State of the Department

24 April 2006

Biology is Seventy FiveYears Old This Year

75th YearDepartment

Accomplishments

+ Summary AY 2005-2006 ++Maintained leadership in research

+ Continued teaching prowess

+ Outstanding new hires

+ Markedly increased endowment

+ Summary AY 2005-2006 ++Meaningful raises

+Effective start-up funding

+Animal facility cost will be borne byOffice of Research

– Summary AY 2005-2006 –

-Insufficient course funding

- Chronic space needs, aging building

- Higher GTA stipends strain budget

- Building security issues

– Summary AY 2005-2006 –

- Increased gas prices will curtail field activities

Students

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Total Student Enrollment

Graduates

Undergraduates

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Note: 2005-2006 Data are not complete

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120

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2002-2003

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Total Graduate Enrollment

Total Graduate Enrollment

MS Students

PhD Ecological Sciences

PhD Biomedical Sciences

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Biology and College of Sciences Majors

Biology Majors

College of SciencesMajors

Students

-Enrollment steady

-Graduate enrollment good

$MONEY$

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Total Department Budget

Earnings fromEndowments

Extramural Funding

State Budget

Total

*Excludes start-up funds

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Dollars

2002-2003 2003-2004 2004-2005 2005-2006Years

Faculty and Classified Salaries (Including Benefits)

Total Wages

Budget

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Ergo—most of our funding is for salaries and benefits

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ODU Doctoral Int/Ext Public Land Grant

Comparative Salaries in Biology

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ASST

NASST

WHAT PROFESSORS EARN: AVERAGE SALARIES FOR FULL-TIME FACULTY MEMBERS, 2004-5

 

All Public Private, independent  

Salary1-year change Salary

1-year change Salary

1-year change    

Doctoral institutions

Professor$104,41

1+3.7% $97,948 +3.5%

$127,214

+4.0%    

Associate professor

$71,077 +3.5% $68,576 +3.4% $82,456 +4.0%    

Assistant professor

$60,567 +3.4% $58,310 +3.5% $70,640 +3.0%    

Instructor $40,760 +2.5% $39,398 +3.0% $44,380 -1.6%    

Lecturer $47,285 -- $46,007 -- $52,601 --    

No rank 53,269 -- $48,483 -- $59,405 --    

All 78,236 +3.1% $74,083 +2.9% $95,370 +3.5%    

  SOURCE: American Association of University Professors

WHAT PROFESSORS EARN: AVERAGE SALARIES FOR FULL-TIME FACULTY MEMBERS, 2004-5

 

All Private, independent  

Salary1-year change Salary

1-year change Salary

1-year change    

Doctoral institutions

Professor$104,41

1+3.7% $97,948 +3.5%

$127,214

+4.0%    

Associate professor

$71,077 +3.5% $68,576 +3.4% $82,456 +4.0%    

Assistant professor

$60,567 +3.4% $58,310 +3.5% $70,640 +3.0%    

Instructor $40,760 +2.5% $39,398 +3.0% $44,380 -1.6%    

Lecturer $47,285 -- $46,007 -- $52,601 --    

No rank 53,269 -- $48,483 -- $59,405 --    

All 78,236 +3.1% $74,083 +2.9% $95,370 +3.5%    

  SOURCE: American Association of University Professors

Public

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2005-2006

Funding for Graduate Teaching Assistants

Total Dollars

Increasing the GTA stipend 50% with no added funds is themost serious strain on our budget.

We receive approximately fifty dollarsin supply money for every student in our courses. The actual cost is much more

than that.

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BIOL 103 BIOL 315

Disparity of Lab Fees and Actual Lab Instruction Costs

Lab Fee

Actual Cost per Student

Got the point?Got the point?

Start up allocations have averaged more than

$263, 400 for our new faculty

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ODU Research IUniversity

PrivateUniversity

Comparative Start-up Costs in Biology

New Assistant Professor

Senior Faculty

Source: Academic Sourcebook November 2005

All start-up funds for our newhires have been transferred.

This added about $1,000,000to department coffers.

Research Funding

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2005-2006

Research Proposals and Awards

Proposals

Awards

$0

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$20,000

$30,000

$40,000

$50,000

$60,000

$70,000

2002-2003 2003-2004 2004-2005

Grant Indirect Funds Returned to Department

To fund the rising cost of start up packages, a portionof the indirect costs will be

retained in the dean’s office

Indirect Cost Distribution

35% ODURF/65% University

21% Office of Research/35% Colleges

College of Sciences to Department-30%

Department Endowments

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Endowments

Endowment 2002-2003 2003-2004 2004-2005

Bagley 162,612 179,825 190,521

Dabel 27,417 30,413 32,475

Hogan 576,836 766,170 770,943

Kaplan 0 0 5,000

Marshall 0 0 26,269

Natural History 0 0 2,139

Sonenshine 0 0 15,000

Stiffler 0 1,174,532 1,269,176

Total Endowment 2, 311, 523

Department endowmentshave quadrupled in the past

two years

Department Gifts

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Department Gifts

We need to provide resourcesfor our teaching faculty todevelop instructional grants.

Funding summary

--budget unchanged from last year

--poor support for courses

--competitive starting salaries

--average raises parallel national trend

Funding summary

--grant funding consistent

--start-ups greatly increased

--endowments significantly higher

--gift account stable

Facilities

Space—Our last frontier

Proposed New Building

Orchid and Research GreenhouseComplex

Mills Godwin Building

Gifts for this facility will totalmore than $1,500,000

It will consist of a conservatory andresearch space

Space Allocation in MGB

This summer we will have a lotof moving with our building. Pleasemake a serious effort to throw outanything that is not absolutely essential to your program. We willbe especially crowded this fall!

Staff

Classified Staff

Laurie CampMarla HarveyMary HaywardKatie LittonKelly ProctorLatisha Ricks-GuityJo RosenblumKelly Smith

Faculty

We lose an esteemed colleague with the

retirement of Keith Carson!

We have been fortunate to hire two excellent new

faculty

Alex GreenwoodTim Motley

Alex Greenwood is a virologistcurrently working in Germany

Tim Motley joins us as the StifflerProfessor, specializing in plantmolecular systematics.

Both new faculty will be involved in some teachingtheir first semester here.

We are in the final stages ofhiring two new faculty intotemporary positions for thenext two years.

During the past three yearsour faculty have won

numerous grants and awards,held offices in national and international organizations,

been nominated for the mostprestigious university awards

---and much more!

Many of our faculty are involved in international

activities

This past year alone we have hadthree Fulbright Scholars in our

department

Moving ahead

The Year Ahead

*Self assessment

*Carson replacement

*New chair

*Budget

*Team teaching

The Year Ahead

*Self assessment

-Two consultants

-Role of Executive committee

The Year Ahead

*Carson replacement

-Specialty

-Search committee

The Year Ahead

*New chair

-Open search

-Search committee

-Role of self-assessment

-Date

The Year Ahead

*Budget

-Under funded but not overspent!

-Travel budget next year

The Year Ahead

*Team teaching

-We will initiate our program of team-taught courses next academic year

Please note the followingimportant dates:

Friday 28 April Annual Department Party

Wednesday 23 August Department graduate Student Meeting for allgraduate students. Details anon

Thanks to all of you for making this such a great place to be a scholar andteacher