Provost Odom announced the appointment at the April 7 Faculty Senate meeting.

“Karl Heider is a former chair of the Department of Anthropology,” Odom said. “He’s been involved on the University Committee on Tenure and Promotion, and he is involved currently in a number of activities that report to Don Greiner. I think he will do an excellent job as an interim associate provost.”

Three candidates for the dean of the Arnold School of Public Health will visit campus in the next month, Odom said. The search committee for the dean of the new College of Arts and Sciences has received about 50 applications and has begun narrowing the list of candidates.

During his comments, President Sorensen said he and members of the Board of Trustees discussed the University budget and sources of revenue and enrollment management at a recent retreat.

Concerning the budget, Sorensen contrasted sources of revenue in 1994 and 2004. In 1994, state appropriations provided the principle source of revenues for the University, followed by tuition; sales and services, including revenues from housing, the book store, the athletics department, and auxiliary services; and grants and contracts.

In 2004, grants and contracts make up the principle source of revenue, followed by tuition, state appropriations, and sales and services.

“In absolute dollars, the state appropriation per full-time student is less today than it was 10 years ago,” Sorensen said. “Adjusted for inflation, it’s $1,400 per student less than it was 10 years ago.

“We need to come to terms with the dramatic transformation of sources of revenue. I will be proposing to you over the next several months a different way of looking at the recruitment and retention of faculty given this dramatic change in sources of revenues.”

Concerning enrollment management, the focus of the retreat, Sorensen presented elements of a five-year plan to board members.

“I suggested to the board that we develop a long-range plan for where are we going with respect to enrollment over the next five years, total undergraduate enrollment, the size of the freshman class, and characteristics of the freshman class,” he said.

Sorensen will present his full plan at the April 29 Faculty Senate meeting or at the first meeting of the fall on Sept. 1.

“It’s a plan that will give us a five-year approach to enrollment management so that respective colleges and departments can predict what size the University student body will be,” he said.

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