Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Annual Report 2003-2004
Dean's Letter
Camden College of Arts and Sciences
Research Centers and Initiatives
Academic Departments
Undergraduate Programs
The Graduate School
Student Services
Appendices
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Camden College of Arts and Sciences Camden College of Arts and SciencesDean's Office Office of Development CAMDEN COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES 2003-2004 will be remembered by the staff, faculty, and students of the College as the year spent on planning for both the restructuring of Rutgers and a merger with the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. The proposal for restructuring and merger was withdrawn by Governor McGreevey after the campus had spent a year discussing the proposal, evaluating its possibilities, and developing plans for a new regional university. Although the restructuring plan was not implemented-to the dismay of some and the satisfaction of others-the planning process did engage many constituencies in a serious discussion of the campus' strengths and its needs for the future. The vision of the campus in the future which emerged from the planning process will, we hope, energize and direct growth on the Camden Campus. The campus is increasingly attractive to students. An unusually large number of students accepted offers of admission, and consequently classes for first year students were full and more had to be added. The freshman class of 2003-2004 had higher SAT scores, on average, than the entering classes of the previous four years. These new students will continue the tradition of scholarship and service evident in the students who graduated in 2004. The Dean's letter, which prefaces this report, details many of the accomplishments of these graduates; a list of student awards for distinguished work can be found in Appendix D.5: Honors Convocation Awards. In 2003-2004, the faculty welcomed nine new colleagues. They communicated passion and excitement for learning, teaching, and scholarship, to the benefit of everyone-students, staff, and faculty-in the College. The new faculty members stand to benefit as well by their membership in a highly successful collection of scholars. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences published hundreds of articles and books, performed around the world, and offered award-winning artistic displays around the world. Finally, more than $4,700,000 in grants was awarded to members of the faculty and staff.
SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES BY MEMBERS OF THE DEAN'S OFFICE PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS - American Historical Association PROFESSIONAL AWARDS AND RECOGNITION 1999-2004 National Endowment for the Humanities, Research Division. $150,000 "John Rock and the Twentieth Century Reproductive Revolution." Collaboration with Wanda Ronner, MD. SERVICE - The American Experience PBS Series. "The Pill." Released February 2003. SERVICE TO RUTGERS UNIVERSITY - Member, Search Committee for the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs. DANIEL HART, Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences PUBLICATIONS Hart, D., Atkins, R., Burock, D., London, B., & Bonilla-Santiago, G. (accepted for publication, pending review). The relation of personality type to salivary cortisol, classroom behavior, and academic achievement, European Journal of Personality. Donnelly, T. M., Matsuba, K., Atkins, R., & Hart, D. (in press). The relationship between spiritual development and civic development. To appear in P.L. Benson, E.C. Roehlkepartain, P. Ebstyne, & L.M. Wagener (Eds.), Handbook of Spiritual Development in Childhood and Adolescence, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. Hart, D., Atkins, R., Markey, P., & Youniss, J. (in press). Youth bulges in communities: The effects of age structure on adolescent civic knowledge and civic participation, Psychological Science. Hart, D., Atkins, R., Markey, P., & Youniss, J. (in press). Youth bulges. To appear in L.R. Sherrod, R. Kassimir, & C. Flanagan (Eds.), Youth Activism: An International Encyclopedia, Volume I, Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Company. Hart, D., & Markey, C. (in press). Coming of age in the study of adolescence (Review of the book Handbook of Adolescence). Contemporary Psychology.Donnelly, T. M., Atkins, R., & Hart, D. (in press). Parental influences on youth activism. To appear in L.R. Sherrod, R. Kassimir, and C. Flanagan (Eds.), Youth Activism: An International Encyclopedia, Volume I, Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Company. Hart, D., Atkins, R., & Donnelly, T. M. (in press). Community service and moral development. In M. Killen & J. Smetana (Eds.), Handbook of Moral Development, Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Hart, D., Atkins, R., & Donnelly, T. (in press). James Youniss' contributions to applied developmental science. In C. B. Fisher & R. M. Lerner (Eds.), Applied developmental science: An encyclopedia of research, policies, and programs, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Hart, D. (in press). The development of moral identity. In G. Carlo & C. P. Edwards (Eds.), Nebraska Symposium on Motivation: Vol. 51. Moral motivation through the lifespan: Theory, research, and application, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. Hart, D., Atkins, R., Suarez, H., & Beckwith, K. (2003). Religious participation and the development of moral identity in adolescence, The LSS Review, 2, 22-23. PAPERS, ABSTRACTS AND LECTURES Hart, D. (March, 2004). Personality development in childhood: The influence of neighborhoods and peers. City University of