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ACM-NDC: A Survey of Non-Doctoral Granting Departments in Computing Jane Prey, Yan Timanovsky, Jodi Tims, and Stuart Zweben Steering Committee. November 2, 2013 ACM Education Council Meeting San Francisco, CA. Background.
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ACM-NDC: A Survey of Non-Doctoral Granting Departments in ComputingJane Prey, Yan Timanovsky, Jodi Tims, and Stuart ZwebenSteering Committee November 2, 2013 ACM Education Council Meeting San Francisco, CA
Background • Two pilot projects (TauRUs: Taulbee for the Rest of Us) were conducted with a similar goal of gathering data from non-doctoral-granting departments: • Goldweber, M. 2011. TauRUs: A "Taulbee survey" for the rest of us. ACM Inroads 2, 2 (June 2011), 38-42. • Tims, J. and Williams, S. The TauRUs project: a complement to the Taulbee report. ACM Inroads 3, 1 (March 2012), 62-73. • ACM adopted the project and the inaugural ACM-NDC survey was conducted during the winter and spring of 2013
Expected Benefits • Timely, national-level statistics to • Help department leaders in discussions with faculty and administration • Help current and prospective faculty understand salary situation • Complement CRA Taulbee Survey to give more complete picture of computing workforce supply in colleges and universities • Provide useful information to media about trends and current workforce climate, making ACM and CRA the go-to sources of this information)
Methodology • Qualifying schools were identified using Integrated Post-secondary Education Data System (IPEDS); i.e., the pool considered were all institutions who grant federal financial aid • Invitations to participate were sent by John White, ACM President, to 926 academic units from 767 institutions • The survey was conducted by Market Vision and summary statistics provided to the steering committee • A special report appears in the most recent Inroads(Sept. 2013, vol.4, no.3)
Institutional Summary • 93 institutions responded (~12%) • 30 public, 63 private • 191 total programs -160 bachelor’s, 31 master’s • Note: the 160 bachelor’s programs is a response rate of 17.2% of known 926 academic units • 83 provided faculty information (81 giving salary information) • Geographic distribution a bit skewed • 30 Northeast, 34 Midwest, 20 South, 8 West • Almost exclusively co-ed (2 all-female)
Summary of Data Requested • Information about programs offered • Type of program (CS, CE, IS, IT, SE) • Accreditation information • Demographic information on students enrolled in Bachelor’s and Master’s programs • Demographic and salary information on faculty • Salary information could be reported at the individual or aggregate level
Bachelor’s Programs by Discipline • The majority of programs represented were CS (108) followed by CE/SE (12 each) and IT(10) • ABET accreditation was more common at public institutions and at those institutions that grant Master’s degrees • CS/CE/SE programs were more likely to be accredited than IS/IT programs
Bachelor’s Enrollment Change By Institution Type • Overall enrollment in Bachelor’s programs saw an 11% increase between 2011-2012 and 2012-2013 • The Taulbee survey reported an 8.9% growth in bachelor’s enrollment for the same period • Enrollment growth was relatively even for public and private institutions • Master’s granting institutions saw double the enrollment growth in comparison to non-Master’s granting (14% vs. 7%)
Bachelor’s Enrollment Change by Program Type • The largest enrollment growth was seen in IT (23.9%) • Growth in SE was 15.4% • Growth in CE was 14.6% • Growth in CS was 11.0% • Growth in IS was 1.6%
Comparative Enrollment Data • In CS, NDC programs had 34.8% of their enrollment comprised of new majors compared to 30.3% in Taublee programs • Overall, NDC programs had 27.7% new major enrollment compared 30.4% in Taulbee programs • The average number of majors per department was 67.3 in NDC schools versus 389.9 in Taublee schools
