independent Black Texans in the Time of Jim Crow, by Thad Sitton and James H. Conrad (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005), and Freedom's Coming: Religious Culture and the Shaping of the South from the Civil War through the Civil Rights Movement, by 2002-2003 visiting fellow Paul Harvey (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005).

Professional Participation and Outreach The Institute completed its twenty-third year as the headquarters of the Texas Oral History Association, with Myers serving as Secretary-Treasurer and newsletter editor, and as Managing Editor of its journal, Sound Historian. Mazé serves as editor of online discussion group H-Oralhist, a member of the H-Net, Humanities & Social Sciences initiative. Sharpless served as president of the Oral History Association.

Contract Activity A contract to document the life and times of former Texas Lieutenant Governor Bob Bullock brought in a total of fifty-seven interviews to date and is near completion. The Madison A. and Martha Roane Cooper Foundation awarded a small contract to conduct interviews on the life of benefactor Madison Cooper.

University Service Myers continued revising the Institute’s Web pages, and Mazé continued work on digitizing the Institute’s sound recordings. Myers and Mazé served on the Board of Directors of the Heart of Texas Regional History Fair, and the entire staff and several graduate assistants served as judges. Mazé, Myers, and Sharpless were co-lecturers on “Oral History in the Classroom” for a full day’s session of the 2005 Teaching American History Summer Institute. Mazé participated in committees of the university’s Phi Beta Kappa chapter. Sharpless served on the University Research Committee and Myers on the University Museums and Collections Committee.

Community Service Mazé, Myers, and Sharpless gave talks to local organizations on historical topics and consulted with private citizens and public institutions about their interests in oral history. Mazé taught a four-week oral history course for the Baylor Learning in Retirement program. She is a member of Seventh and James Baptist Church, serving on the missions council and as greeter, lay reader, and summer adult Sunday school teacher. Myers is

125 active in the Baylor Round Table and, at the First Baptist Church of Woodway, co-directs the Adult II Sunday School department and is nursery volunteer for the preschool program. She presented lectures on the rural church history project for two local history groups in Waco. Sharpless is a member and lay reader at Lake Shore Baptist Church, serves on various church committees, and teaches the preschool Sunday school class. She is a resource person for the Waco History Project.

126 BAYLOR UNIVERSITY PRESS

Carey Newman, Director

Baylor University Press aspires to be named among the influential university presses engaged in academic publishing. Achieving this aspiration means the Press must (i) become a publisher of books of high academic quality and (ii) arrange its operations to insure that its publications foster, shape, and transform public discourse. The Press seeks to fulfill this aspiration in light of, and in conjunction with, the mission of the Baylor University.

In the academic year 2004/2005 the Press took further steps toward these goals.

• The Press acquired 45 new titles in FY 05. The pace of acquisitions has steadily increased over the last four FY’s: 9 books in FY 03, 22 titles in FY 04, and 24 projects in FY 05. The Press has made significant acquisitions in disciplines other than religious studies. The fastest growing areas of acquisitions are Religion and Public Life and Religion and Popular Culture. The quality of acquisitions has also improved. The Press now regularly enjoys reviews in Publisher’s Weekly and, for the first time, in the New York Times Review of Books. The Press has a total of 81 contracted but unpublished manuscripts. This healthy reservoir of books will enable the Press to be more selective in terms of quality and fit.

• The Press produced 15 new titles in FY 06. The Press doubled its list from 6 titles in FY 04 to 12 in FY 05, and produced 15 in FY 06. This has meant increased work in pre-production, editing, copyediting, composition, proofing, cover design, paper print and bind, and shipping of these new titles. In FY 06 the Press also changed the way it capitalizes its books.

• The Press enhanced its marketing, events, advertising, and publicity campaigns in FY 06 that (i) built the brand of the Press, (ii) established the Press’ core competencies within six different academic professional societies, and (iii) strengthened the Press’s existing academic series. The Press increased its presence in major academic journals, executed individual book and series marketing plans, and expanded its operations to include a presence at three major academic conferences and a host of smaller and regional shows.

• The Press realized unprecedented net revenues from sales of Press books in FY 05. The Press sold a record 14,899 books, took in net revenues of $216,000 and maintained a return rate of 13%. While the Press did not reach our revenue goal of $225,000, the release of 5 titles it had planned to publish in FY 06 was slightly delayed into FY 07. The revenues from these titles would have easily pushed beyond the revenue goal.

127 Baylor University Press acquired more and better books; produced more and better books; and sold more and better books. Through its intentional publications plan, the Press directly supports the mission of the University by supplying faculty, students and the University’s publics with published research, teaching tools, and classroom texts. The Press also cooperates with other University departments, programs and institutes (e.g., Religion Department, Truett Seminary, Dawson Institute for Church-State Studies, History Department) to extend their respective missions. And, finally, the Press enhances the University’s identity and image through its published books, publicity, ads, major academic shows, receptions, book signings, radio interviews, and news articles.

128 MAYBORN MUSEUM COMPLEX

Ellie Caston, Director

Baylor faculty, staff, and students, and citizens of central Texas and beyond continue to experience the many benefits of The Harry and Anna Jeanes Discovery Center of the Mayborn Natural Science and Cultural History Museum Complex. Directed by Dr. Ellie Caston, the Museum Complex has had another successful year of operation, both quantitatively and qualitatively. In most cases, the second year of a new museum sees a drop in attendance. Thanks to the work of a dedicated and talented staff, and excellent word of mouth about the museum, the Mayborn saw an increase in participation. Visitors totaled 105,120, up from 102,384 the previous year. Just as important, the quality of the visitor experience has met their highest expectations.

