Aug. 18, 2017
The Chronicle of Higher Education Volume 63, Issue 43-
NewsFor Needy Students, Geography Can Be Destiny
Two Southeastern states have taken different directions on access: One has reined in tuition. The other state let it grow. -
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Age Distribution of Graduate Students
Female graduate students who were 25 and older were more likely than their male counterparts to be from 35 to 64 years old. -
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Undergraduate Students Who Were 25 and Older
More than a quarter of all undergraduate students in the United States were 25 or older in the fall of 2015. -
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Change in Percentage of Older Undergraduate Students
The share of undergraduate students who were 25 and older has dropped since 2011, and has fallen even more significantly since the 1990s. -
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First-Year Retention and Persistence Rates
Asians had the highest overall rate of returning for a second year to the same institution where they started. -
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Degrees Conferred, by Discipline
Women were underrepresented in computer science, earning only about 20 percent of the associate, bachelor’s, or doctoral degrees in the field. -
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Colleges With the Largest Enrollments
On average, public doctoral institutions had at least twice the enrollment of any other type of institution. -
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Colleges With the Best 6-Year and 3-Year Graduation Rates
Graduation rates for all of the top 20 four-year private nonprofit colleges were above 90 percent, compared with six above 90 percent for the top 20 four-year public institutions. -
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Characteristics of Recipients of Research Doctorates
Doctorate recipients in the physical sciences finished their degrees in the shortest period of time and at the youngest median age. -
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Enrollment by Carnegie Classification
Doctoral universities and associate colleges each enroll almost a third of all students. -
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Education-Related Debt of Doctorate Recipients
Women accumulated more debt than men at every level of higher education. -
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Pay Gap for Female College Administrators
Women’s pay was closest to men’s in the position with the lowest female representation: top executive. -
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Pay Gap for Female College Executives
In two of the three executive positions in which women’s median salaries exceeded men’s, female representation was relatively low. -
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Gender and Average Salaries of Teaching Staff at Distance-Education-Only Colleges
Two-year and four-year for-profit institutions paid higher average salaries than completely distance-education institutions in other sectors did. -
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Average Salaries of Teaching Staff at For-Profit Colleges
Average salaries at most institutions were below $50,000. -
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Pay Gap for Racial and Ethnic Minorities in Executive Posts
In just one such executive post did racial and ethnic minorities represent more than 20 percent of job holders. -
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Average Salaries of Staff Members
The largest occupational category was office and administrative support, representing more than 20 percent of such employees. -
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Contract Lengths of Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Members
Of the more than 900,000 faculty members in the U.S. without tenure status, nearly half were on contracts of less than a year’s duration. -
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Average Salaries of Instructional Staff at 4-Year Institutions
Women made up about a quarter of professors at doctoral institutions with the highest and higher research activity, and a third elsewhere. -
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Full-Time Teaching Staff, by Rank
Nearly half of the instructional staff employed at American institutions of higher education worked at doctoral universities. -
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Colleges With the Highest Shares of Nonresident-Alien Teaching-Staff Members
Nearly two-thirds of nonresident-alien employees were tenured faculty members at the University of Kentucky and Reed College. -
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Average Salaries of Teaching Staff at HBCUs and Tribal Colleges
Just under half of the full-time instructional staff at tribal and historically black colleges were female. -
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Average Salaries of Teaching Staff at Public Associate Colleges
Salaries were highest among professors at institutions that mainly served traditional full-time, degree-seeking students. -
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Pathways to the College Presidency
Nearly two-thirds of college presidents who worked their way up within higher education were previously provosts. -
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Characteristics of College Presidents
Over five years, the proportion of presidents who were members of minority groups climbed by about four percentage points. -
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Median Salaries of Faculty Members in 5 Disciplines
Public institutions paid professors in the health professions more, on average, than private nonprofit institutions did. -
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Median Percentage Increases in Faculty Salaries
Instructors at private, independent institutions got the highest increase, followed by instructors at public institutions. -
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Colleges With the Most Staff Members per 1,000 Students
Many institutions on the list are medical colleges or health-science centers, or comprise them. -
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Colleges With the Most Graduate Assistants
Twenty-five public and three private nonprofit universities employed more than 3,000 graduate assistants each. -
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Median Increase in Senior Administrators’ Salaries
Overall percentage pay increases for administrators have exceeded the inflation rate for the past five years. -
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Tenure Status of Faculty Members
Only a third of faculty members at all colleges were tenured or on the tenure track in the fall of 2015. -
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Gender, Race, and Ethnicity of College Administrators, Faculty, and Staff
Both Asians and nonresident aliens were most highly represented in the occupational category “graduate assistants.” -
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Highest-Paid Chief Executives at Private Nonprofit Colleges
The most highly compensated chief executive earned $5.5 million. Most of that came from a deferred payout. -
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Median Salaries of Library and Museum Professionals
The head of a campus museum had the greatest median salary at four-year institutions, and a Level-1 library cataloger had the lowest. -
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Median Salaries of Deans, by Discipline
Deans of medicine, dentistry, and law earned the highest median pay. -
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College Endowments Over $500 Million
The market value of Harvard University’s endowment dropped by nearly $2 billion in a year, but it is still far larger than any other university’s endowment. -
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Colleges That Raised the Most in Private Donations
Almost all of the top fund raisers were doctoral universities with the highest research activity. -
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Most-Expensive 4-Year Public Institutions for In-State Costs
Eleven institutions with the highest charges for state residents were in Pennsylvania, and 10 were in New Jersey. -
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Most-Expensive 4-Year Private Nonprofit Institutions
Among the 100 most expensive colleges, 64 charged tuition and fees exceeding $50,000. -
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Average Tuition-Discount Rates at Private Nonprofit Colleges
Discount rates grew by more than 11 percentage points for first-time, full-time freshmen.
