IV. Teaching and Research Activities
Advising
Doctoral Students (Q 14)
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Looking more closely at the faculty’s advising role, 40% of respondents currently do not advise any doctoral students, 43% advise one to three students, 13% advise four to seven students, and 5% advise between 8 and 52 doctoral students. (See Table 16.) |
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Differences by School
At least 60% of faculty in the following schools advise no more than one doctoral student: Agriculture, Consumer and Family Sciences, Health Sciences, Libraries, Management, Technology, and Veterinary Medicine. At the other end of the spectrum, 40% of Education faculty, 33% of Engineering faculty, 24% of Science faculty, and 18% of Liberal Arts faculty advise at least 4 doctoral students. In fact, in Education 23% advise at least eight doctoral students.Differences by Rank
Assistant professors are less likely to advise doctoral students than are their more senior colleagues (52% do not advise doctoral students compared to 44% of associate professors and 29% of professors who do not do so).
Differences by Gender
Females are less likely than males to advise doctoral students (48% of females advise no doctoral students compared to 37% of males). The fact that two large schools with higher than average advising responsibilities (Engineering and Science) are at least 85% male and that female faculty are concentrated in the lower ranks where individuals are less likely to advise doctoral students probably accounts for most of this difference.
Differences by Race
Seventy-nine percent of Asian Americans advise doctoral students compared to 58% of Caucasians. This difference is largely explained by the fact that 59% of Asian Americans work in the Schools of Engineering and Science, compared to 26% of Caucasians. Again, faculty in these two large schools are among the most likely to advise relatively high numbers of doctoral students.
Underrepresented minorities are also more likely than Caucasians to advise doctoral students (70% vs. 58% advise at least one student). This is true even though they are far more likely than Caucasians to be assistant professors (50% vs. 24%), again a rank that generally does not advise as many doctoral students. Unlike Asian Americans, underrepresented minorities are distributed fairly evenly across the schools, so this does not help to explain the difference either.
Advising
Master’s Students (Q 14)
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Patterns of advising master’s students are similar to those for doctoral students. Overall, 45% of faculty do not advise any master’s students, 42% advise one to three students, 10% advise four to seven students, and 3% advise between 8 and 37 students. (See Table 17.) |
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Differences by School
At least 60% of faculty in the following schools currently advise no more than one master’s student: Agriculture, Consumer and Family Sciences, Health Sciences, Libraries, Management, Technology, Science, and Veterinary Medicine. Similar to doctoral student advising patterns, faculty in Education, Engineering, and Liberal Arts advise more master’s students on average than their colleagues in the other schools. Specifically, 49% of Engineering faculty and 41% of Liberal Arts faculty advise between 2 and 10 master’s students. Education is again the outlier: 88% advise at least two master’s students and fully 53% advise at least 6 master’s students.
Differences by Rank and Gender
Master’s student advising patterns do not differ significantly by rank or gender.
Differences by Race
A higher proportion of Asian Americans advise at least one master’s student compared to underrepresented minorities or Caucasians (68% vs. 35% and 55% respectively).
