Aug. 24, 2018
The Chronicle of Higher Education Volume 64, Issue 41-
NewsHope and Worry, by the Numbers
The data draw a portrait of a higher-education sector that is under pressure to enroll more students and to ensure that a diverse number of them have equal chances to improve their lives. -
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The Making of a First-Time President
Some college leaders, rather than fearing the aspirations of those under them, purposefully go about grooming new presidents. -
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Student Debt Is Worse for Women
A college degree falls short of putting women on equal economic footing with men, and they have the student-loan burden to prove it. -
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The Humanities’ Place in Research Spending
Less than 1 percent of the R&D money spent by universities goes to the humanities. The institutions that spend the most want their projects to have an impact. -
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New Jersey to Its Students: Please Don’t Go
New Jersey’s young people may be born to run, but their mass departure to attend college elsewhere is making leaders nervous about the state’s future. -
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College Endowments Over $500-Million
The value of the endowments of the 15 wealthiest institutions in Massachusetts exceeded $70 billion, about as much as the total national wealth of Lithuania. -
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How Women Fare Compared With Men in College and Afterward
If college success is measured in terms of financial rewards, women are trailing men considerably. -
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Universities With the Highest Spending on Research and Development
Of the 12 institutions that spent more than $1 billion on research and development in the 2016 fiscal year, four were in California. -
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Gender, Race, and Ethnicity of Newly Hired Instructional Staff Members
Two-year and four-year for-profit institutions had the highest percentages of racial and ethnic minorities among their newly hired instructional staff members. -
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Universities With the Highest Research-and-Development Spending Financed by the National Science Foundation
The top 40 institutions spent more than half of what all institutions spent on research and development with support from the National Science Foundation. -
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Highest- to Lowest-Paid Noninstructional College Employees
Two-year for-profit institutions devoted nearly 40 percent of their outlays to managerial pay, the most among sectors. -
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Private Colleges With Low Financial-Responsibility Scores
Several of the colleges with low scores on the test have already closed. -
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Per-Student Spending on Instruction and Other Areas
Four-year private nonprofit institutions spent nearly four times as much per full-time-equivalent student in the 2016 fiscal year as four-year for-profit institutions did. -
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Gender, Race, and Ethnicity of Managers in Higher Education
About 78 percent of new managers hired in the fall of 2016 were non-Hispanic whites, signaling a slight increase in diversity. -
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Highest-Paid Chief Executives at Private Nonprofit Colleges
Only nine of the 50 highest-paid chief executives of private nonprofit colleges were women, with just two female leaders breaking into the top 10. -
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Colleges That Produced the Most First-Time Presidents
Of the 20 colleges that produced at least three first-time presidents or chancellors since July 2012, seven had enrollments of fewer than 10,000 students. -
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Highest-Paid Chief Executives at Public Colleges
Twelve presidents or chancellors of public universities or systems had total compensation of $1 million or more in the 2017 fiscal year. -
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Colleges With the Highest Numbers of Principal Investigators
The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and the Johns Hopkins University both stood out for their high number of principal investigators. -
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Colleges With the Highest Percentages of Full Professors
At just two universities did more than two-thirds of full-time instructional faculty members hold the rank of full professor in the fall of 2016. -
The Review
Full-Time Instructional Faculty Members, by Gender, Rank, and Race or Ethnicity, Fall 2016
Whites made up more than three-quarters of instructional staff with faculty status in the fall of 2016, and they represented more than 80 percent of full professors. -
States With the Highest Net Gains and Losses of College Students
Nearly 20 percent of recent high-school graduates left their own states to study at colleges in other states. Some states gained many more students than they lost. -
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Spending Rates for College Endowments
The 2017 annual rate ranged from 4.0 percent for endowments valued at less than $25 million, to 4.8 percent for those valued at over $1 billion. -
Estimated Voluntary Support of Higher Education
Giving by alumni increased more in 2017 than giving by any other group. -
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Library Spending, by Sector
Outside of salaries, the largest budget item for libraries was continuing commitments to subscriptions for journals and periodicals. -
Colleges’ Revenue and Expenditures
For-profit institutions are by far the most tuition-dependent sector, relying on that money for about 90 percent of overall revenue. -
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Colleges That Spent the Most on Humanities Research
Only two public colleges on the list devoted more than 5 percent of their total research-and-development spending to the humanities, but 18 private nonprofit colleges did. -
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Top Sources of Wealth for Donors of $1 Million or More to Colleges
Among donors to higher education who gave $1 million or more in the 2017 calendar year, the largest share could attribute their financial status to real estate. -
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Average Salaries of Instructional Staff at 4-Year Public Colleges
Women earned, on average, less than 90 percent of what men did in five of the eight highest Carnegie classifications of colleges. -
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Colleges With Highest Average Pay for Full Professors
Many of the public doctoral institutions that paid their full professors the most in 2016-17 were in cities well known for their high costs of living. -
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Average Salaries of Instructional Staff at 4-Year Private Nonprofit Colleges
Women had the lowest overall average salaries in comparison with men at doctoral universities with the highest research activity. -
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Average Salaries of Instructional Staff at Public Associate Colleges
Women outnumbered men as members of the full-time instructional staff at nearly all colleges that primarily awarded associate degrees. -
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Largest Private Gifts to Higher Education
Thirty-two private gifts valued at $50 million or more were announced by colleges during the 2017-18 academic year. -
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Colleges With Highest Average Pay for Associate Professors
Salaries exceeding $100,000 were found at many of the top-paying doctoral institutions, and at private nonprofit baccalaureate institutions. -
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Average Salaries of Instructional Staff at HBCUs and Tribal Colleges
Historically black and tribal colleges had nearly equal representation between men and women on the instructional staff, but they also offered fairly low pay. -
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Gender, Race, and Ethnicity of Instructional Faculty Members, by Rank
More than three-quarters of instructional staff with faculty status and 80 percent of full professors were white in 2016. -
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Tenure Status of Faculty Members
Among sectors, four-year public institutions had the highest share of faculty members who were either tenured or on the tenure track. -
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Contract Lengths of Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Members
Close to 45 percent of all non-tenure-track faculty members worked part time and held less-than-annual contracts. -
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Colleges That Raised the Most in Private Donations
Eleven private nonprofit institutions raised more money in the 2017 fiscal year than did the public institution that raised the most. -
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Colleges With the Highest Percentages of Tenured or Tenure-Track Faculty Members
At some colleges, all or nearly all of staff members with faculty status were tenured or on the tenure track in the fall of 2016. -
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Full-Time Instructional Staff Members at 4-Year Colleges, by Academic Rank and Tenure Status
More than a quarter of all the full-time instructional staff members in 2016 were full professors.
