The department will proactively encourage students to see an adviser annually; The department will proactively encourage students to seek assistance with their academic skills; The department will request data on the graduation rates among Anthropology majors from Institutional Research as a basis for planning; The department will develop an advising page for its website with redesigned and revised content to facilitate dissemination of programmatic information to students; The department will explore the feasibility of giving one faculty member released time/year to act as undergraduate adviser. We will use departmental resources for this, except getting the data from OIR, and covering the released time for the dedicated faculty adviser. We are anticipating a 1 - 2 course reduction. That would need to be covered by adjuncts. The funding for that would come from CLAS.

Develop departmental honors program that would be integrated into the current departmental curriculum.

• Continue commitment to high quality scholarship • Space: o As the Department’s external funding has expanded, the pressure on space in the department has increased:  Recover rooms currently allocated by CLAS for CLAS purposes and History  Review internal space use • Continue seeking external and internal funding o Currently faculty self found course releases for grant preparation. We will work with OGSR to fund course releases for grant writing to rotate among faculty. These discussion would start Fall 2009 o Grant administration is currently a significant burden both on the departmental support staff and on PIs. We will actively work with OGSR and CLAS to improve grant administration, including arranging for training of PIs. Start in Fall 2009. o Restricted travel funds make it difficult for faculty to attend conferences, present research findings, and network. We will continue fund-raising to build a departmental development fund that could find travel.

We will renew our five year cooperative agreement with the National Park Service (NPS), which also involves us in the federal Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit. The agreement is the framework for NPS funded contracts in ethnography and archaeology across Northwestern North America as well as our archaeological field school at Ft. Vancouver. We will also continue our cooperative work with the US Fish and Wildlife Service and the Chinook tribe on the Ridgefield Wildlife Refuge. This relationship currently supports public outreach, student internships and funded research. We will explore a cooperative agreement for applied anthropological work with the Mountain Institute which will support outreach, internships and research in Applied Anthropology and environmental sustainability. A relationship with the Mountain Institute will extend our engagement beyond the Pacific Northwest since they have global involvements.