2012|2013 Chancellor’s Report SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY
2012–13 Chancellor’s Report for Southern Illinois University
Expertise can be found everywhere at SIU. You can find it in the hands of the grounds specialist who maintains our beautiful campus, in the research of the faculty member who studies and teaches sustainability, in the daily work of the staff member who makes sure students get the courses they need to graduate.You can find expertise emerging in the exhilarated expression of every student who completes a paper, leads a team, or makes a new discovery. True expertise is always evolving, is always pushing the “expert” in new directions. My own background in accounting has demanded far more than the ability to work with balance sheets and income statements.
Expertise in accountancy requires exceptional problemsolving skills, the ability to communicate complex concepts effectively, and a depth of knowledge that allows you to look beyond the details to the bigger picture. I draw on these skills every day as chancellor of SIU. Across campus, our faculty, staff, and students are extending their own expertise to help SIU achieve its ambitious goals. In 2012–13, we launched our strategic plan, “Pathways to Excellence,” which focuses on enhancing everything we do, from student success to research to inclusiveness to community service to finances. Together, we are transforming SIU. I am confident that we will reach our goals by engaging the significant expertise of all those who are committed to the future of our great university. In this 2012–13 Chancellor’s Report, you’ll meet a few of the campus experts who are leading the way—a geologist who has studied ocean rocks, a professor researching hearing impairment, a student captain of the campus concrete canoe team, and more. They represent the broad expertise you would expect to find at a national research university. But more important, they represent the many individuals who apply their expertise, every day, to moving SIU forward.
Rita Cheng, Chancellor, Southern Illinois University
2012–13 Chancellor’s Report for Southern Illinois University
U.S. News & World Report ranked SIU among the top 100 national public universities.
The Princeton Review ranked SIU among the best colleges and universities in the Midwest.
SIU was featured in The Princeton Review’s Guide to 322 Green Colleges: 2013 Edition.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education included SIU among the top 100 degree producers for bachelor’s degrees awarded in all disciplines to African American students. 4
2012–13 Chancellor’s Report for Southern Illinois University
Dr. Saadiq El-Amin III Assistant Professor Division of Orthopaedic Surgery School of Medicine
You’ve been the assistant team doctor for the NewYork Knicks.You’re at the leading edge of biomedical engineering research, creating synthetic tissue to help the body repair its own cartilage and ligaments. You performed surgery on the President of Liberia, a Nobel Peace Prize recipient. WHICH EXPERIENCE AS A PHYSICIAN CARRIES THE MOST MEANING FOR YOU 2
THEY ARE ALL MEANINGFUL, BUT TWO YEARS AGO A 6'11" KID CAME TO MY CLINIC AFTER HE TORE HIS ACL FOR THE FOURTH TIME. He was uninsured and had not completed a season of basketball since eighth grade. He just wanted to walk and not have knee pain. We reconstructed his ACL and repaired his meniscus, and this kid has come back with a vengeance. I went to see him play, and it was a great feeling to watch him run up and down the court. Now he wants to play college basketball and become an orthopaedic surgeon. Because this kid has his knee back, he’s going to be productive in the community and live his dream. That is all people want—the opportunity to realize their ambitions. When I think about being a doctor, this is the idea that is near and dear to my heart— that we take care of everybody. 3
2012–13 Chancellor’s Report for Southern Illinois University
Cheryl Burke Jarvis Professor and Chair, Marketing College of Business
As an expert in services marketing, you’ve written an article that has been cited more than 2,300 times. WHAT CAN A COMPANY DO TO WIN BACK A CUSTOMER WHO HAS DEFECTED
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OH, A DISSATISFIED CUSTOMER IS A BUSINESS’S BEST FRIEND. Only 1 to 5 percent of customers will complain to management about a problem. That means complaining customers are the tip of the iceberg, and you’ve got to pay attention if you want a chance to win the business back. One of the most important principles for a business is to get it right the first time. But if things get messed up, then you have to make it really good the second time. All the research shows the #1 thing a customer wants is that you fix it. Do what I paid you to do. We test for this in my classes. At the beginning of the semester I have each student write a complaint letter and send it out ... and then we see what happens. 5
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William “Reck” Recktenwald Senior Lecturer and Journalist-in-Residence College of Mass Communication and Media Arts
You did a Fulbright in Uganda, worked on two Pulitzer Prize–winning series for The Chicago Tribune, and served as chief investigator on a special committee on the aging for Congress. WHAT DO YOU TEACH YOUR STUDENTS TO SAY WHEN THEY’RE INTERVIEWING A FAMILY WHO HAS JUST LOST EVERYTHING
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IF YOU’RE INTERVIEWING SOMEBODY, YOU HAVE TO BE SYMPATHETIC. You have to show compassion and give people time to gather their thoughts. Once, I had to interview the family of a 15-year-old honor student who’d been shot to death—a terrible, needless thing. He was shot on a Thursday but didn’t die until Monday, when the doctors finally pulled the life support. I asked his family, did you ever think he would survive? They told me, no, we knew he was dead right away, but we kept him alive so they could harvest his organs. The mother said, “It makes me feel good to know that somewhere, my son’s heart is still beating.” I went out to my car and was almost sick. But students remember that story. It helps them understand our business. They understand that you can’t ask stupid questions, and you have to tell stories in a way that people will remember.
