State of the College, Southeast Missouri State University

In the spring of 1998, the College of Science and Technology revised its strategic plan. A committee was formed consisting of a representative from each department and the dean of the college. The committee began working in the fall of 1998 and completed its task in the spring of 1999. The University determined that it would revise its strategic plan in the spring of 1999. At that time, the college decided to place its new plan on hold until the new priorities were established by the University. The college committee reconvened in the spring of 2000 and adapted its new plan to fit these new priorities. During the entire process, the departmental representatives on the committee took the new plan back to the faculty in their departments for comments and suggested revisions.

During the development of the new plan, the Department of Agriculture left the college and became a member of the School of Polytechnic Studies. The college then changed its name to the College of Science and Mathematics.

The following tables indicate the growth in the number of students and credit hour production in the college. In this same time frame, the number of tenure-track faculty has increased by only one. A position was lost in physics, while biology and computer science each gained one. However, the number of term-appointments and part-time appointments has increased.

The data below does not include agriculture or industrial technology

Table 1. Total number of undergraduate majors in the college

Fall 1995	Fall 1996	Fall 1997	Fall 1998	Fall 1999
798	749	1005	1123	1117

Table 2. Total number of graduate students in the college

1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
52	53	46	56	56

Table 3. Total student credit hour production in the college

1996	1997	1998	1999
19265	19500	20193	20405

Table 4. Total number of tenure-track lines in the college

1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
69	68	68	68	70

The following factors are expected to have an impact on the College of Science and Mathematics.

Faculty salaries and space will continue to be issues. The ability to attract and retain high-quality faculty is paramount to the future success of our graduates.
Continued growth in enrollment at the University will impact our ability to deliver quality courses in both the major and the University Studies program.
Growth in the number of majors in computer science, along with the difficulties in attracting and keeping faculty, continues to present a problem.
The completion of the River Campus is very important to the college.
Renovation of Brandt Hall will allow the Department of Mathematics and the Godwin Center to occupy this building.
Renovation of Johnson Hall should allow space to be freed in Magill Hall.
A major renovation of Magill Hall will go a long way toward alleviating the lack of research space in the college.
The move of the School of Polytechnic Studies into the new Otto and Della Seabaugh Polytechnic Building will also impact the college if the advising centers of the school and the college are consolidated into the same space.