What is Happening with Anthropology What is Happening with Anthropology? Recent Trends Regarding Faculty, Enrollment, Degrees Granted and Departments Kathleen Terry-Sharp Director, Academic Relations and Practicing and Applied Programs November 19, 2011

What Do We Want to Know? What is happening with faculty? What is happening with jobs? What is happening with enrollments? What is happening with degrees granted? What is happening to departments in general? May 20, 2011

How has the current economic crisis impacted higher education and anthropology, specifically? Everyone has heard the rumors Faculty furloughs Salary freezes Cancelled searches Frozen positions Less graduate/teaching assistant support No jobs Programs consolidating or closing May 20, 2011

What is happening with Faculty? May 20, 2011

AAUP Data is based on data from the Integrated Postsecondary Educational Data System (IPEDS) Data is collected each academic year Over 6,700 postsecondary institutions participate College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR) Data 812 institutions participate and provide data on 214,155 faculty members Data is collected each academic year BOTH use the Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) published by the US Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) May 20, 2011

What can CUPA data tell us? Salary trends for all faculty over the past 4 years Social Science compared to other areas of study Anthropology compared to other disciplines However, it cannot give us information about gender or ethnicity differences Fee for access to the summary reports and data May 20, 2011

Percent Distribution of Survey Respondents by Affiliation CUPA 2010-11 Survey Public 39% Private Religious 33% Independent 28% Source: CUPA 2010-11 May 20, 2011

Distribution of 2010-11 Survey Respondents by Highest Degree Granted and Public/Private Doctoral Masters Bachelors Public 97 165 47 Private 53 198 189 50 100 150 200 250 Number of Respondents Source: CUPA 2010-11 May 20, 2011s

Percent Increase in Overall Average Salary by Public/Private 2010-11 Source: CUPA 2010-11 May 20, 2011

Percent Increase in Salary by Highest Degree Granted 2006-07 to 2010-11 Source: CUPA 2010-11 May 20, 2011

Percent Increase in Salary by Rank 2006-07 to 2010-11 Source: CUPA 2010-11 May 20, 2011

Source: CUPA 2010-11 May 20, 2011

Faculty Salaries by Rank and Area of Study (CIP 2-digits) 2010-11 Source: CUPA 2010-11 May 20, 2011

Source: CUPA 2010-11 May 20, 2011

Source: CUPA 2010-11 May 20, 2011

Source: CUPA 2010-11 May 20, 2011

Source: CUPA 2010-11 May 20, 2011

Average Anthropology Faculty Salaries Public/Private for 2010-11 Source: CUPA 2010-11 May 20, 2011

What is happening in the job market? May 20, 2011

Changes in Number of Job Ads Since 2008 By Discipline 0% - 20% 34% 48% 50% 57% 19% 15% 60% 40% 30% 10% 2009 2010 May 20, 2011

Note: AY 10/11 data only thru April May 20, 2011

Note: AY 10/11 data only thru April May 20, 2011

NUMBER OF AAA JOB ADS AND REVENUE AY 04/05 AY 10/11 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 $0 $50,000 $100,000 $150,000 $200,000 $250,000 $300,000 $350,000 2004 - 05 2005 06 2006 07 2007 08 2008 09 2009 10 2010 11 NUMBER OF AAA JOB ADS AND REVENUE AY 04/05 AY 10/11 Revenue Generated Number of Ads Placed Number Ads Revenue Note: AY 10/11 data only thru April May 20, 2011

AAA Job Ads by Subfield AY 04-05 to AY 10-11 Note: AY 10/11 data only thru April

Note: AY 10/11 data only thru April May 20, 2011

What is happening with enrollments? May 20, 2011

Undergraduate Enrollment Trends by Institution Type for 2009-11 (%) Source: AAA Survey Spring 2011 May 20, 2011

Undergraduate Enrollment Trends by Public/Private for 2009-11 (%) Source: AAA Survey Spring 2011 May 20, 2011

Graduate Enrollment Trends by Institution Type for 2009-11 (%) GRADUATE ENROLLMENT TRENDS by TYPE   4 Year Research 4 Year Total % Increase 46.9 50.0 Decrease 9.4 10.2 No Change 31.3 0.0 30.7 No Answer 12.5 12.2 TOTAL % 98 2 100 Source: AAA Survey Spring 2011 May 20, 2011

Graduate Enrollment Trends by Public/Private for 2009-11 (%) Source: AAA Survey Spring 2011 May 20, 2011

Percent Graduate Enrollment Trends by Highest Degree Granted for 2009-11 Source: AAA Survey Spring 2011 May 20, 2011

What is happening with Degrees Granted? May 20, 2011

Source: IPEDS May 20, 2011

Source: IPEDS May 20, 2011

Source: IPEDS May 20, 2011

Source: IPEDS May 20, 2011

Anthropology and Archeology Graduates for All Degrees by CIP- 6-digit 2003-09 Source: IPEDS May 20, 2011