Visitor surveys and comment cards reflect the positive experiences of the museum visitors. Comments such as: • “At the age of eight, I visited the Smithsonian in Washington, DC, but the Mayborn left me just as awestruck at 81.” B.F. Martin, Longview; • “Kudos to you. Mayborn was beyond my wildest imagination, one of THE BEST museums of this content I have ever seen, and I have been to a lot. As a student and teacher of science, I thought it ranked first in presentation and information.” Jenny Hope, Southlake; and • “I am retired faculty but because of health am unable to enjoy your facility; however, our grandchildren from Houston dearly love it and prefer it over the Children’s Museum of Houston and so do their parents!” Frances Snow, Waco. Perhaps the comment that was made by an eleven year of boy who was visiting on an admission-free night demonstrates the profound difference that the Mayborn experience can make in a life. He said, “This was the greatest day of my life. If I ever get to go to Six Flags, it won’t be better than this.”

Of the 105,000 plus visitors, approximately 35% participated in a directed learning experience such as a school program or adult group tour. In particular, schools from 73 different districts participated in a wide range of programming opportunities. Visitors of all ages are enjoying the second traveling exhibit, “Feathered Treasures: Ceremonial Object of the Amazon,” which opened on May 21, 2006. In order to provide such an array of services to visitors of all ages, the museum staff is augmented by 319 active volunteers. These volunteers are a combination of adults, Baylor students, and junior docents, who donated 5,925 hours of service during the year.

The new museum has attracted hundreds of requests for facility use by the University and the community. Schedules allowed for 58 events to be held at the Mayborn, with a 70/30 ratio of University events to community events. Baylor events included such occasions as the Bush Library National Steering Committee, the Teaching American History Fellows Institute, Fourth Annual Big 12 Plus MIS Research Symposium, and the Baylor

129 Network Reception for Dr. Lilley. Community meetings held at the museum included the Texas Public Works Association Conference, Guaranty Bank Recognition and Awards Luncheon, Midway Reads, and Cattle Barron’s Ball Lil’ Ranglers event.

The Mayborn provides a variety of outreach services to the community, central Texas and beyond. Discovery boxes on 42 different topics, developed by the museum education staff, are available to teachers and parents. During the year, boxes were checked out 221 times with an estimated 10,000 children benefiting from these educational materials. Another public service provided by the museum staff is answering inquiries on topics ranging from field identification of all types of natural science specimens to cultural artifacts information.

An unusual project began in the summer of 2005 with the start of a congressionally sponsored feasibility study of the Waco Mammoth Site by the National Park Service for possible inclusion within the park system. The Special Resource Study Team is working closely with Baylor and City of Waco officials. The Team visited Waco three times during the year and conducted a series of meetings with donors, government representatives, community groups and the general public. More than 500 individuals participated in these meetings. The information gathered and the resulting national publicity garnered through the NPS Waco Mammoth Site Special Resource Newsletter has been very beneficial. Ongoing efforts to improve preservation of the site and eventually to allow public access have resulted in grants and donation totaling over $650,000. The study will continue for another year before a recommendation is made to the United States Congress by the NPS Team.

The Department of Museum Studies is housed in the academic wing of the museum facility. Students in the department use the facility as a living laboratory, where they apply classroom learning to real world experience. Other departments are also finding relevant ways to utilize the facility. Students from Journalism, Art, Environmental Studies, Geology, Physics, Marketing, Speech Pathology, and the School of Education are all benefiting from the museum’s unique learning environment.

As the museum begins the third year of operation, all indications point to another successful year. Visitation continues to be strong. The Museum Membership program currently has over 1400 memberships. New memberships continue to be purchased on a weekly basis as more people discover the museum and its programming opportunities for all ages.

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Academic Initiatives ...... 1 Personnel...... 2 Senior Vice Provost – Naymond H. Keathley ...... 3 Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Policy – James Bennighof...... 4 Vice Provost for Financial & Academic Administration – Elizabeth Davis ...... 5 Vice Provost for Research – Truell Hyde...... 6 Reports of the Deans of the College and Schools...... 19 College of Arts and Sciences – Lee Nordt, Interim Dean...... 20 Hankamer School of Business – Terry S. Maness, Dean ...... 38 School of Education – Deborah L. Johnston, Interim Dean ...... 42 School of Engineering and Computer Science – Benjamin S. Kelley, Dean ...... 52 Graduate School – Larry Lyon, Dean...... 55 School of Law – Bradley J.B. Toben, Dean ...... 59 School of Music – William V. May, Dean ...... 63 Louise Herrington School of Nursing – Judy Wright Lott ...... 67 School of Social Work – Diana Garland, Dean ...... 70 George W. Truett Theological Seminary – Paul W. Powell, Dean ...... 76 The Honors College – Thomas S. Hibbs, Dean...... 79 21st Century Baylor University Libraries – William B. Hair III, Interim Dean...... 82 Reports of the Directors of the Centers and Institutes ...... 83 Center for Christian Ethics – Robert B. Kruschwitz, Director ...... 93 Center for International Education, The Jo Murphy Chair in International Education William A. Mitchell, Professor and Director...... 95 Center for Jewish Studies – Marc H. Ellis, Director...... 104 Center for Ministry Effectiveness – W. Winfred Moore, Director...... 110 Center for Religious Inquiry Across the Disciplines – Byron Johnson, Directo ...... 112 Institute for Faith and Learning – Douglas V. Henry, Director ...... 121 Institute for Oral History – Rebecca Sharpless, Director ...... 124 Baylor University Press – Carey Newman, Director...... 127 Mayborn Museum Complex, Ellie Caston, Director ...... 129

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