Moving Graduate Education & Research to the Next Level

Margo AndersonOctober 15, 2010

Outline of the Presentation

• Moving from…..

• Campus Context….

• Issues in Moving Forward….

Moving Forward: UWM Report (September 2010)….

“Major increases in the number of graduate programs, including Africology (Ph.D.), Freshwater Sciences (M.S., Ph.D.) Linguistics (M.A., Ph.D.), Nursing Practice (D.N.P.), Public Health (Ph.D.), Sociology (Ph.D.) and Women’s Studies (M.A.)

“UWM being ranked as No. 141, awarding 115 doctorates in 2007 (source: The Top American Research Universities 2009 Annual Report). In 2009-'10, there were 153 doctorates awarded, and thus our ranking is likely to improve.

“Record research expenditures for 2009-'10 (provisional)—$67,997,194”

A Longer View…..Masters and PhD Enrollment since 1970

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And Longer….Graduate and Undergraduate Enrollment over

Time

Historical Enrollment Trends: Fact Book

Historical Enrollment: Since 1990

Focusing in….

FRESHMENPHDMASTERS

Graduate Enrollment and New Freshman Enrollment

FRESHMENPHDMASTERS

Graduate Enrollment and New Freshman Enrollment – Log scale

Achieving Research II Status, 1994

Bumps in the Road….

• UWM’s enrollment decline in the 1990s reduced the size of the faculty from ca. 800 to 700

• PhD program development stopped for 17 years, from the late 1980s through 2003.

• Meanwhile Masters enrollment was stable and PhD enrollment grew.

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Faculty Size and PhD Enrollment, log scale

Meanwhile, at the Undergraduate Level….UWM Added Undergraduates

The Result…

• Doing More with Less and Strain on the Institution:– Too few faculty– Too few staff– Too little space– Too little support for graduate students….

• Framing the Issue Comparatively….

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Moving Forward…

• Acknowledge the resource issues• Analyze the most critical areas for

improvement• Develop a plan, both operational and

communications, to address the resource shortfalls.

• A New Master Plan?

Starting the Conversation…

Starting the Conversation…

• I have more thoughts, but let’s hear from you.– Does the analysis make

sense?– Does the approach make

sense?– What might be said in

addition or instead?

• Thank you.