2009 SELF-STUDY REPORT TO THE MIDDLE STATE S Ass OCIATION OF COLLEGE S AND SCHOOL S CO mm I ss ION ON HIGHER EDUCATION DR. SIDNEY A. RIBEAU , PRE S IDENT SE P TE M BER 2009 Chapter The impressive wrought iron gates, located at various entrances to Howard University, are widely regarded as treasures, symbolic of the history and ongoing legacy that defines the institution. Designed by Albert Cassell and Louis Edwin Fry, Sr., in the 1930s, the gates were intended, in Fry’s words, to be the “trademark of Howard University” and to dominate each entrance with strength and grace. For decades, the gates have served as the literal and symbolic entryways to a vibrant learning community where students enter to prepare themselves and depart to serve the world. ii ❘ Howard University 2009 SELF-STUDY REPORT TO THE MIDDLE STATE S Ass OCIATION OF COLLEGE S AND SCHOOL S CO mm I ss ION ON HIGHER EDUCATION SIDNEY A. RIBEAU , PH.D., PRE S IDENT SE P TE M BER 2009 Table of Contents PRESident’S LETTER BOARD OF TRUSTEES ...........................................................................................vi MEMBERS OF THE UNIVERSITY-WIDE SELF-STUDY TEAM ............................. viii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS .......................................................................................... x EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ........................................................................................xi LIST OF TABLES ..................................................................................................xix LIST OF FIGURES ..................................................................................................xx LIST OF SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS ..................................................................xxi CHAPTER 1: Introduction ........................................................................................ 1 CHAPTER 2: Design and Methodology ...................................................................... 7 CHAPTER 3: Accomplishments Relative to The 1999/2004 MSCHE Concerns ........... 11 CHAPTER 4: Mission and Goals ............................................................................. 17 CHAPTER 5: Planning, Resource Allocation and Institutional Renewal ....................... 21 CHAPTER 6: Institutional Resources ....................................................................... 33 CHAPTER 7: Leadership and Governance ................................................................ 47 CHAPTER 8: Administration .................................................................................. 53 CHAPTER 9: Integrity ............................................................................................ 59 CHAPTER 10: Institutional Assessment ................................................................... 65 CHAPTER 11: Student Admissions and Retention ..................................................... 81 CHAPTER 12: Student Support Services .................................................................. 91 CHAPTER 13: Faculty .......................................................................................... 101 CHAPTER 14: Educational Offerings .................................................................... 109 CHAPTER 15: General Education ......................................................................... 113 CHAPTER 16: Related Educational Activities ......................................................... 119 CHAPTER 17: Assessment of Student Learning...................................................... 127 CHAPTER 18: Research ....................................................................................... 137 CHAPTER 19: Conclusion .................................................................................... 153 CD of Supporting Documents Located in Inside Back Cover 2009 Self-Study Report ❘ v Board of Trustees MR. ADDISON BARRY RAND SIDNEY A. RIBEAU, PH.D. Chairman President Chief Executive Officer Howard University AARP RENEE HIGGINBOTHAM-BROOKS, ESQ. Vice Chairwoman Chair and Chief Executive Officer Block Capital, Inc. MR. NNAMDI ANOZIE MRS. MARIE C. JOHNS Undergraduate Student Trustee President (Ret.) College of Arts and Sciences Verizon Washington, DC MS. KIRSTEN BOWDEN VERNON E. JORDAN, JR., ESQ. Graduate Student Trustee Senior Counsel School of Law Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP Senior Managing Director PAUL A. COTTON, PH.D. Lazard Freres & Co. Alumni Trustee Program Director WARNER LAWSON, JR., ESQ. Health Behavior and Minority Health Graduate Faculty Trustee Division of Extramural Activities Professor National Institute of Nursing Research School of Law (NINR) CHARISSE R. LILLIE, ESQ. MRS. ELIZABETH G. EARLY Vice President of Community Investment and Health Care Consultant