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| Strategic Plan | The College of Arts and Sciences met or exceeded expectations in all of the major categories of the Strategic Plan 2005-2010, according to its just-released annual report. The College has increased the faculty retention rate from 88% to 96%, with the retention of women faculty increasing from 92% to 100%. The College also increased faculty travel support by 167%. External grant funding went from 5.5 million to 6.4 million dollars, an increase of 14%. Also, the College doubled equipment allocations, and increased new faculty start-up allocations by 20%. "The College has made substantial progress in achieving its goals well ahead of schedule," said Dean Olson. "And this is due to the excellence of our outstanding faculty and staff."
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| Leslie Bertagnolli, Chair |
At the college's Chicago Advisory Board meeting in Chicago on August 29, the Board elected Leslie Bertagnolli Chair and Dale Perona Vice Chair. The Board provides a mechanism by which the activities of the College can be effectively communicated to a vital constituency of the College: the Chicago-area community. In turn, the College benefits from the wisdom and experience of community leaders in the Chicago area.The Board keeps the College informed of the educational and research needs of the Chicago-area community and assists in identifying ways in which Chicago-area community members can support the College.
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| Dr. Lane Crothers | Lane Crothers, Professor of Politics and Government, has authored Globalization and American Popular Culture. The focus of the book is how American movies, music, and television programs attract interest to United States politics and culture in the context of globalization, and in reverse, how these products inspire fear of and concern about the ways the United States might dominate world culture—leading to a generic, hyper-consumer world culture. “We export more music, television, and movies than weapons and wheat,” remarked Dr. Crothers. “They are our number one export.” In specifying what is popular culture, Crothers examines products like movies, music, and television programs that are created for mass audiences, often using industrial, large-scale production methods. “I am proud of Professor Crothers for this very important contribution to the literature on Globalization,” said Jamal Nassar, Chair of the Department of Politics and Government at ISU. “His new book fills a gap in the literature and helps keep Illinois State as a leader in scholarship on the subject.”
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| Johanna Haas | Johanna Haas is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography-Geology. Before joining ISU she served as a graduate teaching associate whose courses included the Geography of the United States and Canada, Political Geography, and World Regional Geography. Her dissertation is entitled “Law and Property in the Mountains: A political Economy of Resource Land in the Appalachian Coalfields.” Her areas of research include human/environment interactions, rural development, environmental politics, environmental and property law and theory, and energy policy. Haas graduated summa cum laude from West Virginia University. She earned her J.D. with honors from Ohio State University, where she will also receive her Ph.D. in June. “I was looking to teach at a public school with a strong commitment to both teaching and service to the community,” said Johanna Hass. “When I visited here, I felt very welcome and comfortable. I knew this would be the place I would work.”
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