Temple University Selected Academic and Research Issues

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Temple UniversitySelected Academic and Research
Issues

• Ira M. Schwartz
• Provost
• October 15, 2005

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New Tenure Track Faculty by RankAY2003/04
AY2005/06
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New Tenure Track Faculty by School or
CollegeAY2003/04 - AY2005/06 Total
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Selected Graduate Institutions of New Faculty

• Cambridge University
• Columbia University
• Harvard University
• Johns Hopkins University
• New York University
• Northwestern University
• Princeton University
• Purdue University
• Rutgers University
• Stanford University
• University of California Berkeley

• University of Chicago
• University of Illinois Campaign-Urbana
• University of Maryland
• University of Michigan
• University of Minnesota
• University of Pennsylvania
• University of Virginia
• University of Washington
• University of Wisconsin Madison
• Yale University

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Newly Recruited Faculty Members

• Rajiv D. Banker
• Professor and Stanley Mervis Chair in Accounting
• Fox School of Business and Management
• Education Doctor of Business Administration,
  Harvard University Bachelor of Science,
  University of Bombay, India
• Prior to Temple Dean and Anderson Chair in
  Management, A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of
  Management, University of California, Riverside
• Research focus accounting, information systems,
  operations management and management science
• Recent publication Banker, R.D., Chang, H.,
  Natarajan, R. (2005). Productivity Change,
  Technical Progress and Relative Efficiency Change
  in Public Accounting Industry. Management
  Science, 51(2), pp. 291-304.

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Newly Recruited Faculty Members

• Peter H. Huang
• Professor and Harold Kohn Chair
• Beasley School of Law
• Education Juris Doctor, Stanford University
  School of Law Doctor of Philosophy and Master of
  Science, Harvard University Bachelor of Arts,
  Princeton University
• Prior to Temple Associate Professor of Law,
  University of Minnesota Law School Visiting
  Member at Institute for Advanced Studies, School
  of Social Science
• Research focus securities regulation, business
  associations/corporations and law and behavioral
  economics
• Recent publication Huang, Peter H. Regulating
  Irrational Exuberance and Anxiety in Securities
  Markets and the Law of Economics of Irrational
  Behavior 591 Stanford University Press
  (Francesco Paresi, Vernon Smith, eds., 2005)

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Newly Recruited Faculty Members

• William Stone
• Professor of Vocal Studies
• Boyer College of Music and Dance
• Education Doctor of Musical Arts, Master of
  Music, University of Illinois-Urbana Bachelor of
  Arts, Duke University
• Prior to Temple performed extensively at venues
  such as the Metropolitan Opera, New York Opera,
  La Scala Opera, and the Paris Opera. As a
  soloist, featured with every major symphony
  orchestra including the Los Angeles, Boston,
  Atlanta and New York Philharmonics.
• Creative Focus international reputation as a
  singer of opera, oratorio and art song and is
  featured on two Grammy Award-winning recordings.
• Performances with the Atlanta Symphony and
  Robert Shaw on the 1988 Grammy Award-winning
  Telarc recording of Hindemith's "When Lilacs Last
  in the Dooryard Bloomed."

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Sponsored Project ExpendituresFY2002 - FY2004
SOURCE Office of the Vice President for
Research and Graduate Studies, Temple
University Includes all externally funded
projects instruction, research, public service,
academic support, student services, instructional
support, operations and maintenance, and
scholarships and fellowships.
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Total RD Expenditures in Science and Engineering
Fields, FY2001 - FY2003
SOURCE National Science Foundation, NSF/SRS
Survey of RD Expenditures at Universities and
Colleges, http//www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsf05320/t
ables.htm Expenditures for research and
development in science and engineering fields
includes research funded by an external
organization or separately budgeted within the
institution. Excludes indirect costs.
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Strategies for Closing the Gap between Temple and
Other Major Research Institutions

• Build on Temples strengths
• Create multidisciplinary research centers in
  carefully selected areas
• Recruit well-funded faculty and research groups
• Recruit faculty from the best institutions
• Increase standards for current faculty

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Tenure and Promotion Standards

• shall be based primarily on outstanding
  performance and continuing promise of outstanding
  performance as a faculty member.
  Teaching/instruction and research/scholarship/crea
  tive activity shall be primary University
  service, service to the profession/discipline,
  and discipline-based community service shall be
  secondary.
• Temple-TAUP Agreement 2004-2008, p. 13, 19

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Tenure and Promotion Standards

• Standards informed by other national research
  universities for the same rank
• Recognition of past performance and assessment of
  capabilities for greater responsibilities and
  accomplishments
• Personal and professional integrity are assumed
• Written evaluations from qualified individuals
  outside Temple are required

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Student Research

• Diamond Scholars Program
• Undergraduate Research Incentive Fund
• Temple Undergraduate Research and Creative
  Activity Forum (TURF)