Core Faculty Other Faculty Total Faculty Students (as of Fall**) Student/Faculty Ratio
HC FTEF HC FTEF HC FTEF HC FTE SFR by
Core FTEF SFR by Total FTEF AY2009-10 15 13.3 11 2.9 26 16.2 45 44.5 3.3 2.7 AY2010-11 18 16.3 12 3.0 30 19.3 107 106.0 6.5 5.5 AY2011-12 19 17.1 11 3.0 30 19.9 130 129.5 7.6 6.5
NOTE: *FTE faculty are determined by methods outlined in Criterion 4.1, and specifically in Table 4.1.a, and are based on faculty workload allocations.
** Student FTE is based on counts shown in Criterion 4.4 and specifically Table 4.4. and with full-time students counted as 1.0 FTE and part-time students as 0.5 FTE. Students measured as of fall in given year, so students who take leave, withdraw from the program or graduate during the academic year are counted.
KEY: HC = Head count; Core = full-time faculty who support the teaching programs (at least 0.5 FTE); FTE = Full-time equivalent; FTEF = Full-time-equivalent faculty; Other = adjunct, part-time and secondary faculty; Total = Core + Other; SFR = Student/Faculty Ratio
The Brown School has a large number of staff, in the areas of staff focused on research projects (generally those employed on soft-money research grants) and other Brown staff focused on support of the academic programs and administration. In AY2010-11, the Brown School has 132 total staff, including 58 allocated to the administration of academic
programs and 74 allocated to research programs.
Although the total number of staff reported here includes a large number of staff dedicated to all three academic programs offered by the Brown School, the MPH and MSW programs as well as the doctoral program, we believe this decision to include all these here is justified. It is tempting to try to differentiate this staff into those working on the MPH program and those who do not, and we made attempts to do this. Also, following advice we received in our pre-consultation site visit, we have decided to list the entire academic and research staff involved in the public health effort. This is for two reasons. First, when the MPH program was started at Washington University, a deliberate decision was made to fold this program into the Brown School, where there was a strong infrastructure in the very areas needed for an MPH program. In fact, this made creating a new program more efficient, because it was not necessary to hire new staff in the areas of admissions, field, student services, career services, and the many other areas that are needed. The second reasons we have not divided out the staff here is that we literally do not feel it is possible because all or nearly all of the staff provide services for MPH students at one point or another on any given work day, or given work week. So figuring out algorithm for dividing out their time would have been almost impossible.
1.6.f. A concise statement or chart concerning the availability of other personnel (administration and staff).
1.6.g. A concise statement or chart concerning amount of space available to the program by purpose (offices, classrooms, common space for student use, etc.), by program and location.
In presenting what space is used by the MPH program it is important to note that the program has some dedicated space – largely for administrative offices – but in most other cases, when the program uses space for classrooms, student programming, or common space this is shared space that is also used by the entire Brown School. Here the different types of space will be identified, but where space is shared between academic programs, we have not made attempts to differentiate what proportion is used by each program, as that would likely be impossible.
MPH Program Space
The MPH Program’s administrative offices are currently housed in approximately 394 ASF in Brown Hall, in two offices, Brown 211 and Brown 212. Brown 212 is an office of 206 ASF, occupied by the Associate Dean for Public Health. Brown 211 is an office of 188 ASF, occupied by the Program Manager for the MPH Program and the Assistant Dean for Public Health. This space is centrally located on the second floor of Brown Hall, just below the academic affairs offices, computer lab and the library, adjacent to meeting spaces and classroom spaces, and is easily accessible to students, faculty and staff.
Instruction and Student Space
The MPH program uses facilities currently located in four different facilities on the campuses of Washington University in St. Louis, located at: the Danforth Campus, North Campus, West Campus and Medical Campus. The administrative units, classrooms, student spaces and several research centers remain centralized on the Danforth Campus, housed in two buildings of almost equal size that are interconnected. Brown Hall was constructed in 1937 and renovated in 1999, and Goldfarb Hall was constructed in 1998. Research centers and programs for the public health programs are located in the Kingshighway Building on the Medical Campus, the West campus and the North Campus in AY2008-11, although there are plans to move some research centers in AY2011-12.