Executive Vice President of the Comcast Foundation—Comcast Corporation APRILLE J. ERICSSON, PH.D. Alumni Trustee MR. ROBERT L. LUMPKINS Instruments Manager & Aerospace Engineer Chairman National Aeronautics and Space The Mosaic Company Administration ANITA STEARNS MAYO, ESQ. HAROLD P. FREEMAN, M.D. Alumni Trustee Founder and President Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Care and Prevention CHARLES J. MCDONALD, M.D. Professor of Medical Science and Chair MR. EARL G. GRAVES, SR. Department of Dermatology Chairman and Publisher The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown Earl G. Graves, Ltd. FLORETTA DUKES MCKENZIE, PH.D. MRS. DIANNE ATKINSON HUDSON Chairwoman Emerita Television Executive/Producer (Ret.) Founder and Chairwoman The McKenzie Group, Inc. vi ❘ Howard University STACEY J. MOBLEY, ESQ. WAYMAN F. SMITH III, ESQ. Senior Vice President, Chairman Emeritus Chief Administrative Officer & Attorney-at-Law General Counsel (Ret.) The Smith Partnership, P.C. DuPont MR. JOHN A. THAIN CORNELL LEVERETTE MOORE, ESQ. Former Chairman & CEO Partner Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. Dorsey & Whitney LLP MR. GREGORY A. WHITE MS. JESSYE NORMAN Partner and Managing Director Concert and Opera Singer Thomas H. Lee Partners, L.P. RICHARD D. PARSONS, ESQ. THE HONORABLE L. DOUGLAS WILDER Chairman of the Board of Directors Former Governor Citigroup State of Virginia MR. GERALD D. PROTHRO MR. JOHN D. ZEGLIS Managing Director Chairman and CEO (Ret.) IKT Investments AT&T Wireless M. KASIM REED, ESQ. Partner, Holland & Knight, LLP and Georgia State Senator RUTH J. SIMMONS, PH.D. President Brown University TRUSTEES EMERITI THE HONORABLE FRANKIE M. FREEMAN MARTIN D. PAYSON, ESQ. MR. JOHN E. JACOB GENERAL COLIN L. POWELL, USA (RET) Chairman Emeritus MR. FRANK SAVAGE THE HONORABLE GABRIELLE K. Chairman Emeritus MCDONALD PATRON EX-OFFICIO THE HONORABLE ARNE DUNCAN U.S. Secretary of Education 2009 Self-Study Report ❘ vii Members of the University-Wide Self-Study Team CHAIRMAN: Orlando L. Taylor, Dean of the Economics n Vasant Telang, Office of the Provost Graduate School and Professor (Emeritus) n Veronica Thomas, Human Development and Psychoeducational Studies n Michael Wallace, EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: Alvin Thornton, Institutional Assessment and Evaluation Interim Provost and Chief Academic Officer (Chair) n Donald Bell, Vice President for SELF-STUDY WORK GROUPS n Presidential Initiatives Florence Bonner, Acting MISSION AND GOALS: Horace Dawson, n Vice President for Research and Compliance Ralph Bunche International Affairs Center Theodore Bremner, Faculty Senate Chair n O. (Chair) n Raymond Archer, Alumni Relations n Jackson Cole, Senior Advisor Emeritus to the Daphne Bernard, Pharmacy n Levena De La Rosa, President n Sidney H. Evans Jr., Senior Vice Psychology n Chontrese Doswell Hayes, Graduate President and Chief Financial Officer n Charles School n Shirley Jackson, Occupational Therapy Gibbs, Interim Vice Provost for Student Affairs n Charles McDonald, Board of Trustees n Sylvia n Artis Hampshire-Cowan, Senior Vice President McDonald-Kaufman, Divinity n William Roberts, and Secretary of the Board of Trustees n Marie Howard University Student Association n Harold n Johns, Board of Trustees Jerome Joseph, Howard Scott, Ralph Bunche International Affairs Center University Student Association Vice President n n Eleanor Traylor, English Brenda Joyner, President of Howard University Staff Organization n Norma Leftwich, General PLANNING, RESOURCE ALLOCATION AND Counsel n Roberta McLeod, President of Howard INSTITUTIONAL RENEWAL: William Spriggs, University Staff Organization n Hassan Minor, Economics (Chair) n Soleman Abu-Bader, Social Senior Vice President for Strategic Planning Work n Latrice Foster, Dentistry n Lorenzo and External Affairs n Nicholas Owen, Howard Gregory, Architecture and Engineering Services University Student Association President n Bryan n Lynne Kelly, Finance, International Business Smart, Howard University Student Association and Insurance n Paul Musgrave, Administrative n Elizabeth Stroud, Vice President for Human Services n Karen Qawiyy, Office of the Secretary Capital Management n Marcus Ware, Howard n Mercedes Tibbits, Modern Languages and University Student Association President n Literatures n Anthony Woodburne, Howard Donald Wilson, Senior Vice President for Health University Student Association Sciences n Marian Wilson, Senior Executive for Academic Operations INSTITUTIONAL RESOURCES: Beatrice Adderley-Kelly, Pharmacy, Nursing and Allied STEERING COMMITTEE: Orlando L. Taylor, Health Sciences (Chair) n Antwan Clinton, Dean of the Graduate School and Professor Howard University Bookstore n Philip Gatti, (Emeritus) (Chair) n Beatrice Adderley-Kelly, Pharmacology n Patrick Jadin, Architecture Pharmacy, Nursing and Allied Health