HSLIC also strives to provide easily accessible biomedical and health care information to New Mexicans. Through grant-‐supported initiatives, HSLIC has developed databases on Native American health issues, identified and translated research on Latin American social medicine and created consumer collections. HSLIC’s special archives highlight the history of medicine and health care in New Mexico through oral histories, records, photograph collections and
memorabilia. HSLIC is the only federally designated resource library to serve New Mexico’s health-‐information needs, including those of the state’s 22 Native nations. HSLIC serves as the official resource library for New Mexico in the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, a program of the National Library of Medicine.
Research databases. The UL system offers over 300 specialized and cross-‐disciplinary
research databases, available online 24/7, to support research across the curriculum. Among the 300+ specialized databases are several that are especially relevant to research and teaching in the Speech and Hearing Sciences:
ASA (Acoustical Society of America) Digital Library ArticleFirst
Atlas of North American English
LLBA-‐Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts BioMedCentral
EBSCO Host:
Academic Service Complete; CINAHL Plus with full text; Education Research Complete; Education Statistics
Health and Psychosocial Instruments; Humanities International Complete; PsycARTICLES; PsychINFO
Hispanic-‐American Periodicals Index JSTOR
MEDLINE WorldCat PubMed
PubMed Central Web of Science
WorldCat Dissertations and Theses
Criterion 7. Facilities.
7A. Facilities associated with the unit.
The Speech and Hearing Sciences Department is housed in the west wing of the John and June Perovich Business Center at 1700 Lomas Blvd NE, Suite 1300 and occupies approximately 13,824 square feet. The construction of the department’s current facilities was completed in 2005. The department’s facilities include faculty offices; research laboratories; UNMSLHC with reception and waiting area, individual and group therapy rooms and audio booths; a classroom;
and multiple spaces designated for student use, including a lounge, small computer pod, and study area.
Lab space is sometimes shared among faculty, and graduate assistants complete their work within the lab work spaces.
Figure 7. Dr. Binger’s lab. Figure 8. Drs. Palmer and Neel lab.
The Department has one classroom, equipped with a computer, projector, speakers and videoconferencing technology. Most of the Department’s graduate classes are held there, with 30 seats available, while the undergraduate classes are held in Dane Smith Hall on main
campus.
Figure 9. SHS classroom. Figure 10. Graduate student lounge.
The Department has a conference room, a file storage room, various student study and work spaces, and copy room which houses the copy machine, fax machine, shredder and recycling bins.
The Department also houses the Speech-‐Language-‐Hearing Clinic, with a several designated spaces for assessment and intervention services. The clinic is comprised of a large multipurpose room for treatment groups, a small group room, four therapy rooms suited for adult clients, and four therapy rooms furnished for children. The individual therapy rooms have two adjoining observation rooms for the families and clinical faculty to view clinical sessions. The Clinic also includes a preschool room with a playground behind the building. There is also an audiology booth, and a materials library, which contains the testing materials and equipment students might need to use during their practicum experience in the clinic.
Figure 11. Clinic observation room. Figure 12. Clinic playground.
7B. Computing facilities maintained by unit.
The department maintains a small computer pod (three computers) in room 1307, for graduate student use, for clinic and course-‐related activities. The department also recently purchased a color printer (not pictured) that is networked to all computers in the pod, and can also be accessed via flash drive, for printing clinic therapy materials.
The department does not have an information technologies (IT) technician on staff; however, the College of Arts and Sciences provides IT support to units within the college. The services are requested on an as-‐needed basis with rapid responses to service requests.
Although the department has received high-‐quality services from the A&S IT team and endorse in concept a recent Arts and Sciences proposal that the department contribute financially to supporting the College’s IT staff, it is not clear where financial support from a limited operating budget may be identified.
Figure 13. Graduate students’ computer pod.
Criterion 8. Program Comparisons.
8A. Distinguishing characteristics of the programs within the unit.
Of the 16 Higher Education Department peer institutions, 13 have programs in speech-‐ language pathology. The University of New Mexico’s Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences ranks 8th in faculty size with 12 tenure-‐track and non-‐tenure track faculty members
combined (Table 20). The average size of faculty at our peer institutions is 19 faculty members (tenure-‐track and non-‐tenure track combined). Only Oklahoma State University, New Mexico State University, Florida International University, and the University of Missouri-‐Columbia have fewer faculty members.
Table 20. Comparison of UNM SLP program with regional and national peer institutions.
Institution Faculty U.S. News & World Report Ranking AuD PhD Comments Total Asst Assoc Full NTT/CI
University of New
Mexico 12 1 5 1 5 62 No No
Bilingual/multic ultural emphasis Arizona
State
University 32 1 11 6 14 21 Yes Yes
ASL program; SLPA certification; courses in bilingual SLP Florida Internation al University 6 2 1 2 1 229 No No Focus on cultural/linguist
ic diversity and bilingualism (specialties in Eng/Spanish and Eng/Haitian-‐ Creole) New Mexico State University 8 4 1 1 2 106 No No Supplementary programs in SLP
for ESL and SLP for bilingual clients Oklahoma State University 10 5 1 0 4 106 No No Texas A&M University-‐ College Station
N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
No SLP/Aud program offered
at this campus Texas Tech