General Faculty
Meeting
Robert E. Palazzo
Acting Provost
April 4, 2007
Highest Priorities: Provost Office
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Faculty Development
Undergraduate Education
Graduate Program Development
Achieving Diversity
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Rensselaer Faculty Salary Trends
1999-2000 through 2005-2006 Professor
104,600
99,400
96,100
80,000
93,400
88,900
100,000
110,800
100%
106,200
120,000
90%
80%
70%
60%
60,000
50%
40%
40,000
24.60%
17.70%
20%
11.80%
20,000
30%
19.50%
8.10%
5.10%
10%
0
0%
1999-2000
2000-2001
2001-2002
Professor
2002-2003
2004-2005
2005-2006
Cumulative Change
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education. Figures compiled by the AAUP.
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2003-2004
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Rensselaer Faculty Salary Trends
1999-2000 through 2005-2006 Associate Professor
90%
50,000
72,400
67,700
61,300
60,000
65,700
70,000
82,000
80,000
77,800
100%
76,200
90,000
80%
70%
60%
50%
40,000
33.80%
30,000
24.30%
26.90%
40%
30%
18.10%
20,000
7.20%
10,000
20%
10.40%
10%
0
0%
1999-2000
2000-2001
2001-2002
2002-2003
Associate Professor
2003-2004
2005-2006
Cumulative Change
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education. Figures compiled by the AAUP.
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2004-2005
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Rensselaer Faculty Salary Trends
1999-2000 through 2005-2006 Assistant Professor
64,500
50,000
57,900
55,800
60,000
71,000
90%
69,000
70,000
69,400
100%
62,700
80,000
80%
70%
60%
40,000
50%
30,000
40%
24.40%
20,000
12.40%
10,000
27.20%
23.70%
15.60%
30%
20%
10%
3.80%
0
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1999-2000
2000-2001
2001-2002
2002-2003
Assistant Professor
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education. Figures compiled by the AAUP.
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2003-2004
2004-2005
2005-2006
Cumulative Change
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Rensselaer Faculty Salary Trends
Compared to Selected Peer Institutions
2005-2006 Professor
160,000
140,000
120,000
108,800
127,000
140,300
108,600
137,000
116,100
117,400
40,000
110,800
60,000
117,000
80,000
123,800
100,000
20,000
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education. Figures compiled by the AAUP.
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Rensselaer Faculty Salary Trends
Compared to Selected Peer Institutions
2005-2006 Associate Professor
120,000
100,000
78,400
87,300
94,100
74,900
96,600
84,500
89,100
78,600
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Source: Chronicle of Higher Education. Figures compiled by the AAUP.
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Rensselaer Faculty Salary Trends
Compared to Selected Peer Institutions
2005-2006 Assistant Professor
90,000
80,000
70,000
71,000
76,100
82,700
73,600
82,900
62,700
80,500
30,000
66,000
40,000
71,000
50,000
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Rensselaer Faculty Salary Trends
Compared to Private, Independent Doctoral Institutions
2005-2006
140,000
6.0%
5.4%
120,000
4.3%
4.0%
71,000
84,419
2.9%
3.0%
3.0%
71,877
3.5%
82,000
40,000
110,800
80,000
60,000
4.4%
131,292
100,000
5.0%
2.0%
20,000
1.0%
0
0.0%
Professor
Associate Professor
Rensselaer
RPI-1 Year Change
Private Doctoral Institutions
Doctoral 1 Year Change
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education. Figures compiled by the AAUP.