Bachelor’s Degree Production • NDC programs reported an expected 13.9% increase in degree production in 2012-2013 vs. 2011-2012 (cf. Taulbee reports 15.7% increase) • Anticipated increases were larger at public (18.1%) and Master’s granting (18.9%) than private (8.1%) and non-Master’s granting (10.2%) • IT/SE/CS programs predictincreases while IS appearstagnant and CE declining
Bachelor’s Recipients Gender • NDC reports a higher percentage of female students (16.2%) than Taulbee (13.3%) • The percentage of females in CS programs at private institutions is significantly higher than at publics (21.7% vs. 11.0%) and at non-Master’s vs. Master’s granting schools (17.9% vs. 12.5%)
Bachelor’s Recipient Ethnicity(all results include US Residents only) • NDC schools report higher percentages of Hispanic/Latino (+1%), American Indian/Alaska Native (+0.7%), and Black/African American (+2%)students than Taulbee schools • Asian students enrollment is significantly lower at NDC schools (8.1% vs. 16.7%)
Master’s Overall Degrees and Enrollment • Degrees: 26.2% expected increase in master’s production in 2012-13 over 2011-12 • +19.4% in CS; +56.5% IT; +31.1% SE • Compare Taulbee: +9.8% overall; -10.3% in CS • Overall Enrollment: +14.9% (2011-12 to 2012-13) • CS +17.2%; IT +24.8%; SE +7.1%; IS +11.5%; CE -9.5%
Master’s Gender and Ethnicity • Gender: 29.1% master’s grads female (very close to Taulbee) • In CS, 36.2% NDC vs. 22.6% in Taulbee • Ethnicity (NDC To Taulbee) • Asian-Amer: 13.4% v. 8%. • African-Amer: 7.9% v. 2.7% • Hispanic: 1.1% v. 2.5%; • White 27.1 v. 32.2%. • Non-res: 49.9% v. 53.8%
Faculty Size • Average of 8.1 faculty (6.5 FTE) per dept(about ¼ the typical Taulbeedept) • Of these, average of 5 (4.9 FTE) are tenure-track (vs. 27.4 for Taulbeedepts) • About 25% female vs 17.8% for Taulbeedepts • Fraction of female faculty is higher than Taulbee for all faculty ranks • Over 80% white or Asian ethnicities (similar to Taulbee)
Faculty Departures • 7% attrition rate for tenure-track faculty • NDC faculty more likely to leave for non-academic position, while Taulbee faculty are more likely to leave for another academic position
Faculty Recruiting: 2011-2012 • About one opening for every two institutions • 83% (a total of 33 hires) were filled (vs 68% for Taulbeedepts); most at Asst Prof level, as expected • 30.3% of new hires were women (vs 22.4% in Taulbeedepts) • 3% of new hires from underrepresented ethnicities (vs 8.3% in Taulbeedepts)
Degree Requirements for Faculty • Doctoral • for hiring at senior rank • for hiring at assistant professor level at over 80% of departments • For promotion at almost every department (though some depts could promote someone with a Master’s degree into a senior rank even if they couldn’t hire directly into a senior rank) • Master’s • For full-time non-tenure-track positions
Faculty Salary Summary (from individual salary data) • Median 9-mo salaries of $76K for assistant, $89K for associate, $98K for full (lower than Taulbeedepts by over 17% at all ranks, and over 40% at full prof rank) • Higher medians at public institutions than at private institutions, and higher medians at institutions granting master’s degrees than at those that don’t grant master’s degrees
What went right? • Our team worked very well together • Good support from Market Vision in turning data around quickly and responding to our questions • Great cooperation from John Impagliazzo and Inroads to get the report included in the September issue • Received and accepted and invitation from Huffington Post to blog about the study and its results
What went not so right? • Response rate was disappointing • The format of data received from Market Vision made it difficult to analyze results • This issue has already been discussed with Market Vision
What’s Next for ACM-NDC? • Building participation • More personal contact • Better job of articulating benefits of the study • Additional analysis of data involving participants from previous year to obtain more accurate trends ACM-NDC Links • http://www.acm.org/education/acm-ndc-study • jprey@nsf.gov; timanovsky@hq.acm.org; jltims@bw.edu; zweben.1@osu.edu