The combined square footage of Brown School space is 120,424 gross square feet (GSF), with approximately 7,479 assignable square feet (ASF) devoted to instruction; 9,502 ASF devoted to student resources; 2,111 ASF devoted to Academic Affairs departments; 7,850 ASF devoted to research; 10,424 ASF devoted to administration and administrative support; and 1,234 ASF devoted to common support functions. Included in the space allocated for faculty offices is an office of 256 ASF that is devoted to adjunct faculty and visiting scholars. Brown Hall and Goldfarb Halls encompass 10 classrooms, which are used to house MPH courses, including:
• Goldfarb 38, a classroom of 631 ASF, is furnished with tables and seating in a case study configuration to accommodate 25 students.
• Goldfarb 39, a classroom of 688 ASF, is furnished with tablet arm seating to accommodate 30 students.
• Goldfarb 124, a classroom of 800 ASF, is furnished with tables and seating in a case study configuration to accommodate 25 students.
• Goldfarb 135, a classroom of 843 ASF, is furnished with tables and seating in a case study configuration to accommodate 25 students.
• Goldfarb 249, a classroom of 704 ASF, is furnished with a large, oval conference table and seating to accommodate 18 students.
• Goldfarb 330, a technology-enabled classroom of 840 ASF, has desks and computers to accommodate 30 students.
• Goldfarb 333, a classroom of 813 ASF, is furnished with tables and seating in a case study configuration to accommodate 30 students.
• Goldfarb 359, a classroom of 722 ASF, is furnished with a large, oval conference table and seating to accommodate 18 students.
• Brown 205, a classroom of 773 ASF, is furnished with tablet arm seating to accommodate 40 students.
• Brown 209, a classroom of 419 ASF, is furnished with tables and seating to accommodate 14 students.
All classrooms are equipped with a resident computer for the instructor, projector and projection screen, and marker boards or chalkboards.
In addition, Brown 305, a computer lab of 804 ASF, provides 32 desktop computers for MPH students, along with a networked printer and document production space. Brown and Goldfarb Halls also provide a host of spaces and resources for students to use for quiet study, group project work, student activities, community events and special programs.
• The Commons. In 2005, approximately 3,000 ASF on the first floor of Goldfarb Hall was remodeled to create a Student Commons, which features café tables and lounge seating, and several plasma screens for showcasing news, providing announcements and posting the weekly events calendar. The cornerstone of the Commons is a community café, Grounds 4 Change, a food service unit founded and managed by students. The Commons also provides a kitchenette and vending area. The Commons is widely used by MPH students to meet and discuss group projects, and for other interactions.
• Meeting and Event Space. Several other spaces are available to support the activities of students, faculty and staff.
- Brown Lounge is a large, iconic space of 1,684 ASF that is available to all students, faculty and staff for seminars, meetings and events.
- Goldfarb 132 is a spacious, formal board room of 1,279 ASF that can be reserved for events, including presentations and training events.
- Brown 203 is an intimate meeting room that accommodates approximately 12 people comfortably and can be used by individual students or for group project work. - When classroom space is not occupied, these spaces are also used to support
activities of students, faculty, and staff.
• Student Organization Space. Brown 30 and 30A, a space of approximately 175 ASF, are devoted to Brown School student organizations.
• The Brown School Library. The library encompasses approximately 3,577 square feet of space on the third floor of Brown Hall, including a large, well-lit space for quiet study.
Not applicable.
The MPH program is served by the Brown School’s Information Technology (IT) Department, which provides a wide range of services and support, including application development, network administration, technical support and audio-visual support. The department provides students, faculty and staff extensive information technology infrastructure and support:
• a network consisting of 30 physical and virtual servers located in a climate- controlled and fiber/power redundant data center;
• fiber infrastructure with independent firewall devices connecting the four locations where MPH program programs are located;
• Email services provided to faculty and staff via a Microsoft Exchange 2010 email infrastructure with unlimited mailbox capacity;
• Email services provided to students via Microsoft Live@EDU mail service, with a 10 GB mailbox capacity as well as an additional 25 GB of cloud storage capability;
• Web-based collaboration capabilities provided to students, faculty and staff via Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and 2010, as well as shared network storage is provided to all faculty and staff;
• the Blackboard Learning Management System available for all courses offered at the School each semester, providing online access to course materials, online discussions, as well as Digital Drop Box capability;
• classrooms with an overhead projector or plasma display, resident computer and DVD/VCR capability;
• Eight fax machines for communication;
• Two student computer labs, providing 62 computers and four networked printers, for student work;
- Brown 305, a computer lab of 804 ASF, provides 32 desktop computers for MPH students, along with a networked printer and document production space.