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2012–13 Chancellor’s Report for Southern Illinois University Mike Esker, ‘15 Civil Engineering Student College of Engineering
Last year SIU’s team in the Concrete Canoe Competition scored 5th out of 11 teams, and took home three different plaques.
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AS THIS YEAR’S CAPTAIN, HOW DO YOU PLAN ON TOPPING THAT
LAST YEAR WE WERE ALL ROOKIES ON THE TEAM, so we went by the seat of our pants. There was a huge learning curve, but we were very happy with our finish, and right now we’re way ahead of where we were last year. A lot depends on the design of the concrete itself. You need more buoyant forces than what’s in sidewalk concrete, so we replaced some of the aggregate with tiny Styrofoam beads. Also, we realized we have to have a plan for transporting the canoe to Oklahoma. (Last year, one team’s canoe broke into three pieces on the way to the competition!) We’re going to make a canoe sandwich, using tire inner tubes as the bread. 9
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Najjar Abdul-Musawwir Associate Professor School of Art and Design/Africana Studies College of Liberal Arts
You’re an internationally acclaimed artist who has exhibited extensively in the United States, Africa, Asia, and Europe. Your African art history class at SIU has maxed out every semester since 1997. HOW DO YOU TEACH INSPIRATION
I WAS INVITED TO SHOW MY WORK IN AFRICA in 1999, and I was profoundly inspired by the “Door of No Return” at the slave castle in Ghana. For me, it was actually a door of return, like being a child who never knew his mother and father—and then gets to see them. I also noticed a lot of burlap bags being used for harvesting, and I thought, if we harvested all the prayers of those slaves, that bag would explode. That was my lightbulb moment. When I came back to SIU, I started my “Fatiha Series” and “Fatiha & Door of Return Series.” Fatiha means opening or doorway in Arabic. I prepared gessoed canvas with cut-up burlap and started painting. To me, the burlap sack symbolizes power, the harvesting of strong ideas, and people who were and are strong. Painting is inventing. Students need to be investigating materials, processes, ideas. I’m always pushing them to rethink things. Is our visual language consistent? How can we respond to something old in a new way? There are so many beautiful things around us. If we’re not inspired, we’re not paying attention. 10
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Karen Midden Professor, Plant, Soil and Agricultural Systems College of Agricultural Sciences
You’ve landscaped everything from resorts to preschools and transformed large portions of SIU’s campus.
LANDSCAPE DESIGN AND LANDSCAPE HORTICULTURE AREN’T JUST ABOUT CURB APPEAL OR WINDOW DRESSING. We’re designing spaces that are aesthetically pleasing while also respecting the environment, meeting the client’s needs, and considering the culture of the society. For example, if you install a rain garden, that will pull water off a flooding yard and allow it to be absorbed into the soil over time, while keeping runoff from going into the storm water system and creating drought. So, really, one person’s flooding sidewalk can be the site of an environmental solution that has a powerful impact. On our campus, SIU students helped design, organize, install, and maintain a rain garden, a vertical garden, edible landscapes, a green roof, and more. We’re preparing students for careers out in the world—while instilling an ethic of stewardship and respect for the environment and making the world a healthier place. 12
HOW DOES LANDSCAPING MAKE THE ENVIRONMENT MORE RESILIENT
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Christopher Behan Associate Professor of Law School of Law
You’re an expert on military law. You’ve advised the Department of Defense and taught criminal law in the JAG school.
