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Student credit hours are calculated by multiplying course enrollment by course credit hours. The numbers included in this table represent the student credit hours generated from courses offered by the department in the Fall and Spring semesters. In CICS, this is determined using the DPT1 and/or DPT2 field listed on the course section (see RCSO).

The weighted student credit hour totals displayed in the table are calculated using the following weighting factors:

Lower Divisionx1.0
Upper Divisionx1.2
Graduatex1.6

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Faculty FTE History • Social Work
Faculty Name 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
Janet Albury N/A* 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0
Christopher Cotten N/A* 0.0 0.0 1.0 1.0
Daniel Durkin N/A* 0.0 0.0 1.0 1.0
Laura Edler N/A* 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0
Joseph Herzog N/A* 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0
Michael Humble N/A* 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.0
Dione King N/A* 0.0 0.0 1.0 1.0
Melinda Lewis N/A* 0.0 1.0 1.0 1.0
Kellie O'Dare N/A* 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.0
Mark Olson N/A* 1.0 1.0 0.0 0.0
Julie Patton N/A* 0.0 0.0 1.0 1.0
Paula Rappe N/A* 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0
Glenn Rohrer N/A* 1.0 1.0 0.0 0.0
Deborah Rougas N/A* 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Frank Sansone N/A* 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Diane Scott N/A* 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0
James Whitworth N/A* 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.0
Department Total N/A* 7.0 10.0 10.0 11.0

Tenured Faculty Tenure Earning Faculty Non-Tenure Earning Faculty
 
* Line detail is not available for Fall 2009

Departmental growth capacity represents a department's ability to support more students by offering more courses or raising course enrollment. The growth capacity rank identifies the departments with the greatest need of more faculty lines to support its current student credit hour load. This ranking is determined by dividing the department's weighted fall/spring student credit hours by the number of regular line-item instructional faculty in the department at the start of that academic year. These numbers are displayed in the Student Credit Hours table and the # of FTE Faculty by Tenure Status table, respectively. Departments with lower rank values have less capacity for growth based on this calculation than those with higher rank values.

The complete growth capacity ranking of all academic departments is available for each year displayed in the table. To see the complete ranking, click on the academic year in the heading of the table.

The instructor types used for the Average Class Size table and the Percent of student credit hours taught by instructor type table do not correspond directly to the instructor type listed on the instructor's record on the course offering in CICS (see RIND and/or RCSO). The instructor type listed in CICS is referred to as the reported instructor type and the instructor type used for the tables is referred to as the effective instructor type. The effective instructor type is calculated as follows:

If the reported instructor type is:

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  Faculty Line Search Request Template -- 2014 - 2015 Faculty Searches Help

Department Name: Social Work

New Line Request
  1. Describe how this faculty line will advance UWF's legislative and strategic priorities in the applicable categories:
    • Economic Development/Workforce Demand

      Legislation passed recently in Florida to professionalize employees of the Department of Children and Families (DCF) with a preference for social workers. Over the past 5 years there have been numerous incidents involving children in the DCF system, including a significant increase in preventable deaths, leading the House and Senate to act. Currently social workers make up less than 10 percent the DCF workforce. The new legislation requires that half of all DCF investigators be social workers by 2019. Under the current legislation social work students who agree to take positions with the Department of Children and Families (DCF) or a DCF-contracted community-based care (CBC) agency after graduation are eligible for tuition exemption and loan forgiveness programs. Efforts are also underway to restore Title IV-E funding in the next legislative session which will create a stipend program for social work students who pursue a career in child welfare. These students will be required to take 2 specialized child welfare courses along with core social work curriculum. These stipends will be available to both BSW and MSW students. DCF estimates that they will be hiring between 400 and 600 new positions in the coming year in addition to replacing vacant positions due to turnover. Hiring social workers will be an emphasis in filling these positions. In addition, DCF and CBC employees who do not have social work degrees will be incentivized to obtain a social work degree.

