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Programs in Higher Education Alyson Reed Director, Linguistic Society of America Roundtable Discussion LSA Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Jan 6-9, 2011

 The status of Linguistics in Higher Education ◦ What do we know? ◦ What would we like to know? January 2011 LSA Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh 2

 National Science Foundation ◦ Survey of Doctoral Recipients (longitudinal) ◦ Survey of Earned Doctorates ◦ S&E Indicators; miscellaneous other sources  Department of Education ◦ Faculty survey: “other social sciences”  Humanities Indicators/American Academy of Arts & Sciences ◦ Departmental survey January 2011 LSA Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh 3

 COSWL survey  Directory of departments on website  Other options? ◦ Dependent on participation from others ◦ Financial resources for data analysis and searchable online database January 2011 LSA Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh 4

7 000 SOURCE: NSF/NIH/ USED/NEH/USDA/ 6 000 NASA, Survey of Earned Doctorates 5 000 and Doctorate Records File. 4 000 3 000 Lingusitics 2 000 1 000 0 January 2011 LSA Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh 5

300 SOURCE: NSF/NIH/ USED/USDA/NEH/ NASA, 2009 Survey of 250 Earned Doctorates. 200 150 Linguistics 100 50 0 January 2011 LSA Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh 6

SOURCE: SESTAT Table Output for Survey of Doctorate Recipients, SDR 2006 The result flat table for WEIGHTED data shows the COUNT for each (Row 1) – ”U_DEM_GENDER- Gender” (Row 2) – “E_JOB_EMPLR_SECT OR_CD_SUMRY – Employer sector (summary codes)” January 2011 LSA Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh 7

640 SOURCE: National Science 620 Foundation, Division of Science Resources 600 Statistics, special 580 tabulations of U.S. Department of 560 Education, National Center for Education 540 Linguistics Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary 520 Education Data 500 System, Completions Survey, 2000–08. 480 460 January 2011 LSA Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh 8

1 600 SOURCE: U.S. Department of 1 400 Education, National Center for Education 1 200 Statistics.. 1 000 800 Linguistics 600 400 200 0 January 2011 LSA Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh 9

SOURCE: U.S. Department of 8,9% Education, National Center for Education Statistics. 2,8% All US Bachelors Linguistics Bachelors Degrees Degrees January 2011 LSA Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh 10

SOURCE: 40 U.S. Department of Education, National 35 Center for Education Statistics. 30 BA degrees per PhD 25 BA&MA 20 degrees per PhD 15 10 5 0 Linguistics All disciplines January 2011 LSA Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh 11

SOURCE: U.S. Department of  .096% Education, National Center for Education  ≈ 1 out of every 1000 Statistics. degrees awarded nationally January 2011 LSA Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh 12

White SOURCE: National Science Foundation, Division of Science Resources Asian/Pacific Statistics, Survey of Islander Graduate Students and Post-Doctorates Hispanic in Science and Engineering, 2008. American Indian/ Alaska Native Other/unknown Temporary resident January 2011 LSA Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh 13

SOURCE: NSF/NIH/ USED/NEH/USDA/ NASA, Survey of Earned Doctorates and Doctorate Records File. Visa Asian Hispanic White Mixed Other January 2011 LSA Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh 14

SOURCE: NSF/NIH/ USED/USDA/NEH/ NASA, 2009 Survey of Earned Doctorates. Male Female January 2011 LSA Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh 15

500 SOURCE: National Science 450 Foundation, Division 400 of Science Resources Statistics, special 350 tabulations of U.S. 300 Department of Education, National 250 Center for Education Linguistics 200 Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary 150 Education Data 100 System, Completions Survey, 2000–08. 50 0 January 2011 LSA Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh 16

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 Faculty data ◦ Tenured, tenure track, adjunct, etc. ◦ Departmental affiliations (other than linguistics) ◦ Institutional affiliations ◦ Demographics (race/ethnicity, gender, etc.)  Career data ◦ Outcomes for those with linguistics degrees  PhD, Masters, Bachelors January 2011 LSA Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh 18

 Student enrollment (all levels)  Degrees earned (all levels)  Longitudinal trends over time  Average time to degree  Other? January 2011 LSA Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh 19

 Expanding data collection, analysis, dissemination  Participation by individuals and institutions  LSA resources January 2011 LSA Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh 20