1.6.i. A concise statement concerning the amount, location and types of computer facilities and resources for students, faculty, administration and staff.
1.6.h. A concise statement or floor plan concerning laboratory space, including kind, quantity and special features or special equipment.
- Brown 16, a computer lab of 471 ASF, provides 10 desktop computers for PhD students, along with a networked printer and document production space.
• the capability to deploy 30 laptop computers to any classroom in the building via two laptop carts;
• A Ph.D. computer lab with 10 computers and two networked printers;
• Networked client computers with comprehensive software installed (Microsoft Office 2007 Enterprise Edition, Microsoft Forefront antivirus, statistical programs, ArcGIS etc.);
• Substantial video equipment including four digital cameras and 30 Flip video camera for use by students;
• Approximately 650 computers used by faculty and staff on the Brown School computing network (minimum standard, 3 GhZ processor with 4 GB of RAM, 250 GB hard drive, DVD-RW ROM drive and 19" monitor, refreshed on a five-year cycle);
• Extensive printing resources, including providing each faculty member with the option of a desktop personal laser printer in addition to access to five networked black/white copier/printers and a networked color copier/printer;
• Access to 14 networked photocopiers, which have additional scanning, printing and faxing features.
The IT staff consists of a full-time Director, one full-time IT/AV coordinator, two full-time help desk technicians, one full-time server administrator, one full-time application developer and approximately 30 part-time student workers. The School makes a significant effort to accommodate students, faculty and staff with disabilities in all equipment and resource procurement decisions. Accessibility is an integral consideration of the design and use of Brown School space. Each year, resources are invested in improving the accessibility of our environment. Technological solutions and special accommodations are provided as needed to students with visual, physical, hearing and cognitive disabilities.
Faculty in the MPH program at the Brown School has access to the Brown School Library with resources for the scholarly information needed for teaching and research in public health. The library serves not only the School’s faculty, researchers, students and staff, but also alumni, visiting scholars, the public health community in the metropolitan St. Louis area and others interested in the field of public health. The library is open 88.5 hours per week during the fall and spring semesters, with professional staff available during 70.5 of those hours for assistance, consultation and training needs. The library is open 65.5 hours during the summer session, with professional staff available 42.5 hours. A total of 14,492 people used the library’s reading room during FY2010 (tallied by taking an hourly count of people sitting in the library reading room during open hours).
1.6.j. A concise statement of library/information resources available for program use, including description of library capabilities in providing digital (electronic) content, access mechanisms and guidance in using them, and document delivery services.
Collections
The Brown School Library is located at the east end of the third floor of Brown Hall near many student services offices. The collection encompasses public health, health economics, epidemiology and social work. The collection includes 55,857 volumes, 1,100 theses and 269 dissertations, 479 journal subscriptions, 30 electronic databases, 769 media items,
government documents, and a collection of special and rare books. The collection is strong in the areas of public health, health economics, epidemiology, social justice and human diversity, gerontology and human behavior. During AY2009-10, 825 volumes and 31 media items were added to the collection. The expenditures for electronic and print library
material purchases increased 168% in recent years, from $113,248 in AY2008-09, $223,209 in AY2009-10, and $303,522 in AY2010-11.
The Washington University Library System’s holdings are in excess of 4 million volumes with special strengths in the health sciences. The Brown School Library’s large media holdings are supplemented by additional university holdings of public health–related media available at Olin Library (75 yards from the School). The Washington University Libraries also have subscriptions to 290 electronic databases and provide access to 91,000 unique journal titles in electronic format. Subscriptions to electronic book collections in public health and epidemiology supplement the print collections. Many databases, journals and eBooks are available from the Library on a 24/7 basis via the Internet to students, faculty and staff who identify themselves as members of the Brown School community.