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Internal Self-Study Report (Appendices), 2013 Internal Self-Study Report Appendices Department of Communication University of Maryland December 2013 Table of Contents Appendix I.1.—Five-Year Numbers of Undergraduate and Graduate Students Appendix I.2.—Degrees Awarded Appendix I.3.—Mean Length of Time to Complete B.A. Appendix I.4-5.—Number of Faculty and Staff/Graduate Assistants Appendix I.6.—Credit Hours Taught to Majors and Non-Majors Appendix I.7.—SAT Scores, Average GPAs of Majors Appendix I.8.—GRE Scores and Undergraduate GPAs of Graduate Students Appendix I.9.—Contracts and Grants Received Appendix I.10.—Faculty Salary Comparisons Appendix I.11.—Expenditures of Non-Restricted Funds—Budgeted/[Actual] Appendix II.1., 3.—Graduate Program Admission Information/Acceptances Appendix II.2.—Alma Maters of Current Graduate Students Appendix II.4.—Graduate Program Specializations and Number of Students Appendix II.5.—Assessment Materials, Graduate Program Appendix II.6.—GSIT Information Appendix III.1.—Positions Accepted by Recent Ph.D. Graduates Appendix III.2.—Awards and Honors Received by Recent Graduate/Graduate Students Appendix III.3-4.—Time to Degree for Ph.D. Graduates; Entry Level Salaries of Ph.D. Graduates Appendix IV.1.—Abstracts from all Ph.D. Dissertations, 2008-2013 Appendix V.1.—Summary of Faculty, Graduate Student Research Activity Appendix V.2.—CVs of Tenured/Tenure-Track Faculty Edward L. Fink Robert Gaines Dale Hample Sahar Khamis James F. Klumpp Brooke Fisher Liu Kristy Maddux Xiaoli Nan Shawn J. Parry-Giles Trevor Parry-Giles Anita Atwell Seate Erich Sommerfeldt Elizabeth L. Toth Amber Westcott-Baker Andrew Wolvin Michelle Murray Yang Appendix VI.1.—Courses Offered Appendix VII.1.—Undergraduate Curriculum and Requirements for Admission Appendix VIII.—Advising, Undergraduate and Graduate Appendix X.—Student Evaluation of Teaching Form Appendix XI.1.—Results of Undergraduate Student Survey, College Park Appendix XI.2.—Results of Graduate Student Survey Appendix XI.3.—Results of Undergraduate Student Survey, Shady Grove Appendix XII.1.—Plan of Organization and Other Policy Documents Appendix XII.2.—Committee Assignments, 2013-2014 Appendix XII.3.—2010 Strategic Plan Appendix I.1.—Five-Year Numbers of Undergraduate and Graduate Students 1. Registered Majors F 2008 F 2009 F 2010 F 2011 F 2012 F 2013 Full-time 764 770 792 762 808 751 Part-time 35 42 46 40 58 65 New first-time 63 49 51 45 45 38 New transfer/others 22 21 18 31 27 38 Total 799 812 838 802 866 816 2. Graduate Students F 2009 F 2010 F 2011 F 2012 F 2013 Full-time 71 63 58 56 81 Appendix I.2.—Degrees Awarded F 2008 F 2009 F 2010 F 2011 F 2012 F 2013 B.A. 276 280 277 329 292 298 Ph.D. 7 7 2 6 12 9 Appendix I.3.—Mean Length of Time to Complete B.A. F 2008 F 2009 F 2010 F 2011 F 2012 F 2013 # of B.A. recipients 276 279 276 328 291 297 Mean TTD 3.6 3.4 3.3 3.4 3.4 3.3 # Started as First- 184 182 176 240 181 177 Year Mean TTD-First 3.9 3.8 3.7 3.7 3.8 3.7 Year # Started as 89 94 94 87 107 118 Transfer Mean TTD-Transfer 2.9 2.7 2.7 2.6 2.7 2.8 Average Credits Transferred 37.1 41.7 37.9 41.1 41.3 46 Appendix I.4-5.