PRESIDENT’S REPORT TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES July 22, 2016 Slide 1 of Productivity – President’s Report to the Board of Trustees ~ Measures Slide 2 Member of AAU Since 1958 – The Association of American Universities (AAU) represents 62 leading research universities distinguished by the breadth and quality of their research and graduate education programs. Membership is very selective, drawing from 2,300+ colleges and universities in US and Canada. AAU universities award nearly half of all US doctoral degrees; 55% of those are in science and engineering. Slide 3 Ranking of AAU Public Universities – Slide 3 represents the US News and World Report ranking of overall quality of 34 public universities. Penn State University is tied with the University of Florida at 13 or 14. The right side of the slide are the faculty resource rankings, the degree of investment that a university is capable of making in its educational programs and its faculty enterprise. We are in the top 50 in terms of quality for all universities. Slide 4 2016 US News and World Report College Rankings – This slide shows Penn overall rank of 47 plotted against our US News State’s faculty resource ranking of 102 along with the rankings of the other top 50 ranked public and private institutions. US News Our overall rank of 47 shows we are getting the most out of our resources – ranking 102. The next four slides illustrate some of the components that comprise the US News faculty resource rank. Slide 5 2015-16 Average Faculty Salary by Rank AAU Publics – One of the other factors that feeds into the faculty resource rank is faculty compensation. Keep in mind that compares us to the privates who have US News vastly different financial resources than most publics i.e. large endowments. – When we look at faculty compensation in relation to the AAU publics you can see again that we are putting our resources into supporting our faculty - in fact if you remove the California schools keeping in mind their high cost of living, you will
PRESIDENT’S REPORT TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES July 22, 2016 Slide 1 – President’s Report to the Board of Trustees ~ Measures of Productivity Slide 2 – Member of AAU Since 1958 The Association of American Universities (AAU) represents 62 leading research universities distinguished by the breadth and quality of their research and graduate education programs. Membership is very selective, drawing from 2,300+ colleges and universities in US and Canada. AAU universities award nearly half of all US doctoral degrees; 55% of those are in science and engineering. Slide 3 – Ranking of AAU Public Universities Slide 3 represents the US News and World Report ranking of overall quality of 34 public universities. Penn State University is tied with the University of Florida at 13 or 14. The right side of the slide are the faculty resource rankings, the degree of investment that a university is capable of making in its educational programs and its faculty enterprise. We are in the top 50 in terms of quality for all universities. Slide 4 – 2016 US News and World Report College Rankings This slide shows Penn State’s overall US News rank of 47 plotted against our faculty resource ranking of 102 along with the rankings of the other top 50 ranked US News public and private institutions. Our overall rank of 47 shows we are getting the most out of our resources – ranking 102. The next four slides illustrate some of the components that comprise the US News faculty resource rank. Slide 5 – 2015-16 Average Faculty Salary by Rank AAU Publics One of the other factors that feeds into the faculty resource rank is faculty compensation. Keep in mind that US News compares us to the privates who have vastly different financial resources than most publics – i.e. large endowments. When we look at faculty compensation in relation to the AAU publics you can see again that we are putting our resources into supporting our faculty - in fact if you remove the California schools keeping in mind their high cost of living, you will
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