    • Florida Board of Governors Areas of Strategic Emphasis      

      Social work is not on the Board of Governors areas of strategic emphasis, however given the recent legislation and DCF workforce development, efforts are being made to place social work on that list.

    • Accreditation Requirements

      SACS standard 2.8 requires the number of full-time faculty to be adequate to support the mission of the institution and to ensure the quality and integrity of its academic programs. The Department of Social Work currently has graduate courses taught by full-time faculty at 65%. The goal is 80% and the acceptable rate is 70%. To meet standard 2.8 the Department needs to increase the number of full-time faculty taught graduate courses. in hiring a tenure line position we would be able to meet this standard.

    • Community/Visibility

      The Department of Social Work places students at DCF and in related agencies across the panhandle area. This relationship should continue to grow as we place more students at DCF and as DCF hires our graduates.

  2. Any additional information to further explain the request such as comments on evidence of quality, general education requirements, significant pressure points, Emerald Coast offerings, online courses, etc:

    The recent legislation presents the opportunity to impact the regional child welfare workforce while addressing several of the performance funding metrics including employment in the state of Florida (via DCF), median wage (average starting salary at DCF is 39,000), and given the financial support offered to students - potentially increase enrollment and graduation rates. A significant pressure point is the social work program at Eglin AFB. We currently have a part-time MSW program housed there and are heavily reliant on adjuncts. As this program grows we will need to augment it with full-time faculty.

  3. If this request is for a tenure-earning position, explain why a tenure-earning position is needed:

    This request is for an Assistant Professor position. Since the Position will be teaching primarily graduate students it is appropriate for person to have a PhD and an active research agenda in child welfare.

  4. a. General Description of Workload Assignment:

    This position would be responsible for teaching a 3/3 load. The course load would include 2 specialized child welfare courses at the MSW level and 1 specialized child welfare courses at the BSW level per fall and spring semester.
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    b. Explain how the workload/courses are currently being covered by the department:

    We continue to teach child welfare courses on an as needed basis. These course are taught by faculty , instructors, and adjuncts but not at levels that meet SACS standard 2.8.

    5. Please review the enrollment data for the department shown below. Refer to this data to answer the questions that follow.

    Fall Headcount (# of majors by specialization)
    Specialization 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 +/-
    Undergraduate
    21043A: SOCIAL WORK  150   173   196   209   197  ↑ 31%
    †2104 U: SOW/UG/NON-DEGREE  0   4   3   1   1  ↑ ∞
    TOTAL 150 177 199 210 198 ↑ 32%
    Graduate
    21045A: SOCIAL WORK  47   89   64   84   84  ↑ 79%
    21045B: SOCIAL WORK-ADV STND  0   0   0   0   1  ↑ ∞
    †2104 G: SOW/GRAD/NON-DEGREE  2   4   4   1   5  ↑ 150%
    TOTAL 49 93 68 85 90 ↑ 84%
    † indicates non-degree major


    Degrees Awarded (by specialization)
    Specialization 09/10 10/11 11/12 12/13 13/14 +/-
    Undergraduate
    21043A: SOCIAL WORK  60   47   82   76   61  ↑  2%
    TOTAL 60 47 82 76 61 ↑  2%
    Graduate
    21045A: SOCIAL WORK  0   52   31   26   34  ↑ ∞
    21045B: SOCIAL WORK-ADV STND  0   0   0   0   36  ↑ ∞
    TOTAL 0 52 31 26 70 ↑ ∞


  5. Please explain why any undergraduate degree specializations* with fewer then 15 majors have not been deleted:

  6. Please explain why any graduate degree specializations* with fewer then 10 majors have not been deleted:

    * Does not include non-degree specializations (indicated with a † above)

