Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Annual Report 2001-2002
Dean's Letter
Camden College of Arts and Sciences
Research Centers and Initiatives
Academic Departments
Undergraduate Programs
Graduate Programs
Appendices
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Camden College of Arts and Sciences Camden College of Arts and SciencesFriends of FAS Office of Development External Reviews CAMDEN COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES The Camden College of Arts and Sciences (CCAS) had many achievements and marked several new developments in the 2001-2002 academic year. The College was particularly delighted that its outstanding graduating students were recognized with induction into Phi Beta Kappa, the first time this honor has been bestowed on our graduates. The increase in the number of students applying to the College resulted in the bar for admission being set higher than in previous years; we are sure that these well-prepared students will continue the tradition of outstanding academic achievement noted this year by the introduction of Phi Beta Kappa to our students in Camden. To provide the best possible educational opportunities for students, several new programs were developed in 2001-2002. The Freshman Seminar Program, in its first year in 2001-2002, offered nearly 200 first year students the opportunity to take small enrollment classes with senior faculty. A new BA/JD program, a collaboration between CCAS and the Law School was born. Childhood studies, an interdisciplinary minor, became the second most popular minor in the College in its first full year of operation. Several other programs are currently in development, as the College evolves to meet the educational needs of its students. The faculty had a very successful year in its scholarship, research, and artistic endeavors. The faculty published a dozen books and more than one hundred articles and chapters in 2001-2002. The amount of grant money brought to campus by the faculty to support research, education, and service initiatives set a new record. The addition of fifteen new faculty members this year to an already distinguished faculty suggests that 2002-2003 will be even better. The students and faculty of CCAS take seriously the University's obligation to contribute to the welfare of the community. Many of the College's students were involved in service-learning classes, in which they provided needed aid to local agencies and learned as well the intricacies of applying academic knowledge. The faculty organized a number of important service initiatives in education, literacy, and urban development that benefited directly citizens in southern New Jersey. Finally, several important building projects neared completion in 2001-2002. The renovation of the teaching labs in the Science Building provided students and faculty with up to date facilities for teaching and learning. Newly constructed labs in the basement of Armitage provided faculty and students in Psychology with the facilities necessary to pursue research projects. More than a dozen classrooms in Armitage and the Fine Arts Building were outfitted with computer projectors and computer interfaces, doubling the number of classrooms available to Arts and Sciences for computer-assisted instruction.
FRIENDS OF FAS
The Dean's Office of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences continued to support Friends of FAS, which sponsors programs of interest to graduates and friends of the College of Arts and Sciences, University College, and the Graduate School. Events this year included book discussions led by FAS faculty members, including Robert Ryan, J. T. Barbarese, Marie Cornelia, Christine Cosentino-Dougherty, and William Lutz. Other events, including Raptor University and a trip to England, had to be cancelled due to low enrollments.
SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES BY MEMBERS OF THE DEAN'S OFFICE MARGARET S MARSH, Dean PAPERS, ABSTRACTS AND LECTURES Finding Mentors and Networks," Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, University of Connecticut, June 7, 2002. PROFESSIONAL OFFICES HELD Apr 01-. Member, Finance Committee, American Association for the History of Medicine UNIVERSITY SERVICE May 02-. Member, Presidential Search Committee
DANIEL HART, Associate Dean-FAS PUBLICATIONS Civic development in urban youth. Applied Developmental Science. In press. with R. Atkins. The relation of self-esteem variability to emotions, personality, and daily circumstances. Journal of Personality. 2001, 689-708. with A. Oosterwegel, N. Field, and K. Anderson. Community Service and Adult Development, J. Demick, ed., Handbook of Adult Development, NY: Plenum, in press, with N. Southerland and R. Atkins. Moral development in childhood. In C. Smith (Ed.) Well-being: Positive development across the lifespan. New York: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. in press. with B. London, D. Burock, & A. Miraglia. Prosocial Development in Childhood, A. Slater and G. Bremner, eds., Introduction to Developmental Psychology, Oxford: Blackwell, in press, with B. London and D. Burock. PAPERS, ABSTRACTS AND LECTURES Personality type, stress, and academic achievement. Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. October, 2002. with R. Atkins. Childhood personality type, academic achievement, and stress. Fordham University, New York. February, 2002. Civic identity in urban youth. Fuller Graduate School of Psychology, Pasadena, California. February, 2002. with R. Atkins. Contexts for the development of literacy. Early Childhood Education and Literacy Conference, Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey. April, 2002. Race and test scores, past and future. In the conference, Student achievement: The new civil right. Camden, New Jersey. May, 2002, with W. Tucker. The influence of neighborhoods on entry into community service. In L. Sherrod (Chair) Diverse influences on youth civic development. Society on Research on Adolescence, New Orleans. April, 2002. with R. Atkins. EDITORSHIPS OF JOURNALS
Jan 00-. Member, Editorial Board, Identity. UNIVERSITY SERVICE Jan 99. - June 02. Associate Dean
MARIE E CORNELIA, Associate Dean of the Graduate School PUBLICATIONS "Memory Play: Bernhard Schlink's 'The Reader,'" Glossen: An Electronic Journal of Literature, Art and Film, www.dickinson.edu/glossen, 15, Winter 2002. PAPERS, ABSTRACTS AND LECTURES Memory Play: Bernhard Schlink's 'The Reader,'" Second Carlisle Symposium on Modern Literature, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA, October 2001.
