november 2, 2013 acm education council meeting san francisco, ca
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ACM-NDC: A Survey of Non-Doctoral Granting Departments in Computing
Jane Prey, Yan Timanovsky, Jodi Tims, and Stuart ZwebenSteering Committee
November 2, 2013ACM Education Council Meeting
San Francisco, CA
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
Background
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)
Expected Benefits
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)
Methodology
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)
Institutional Summary
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
Summary of Data Requested
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 Programs by Discipline
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 Institution 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%
Bachelor’s Enrollment Change by Program Type
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
Comparative Enrollment Data
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 predict increases while IS appear stagnant and CE declining
Bachelor’s Degree Production
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 Recipients Gender
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%)
Bachelor’s Recipient Ethnicity(all results include US Residents only)
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 Overall Degrees and Enrollment
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%
Master’s Gender and Ethnicity
Average of 8.1 faculty (6.5 FTE) per dept (about ¼ the typical Taulbee dept)
Of these, average of 5 (4.9 FTE) are tenure-track (vs. 27.4 for Taulbee depts)
About 25% female vs 17.8% for Taulbee depts◦ Fraction of female faculty is higher than Taulbee
for all faculty ranks Over 80% white or Asian ethnicities (similar
to Taulbee)
Faculty Size
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 Departures
Faculty Recruiting: 2011-2012
About one opening for every two institutions
83% (a total of 33 hires) were filled (vs 68% for Taulbee depts); most at Asst Prof level, as expected
30.3% of new hires were women (vs 22.4% in Taulbee depts)
3% of new hires from underrepresented ethnicities (vs 8.3% in Taulbee depts)
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
Degree Requirements for Faculty
Median 9-mo salaries of $76K for assistant, $89K for associate, $98K for full (lower than Taulbee depts 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
Faculty Salary Summary (from individual salary data)
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 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 went not so right?
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
What’s Next for ACM-NDC?
ACM-NDC Links http://www.acm.org/education/acm-ndc-study [email protected]; [email protected];
Questions/Discussion