  7. Additional information that will be used to evaluate capacity:

    Student Credit Hours - Fall/Spring
    09/10 10/11 11/12 12/13 13/14 +/-
    Lower
    546 522 564 558 573 ↑  4.95%
    Upper
    3287 3541 4149 3554 3694 ↑ 12.38%
    Graduate
    993 1743 1524 1620 1686 ↑ 69.79%
    Total
    4826 5806 6237 5732 5953 ↑ 23.35%
    Weighted Total
    6079 7560 7981 7415 7703 ↑ 26.72%


    # of FTE Faculty by Tenure Status
      Fall 2009 Fall 2010 Fall 2011 Fall 2012 Fall 2013
    Tenure & Tenure Earning 6.0 5.0 8.0 6.0 8.0
    Non-Tenure Earning 3.0 2.0 2.0 4.0 3.0


    Departmental Growth Capacity
      2011/2012 2012/2013 2013/2014
    Weighted SCH/FTE 799 742 701
    Growth Capacity Rank 8 (of 11) 8 (of 11) 8 (of 11)
    Departmental Growth Capacity Ranking: 2011/2012
    Department Weighted
    SCH     		FTE SCH
    FTE     		Rank
    Public Health, Clinical and Health Sciences 9024 4.0 2256 1
    Biology 16733 10.5 1594 1
    Mathematics and Statistics 19067 14.0 1362 1
    Art 9133 7.0 1305 2
    Computer Science 12818 11.0 1166 2
    Anthropology 8127 7.0 1162 2
    Exercise Science and Community Health 17036 15.3 1114 3
    History 8724 8.0 1091 3
    Psychology 16253 15.0 1084 3
    English and World Languages 17307 16.0 1082 4
    Philosophy 6006 6.0 1001 4
    Criminal Justice 6951 7.0 993 4
    Electrical and Computer Engineering 4952 5.0 991 5
    Finance 3858 4.0 965 5
    Legal Studies 2771 3.0 924 5
    Communication Arts 12916 14.0 923 6
    Marketing 6387 7.0 913 6
    Environmental Studies 6273 7.0 897 6
    Management 9366 11.0 852 7
    Physics 3371 4.0 843 7
    Chemistry 6730 8.0 842 7
    Research and Advanced Studies 5818 7.0 832 8
    Economics 3291 4.0 823 8
    Social Work 7981 10.0 799 8
    Accounting 7560 10.0 757 9
    Government 3606 5.0 722 9
    Theatre 3523 5.0 705 9
    Applied Science, Technology and Administration 7485 11.0 681 10
    Teacher Education and Educational Leadership 18823 29.0 650 10
    Music 4414 7.0 631 10
    Nursing 4903 9.0 545 11
    Management Information Systems 1461 3.0 487 11
    Clinical Laboratory Sciences 1350 3.0 450 11
    Departmental Growth Capacity Ranking: 2012/2013
    Department Weighted
    SCH     		FTE SCH
    FTE     		Rank
    Public Health, Clinical and Health Sciences 11819 6.0 1970 1
    Mathematics and Statistics 22668 15.0 1512 1
    Art 9311 7.0 1331 1
    Biology 17727 13.5 1314 2
    Philosophy 6383 5.0 1277 2
    Economics 3502 3.0 1168 2
    Anthropology 8391 8.0 1049 3
    English and World Languages 17654 17.0 1039 3
    Criminal Justice 7000 7.0 1000 3
    Finance 3958 4.0 990 4
    Computer Science 12644 13.0 973 4
    Psychology 15498 16.0 969 4
    Environmental Studies 6673 7.0 954 5
    Exercise Science and Community Health 18081 19.3 937 5
    Communication Arts 12971 14.0 927 5
    History 8177 9.0 909 6
    Physics 3504 4.0 876 6
    Government 4232 5.0 847 6
    Chemistry 7148 9.0 795 7
    Management 9426 12.0 786 7
    Electrical and Computer Engineering 6086 8.0 761 7
    Social Work 7415 10.0 742 8
    Nursing 6563 9.0 730 8
    Music 4716 7.0 674 8
    Legal Studies 2678 4.0 670 9
    Marketing 5813 9.0 646 9
    Research and Advanced Studies 3840 6.0 640 9
    Applied Science, Technology and Administration 7642 12.0 637 10
    Theatre 3080 5.0 616 10
    Accounting 7867 13.0 606 10
    Teacher Education and Educational Leadership 18371 32.0 575 11
    Clinical Laboratory Sciences 1187 3.0 396 11
    Management Information Systems 1171 3.0 391 11
    Departmental Growth Capacity Ranking: 2013/2014
    Department Weighted
    SCH     		FTE SCH
    FTE     		Rank
    Public Health, Clinical and Health Sciences 14612 6.0 2436 1
    Mathematics and Statistics 20268 13.0 1560 1
    Economics 3915 3.0 1305 1
    Legal Studies 2492 2.0 1246 2
    Biology 16742 13.5 1241 2
    Art 7799 7.0 1115 2
    Philosophy 5327 5.0 1066 3
    Computer Science 13429 13.0 1033 3
    Finance 3897 4.0 975 3
    English and World Languages 16479 17.0 970 4
    Psychology 15464 16.0 967 4
    Anthropology 7458 8.0 933 4
    Environmental Studies 6500 7.0 929 5
    Management 10801 12.0 901 5
    Criminal Justice 7146 8.0 894 5
    Exercise Science and Community Health 17666 20.0 884 6
    Communication Arts 12284 14.0 878 6
    History 7630 9.0 848 6
    Physics 3306 4.0 827 7
    Chemistry 7333 9.0 815 7
    Marketing 5653 7.0 808 7
    Electrical and Computer Engineering 6419 8.0 803 8
    Government 4383 6.0 731 8
    Social Work 7703 11.0 701 8
    Accounting 7334 11.0 667 9
    Teacher Education and Educational Leadership 17988 30.0 600 9
    Music 4177 7.0 597 9
    Nursing 6823 11.8 581 10
    Applied Science, Technology and Administration 6941 12.0 579 10
    Clinical Laboratory Sciences 1127 2.0 564 10
    Research and Advanced Studies 3342 6.0 558 11
    Theatre 2711 5.0 543 11
    Management Information Systems 1104 3.0 368 11