SERVICE UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Sept 85-. Member, Women's Studies Committee.
NANCY ROSOFF, Assistant Dean PUBLICATIONS "Every muscle is absolutely free': Advertising and Advice about Clothing for Athletic American Women 1880-1920, " Journal of American Culture, in press. "A glow of pleasurable excitement': Images of the New Athletic Women in American Popular Culture, 1880-1920, " in Sexual Sports Rhetoric: Teaming up Gender with the Language of Sport, ed. Linda K. Fuller (New York: Haworth Press, 2003), in press. PAPERS, ABSTRACTS AND LECTURES "Every muscle is absolutely free': Advertising and Advice about Clothing for Athletic American Women, 1880-1920," Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, Toronto, Canada, March 2002. "Don't wear a corset': Advice about Appropriate Attire for Athletic American Women, 1880-1920," Women's Studies Network (UK) Association 14th Annual Conference-Gender and Culture: Leisure, Consumption and Women's Everyday Lives, Cheltenham & Gloucester College of Higher Education, UK, July 2001. SERVICE TO PUBLIC BODIES 2000-Present- Consultant, Women's Suffrage History Project, The Pankhurst Centre, Manchester,
England
OFFICE OF DEVELOPMENT The Office of Development directs and supports activities which generate funds to benefit students and prrograms for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. For the fiscal year 2001-2002, the Office helped raise $870,215 for students and programs. Philanthropy toward many organizations has recently been driven down by the recession economy, the impact of 9-11, the increase of non-profit ogranizations, and a higher degree of philanthropic focus. Although we remain strong as a young development program, corporatea and foundation giving has declined. The number of individual gifts is up, however, from 992 last year to 1333 in 2001-2002. Gifts at the $500 level and above rose 28% over the previous year. We have exceeded our goal of $2.7 million, ending the fiscal year with $3,034,793.68 in the current University capital campaign. There are still goals within the dean's priorities that have not been met, even though we have exceeded the overall campaign goal. There have been numerous events sponsored by the Office in order to reconnect with alumni and friends, steward donors, and cultivate new prospects. These include:
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean's Advisory Council met in May and held a retreat to initiate new programs that would further the development efforts of the college. These initiatives include planned giving, solicitation for major gifts, expansion to other geographic areas with representation from Chicago, New York City, Florida (east coast), and Washington DC, and the targeting of special interest groups of alumni for scholarships. The Dean and Development Director visited graduates on both the east and west coast of Florida in spring 2002. This included holding an alumni gathering in Miami and then visiting prospects in Naples, Sarasota, Miami, Stuart, and West Palm Beach. They also traveled to Washington DC and New York City. As the University follows through on its capital campaign, one of the Development Office's major tasks will be to continue to position Faculty of Arts and Sciences so that its concerns are heard and its needs are met. The 2002-2003 academic year holds much promise as Dean Marsh continues to talk with alumni and friends in order to generate increased interest and support of the Faculty of Arts and Science.
Political Science Department The external reviewers gave high praise to what they termed "an amazing faculty" who run "an outstanding program for their students." They commented especially on the fact that the department manages to do so much with comparatively little and recommended an increase in both budget and lines. They applauded both the service given by the department and the high quality of its faculty's scholarship. The College appreciates the approval given by the reviewers, and regrets that at present budget constraints do not allow an increase in both funding and faculty for a department whose efforts are so integral to its work. History Department The history department was lauded by the review team both for its "high standard of faculty scholarship" and its "deep commitment to quality instruction." The reviewers made special note of the way in which the department admirably handles its multiple mission to the general student body, its majors, and its graduate program, noting, however, that subject coverage should be expanded to include more non-western history. Comparing the department with others of similar size in other state institutions, they found that Rutgers-Camden's history department fares very well indeed and that in the area of faculty scholarship it excels.
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