New York Graduate Center, New York, NJ. Donnelly, T., Hart, D., & Atkins, R. (March, 2004). Effects of Youth's Religiosity and Service on Civic Involvement 12 Years Later: Longitudinal Evidence From the NELS:88. In L. Sherrod (Chair), Youth Religiosity and Participation in Community Service. Society for Research on Adolescence, Baltimore, MD. Hart, D., & Atkins, R. (January, 2004). New directions in research on personality types. Department of Nursing, New York University. Hart, D. (October, 2003). How can we increase civic participation in American youth? The George H. Gallup International Institute, Princeton, NJ. Hart, D. (September, 2003). Panel on innovative university-public school collaborations. First National Replication Conference, Center for Strategic Urban Community Leadership, Camden, NJ. UNIVERSITY SERVICE - Acting Director, Educational Opportunity Fund. SERVICE TO NEW JERSEY STATE Vice-President, Camden STARR Program MARIE E. CORNELIA, Associate Dean of the Graduate School PUBLICATIONS "Shifting Boundaries: Ethnic Identity in Louise Erdrich's The Master Butcher's Singing Club," Glossen: An Electronic Journal of Literature, Art and Film, 19 (February 2004), www.dickinson.edu/glossen. PAPERS, ABSTRACTS AND LECTURES "Shifting Boundaries: Ethnic Identity in Louise Erdrich's The Master Butcher's Singing Club," Third Carlisle Symposium on Modern Literature, Dickinson College. Carlisle, PA, October 9-11, 2003. Discussed "Envy" as part of the "Seven Deadly Sins" lecture series offered by the graduate Liberal Studies program, March 2004. SERVICE - Member, Middle States Association Evaluation Team, Buffalo State University Commission on Higher Education, SUNY University of Buffalo, September 28- October 1, 2004.
NANCY ROSOFF, Assistant Dean for Academic Program Development and Administration PUBLICATIONS "Beth Daniel," in The South Carolina Encyclopedia, ed. Walter Edgar (University of South Carolina Press, forthcoming 2005). "A glow of pleasurable excitement": Images of the New Athletic Woman in American Popular Culture, 1880-1920," in Sexual Sports Rhetoric: Teaming up Gender with the Language of Sport, ed. Linda K. Fuller (Haworth Press), forthcoming.
PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, AND LECTURES "By the way, do you play basketball?": Sports in Schoolgirls Stories in the Early Twentieth Century," Popular Culture Association/ American Culture Association, San Antonio, TX, April 2004."'She is pretty-yes; But notice those dingy teeth': Female Athletes and Popular Culture," Invited Lecture, Mount Holyoke College, March 2004. "Images of Athletic Women in American Popular Culture, 1880-1920," Invited Lecture, Mount Holyoke College, October 2003. "'The true relation of the body and mind': The Connection between Women's Education, Health, and Athletic Activity in the United States, 1880-1920," Women's History Network Annual Conference, Aberdeen, Scotland, September 2003. OTHER SCHOLARLY ACTIVITY "The Sporting Woman: The Female Athlete in American Culture," exhibit at Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MA, April-August 2004, Curatorial Consultant.PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
- American Historical Association. UNIVERSITY SERVICE Teaching consultant, Marshall-Brennan Fellows Program, Rutgers School of Law-Camden SERVICE Alumnae Council, Mount Hollyoke College
OFFICE OF DEVELOPMENT The Office of Development directs and supports activities to generate funds that will benefit students and programs for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. For the fiscal year 2003-2004, the Office helped raise $1,231,586 for students and programs. Although we have a young development program, corporate and foundation support are up. The number of individual gifts increased from 1863 last year to 1902. The percentage of gifts from individuals out of the total dollars raised was 15%. Gifts at higher levels ($50,000 and above) are beginning to be made. Contributions to our CCAS and UCC scholarship funds continue to increase each year. We were able to offer twenty-five new four-year scholarships to incoming freshmen this year. The Office of Development administered over 100 scholarships in the past year. We have exceeded our goal of $2.7 million ending the school’s campaign with $5,443,894 in the overall University capital campaign. Donors to our campaign included 1985 alumni, 573 friends and 385 corporations and foundations. The University as a whole raised over $615 million. There have been numerous events carried out by the Office to reconnect with alumni and friends, steward donors and cultivate new prospects. These include:
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Leadership Council met quarterly last year to continue developing the gateway project to raise a $2 million Academic Excellence Endowment for scholarships and programmatic funds for students. The council has identified over 427 newly rated prospects in order to have a large enough prospect pool to succeed in this endeavor. The landscape architect, Ayers Saint Gross, has developed preliminary designs and the committee is now in the process of selecting an artist for the public art component. We hope to begin the quiet phase of this campaign in January 2005. As the Rutgers University Foundation transitions to new leadership, one of the Office of Development’s major tasks will be to continue to position the Faculty of Arts and Sciences so its concerns are heard and its needs are met. The 2004-2005 academic year holds much promise as Dean Marsh continues to engage alumni and friends to generate increased interest and support for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
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