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Assistant Professor
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Rensselaer Faculty Salary Trends
Female Faculty Salaries as a Percentage of Male Faculty Salaries
Rensselaer vs. Peer and Aspirant Institutions by Rank
100%
95%
93%
92%
93%
92%
91%
88%
90%
Percentage
85%
80%
Rensselaer
Peer and Aspirant Institutions
75%
70%
Source : Most currently compiled
IPEDS Data - November 1, 2005 Winter Collection
65%
60%
55%
50%
Professor
Associate Professor
Assistant Professor
Rank
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Rensselaer Faculty Salary Trends
Rensselaer Female Faculty Salaries as a Percentage of Male Faculty Salaries by Rank
100%
96%
95%
92%
91%
89%
90%
93%
91%
88%
92%
93%
94%
92%
88%
86%
84%
85%
Percentage
80%
80%
Professor
Associate Professor
Assistant Professor
75%
70%
65%
60%
55%
50%
02-03
03-04
04-05
05-06
06-07
Academic Year
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FY06 Research Expenditures
Millions
$80
$70
$60
Gen*NY*sis
Other
State
Corporate
Federal
$50
$40
$30
$20
$10
$0
FY00
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FY01
FY02
FY03
FY04
General Faculty Meeting
FY05
FY06
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FY06 Indirect Cost Returns
Millions
$14
$12
$10
Other
State
Corporate
Federal
$8
$6
$4
$2
$0
FY00
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FY01
FY02
FY03
FY04
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FY05
FY06
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FY06 Research Expenditure Distribution
20% of the faculty produce 75% of research expenditures
74 faculty (20%)
$45.978MM (75%)
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298 faculty (80%)
$15.00MM (25%)
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Faculty Research Expenditure Profile
Research
Expenditure ($K)
0
FY 2001
FY 2002
FY 2003
FY 2004
FY 2005
FY 2006
162
177
169
163
164
173
<50,000
56
53
63
46
44
51
50,000 - 99,999
49
50
50
48
36
28
100,000 - 199,999
51
53
57
50
52
56
200,000 - 499,999
64
46
52
67
75
58
500,000 - 1,000,000
6
19
16
25
22
28
>1,000,000
5
10
6
17
8
5
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Expand the Research Enterprise
GOAL: Aggressively Recruit Faculty
“To maintain stature as a world-class university, Rensselaer must fill a
number of vacant leadership positions and recruit more tenured
and tenure-track faculty.”
Actions:
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Develop 3 year recruitment plans for each school
• Priorities
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Constellations
Enhancement of Signature Thrusts
Recruitment of women and minorities
Optimize use of endowment funds
Focus on maintaining academic programs
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Rensselaer Tenure/Tenure Track Faculty Hires
50
45
40
35
30
25
46
42
20
15
10
25
27
23
20
22
FY04
FY05
18
5
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FY01
FY02
FY03
T/TT Hires
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FY06
FY07
FY08*
*projected
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Rensselaer Tenure/Tenure Track & Constellation Faculty
450
400
350
16
18
33
16
29
14
33
19
19
37
37
356
368
373
368
368
FY03
FY04
FY05
FY06
FY07
17
27
8
22
300
250
200
150
332
333
FY01
FY02
394
100
50
0
Filled T/TT
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Vacant T/TT
Vacant Constellations
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FY08*
*projected
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Expand the Research Enterprise
Goal: Improve faculty development
“Faculty mentoring plans must be developed by all schools for each
department and those involved in mentoring must be
acknowledged, rewarded, and valued.”
Actions:
– Deans to develop mentoring plans
• Work through departments
– Recognize and reward mentoring as a service
– Encourage sabbatical leaves as part of mentoring
plans for faculty development
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New Faculty Productivity – Total Expenditures FY2000-2006
25,000,000
22/2002
Total Research Expenditure ($K)
No. of faculty w/research, Year hired
20,000,000
19/2000
15,000,000
13/2001
13/2003
10,000,000
8/2004
5,000,000
7/2005
2/2006
0
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Expand the Research Enterprise
Goal: Retaining the best faculty
“Rensselaer will be challenged to retain their best and brightest.”
Actions:
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Provide the best intellectual environment
Provide the best infrastructure
• Consider Core infrastructure platform needs
Work with HR through “the employer of choice” initiatives
• maintain current <4% turnover
• monitor salaries, benefits, personal rewards annually
• compare to peer and aspirant institutions
Educate Department Heads on strategies
• Establish protocols and response tactics
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Expand the Research Enterprise
Goal: Improve Faculty Evaluation
Actions:
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Review performance analysis methods for each
school
• Assure meeting annual expectations
– Allow “formal” mechanism to shift faculty
responsibilities as a function of career change
• From research to teaching expectations upon
loss of research
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Review loading annually
Include evaluation of space to assure optimal use
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Expand the Research Enterprise
Goal: Improve impact of sabbatical leaves
“Appropriate use of sabbatical leave is a key component of faculty development.”
