Resources for Geography Department Self-Study Project, California State University, Long Beach

Geography Department Self-Study

Self-Study Appendices (Tables and Figures)

Appendix A (.doc file)

Appendix B (.doc file)

Retention and graduation rates in comparison with CSULB, Geological Sciences, and Anthropology
Significance of the difference between Geography, CSULB, and the two cognate departments in retention and graduation rates
Graphs of comparative success rates for graduate students, juniors, and freshmen
Table and graph of graduate students actively taking classes and completing theses in a given year

Appendix C (.doc file)

Table of alumni locations, employers, positions held, and further education
Table of numbers of alumni in GIS, planning, environmental science and policy, education, real estate, intelligence, and other occupations

Appendix D (.doc file)

Students who have presented their research in conferences, thesis proposal defenses, and publications
Conferences and publications by year, in which students have presented their work

Appendix E (.doc file)

Geography faculty professional contributions by type and year
Peer-reviewed journals in which Geography faculty have published by year
List of faculty interests, awards, and representative works
Faculty curricula vitae are available at https://home.csulb.edu/~rodrigue/geography/assessment/cv/

Appendix F (.doc file)

Appendix G (.doc file)

Anonymized faculty SEFs by status (tenured or tenure-track vs. lecturer), number of an individual's mean scores significantly above or significantly below Departmental and College mean scores, and total number of scores
Mean Geography SEFs and mean Liberal Arts SEFs by SEF question and basic statistics describing the distribution of these mean scores

Appendix H (.doc file)

Three graphs showing weighted Grade Point Averages (GPAs) for Geography and the College of Liberal Arts and the range of mean GPAs among departments in the College (lower-division, upper-division, and graduate, S/98 through S/06)
Three graphs showing weighted GPAs for Geography, Geological Sciences, and Anthropology and the range of mean GPAs among colleges in the University (lower-division, upper-division, and graduate, F/00 through S/06)
Three tables for each division showing mean GPAs for Geography, Anthropology, departmental range within CLA (S/98 through S/06), Geological Sciences, departmental range within CNSM, and college range within the University (F/00 through S/06)

Appendix I (.doc file)

Grading practices in General Education courses, S/03 through F/05, broken out by faculty status (tenured/probationary vs. lecturer), level of class (lower-division vs. upper-division), educational attainment of faculty (Ph.D., other doctorate, ABD, master's, advanced master's student), and class size
Analyses of these data by simple linear regression, analysis of variance, and multiple regression and comments/conclusions

Appendix J (.doc file)

Table showing undergraduate geography major enrollments at all California State University campuses (F/92 through F/05)
Three graphs showing undergraduate geography major enrollments in the CSU system, at CSULB, and comparing CSULB geography enrollments as a percentage of all CSU System geography enrollments (F/92 through F/05)

Appendix K (.doc file)

Graph showing the enthnic diversity of Geography undergraduate majors (fall semesters, F/00 through F/05)
Graph showing the gender breakdown of Geography, Geological Sciences, Anthropology, and CSULB (fall semesters, F/00 through F/05)
Table and graph showing the percentage of undergraduate majors of known ethnicity who are non-Hispanic white in Geography, Geological Sciences, Anthropology, and CSULB (fall semesters, F/97 through F/05)
Table and graph showing the percentage of Geography graduate students who are female (fall semesters, F/97 through F/05)

Appendix L (.doc file)

Table showing Full-Time Equivalent Students (FTES) and Student Credit Units (SCU) for Geography, Geological Sciences, and Anthropology, sorted by year (fall semesters, F/92 through F/05)
Same data but sorted by department showing minimum FTES, maximum FTES, mean FTES, median FTES, and FTES standard deviation for each of the three departments, as well as the percentage of each department's maximum FTES achieved in F/05
Three graphs showing FTES in Anthropology, Geography, and Geological Sciences (fall semesters, F/92 through F/05)

Appendix M (.doc file)

Table showing assigned Student/Faculty Ratios (SFRs) for Geography and all other College of Liberal Arts Departments and their descriptive statistics

Appendix N (.doc file)

Appendix O (.doc file)

Combined Census enrollment in Geography General Education courses, broken out by GE category (F/98 through F/06)
Graph showing total lower-division GE enrollments in Geography, as well as combined enrollments for all sections of the four courses (F/98 through F/06)
Graph showing total upper-division GE enrollments in Geography, as well as combined enrollments for all sections of D.2. I courses and D.2 courses that do not confer I credit
List of all Geography GE courses and the GE requirements they satisfy

Governing Documents for Self-Study

: Elements to be Addressed in Department Self Studies for Program Review (.doc file)
CSULB Curriculum Handbook Section Six: Program Review (.pdf file)
: Liberal Learning and the Arts and Sciences Major, Appendix 6.1 of the Curriculum Handbook (.pdf file)
: Coversheet for Review of an Existing Program, Appendix 6.3 of the Curriculum Handbook (.pdf file)