    Average Class Size
      Fall 2011 Fall 2012 Fall 2013
    Reg Adj TA ESC All Reg Adj TA ESC All Reg Adj TA ESC All
    Lower 98.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 98.0 87.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 87.0 95.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 95.0
    Upper 30.5 31.6 0.0 0.0 30.8 26.3 30.5 0.0 0.0 28.2 25.7 29.9 0.0 0.0 27.1
    Graduate 14.0 16.3 0.0 0.0 14.5 15.5 14.3 0.0 0.0 15.2 13.8 13.8 0.0 13.0 13.7


    Percent of student credit hours taught by instructor type
      11/12 12/13 13/14
    Reg Adj TA ESC Reg Adj TA ESC Reg Adj TA ESC
    Lower 100.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
    Upper 71.1% 28.9% 0.0% 0.0% 56.2% 43.8% 0.0% 0.0% 60.6% 39.4% 0.0% 0.0%
    Graduate 83.6% 16.4% 0.0% 0.0% 75.7% 24.3% 0.0% 0.0% 61.9% 33.7% 0.0% 4.4%
    Total 76.9% 23.1% 0.0% 0.0% 66.4% 33.6% 0.0% 0.0% 65.3% 33.6% 0.0% 1.1%


    # (%) of low enrollment courses
    (undergrad: <20, grad: <15)
      11/12 12/13 13/14
    Undergraduate 6 ( 14.3%) 7 ( 18.4%) 13 ( 26.5%)
    Graduate 11 ( 37.9%) 15 ( 51.7%) 25 ( 69.4%)