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HOW DO YOU PREPARE YOUR STUDENTS FOR LIFE AND DEATH MOMENTS IN THE COURTROOM
FOR ONE THING, WE TALK ABOUT STAYING GROUNDED. Sometimes law students’ personalities become disconnected in their first year of law school. They start to think that the only thing that’s important is to manipulate jurors and trump other lawyers. But renowned trial lawyer Gerry Spence has a much humbler attitude. He says, “I’m scared because someone’s life is in my hands.” People in the jury identify with someone who’s genuine and open. Sometimes it’s the least polished advocate that everyone can relate to. This is why lawyers need to stay connected to the human condition. Read good books. Spend time with your family. 15
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Sandie Bass-Ringdahl Assistant Professor, Communication Disorders and Sciences College of Education and Human Services
Your research, which is setting benchmarks for speech development in healthy children, will help children with profound hearing loss.You record the sounds a toddler makes over an extended period. WHAT CAN A TODDLER’S BABBLE TELL YOU
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WE NEEDED TO DEVELOP A MEASURE TO ASSESS THE EARLY SPEECH DEVELOPMENT OF INFANTS AND TODDLERS. So for 12 to 16 hours, the children in our study wear a little recorder in the pocket of a T-shirt. Then we study their babble to help us determine the speech milestones for normal-hearing babies. Once that consonant-vowel development is well formed—“ba ba ba”—you know that first word is around the corner. I’m interested in how speech development is related to hearing. Young children have the best outcomes for typical spoken language development if they have maintained auditory stimulation of the brain their first two years. So early identification of hearing loss is key. But the most important thing is that the child has language—whether signed or spoken.
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Eric Ferre Professor, Geology College of Science
You were on a ship that was immobilized in the Pacific Ocean for two months, drilling a mile under the ocean floor to retrieve rock samples for further study. WHAT CAN YOU LEARN FROM GOING TO THESE INCREDIBLE DEPTHS
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THE PRECIOUS SAMPLES WE RETRIEVED FROM BENEATH THE OCEAN FLOOR help us understand the transition between the upper part of the oceanic crust and the lower part, where a lot of heat exchange takes place. It was a game-changing opportunity, and an honor to be part of an international research expedition. Rocks tell the earth’s story. They record the baking and cooking history of the crust. We can look into the rock record, like looking at the black box of an airplane, and try to understand what happened millions of years ago. Beerbachites, recently discovered in the ocean floor, are the equivalent of the radiator of a car where engine heat is extracted through cooling fluids. We’re not chasing rainbows, we’re finding proof in rocks.
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Belle Woodward Associate Professor, School of Information Systems and Applied Technologies College of Applied Sciences and Arts
You oversee the Department of Information Systems Technologies, teaching ethics and legal issues in IT, information assurance, and networking and security. WHAT DOES HOMELAND SECURITY THINK ABOUT THE PROGRAM
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WHEN I CAME TO SIU IN 2004 there were three courses in information assurance. Now our program is certified as a Center for Academic Excellence by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. We have a 98 percent employment rate, with many students having jobs before they even graduate. They do internships with Boeing, Deloitte, the FBI, State Farm, the NSA. Computing is ubiquitous, and it’s ever evolving. I tell my students, if you think you know everything, you’re wrong. That’s why it’s important to stay current and grow with the industry. Dilemmas come up in our profession, and the most important thing our students learn is how to problem solve.
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2012–13 Highlights College of Agricultural Sciences
College of Applied Sciences and Arts
College researchers discovered a pathogenresistant soybean gene and developed the new, high-yield, disease-resistant Saluki Soybean.
The college opened a new, state-of-theart Transportation Education Center to host SIU’s nationally recognized aviation and automotive programs.
Forestry professor Charles Ruffner served as an agricultural adviser to the forces charged with helping rebuild the agricultural infrastructure in Afghanistan.
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The Flying Salukis finished third in the nation in a National Intercollegiate Flying Association competition.
