• Economic Development/Workforce Demand
  

  The Department of Anthropology requests a tenure-track Assistant Professor line in Cultural Anthropology to replace a retired (after Spring 2012) faculty member, and complement the single cultural anthropologist left in the department. Cultural Anthropologists study cultural diversity both in non-western societies and in our own. Their research provides qualitative and quantitative information about many inter-related aspects of culture including belief systems, social-political organization, non-western economies, and the impact of development on traditional cultures. Cultural anthropology expertise is especially important with todays global businesses and military expansion, and in settings where ethnic differences may impede effective communication, such as in health care, criminal justice, social services delivery, and conflict management. We seek a cultural anthropologist who will complement our strong program in applied anthropology, medical anthropology, and community engagement.
  Internships are one of the most important ways we foster workforce readiness in our cultural anthropology students. In order to continue and to expand our internship and applied field methods programs, we must have a second full time person to assist with our successful experiential approach in undergraduate and graduate education. Further, the department is planning to implement a sophomore level course in Careers in Anthropology to help students plan their curriculum and careers more effectively. A second cultural anthropologist would be ideally suited to offer this course.
  There are few, if any, job openings titled Cultural Anthropologist for graduates with only a BA degree. Professional Cultural Anthropology positions in academia, government, and business often require a PhD in the field. Consequently, many of our BA graduates have gone on to graduate school. Of our recent 23 Cultural Anthropology graduates (2006-10), the whereabouts of 8 are known to us, and 5 of these are in graduate school in Anthropology. The remaining 3 are employed in a social service, a library, and in the tourism industry. We should also note, however, that Cultural Anthropology is an excellent foundational degree for pursuing related careers in medicine, law, business, banking, teaching, and international relations, to name a few.

• Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)
  

  Cultural Anthropology is considered a Science by the National Science Foundation, which funds anthropological research and instruction projects within the division of Behavioral Science. Anthropological research and applied programs are also funded by the National Institute of Health, the National Institute for Mental Health, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Anthropologists use the scientific method in their research designs, address a variety of theoretical constructs, and make effective use of qualitative and quantitative data to tease out patterns and meanings in anthropological data.

• Accreditation Requirements
  

  N/A

• Niche programs with growth potential
  

  The Division of Anthropology and Archaeology is already considered a successful niche program at UWF and has the potential to continue to grow through its experiential learning and community outreach approaches. The Division excels in its visibility in the community, nationally, and internationally. The archaeology part of the program reaches statewide in its community engagement and outreach activities, experiential learning, and research. The disciplinary home of Archaeology is in Anthropology, which also includes Cultural Anthropology and Biological Anthropology at UWF. These three sub-disciplines work together to provide our students and the community with positive experiences and leadership opportunities that focus on understanding human cultural diversity. A second cultural anthropologist will assist us in maintaining the sub-disciplinary integration among the units of Anthropology, and expand our links with other relevant UWF programs concerned with global multiculturalism, medicine and health care, forensic sciences, mental health, and social services.

Enrollment Growth:
Enrollments in Anthropology classes continue to increase over time, including Cultural Anthropology. The retired Cultural Anthropologist taught primarily Upper Division required courses and popular electives in Anthropology that attract both majors and non-majors. Between Fall 2008 and Spring 2012, enrollment in the 27 Upper Division courses he offered ranged from 20 to 91 students and averaged 43.9 students per section. The courses produced an average upper division enrollment of 124 students per semester (Fall and Spring). In addition, the number of Cultural Anthropology majors has increased 62% in the last five years. We need a second full time cultural anthropologist to replace the retired faculty member in order to continue these growth trends. Without a second full time cultural anthropologist, it will be difficult to even maintain the present levels of enrollment and majors.

General Education:
A second cultural anthropologist will help the department respond to the recently proposed state of Florida general education requirements which include Introduction to Anthropology as a Social Science. We anticipate the need to offer additional sections of ANT 2000 Introduction to Anthropology to meet new student demand both online and on campus.

Multicultural/Diversity Education:
One of the more important cultural anthropology courses we offer is ANT 3212 Peoples and Cultures of the World. The course lays the groundwork for critical thinking about cultures and lifeways other than our own. The course allows students to operate with greater understanding of other perspectives in a complex and changing world. This course is not only a requirement for all anthropology majors (not just cultural anthropology track majors), but also for the international studies major offered by the Department of Government. It also fulfills the current multicultural requirement, along with several other Anthropology courses. As such, ANT 3212 is the highest enrolled cultural anthropology course. Having a second full time cultural anthropologist will ensure that we are always able to offer sufficient sections of this important course. ANT 3212 is also essential in attracting majors to Anthropology, and we are reluctant to use only adjuncts and non-tenure track faculty to teach it. We expect that when the university redefines the diversity requirement that ANT 3212 and other anthropology courses will be included.

Experiential Learning:
Experiential learning is stressed in the cultural anthropology track, as it is throughout the anthropology major, through both coursework and other experiences. Currently, students gain significant hands on learning through the ANT 4808 Applied Anthropology course. Beginning the summer of 2012, we offered more experiential learning opportunities through an intensive field course in Ethnographic Methods. Having a second full time cultural anthropologist will enable us to continue regular offerings of these courses.

In addition to course work, the cultural anthropology track stresses experiential learning through a required internship in the community and/or a small scale ethnographic research project. Supervision of these internships and projects is time intensive for faculty, and it will be absolutely necessary to have a second full time faculty member in cultural anthropology to continue offering these crucial experiences to students over the long run.

