Goals: [LONG-TERM GOAL 1] [LONG-TERM GOAL 2] [LONG-TERM GOAL 3] [LONG-TERM GOAL 4] [LONG-TERM GOAL 5] [LONG-TERM GOAL 6]

To foster research, scholarship, and creative activity by supporting, retaining, and recruiting faculty members who are or will become nationally and internationally known as leaders in their fields.

FUTURE PLANS (2010-2011):

Faculty Recruitment:

• The College has authorized 13 faculty searches in key areas for 2010-2011.
• The College has determined an ambitious plan to become the home of 6 CoEE chairs. Three CoEE chairs have already been hired: Polymer Nanocomposites in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Nanoelectronics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, and Marine Genomics in the Department of Biological Sciences. An offer to a candidate for the CoEE chair in Brain Imaging (Department of Psychology) has been accepted, and plans are underway to fill the two remaining CoEE chairs in Neurotherapeutics and Data Analysis, Simulation, and Visualization. The College is advancing rapidly toward realization of this objective.
• The College has aggressively sought positions through the Faculty Replenishment Hiring Initiative, submitting 27 proposals for senior hires and 22 cluster hire proposals, for a total of 93 positions.

Faculty Promotion, Support, and Recognition:

• Since 2005, the College has focused its resources and energies toward recruiting and hiring over 160 new faculty. With this accomplished, the College is refocusing our efforts to mentoring and supporting faculty throughout their careers. The enhanced sabbatical program offering faculty the option of a semester with full pay or a year with 65% pay has been successful, and is being continued for the 2011-2012 sabbatical cycle.
• Develop and implement formal guidelines for the appointment, review, and promotion of research faculty, clinical faculty, and instructors.
• Reinvigorate the Associate Professor Development Award; 13 associate professors  received this award in 2009-2010 and 3 in 2010-2011.

New Initiatives:

• The College is a major participant in a statewide alliance through EPSCoR for a biofabrication initiative. The project is funded through a $20 M award from the National Science Foundation (NSF.) The initiative provides for the recruitment of 22 new faculty with expertise not currently available in South Carolina, and the College will aggressively seek a proportion of these positions, likely in applied and computational mathematics. The College has already concluded a successful search in biomathematics during 2009-2010, and two searches are in progress 2010-2011.
• The College has begun to develop business plans for centers and institutes to ensure long-range fiscal stability in these units.

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Contact:  Mary Ann Byrnes/Editor, Online Handbook (777-5371 or byrnes@sc.edu)