Academic Stature Documents from 2014

Size and Scale

• Proportion of enrollment by degree objective  (pg 1)
• Degrees awarded, trends in degree types, trends in disciplines, and trends in the ratios of degrees awarded to faculty (Cornell data)  (pg 2 -4)
• Degrees awarded, colleges and their peers (sourced from IPEDS) (pg 5)
• Faculty, academic and staff headcounts over time (Cornell data)
  • Headcount  (pg 6)
  • By fund type (‘hard’ vs ‘soft’ monies) (pg 7)
• Number of departments over time (pg 8)
• Size of departments compared to peers (sourced from Academic Analytics) (pg 9)
• Sizes of fields compared to peers (sourced from Academic Analytics)  (pg 10)

Students and Post Docs

Assigning Graduate School students to colleges is hard: a comparison of methodologies

• Undergraduate admissions trends and SAT scores (Cornell data) (pg 11)
• Graduate School admissions trends and GRE scores (Cornell Grad School data) (pg 13)
• Undergraduate enrollment (pg 12)
• Graduate School enrollment (pg 14)
• Professional School enrollment (pg 14)
• PhD student funding (sourced from the Grad School) (pg 15)
• Undergraduate Instruction by instructor type, percent of total (enrollments and credits) and class size (pg 16-19)
• Percent of PhD cohort graduated in 7 years  (pg 23)
• Number of Post Docs per department, 2010-2013 (pg 20)
• Student Outcomes, as self-reported on surveys (sourced from Grad School and IRP) (pg 21-22)

Faculty

• Department scholarly productivity (sourced from AA) (pg 24)
• Field scholarly productivity (sourced from AA) (pg 25)
• Ratio of total base faculty salary to total base employee salary (pg 26)
• Percent of assistant professors attaining tenure (pg 27)

Diversity

• Faculty diversity, Cornell and peers (sourced from AAUDE) (pg 28)
  
• College Composition [from Executive Diversity Dashboard] (pg 29)
• Student achievement [from Executive Diversity Dashboard] (pg 30-31)
• Workforce achievement  [from Executive Diversity Dashboard] (pg 32-33)
• Additional resources include the  Diversity Dashboards (public – most graphs at the University level)

Resources

• Assigned square feet of space, relative to peers and relative to guidelines (sourced from Space Study) (pg 34-35)

2013-2014 Budget Model Metrics

• Data on Teaching – credit hours and enrollments March 2014
  
• Student headcounts and FTE (for Allocated Cost Distributions) April 2014