Self Study - Maharishi University of Management

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14 S E L F - S T U D Y R E P O R T 2 0 0 9 263 undergraduates and 1,077 graduate students. Our students come from 70 countries and 36 states in the U.S. FACULTY A primary strength is our faculty, who are well qualified in their fields and committed to the University’s purposes. It is typical for students’ courses to be taught by faculty with the highest degree in their discipline — 63% of bachelor degree course credits, 64% at the master’s degree level, and 100% at the doctoral degree level in the past two years. Our 59 full-time teaching faculty are supplemented by a small number of adjunct and visiting faculty who bring special expertise to the classroom and by 4 faculty who are classified as research faculty due to their predominant support from grants and contracts. Student-faculty interaction is extensive even with part-time faculty, because under our block system, in which students take one course at a time over four weeks, the faculty are with the students for several hours daily. A high percentage of course credits is taught by full-time instructors — in the last two years, 92% at the bachelor level, 89% at the masters level, and 100% at the doctoral level. FACULTY RESEARCH Faculty research has been productive over the years. During the 1990s the faculty generated nearly 600 publications, conference presentations, and art exhibitions and brought 41 grants and contracts to the University for a total of $24 million. That research contributed to important theoretical and practical advances in areas including psychophysiology of human consciousness, unified quantum field theory, cardiovascular health, human resource development in corporations, and prevention of crime and violence. In the last decade, we have shifted more to an emphasis on teaching in response to the more competitive research environment and thus increased faculty teaching loads somewhat and reduced research output. Still, the faculty brought in $7.2 million in research grants and contracts to the University, of which $4.6 million was from the National Institutes of Health in two grants (since the early 1990s Maharishi University of Management has received $23 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health for research on the Transcendental Meditation program). Twelve teaching grants included one of $70,000 related to entrepreneurship education and eleven others averaging $3,000. FINANCIAL STRENGTH We have consistently operated on a sound financial basis. Our composite financial index (CFI) was 2.6 and 2.7 in the middle of this decade and has been the maximum (capped) value of 3.0 over the past three years. These values are well above the 1.40 level at which the HLC red-flags its members. The 2008-2009 year has been more challenging than in the past, and audited financials will not be available until November 2009, but preliminary indications are that the CFI will remain above 2.3.
S E L F - S T U D Y R E P O R T 2 0 0 9 15 GOVERNANCE We have benefited from a committed and active Board of Trustees, whose responsibilities include approval of the plans and budget of the institution. We are also fortunate to have exceptionally dedicated administrators and staff. Academic governance is based on collegial decision making, implemented through committees of the Faculty Senate, with policies and decisions reviewed by the Academic Council (the executive body of the Faculty Senate) and by the Faculty Senate as a whole. Administrative planning is made by the University Council, which consists of administrative leaders. LIBRARY The academic and research activity of the faculty and students is supported by a library that takes special advantage of current electronic technologies to access information. Our Library is a member of several library consortia and is a net interlibrary loan lender. Its holdings are now at about 140,000 volumes (an estimated 30,000 unused volumes were weeded between 1999 and 2008). The microfilm collection has been steady at 60,000. The non-print films, tapes, and CDs have risen from about 12,000 to over 21,000 over the last few years. Students have Internet access at 33 workstations or ports in the Library and in all dormitories on campus. Computer labs exist in the Library, computer science, digital media, and business administration buildings. INFORMATION SERVICES Administrative activity is supported by a separate network with about 60 workstations. Projects of the Information Services department in the last few years include increasing the bandwidth to the Internet from 9 to 30 Mbps, adding fiber optic cable connections to 8 more student dormitories, and improving the fiber optic backbone to Gigabit speeds to 19 major buildings. PHYSICAL PLANT Our campus had extensive deferred maintenance when acquired in 1974. We had constructed 10 new buildings prior to 2000 (9 houses and a quadplex for faculty and staff). In 2000 we launched a plan to reconstruct the campus. This began with the inauguration, in 2000, of a 20,000-sq.ft. administrative and classroom building. Since then we razed 43 old buildings and constructed ten new ones, including three classroom buildings totaling 32,000 sq.ft., six 8-room student residences, and the 50,000 sq.ft. Argiro Student Center at a total cost of $12 million. Another 60 new buildings have been built on campus, either by our faculty and staff or a private developer, including homes, a condominium, and an office building. In just the last two years, we spent more than $2.2 million on improving campus land, roads, and facilities, including $2.4 million on renovating buildings. The 262-acre campus has approximately a million square feet of academic, residential, and recreational facilities.
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THE FOUNDING GOALS OF MAHARISHI UNI
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