LISA
LISA budget
January 2013
LISA receives ~$240,000 in funding per year from several sources:
• OVPR: $65,000
• COS: $60,000
• Provost: $30,000
• Graduate School: 3 Tuition remissions ~$25,000
• CALS, CAUS, PCOB, COE, CLAHS, CNRE: $10,000 each = $60,000 in total
Original (2007) budget for LISA was $240,000:
• CY salary for Director of LISA: $85,000
• 3 CY stipends for LISA Lead Collaborators: $60,000
• CY salary for Assistant Director of LISA: $50,000
• Tuition for 3 LISA Lead Collaborators: $25,000
• Computer supplies, software, travel, etc.: $12,000
• LISA Secretary & Administrative Support position: $8,000.
LISA spends $280,535.67 per year *:
• AY salary for Director of LISA: $86,700
• CY stipends for 3 LISA Lead Collaborators: $68,050.88
• Partial (66.67%) CY salary for Assistant Director of LISA: $55,762.79
• Partial (80%) CY salary for LISA Administrative Specialist: $25,704
• Tuition for 3 LISA Lead Collaborators: ~$25,000
• Computer supplies, software, travel, etc.: $12,500
• One-time salary bonus: $6818 ($5045 [faculty and staff] +$1771 [graduate students]).
* In 2012 LISA actually spent $268,684:
• 47.5% of the CY salary for Assistant Director of LISA is supported by funded projects.
• This resulted in a savings of $11,852.
Under its current model, LISA needs increased funding to support:
• 3 additional LISA Lead Collaborators to adequately support increased (since 2007) demand for
LISA services
• Administration and customer service (an increase from the $8000 originally budgeted for the
LISA Secretary & Administrative Support position)
• Faculty, staff, and student raises
• Increased costs for computer supplies, software, travel, etc.
LISA should grow from its current model to serve the following unmet and projected needs:
• Latent demand for statistical analysis uncovered by more advertising and publicity of LISA
• Statistical support for researchers outside of Blacksburg, especially in NoVA
• Statistical support for researchers at VTCRI, VTCSOM, VBI, VCOM, and new partners
• LISA faculty coordinator for service teaching
• Increased number of students connecting basic research questions to applied solutions
• Leadership as a model statistical collaboration laboratory for universities around the world
LISA is the Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Statistical Analysis at Virginia Tech. It was originally founded in 1948 and then reorganized
and renamed in 2008. The mission of LISA is to train statisticians to become interdisciplinary collaborators and promote the value of
statistical thinking in all phases of scientific research by helping researchers design experiments; collect, analyze, and plot data; run
statistical software; interpret results; and communicate statistical concepts to non-statisticians.
www.lisa.stat.vt.edu
LISA
Numbers of LISA clients per college
January 24, 2013
Total number of LISA Clients by college for AYs 2005−12:
Collaboration + Walk−in + Short Courses
300
(145)
(621)
(808)
(950)
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COE 309
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250
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CALS 247
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LISA clients per college per year
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05−06
06−07
07−08
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CNRE 155
Other 143
COS 137
CLAHS 133
CAUS 73
PCOB 45
CVM 25
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08−09
09−10
10−11
11−12
Academic Year
LISA is the Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Statistical Analysis at Virginia Tech. It was originally founded in 1948 and then reorganized
and renamed in 2008. The mission of LISA is to train statisticians to become interdisciplinary collaborators and promote the value of
statistical thinking in all phases of scientific research by helping researchers design experiments, collect, analyze and plot data, run
statistical software, interpret results, and communicate statistical concepts to non-statisticians.
www.lisa.stat.vt.edu