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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?

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 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

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 COSWL survey  Directory of departments on website  Other options?

• Dependent on participation from others
• Financial resources for data analysis and searchable
• nline database

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SOURCE: NSF/NIH/ USED/NEH/USDA/ NASA, Survey of Earned Doctorates and Doctorate Records File.

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1 000 2 000 3 000 4 000 5 000 6 000 7 000

Lingusitics

SOURCE: NSF/NIH/ USED/USDA/NEH/ NASA, 2009 Survey of Earned Doctorates.

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50 100 150 200 250 300

Linguistics

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)”

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SOURCE: National Science Foundation, Division

• f Science Resources

Statistics, special tabulations of U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, Completions Survey, 2000–08.

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460 480 500 520 540 560 580 600 620 640

Linguistics

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics..

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200 400 600 800 1 000 1 200 1 400 1 600

Linguistics

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics.

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2,8% 8,9% All US Bachelors Degrees Linguistics Bachelors Degrees

5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 Linguistics All disciplines BA degrees per PhD BA&MA degrees per PhD SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics.

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SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics.

 .096%  ≈1 out of every 1000

degrees awarded nationally

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SOURCE: National Science Foundation, Division

• f Science Resources

Statistics, Survey of Graduate Students and Post-Doctorates in Science and Engineering, 2008.

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White Asian/Pacific Islander Hispanic American Indian/ Alaska Native Other/unknown Temporary resident

SOURCE: NSF/NIH/ USED/NEH/USDA/ NASA, Survey of Earned Doctorates and Doctorate Records File.

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Visa Asian Hispanic White Mixed Other

SOURCE: NSF/NIH/ USED/USDA/NEH/ NASA, 2009 Survey of Earned Doctorates.

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Male Female

SOURCE: National Science Foundation, Division

• f Science Resources

Statistics, special tabulations of U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, Completions Survey, 2000–08. 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 500

Linguistics

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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

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 Student enrollment (all levels)  Degrees earned (all levels)  Longitudinal trends over time  Average time to degree  Other?

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 Expanding data collection, analysis,

dissemination

 Participation by individuals and institutions  LSA resources

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