Overview, Successes, and Challenges

November 16, 2006

Jonathan Plucker, Director

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Outline

• Part I: Overview of CEEP

• Part II: What’s Working at CEEP

• Part III: Challenges and Strategies

Part I:Overview of CEEP

Part II:What’s Working at CEEP

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Impact Strong and Rising

• Initiated stark majority of SOE’s press coverage in-state, beginning to garner national press and educational organization attention

• Fully indexed in ERIC, LEXIS-NEXUS is also interested

• Numerous national conference presentations• Increasing number of journal publications and book

chapters• People know what CEEP is!

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Expanding Our National Influence

• Primary evaluation consultants to several US ED programs– Teaching American History– School Leadership– Transition-to-Teaching– Parent Information and Resource Centers– NCES

• Recent inroads with IN and GA Depts of Health

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Expanding our Global Influence

• Exploring collaboration possibilities in China and Africa

• Assistance to IU’s area studies centers

• Assistance to IU’s accreditation preparation, which focuses on international connections

• Visiting Korean scholar and new Chinese graduate assistant next year

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Faculty

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30

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Faculty

Goal

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Students

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Students

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Students Employed as Research Associates or Graduate Assistants

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10

15

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35

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*Does not include TERC or NAEP

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Community Participation

• Talks to IU Mini-university,Leagues of Women’s Voters, Marion County COY, IACTE, Indiana Leadership Forum, among other groups

• Continued participation in state policy development

• Assistance to state-level professional groups• IU faculty and administrators increasingly calling

on CEEP for assistance– Area studies centers, biology, chemistry, IU

accreditation, major SOE and campus proposals

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Projects

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Project Size

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Number of Projects

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FY05

FY06

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Project Size

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Percent of Projects

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FY06

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Income

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1,500,000

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2,500,000

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Goal

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Indirect Monies

154,728

249,715 251,327

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100,000

150,000

200,000

250,000

300,000

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Indirect Rate

7.60%

9.20%9.98%

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FY05

FY06

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Cost-saving Measures

• Renegotiated building lease (good)• Renegotiated copier leases (good)• Renegotiated cleaning contract (good)• Consolidated receptionist and travel/purchasing positions

(good)• Renegotiated facilities cost-recovery formula (good)• Improved technology purchasing (good)• Escaped from “balance scorecard” system (good)• Received $156,000 from SOE to help with overhead

(good)• Fewer research associates and project associates, leading

to higher workloads (bad)

Part III: Challenges and Strategies

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CEEP Contact Information:

Jonathan PluckerDirector

509 East Third StreetBloomington, IN 47401-3654

812-855-4438800-511-6575Fax: 812-856-5890http://ceep.indiana.edu