—Number of Faculty and Staff/Graduate Assistants F 2008 F 2009 F 2010 F 2011 F 2012 Professor 6 6 7 6 5.1 Associate Professor 6 4 3 1 4 Assistant Professor 5 6 6 6 4 Other Faculty 1 0 0 0 0 Instructors/Lecturers 4.7 5.5 6.25 10.75 16 Other Staff 7 7 7 6 8 Teaching Assistants 26.25 27.5 21.75 19 16.5 Total 55.95 56 51 48.75 53.6 Appendix I.6.—Credit Hours Taught to Majors and Non-Majors F 2008 F 2009 F 2010 F 2011 F 2012 F 2013 Undergraduate 19,328 20,459 21,336 20,705 20,674 24,777 % to UG Majors 43.40% 46.40% 47.40% 49.20% 48.90% 42.60% % to Non-Majors 56.60% 53.60% 52.60% 50.80% 51.10% 57.40% Appendix I.7.—SAT Scores, Average GPAs of Majors F 2008 F 2009 F 2010 F 2011 F 2012 F 2013 Critical—75% 650 670 673 648 650 650 Reading—25% 530 565 578 570 570 520 Math—75% 640 690 650 675 650 650 Math—25% 510 595 568 543 550 525 Combined—75% 1290 1330 1293 1308 1270 1255 Combined—25% 1040 1200 1150 1120 1143 1090 # of Test Scores 49 43 44 38 38 35 # of Students 63 49 50 45 45 38 Average GPAs 3.788 3.654 3.843 3.909 3.849 3.892 Appendix I.8.—GRE Scores and Undergraduate GPAs of Graduate Students F 2009 F 2010 F 2011 F 2012 F 2013 F 2014 GRE Verbal 570 580 583 649 85% 81% GRE Quantitative 671 651 675 714.5 62% 62% GRE Analytical 48 51 52 46 63% (45) 67% (45) Undergraduate GPA 3.6 3.64 3.90 3.68 3.61 3.66 Appendix I.9.—Contracts and Grants Received PI or Co-PI Title Sponsor Amount Date Brooke Fisher Liu Center for the Study of DHS $17,681 01/01/12- Terrorism and Behavior 12/31/16 Brooke Fisher Liu Center for the Study of DHS $165,000 01/01/12- Terrorism and Behavior 12/31/16 Brooke Fisher Liu E-VERIFY: Comprehensive DHS $222,382 06/27/12- Testing of Imminent Threat 12/26/12 Public Messages for Mobile Devices Brooke Fisher Liu E-VERIFY: Comprehensive DHS $169,824 12/27/12- Testing of Imminent Threat 06/25/13 Public Messages for Mobile Devices Brooke Fisher Liu E-VERIFY: Comprehensive DHS $499,017 06/27/13- Testing of Imminent Threat 06/24/14 Public Messages for Mobile Devices Xiaoli Nan ADVANCE: Creating a NSF $27,700 10/01/10- Culture of Investment 09/30/15 Xiaoli Nan Societal Ripple Effects from DHS $20,000 01/01/11- Terrorist Attacks and Risk 09/30/11 Communication Strategies Xiaoli Nan Message Framing and HPV NIH-NCI $150,000 09/01/11- Vaccination Acceptance 08/31/13 among African-Americans Xiaoli Nan Cooperative Agreement to FDA $74,939 09/15/12- Support JIFSAN 08/31/13 Appendix I.10.—Faculty Salary Comparisons Faculty Rank Ph.D. Base Salary Edward L. Fink Professor 1975 $144,040.65 Robert Gaines** Professor 1982 James F. Klumpp* Professor 1973 $92,111.40 Shawn J. Parry-Giles Professor 1992 $85,540.94 Trevor Parry-Giles*** Professor 1992 Elizabeth L. Toth Professor & Chair 1975 $164,565.30 Andrew Wolvin Professor 1968 $117,212.18 Dale Hample Associate Professor 1975 $87,871.98 Brooke Fisher Liu Associate Professor 2006 $73,440.00 Kristy Maddux* Associate Professor 2007 $61,164.88 Xiaoli Nan Associate Professor 2005 $72,420.00 Sahar Khamis Assistant Professor 2000 $57,588.00 Anita Atwell Seate Assistant Professor 2012 $66,300.00 Erich Sommerfeldt Assistant Professor 2011 $63,240.00 Amber Westcott-Baker Assistant Professor 2013 $63,000.00 Michelle Murray Yang Assistant Professor 2011 $66,000.00 * On Sabbatical Leave ** On Leave—Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies *** On 1/8th Leave—Associate Director for Academic & Professional Affairs, National Communication Association Note: Salaries do not reflect merit raises that are effective April 1, 2014, or 3% COLA, effective January 1, 2014. Appendix I.11.