College of Business U.S. News & World Report ranked the college among the top 100 public business schools in the country. The $1.26 million Saluki Student Investment Fund, managed by undergraduates on behalf of the SIU Foundation, outperformed 90 percent of professionally managed funds.
College of Education and Human Services U.S. News & World Report ranked the college among the top 100 Best Education Schools in the country. Diverse: Issues in Higher Education ranked SIU second in the number of bachelor’s degrees in education awarded to African American students and sixth for education degrees awarded to all minority students.
College of Engineering
School of Law
The student moonbuggy team received the Neil Armstrong Best Design Award in the 20th NASA Great Moonbuggy Race.
The school was in the top tier of law schools ranked by U.S. News & World Report.
All members of the Department of Mining and Mineral Resources Engineering’s 2013 class were employed following graduation, maintaining the department’s 100 percent placement record.
The school established four new curricular specializations for students: business and transactional law, intellectual property, health law and policy, and international and comparative law.
In SIU’s antenna and propagation laboratory, faculty and students analyze, design, build, test, and measure antennas for wireless applications in everything from cell phones to radar.
College of Liberal Arts
Graduate School
School of Medicine
Psychology Professor David G. Gilbert secured a $2.2 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse for continuing research on smoking cessation.
SIU enrolls more than 4,000 students in 31 doctoral programs and more than 70 master’s programs.
In a four-year study funded by the National Institutes of Health, physiology professor Dale “Buck” Hales found that flaxseed may hold the key to reducing the prevalence and severity of ovarian cancer.
Professor Joseph Schafer, criminology and criminal justice, provided expert testimony to the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security for the Canadian House of Commons.
More students earned SIU degrees through the graduate school in 2013 than in any previous year.
Dr. Susan Thompson Hingle, internal medicine, was named chair of the Board of Governors of the American College of Physicians, the nation’s largest medical specialty organization.
College of Mass Communication and Media Arts Professor H.D. Motyl, radio, television, and digital media, won first place for the documentary Cowboy Christmas at the Madrid International Film Festival. The student-produced television magazine alt.news 26:46 won its sixth College Television Award for best magazine program in the nation.
College of Science
University College
Professor Ken Anderson, geology, developed and patented a simple and environmentally friendly way to convert coal and waste biomass into the chemicals used to make plastics.
The number of students enrolling in the University Honors program nearly tripled over a three-year period.
Geology student Samuel Martin served in the Division of Paleontology during a prestigious eightweek internship at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
Developments in first-year math and English courses, coupled with UCOL 101 and a newly formed first-year advising team, are contributing to student success.
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2012–13 Chancellor’s Report for Southern Illinois University
2012–13 Financial Report SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY CARBONDALE (INCLUDING SCHOOL OF MEDICINE) FY13 REVENUES AND EXPENSES (unaudited) FY13 REVENUES BY SOURCE Student Tuition and Fees, net.............$154,655,717 State Appropriations—Operations......144,618,588 Payments on Behalf of the University.. 192,739,158 Grants and Contracts..............................96,642,177 Sales and Services..................................70,899,023 Physicians and Surgeons........................50,960,697 Auxiliary Enterprises...............................63,469,995 Total Revenue......................................$773,985,355
FY13 OPERATING EXPENSES BY FUNCTION Instruction........................................... $233,026,441 Research..................................................53,039,381 Public Service..........................................41,726,654 Academic Support................................ 167,699,910 Student Services.....................................71,345,186 Institutional Support..............................50,928,770 Operation and Maintenance of Plant.....41,302,133 Scholarships and Fellowships................21,361,458 Depreciation............................................ 26,495,401 Auxiliary Enterprises...............................66,361,158 Total Expenses....................................$773,286,492 Total Net Gain.............................................$698,863
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2012–13 Facts and Figures Students
Faculty and staff
Alumni
Degree programs
Degrees awarded
Library volumes
Buildings
Acres
External contracts and grants
18,847
4,228
216,542
225
5,238
3,490,139
494
8,586
$142,880,416
SIU is the only university in Illinois with a four-year equine science program, producing expertise in nutrition, rehabilitative therapies, management and reproduction, physiology, and genetics.
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Students in SIU’s Department of Radio, Television and Digital Media learn to use the latest technologies and develop an understanding of the media’s social, political, and economic contexts.