Graduate Program
A second cultural anthropologist is also crucial to the continued success of our graduate programs where experiential learning including thesis research and writing is especially important in the curriculum. Approximately 1/3 of the completed MAs in Anthropology have been in Cultural Anthropology since the program began. Cultural Anthropology faculty members also serve on committees for Archaeology and Biological Anthropology students in the Anthropology and Historical Archaeology MA programs. They also participate on MA and PhD committees in related programs such as Community Health Education and the Ed D. where they provide expertise in multiculturalism, anthropological theory, and qualitative methods. A second Cultural Anthropologist will be essential for maintaining active involvement in these cross-disciplinary advising and research activities.

Strategic Planning in Anthropology over the years has led us to conclude that our undergraduate and graduate academic programs require at least two tenure-track positions in each Anthropology sub-discipline (Cultural Anthropology, Biological Anthropology, and Archaeology). Recent planning revealed that growth in our academic programs will require three tenure-track faculty lines in each sub-discipline. We currently have 3 department faculty lines in Archaeology, 2 in Biological Anthropology, and only 1 in Cultural Anthropology, due to the recent retirement of our second Cultural Anthropologist. It is essential to the well-being of our undergraduate and graduate programs in Anthropology that we hire a full-fledged faculty member in Cultural Anthropology who will undertake professional instruction, advisement and mentoring, research, and service to the community. The department already employs one full-time lecturer and utilizes faculty associates from the Archaeology Institute and the Florida Public Archaeology Network to assist with instruction, advising, and program administration.

Instructional workload will include three courses per semester at the Lower Division, Upper Division, and Graduate level. The department has a projected course schedule that covers the complicated arrangement of courses need to cover required courses and electives in several programs. Instructional duties will also include supervising internships and theses. Advisement of both undergraduate and graduate students will be required, as well as scholarly activities, and service to a variety of communities.

We have carefully scheduled the course-load of the one remaining cultural anthropologist to cover the required courses in the program for the current year. We are also using advanced graduate students (and completed MAs) to teach some undergraduate courses. Many of our courses cycle on a three semester basis, however, and the single cultural anthropologist will not be able to offer the full range of required courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels in subsequent years. It will also be impossible for him to provide advisement, mentoring, and assistance to the many undergraduates and graduate students in Anthropology in the long term without a second cultural anthropologist.

We had had more than 15 majors in every Anthropology track since 2009.

We have had more than 10 graduate students in both graduate programs (Anthropology and Historical Archaeology)since 2008.

*Evaluation of tabular data below:

Anthropology enrollment and instruction data are complicated by the fact that non-tenure track faculty in the Archaeology Institute and the Florida Public Archaeology Network contribute to instruction, but these faculty are not classifiable as either Regular or Adjunct. Consequently, the above tables are difficult to interpret.
The high contribution of adjunct to Graduate instruction in 09/10 is attributable to a visiting PhD hire in Archaeology. Low-enrolled courses may be related to several factors. Many undergraduate courses in Anthropology are laboratory courses that have a limited number of seats, or are required field methods courses that cannot accommodate high enrollments. Internships and theses may also display as low enrollment. These classes are an essential part of our experiential learning programs and contribute to our success in producing workforce ready students. In addition, some graduate courses are dual listed with undergraduate courses, may be identified as low-enrolled, but are not visible in the tabular data.

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

# of FTE Faculty by Tenure Status
	Fall 2008	Fall 2009	Fall 2010	Fall 2011	Fall 2012
Tenure & Tenure Earning	7.0	5.0	6.0	6.0	7.0
Non-Tenure Earning	1.0	2.0	1.0	1.0	1.0

‡ Data not yet available for this term

# (%) of low enrollment courses (undergrad: <20, grad: <15)
	10/11	11/12	12/13
Undergraduate	4 ( 7.7%)	8 ( 12.7%)	16 ( 22.9%)
Graduate	6 ( 60.0%)	2 ( 28.6%)	4 ( 50.0%)

Average Class Size
	Fall 2010					Fall 2011					Fall 2012
	Reg	Adj	TA	ESC	All	Reg	Adj	TA	ESC	All	Reg	Adj	TA	ESC	All
Lower	48.7	44.7	30.0	0.0	45.6	44.0	42.5	37.5	0.0	42.2	46.4	41.0	35.5	0.0	42.1
Upper	32.3	29.0	29.5	0.0	31.3	26.1	29.5	0.0	0.0	27.5	23.4	25.6	0.0	0.0	24.4
Graduate	20.0	13.0	0.0	0.0	18.3	22.7	0.0	0.0	0.0	22.7	17.3	0.0	0.0	0.0	17.3

Percent of student credit hours taught by instructor type
	10/11				11/12				12/13
	Reg	Adj	TA	ESC	Reg	Adj	TA	ESC	Reg	Adj	TA	ESC
Lower	56.0%	26.8%	17.2%	0.0%	35.5%	50.1%	14.3%	0.0%	40.4%	43.6%	16.0%	0.0%
Upper	74.8%	19.7%	5.5%	0.0%	59.7%	40.3%	0.0%	0.0%	57.5%	42.5%	0.0%	0.0%
Graduate	90.4%	9.6%	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Total	68.3%	21.9%	9.8%	0.0%	52.2%	42.0%	5.8%	0.0%	51.7%	40.7%	7.6%	0.0%