Source: IPEDS May 20, 2011

Source: IPEDS May 20, 2011

Source: IPEDS May 20, 2011

Number of Bachelors Degrees Granted Compared by Discipline 2003-09 5,000 10,000 15,000 20,000 25,000 30,000 35,000 40,000 45,000 50,000 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 Anthropology & Archeology Criminology Economics Geography and Cartography International Relations and Affairs Political Science and Government Sociology Source: IPEDS May 20, 2011

Number of Masters Degrees Granted Compared by Discipline 2003-2009 500 1,000 1,500 2,000 2,500 3,000 3,500 4,000 4,500 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 Anthropology & Archeology Criminology Economics Geography and Cartography International Relations and Affairs Political Science and Government Social Sciences, Other Sociology Source: IPEDS May 20, 2011

Number of Doctoral Degrees Granted Compared by Discipline 2003 -2009 200 400 600 800 1,000 1,200 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 Anthropology & Archeology Criminology Economics Geography and Cartography International Relations and Affairs Political Science and Government Sociology Source: IPEDS May 20, 2011

What is happening with Departments? May 20, 2011

State Budget Cuts in 2011 At least 43 states have implemented cuts to public colleges and universities and/or made large increases in college tuition to make up for insufficient state funding. Tuition hikes ranging from 8% to 32% Furloughs Layoffs Academic reorganization Position eliminations Hiring fewer tenure-eligible faculty Higher teaching loads Source: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities http://www.cbpp.org May 20, 2011

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Which Programs are Threatened? A brief email survey was sent to approximately 512 departments in Spring 2011 219 departments responded (43% response rate) We asked the following questions: Has your department/program lost or gained faculty in the past 2 years?  If so, by how many? Has your department/program experienced an increase or decrease in undergraduate and/or graduate enrollment?  If yes, please indicate the trend(s) you are experiencing. Has your department/program been notified by your administration that it is in danger of being terminated, downsized or combined with another department?  If so, please tell us what you expect to happen. Are you aware of any other anthropology programs at other institutions that are being threatened or endangered?  If so, please identify them for us. May 20, 2011

Level of Threat by Institution Type (%) Source: AAA Survey Spring 2011 May 20, 2011

Level of Threat by Public/Private (%) Source: AAA Survey Spring 2011 May 20, 2011

Level of Threat by Highest Degree Granted (%) Doctoral Masters Bachelors Associates Total % Strong 13.2 18.8 16.8 0.0 15.5 Not Threatened 72.7 59.4 65.5 75.0 67.1 Maybe 12.1 11.5 25.0 1.5 5.3 3.2 No Answer 3.1 0.9 1 TOTAL % 30.1 14.6 51.6 3.7 100 Source: AAA Survey Spring 2011 May 20, 2011

Undergraduate Enrollment Trends by Level of Threat (%) Source: AAA Survey Spring 2011 May 20, 2011

Graduate Enrollment by Level of Threat (%)   Strong Not Threatened Maybe Threatened Threatened Total % Increase 66.7 41.8 57.1 0.0 46.9 Decrease 6.7 10.5 7.2 100.0 10.2 No Change 19.9 35.8 21.4 30.7 No Answer 11.9 14.3 12.2 TOTAL % 100 Source: AAA Survey Spring 2011 May 20, 2011

Average Faculty Gains and Losses by Institution Type Source: AAA Survey Spring 2011 May 20, 2011

Average Faculty Gains and Losses by Public/Private Status Source: AAA Survey Spring 2011 May 20, 2011

Average Faculty Gains and Losses by Highest Degree Granted Source: AAA Survey Spring 2011 May 20, 2011

Faculty Gains and Losses by Reported Level of Threat MEAN MIN MAX Strong 34 0.68 -2 4 Not Threatened 147 0.69 -5 5 Maybe 29 -0.31 -3 2 7 -1.71 No Answer -1.33 -1 All 219 0.46 Source: AAA Survey Spring 2011 May 20, 2011

Which Programs Do We KNOW Have Been Impacted? Howard University-terminated Florida State University-terminated Radford University-terminated South East Missouri State -combined with languages but still a major St. John Fisher College- becoming a minor St. Mary’s Notre Dame- becoming a minor Virginia Commonwealth- slowly dying with one faculty member remaining Peace College- now a minor American University- PhD “on notice” May 20, 2011

Concerns Raised in Verbatim Responses Cuts in graduate assistantship funding is limiting enrollments Stimulus money drying up Majors being converted to minors Concern about what will happen with upcoming retirements “Nothing explicit, but it’s always in the air due to the small size of the dept.” May 20, 2011

What Makes a Strong Program? Highly Visible Publication, Grants, Service, Faculty in Leadership Positions Working Across Disciplines Entrepreneurial Open to Trying New Things Attracting, Retaining and Graduating Students Applied Programs = Jobs for Students May 20, 2011

New Programs Being Launched University of Maine-PhD launching University of Louisville- Masters Launching University of North Carolina-Charlotte-Masters launching George Washington University-Masters launching Georgia State University –PhD being developed John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY –Masters is being developed May 20, 2011