SACS Reaffirmation
| Objective | Course Offerings | |
| Offer appropriate numbers of courses and course sections. Associated Goals: Departmental Resources |
| Indicator | Graduate Courses Number of graduate courses. |
| Criteria | Number of Graduate Lectures The number of lecture courses for M.S. students in chemistry should not exceed twice the number of students divided by five students per course. |
| Finding | Grad courses offered Fall 2007, 7 students, 2 courses (561 & 585). Spring 2008, 7 students, 2 courses (2 sections of 585). |
| Indicator | Majors Courses Number of lecture sections of majors courses. |
| Criteria | Major Lecture Capacity The number of students on the 12th class day in the various major lecture courses divided by the number of sections of these various lecture rooms should be less than the appropriate target. |
| Finding | Major Lectures Fall 2007, 138 60.6; 139 47.5; 238 29.8; 239 24.0. Spring 2008, 138 49.3; 139 42.3; 238 35.0; 239 20.3. |
| Criteria | Major Lecture Sections The number of seats available on the 12th class day for the various major classes should not exceed the targeted room capacity for the class. |
| Finding | Major Lecture Sections Fall 2007, 138 22; 139 5; 238 1; 239 6. Spring 2008, 138 23; 139 26; 238 10; 239 29. |
| Indicator | Majors Labs Number of majors lab sections. |
| Criteria | 118 ratio The number of seats available on the 12th class day should not exceed 32 for CHM 118. |
| Finding | 118's Fall 2007, 27 seats. Spring 2008, 35 seats. |
| Criteria | 119 ratio The number of seats available on the 12th class day should not exceed 24 for CHM 119. |
| Finding | 119's Fall 2007, 7 seats. Spring 2008, 52 seats. |
| Criteria | 218 & 219 ratios The number of seats available on the 12th class day should not exceed 16 for either CHM 218 or 219. |
| Finding | Organic Labs Fall 2007, 218 29 seats; 219 13 seats. Spring 2008, 218 2 seats; 219 15 seats. |
| Indicator | Non-Majors Courses Number of lecture sections of non-majors courses. |
| Criteria | Non-Major Lecture Capacity The number of students in CHM 135 and 136 on the 12th class day divided by the number of sections of these classes should be between 65 and 80. |
| Finding | Non-Major Lectures Fall 2007, 135 74.9, 136 44.5. Spring 2008, 135 71.3, 136 47.3. |
| Criteria | Non-Major Lecture Sections The number of seats available on the 12th class day for both CHM 135 and CHM 136 should not exceed the room capacity of a single section. |
| Finding | Non-Major Lecture Sections Fall 2007, 135 room for 22, 136 room for 36. Spring 2008, 135 room for 28, 136 room for 23. |
| Indicator | Non-Majors Labs Number of laboratory sections of non-majors courses. |
| Criteria | 115 ratio The number of seats available on the 12th class day should not exceed 32 for CHM 115. |
| Finding | 115's Fall 2007 29 seats. Spring 2008 31 seats. |
| Criteria | 116 ratio The number of seats available on the 12th class day should not exceed 24 for CHM 116. |
| Finding | 116's Fall 2007, 24 seats. Spring 2008, 28 seats. |
| Action | Continue Continue monitoring class allocations. |
| Objective | Excellent Faculty 2 | |
| Ensure that faculty engage in appropriate research. Associated Goals: Departmental Resources, Program Excellence |
| Indicator | Dissemination Dissemination of research results. |
| Criteria | Dissemination The number of papers and meeting presentations should exceed the number of tenure track faculty. |
| Finding | Papers&Presentations In calendar year 2007, the tenured and tenure-track faculty published 10 papers and coauthored 42 research publications. |
| Indicator | Researchers Number of researchers working with the faculty. |
| Criteria | Active Researchers The number of undergraduate and graduate student researchers should exceed the number of the tenure-track faculty. |
| Finding | Researcher number The number of graduate and undergraduate student researchers exceeds the number of tenured and tenure-track faculty in each semester. |
| Action | Continue Continue monitoring faculty research participation. |
| Objective | Sufficient Faculty | |
| Make sure that we have sufficient faculty (with appropriate credentials) to cover course offerings. Associated Goals: Departmental Resources, Program Excellence |
| Indicator | FTE Full time equivalent faculty workload. |
| Criteria | FTE value FTE maximum workload of 1.0 for all faculty. |
| Finding | Faculty FTE Workload of chemistry faculty. |
| Action | Request New Faculty The chemistry faculty are overloaded. A new faculty line is requested. Further, one faculty has resigned and should be replaced this coming year. |
| Objective | Sufficient Staff | |
| To have sufficient staff to enable smooth and efficient operation of the department. Associated Goals: Departmental Resources |
| Indicator | Number Of Staff Number of secretarial staff plus number of salaried technical staff. |
| Criteria | Staff number One secretarial staff and one salaried technical staff are needed. |
| Finding | Staff count Two permanent staff. |
| Action | Staff added A stockroom manager has been added. |
| Objective | ACS Approval | |
| Maintain approval of the American Chemical Society. Associated Goals: Program Excellence |
| Indicator | Approved By ACS The department has maintained approval of the American Chemical Society. |
| Criteria | ACS approval The American Chemical Society continues to approve our department. |
| Finding | ACS approval The Department of Chemistry at Sam Houston State University is one of 29 ACS approved programs in Texas. |
| Action | Continue Continue to maintain ACS approval. |
| Objective | Excellent Faculty 1 | |
| Ensure that faculty teach well. Associated Goals: Program Excellence |
| Indicator | IDEA Scores IDEA score results. |
| Criteria | IDEA Excellence 75% of instructors will score 4 or above as excellent teachers. |
| Finding | IDEA Score Nearly all of the instructors scored 4 or higher in one of their courses (22/27 = 81%). |
| Criteria | IDEA Ranges 75% of instructors will score in the "similar" or above range as excellent teachers. |
| Finding | IDEA Range Nearly all (23/27 = 85%) of the faculty scored in the "similar" range or higher. |
| Action | Continue Continue monitoring faculty teaching. |
| Objective | Excellent Faculty 2 | |
| Ensure that faculty engage in appropriate research. Associated Goals: Departmental Resources, Program Excellence |
| Indicator | Dissemination Dissemination of research results. |
| Criteria | Dissemination The number of papers and meeting presentations should exceed the number of tenure track faculty. |
| Finding | Papers&Presentations In calendar year 2007, the tenured and tenure-track faculty published 10 papers and coauthored 42 research publications. |
| Indicator | Researchers Number of researchers working with the faculty. |
| Criteria | Active Researchers The number of undergraduate and graduate student researchers should exceed the number of the tenure-track faculty. |
| Finding | Researcher number The number of graduate and undergraduate student researchers exceeds the number of tenured and tenure-track faculty in each semester. |
| Action | Continue Continue monitoring faculty research participation. |
| Objective | Sufficient Faculty | |
| Make sure that we have sufficient faculty (with appropriate credentials) to cover course offerings. Associated Goals: Departmental Resources, Program Excellence |
| Indicator | FTE Full time equivalent faculty workload. |
| Criteria | FTE value FTE maximum workload of 1.0 for all faculty. |
| Finding | Faculty FTE Workload of chemistry faculty. |
| Action | Request New Faculty The chemistry faculty are overloaded. A new faculty line is requested. Further, one faculty has resigned and should be replaced this coming year. |