—Expenditures of Non-Restricted Funds—Budgeted/[Actual] FY2008 FY2009 FY2010 FY2011 FY2012 FY2013 Itemized 1,624,715 2,069,900 1,900,589 1,933,341 1,897,642 1,976,976 Position- [2,035,343] [2,044,697] [1,897,967] [1,969,182] [1,789,529] [2,235,293] Faculty & Staff Graduate 755,600 526,042 535,030 455,042 554,160 539,382 Assistants [656,258] [758,219] [834,406] [679,536] [623,499] [553,524] Labor & 966 1,010 32,210 1,010 1,010 1,010 Assistants [192,876] [146,267] [118,480] [95,113] [200,184] [387,236] Operating 38,457 40,957 40,957 40,957 40,957 40,957 Other 0 0 0 0 0 0 [35,250] [17,480] [3,644] [200] Turnover 0 0 0 0 0 [0] [0] [0] [0] [0] Fringe 0 0 0 0 0 0 Benefits [37] [0] [0] [0] [0] [0] Total 2,419,798 2,637,909 2,508,786 2,430,350 2,493,769 2,558,325 [2,919,764] [2,949,183] [2,868,333] [2,743,831] [2,616,856] [3,176,253] Appendix II.1, 3.—Graduate Program Admission Information/Acceptances Total Applications Admissions Acceptances of Admissions 2008 202 14.9% 66.7% 2009 194 10.3% 85% 2010 232 3% 100% 2011 215 9.3% 55% 2012 131 11.5% 55% 2013 135 34.8% 87.2% Appendix II.2.—Alma Maters of Current Graduate Students U.S. Institutions (37) Bradley University California Polytechnic State University—San Luis Obispo College of New Jersey DePaul University DePauw University Florida State University George Washington University Henderson State University Houghton College Lake Erie College Liberty University Macalester University Mary Washington University Miami University—Oxford, Ohio Michigan State University Northern Arizona University Northern Illinois University Pennsylvania State University Radford University Roberts Wesleyan College San Diego State University Stanford University Syracuse University Truman State University University of Houston University of California, Santa Cruz University of Illinois University of Maryland University of Richmond University of Pittsburgh University of San Diego Vanderbilt University Villanova University Wake Forest University Wayne State University Willamette University Wittenberg University International Institutions (20) Babes-Bolyai University (Romania) Beihang University (China) Beijing Sport University (China) Calcutta University (India) Communication University of China Dalian University (China) Fudan University (China) Hebei University (China) Kyung Hee University (Korea) National Taiwan University Sungkyun Kwan University (Korea) Shanghai International Studies University Southwest Jiaotong University (China) University of International Relations (China) University of Zagreb (Croatia) Westfälische-Wilhems (Germany) Xian University (China) Yonsei University (Korea) Zhejiang University (China) Appendix II.4.—Graduate Program Specializations and Number of Students Areas of Study Graduations (2008-2013) Current Students Communication Education 2 0 Intercultural Communication 3 9 Health & Risk Communication 10 8 Media Studies 3 1 Persuasion & Social
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