Actions:
– Review sabbatical leave policies
– Strengthen expectations for sabbatical outcomes
• Presentation on campus
• Publications, new proposals, displayed works
• Tie expectations to merit evaluations
– Encourage sabbatical leave soon after promotion
– Include sabbatical leave as part of the mentoring
plan for faculty
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Undergraduate Education
Goal: Strengthen undergraduate programs
“Recruitment of undergraduate students will require strong cooperation between
all academic units and the VP-Enrollment.”
Actions:
– Focus on Recruitment and Yield
• Academic partnering with VP-enrollment
• Seek to balance distribution of enrollment
across schools and departments
– Engage Department Heads in recruitment
process
• Assure optimal yield of accepted students per
department annually
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute – Number of Freshman Applications
Fall 2000 through Fall 2007*
12,000
10,134
10,000
8,000
6,875
6,000
5,479
5,542
5,480
2000
2001
2002
5,252
5,406
5,574
2003
2004
2005
4,000
2,000
0
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2007
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Freshman Applications for Selected Peer/Aspirant Institutions
Fall 2006 entering cohort (source: IPEDS)
30,000
28,098
25,000
20,000
18,864
15,000
11,374
12,245
10,134
10,000
6,875
5,000
0
Rensselaer
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Carnegie
MIT
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Enhance Education
Goal: Improve student recognition in national
award competitions
“A hallmark of a leading university is the success of its undergraduates in
leadership competitions…”
Actions:
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With VP-Student Life and the VP-Enrollment determine best practices
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recruitment, development, preparing applications, and preparation for
final phases of competitions
Design a mentoring program
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Early identification of candidates in the freshman and sophomore year
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Groom through to final competitions
Establish target list of competitions
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Inform students during freshman year to bring talent forward
Organize annual workshops
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Inform students of opportunities
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Engage past award and scholarship winners
Continue current success in Goldwater competitions
Expand goals to other competitions including Rhodes, Marshal, Truman,
other…
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Enhance Education
Goal: Enhance the quality and number of Ph.D. graduate
students
“Achievement of the goals of the Rensselaer plan will require an increase in the quality and
number of graduate students.”
Graduate Students 1228 (11/06)
75% Ph.D. (goal 80%)
530 Institutional support
381 External support
Actions:
– Focus on domestic recruitment
• Identify faculty leaders
• Prepare competitive graduate training grants
• Work with VP-enrollment to improve recruitment
process
• Identify funds to bring all accepted students to campus
(100K this year)
• Engage graduate students in recruiting
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Achieve Diversity
Goal: Achieve Diversity-Faculty
“Rensselaer must establish a culture that values diversity to not only reflect the
society which it serves but to also remain competitive in the future.”
Actions:
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Establish Monthly Provost-Women Faculty Meeting
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Define issues
Establish Monthly Provost-Minority Faculty Meeting
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Define Issues
Consider a Center for Women Studies
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Assist in recruitment and career development of faculty,
graduate students, and undergraduate students.
Hold meetings of national experts on diversity to raise awareness
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RAMP-UP
Recruit women or minorities into Constellations
Recruit women and minorities into administrative posts
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Department Heads and other
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Achieve Diversity
Goal: Achieve Diversity-Students
“Rensselaer must establish a culture that values diversity to not only reflect the
society which it serves but to also remain competitive in the future.”
Actions:
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Continue Howard Hughes Undergraduate Minority Scholars
Program
• Develop pipelines for diverse graduate student
recruitment
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Use program template to develop other programs
Identify faculty leaders to develop additional programs
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HBCUs, Puerto Rico, and other universities
submit proposals to federal agencies for sustainability
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Discussion!
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