{ "document_id": 16778, "page": 93, "width_pt": 612, "height_pt": 792, "rotation": 0, "pipeline_version": "paddleocr-vl-1.6+paul-48", "engine": "paddleocr_vl", "source_run_id": 16891, "item_count": 17, "counts_by_type": { "footer": 1, "heading": 2, "list": 2, "list_item": 7, "text": 4, "title": 1 }, "build_ms": 3, "items": [ { "id": "p93.1", "order": 1, "type": "title", "bbox": { "l": 95.04, "t": 759.12, "r": 516.48, "b": 718.8 }, "text": "RECOMMENDATION FOR THE PROGRAM'S FUTURE AND RATIONALE", "attrs": { "block_label": "doc_title" }, "level": 2 }, { "id": "p93.2", "order": 2, "type": "text", "bbox": { "l": 33.6, "t": 700.08, "r": 299.28, "b": 606.72 }, "text": "It is recommended by the subcommittee that the political science program should be continued and supported. Its recent relocation to the School of Public Administration and Department of Government should provide supports, such as access to additional faculty with a background in the discipline and a clearer pathway into the related MPA program." }, { "id": "p93.3", "order": 3, "type": "heading", "bbox": { "l": 33.6, "t": 593.28, "r": 249.6, "b": 578.4 }, "text": "INPUT FROM PROGRAM FACULTY", "attrs": { "block_label": "paragraph_title" }, "level": 3 }, { "id": "p93.4", "order": 4, "type": "text", "bbox": { "l": 33.84, "t": 572.88, "r": 216.72, "b": 544.56 }, "text": "Comments from Dr. Wilfred Reilly,\nAssistant Professor." }, { "id": "p93.5", "order": 5, "type": "text", "bbox": { "l": 33.6, "t": 540.24, "r": 298.56, "b": 513.12 }, "text": "KSU Political Science Program: Advantages and Disadvantages" }, { "id": "p93.6", "order": 6, "type": "heading", "bbox": { "l": 33.6, "t": 500.4, "r": 122.4, "b": 487.2 }, "text": "Advantage Points", "attrs": { "block_label": "paragraph_title" }, "level": 3 }, { "id": "p93.7", "order": 7, "type": "list", "bbox": { "l": 44.88, "t": 483.36, "r": 299.52, "b": 59.76 }, "text": "", "attrs": { "item_count": 4 }, "children": [ { "id": "p93.7.1", "order": 8, "type": "list_item", "bbox": { "l": 45.36, "t": 483.36, "r": 299.52, "b": 362.88 }, "text": "Contribution to Campus: POS is the sole department that teaches the U.S. Government/Intro American Government classes—generally two courses per semester—which are a requirement for students across campus. POS faculty also teach roughly half of the research methods classes required for all behavioral and social sciences students. Faculty would still be needed to teach all of these classes if the POS program were eliminated.", "marker": "1)" }, { "id": "p93.7.2", "order": 9, "type": "list_item", "bbox": { "l": 44.88, "t": 351.12, "r": 299.04, "b": 244.32 }, "text": "Relationship with New Minor, Larger Department: In addition to methodology courses, POS contributes two of the five instructors available to teach courses in the recently created Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism minor. Very arguably, some or all of the nine (?) annual graduates of ICT should be combined with our eight graduates when annual figures are calculated.", "marker": "2)" }, { "id": "p93.7.3", "order": 10, "type": "list_item", "bbox": { "l": 45.36, "t": 232.56, "r": 299.04, "b": 139.2 }, "text": "Quality of Faculty: Both POS faculty have terminal Ph.D. degrees in the discipline. Our Africanist is from Africa. Our Con. Law guy has a J.D. and a Ph.D. The junior member of the team has written a book and debated the founder of the alt-right. One hundred percent of POS classes are taught by credentialed faculty with a terminal degree.", "marker": "3)" }, { "id": "p93.7.4", "order": 11, "type": "list_item", "bbox": { "l": 45.84, "t": 126.96, "r": 299.52, "b": 59.76 }, "text": "Faculty-to-Graduates Ratio: POS averages only seven to nine graduates per year, but is a sub-unit of a larger division and employs only two faculty members. We do not employ adjuncts in POS. That's not a bad ratio of graduates to faculty: roughly four per FM per year. That ratio is well over the baseline of eight-graduates-per-four-years that would probably mean definite elimination. It also seems to be above the KSU median. KSU employs roughly 120 faculty members, but almost certainly had fewer than 480 graduates last year.", "marker": "4)" } ] }, { "id": "p93.8", "order": 12, "type": "text", "bbox": { "l": 338.4, "t": 700.08, "r": 577.92, "b": 619.44 }, "text": "per FM per year. That ratio is well over the baseline of eight-graduates-per-four-years that would probably mean definite elimination. It also seems to be above the KSU median. KSU employs roughly 120 faculty members, but almost certainly had fewer than 480 graduates last year." }, { "id": "p93.9", "order": 13, "type": "list", "bbox": { "l": 321.84, "t": 606.96, "r": 578.16, "b": 59.04 }, "text": "", "attrs": { "item_count": 3 }, "children": [ { "id": "p93.9.1", "order": 14, "type": "list_item", "bbox": { "l": 322.56, "t": 606.96, "r": 577.68, "b": 407.28 }, "text": "Fully Accredited Program: The POS program at Kentucky State is a fully accredited national-level program that offers a curriculum fully in accordance with American Political Science Association (APSA) learning goals. We offer three standard and well-designed specializations in the discipline—constitutional law, world politics and legislative/executive politics, as well as core courses in state and local government (POS 160), metropolitan government (201), introduction to politics (211), statistics (300) and classical political theory (355). As noted, we also co-lead classes including research methods (301), senior thesis paper (BSS 499) and terrorism (BSS 468). This is a good political science program, with a solid curriculum.", "marker": "5)" }, { "id": "p93.9.2", "order": 15, "type": "list_item", "bbox": { "l": 323.52, "t": 391.44, "r": 578.16, "b": 272.64 }, "text": "Necessity: Frankly put, almost all major U.S. universities—roughly 94 percent (Ginsberg 2011)—have political science programs. POS is one of the core social sciences, along with psychology and history, and generally teaches all of the basic government classes on a campus (we do here). It would be extremely odd if a land-grant state university located in a major state's political capital did not have a political science program.", "marker": "6)" }, { "id": "p93.9.3", "order": 16, "type": "list_item", "bbox": { "l": 321.84, "t": 257.76, "r": 578.16, "b": 59.04 }, "text": "Job Opportunities: Point #7 relates to Point #6. Kentucky State is located in the Kentucky state capital, roughly one mile by foot from the Capitol building, and job opportunities are unusually plentiful for POS graduates. The POS Department at Kentucky State administers our popular Legislative Research Council internship, which places three to four current students and graduates on state senatorial staffs annually. Dr. Reilly also oversees an independent senatorial internship program. Political entities such as the State Department, FBI and Border Patrol send representatives to each Kentucky State job fair, and specifically target POS students. Past POS graduates such as Jacob Turner-Barrett and Katelyn Drake—available", "marker": "7)" } ] }, { "id": "p93.10", "order": 17, "type": "footer", "bbox": { "l": 561.6, "t": 37.2, "r": 575.04, "b": 24.72 }, "text": "91", "attrs": { "block_label": "number" } } ], "excluded_furniture": { "first": [], "last": [] } }