Research and Graduate Education at UMass Boston: A Status ReportZong-Guo Xia

Vice Provost for Research/Dean of Graduate StudiesUniversity of Massachusetts Boston

Presented to the UMass Boston Retired Faculty Council, November 16, 2012, The Chancellor’s Conference Room, Quinn Administration Building, Third Floor, The University of Massachusetts Boston

EARLY DAYS OF GRADUATE EDUCATIONIN THE UNITED STATES

Yale awarded the first Ph.D. in the United States in 1861.

Cornell awarded an M.S. degree in civil engineering in 1870 to Henry Turner Eddy, who also became Cornell's first Ph.D. in 1872. At that time there were fewer than two hundred graduate students in the United States.

The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) of Harvard University began in 1872 when Harvard’s Governing Boards created the Graduate Department. William Ellwood Byerly took the first Harvard PhD in mathematics in 1873.

Columbia followed in 1875; Michigan, in 1876.

The establishment of the Johns Hopkins University in 1876 is generally considered as the beginning of graduate education in the United States (Bernard Berelson, 1960 Graduate Education in the United States: McGraw-Hill, New York).

The Letter of Invitation to the Founding Conference of AAU

In January 1900, five university presidents from around the United States sent a letter to nine of their colleagues inviting them to a meeting in Chicago to discuss issues of common concern.

Weighing on their minds were three things: that the lack of consistency and standards in American higher education was hurting the reputations of the stronger institutions, that U.S. students were going to Europe to earn graduate degrees rather than staying home to attend U.S. institutions, and that European universities had little respect for U.S. academic degrees and, in some cases, were "dumbing down" graduate programs for American students.

Out of the resulting meeting that occurred at the University of Chicago on February 27-28, 1900, came creation of the Association of American Universities (AAU).

http://www.aau.edu/about/history_centennial.aspx Charles W. Eliot (Harvard University)Seth Low (Columbia University)Daniel C. Gilman (Johns Hopkins University)William R. Harper (The University of Chicago)Benjamin Ide Wheeler (University of California)

“The Association of American Universities is an association of leading comprehensive research universities distinguished by the breadth and quality of their programs of research and graduate education.”

Vice Provost for Research & Strategic Initiatives

IMPORTANT MILESTONES FOR UMASS BOSTON

1852: Girls’ High School→1922: Teachers College of the City of Boston→1968: Boston State College1964: The University of Massachusetts Boston Established1982: Boston State College joined the University of Massachusetts Boston1973: First Master of Arts Degrees in English and Mathematics Awarded by UMass Boston 1982: First Doctoral Program in Environmental Science Started1988: First Doctoral Degree Awarded2000: Classified as a Doctoral/Research Intensive Institution by the Carnegie Foundation2010: Classified as a Research University with High Research Activity by the Carnegie Foundation

WHERE ARE WE TODAY?16 Doctoral Programs [442 (11.41%) Students in Fall 2011; 49 Doctoral Degrees Awarded in 2009-2010]40 Master’s Programs [2,629 (67.85%) Students in Fall 2011; 946 Master’s Degrees Awarded in 2009-2010]31 Graduate Certificate Programs [254 (6.55%) Students in Fall 2011; 222 Graduate Certificates Awarded in 2009-2010]Non-Degrees [550 (14.19%) Non-Degree Students in Fall 2011]

Education (MEd) 444Business Administration (MBA) 335Applied Linguistics (MA) 211Nursing (MS) 140Accounting (MS) 128Instructional Design (MEd) 109English (MA) 106Gerontology (MS) 101Vision Studies (MEd) 101

Education (EdD) 117Clinical Psychology (PhD) 57Public Policy (PhD) 48Gerontology (PhD) 44Biology (PhD) 41Nursing (PhD) 34Nursing Practice (DNP) 31Computer Science (PhD) 25Environmental Sciences (PhD) 22Chemistry (PhD) 20Marine Science & Tech (PhD) 4BioMed Engineer & Biotch (PhD) 2

Fall 2011 Enrollment in Doctoral Programs

Most Popular Master’s Programs

Number of Undergraduate Students = 11,866 (75.38%)Number of Graduate Students = 3,875 (24.62%)Total Number of Students = 15,741

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New Doctoral Programs in Fall 2012

Business Administration (Organizations and Social Change Track) PhDCounseling and School Psychology (2 tracks), PhDDevelopmental & Brain Sciences, PhDGlobal Governance and Human Security, PhD

New Doctoral Programs Expected in Fall 2013

Applied Linguistics, PhDExercise and Health Sciences, PhDSociology, PhD

New Doctoral Programs in Fall 2014

Business Administration (Finance Track)

New Doctoral Programs in Fall 2016

Business Administration (Management Information Systems Track)

11 Others in Various Stages of Development

Vice Provost for Research & Strategic Initiatives

Fiscal Year Total Awards Annual Growth Rate

1989 $7,429,490

1990 $8,788,554 18.29%

1991 $10,459,803 19.02%

1992 $11,326,332 8.28%

1993 $12,192,011 7.64%

1994 $13,437,299 10.21%

1995 $14,200,000 5.68%

1996 $15,692,488 10.51%

1997 $16,219,524 3.36%

1998 $16,239,741 0.12%

1999 $17,195,507 5.89%

2000 $17,936,315 4.31%

2001 $19,768,604 10.22%

2002 $27,732,728 40.29%

2003 $30,587,220 10.29%

2004 $34,408,890 12.49%

2005 $35,555,767 3.33%

2006 $38,707,479 8.86%

2007 $41,773,564 7.92%

2008 $45,435,688 8.77%

2009 $42,226,973 -7.06%

2010 $49,678,527 17.67%

2011 $53,637,187 7.97%

Growth of External Funding at UMass Boston from FY 1989 to FY 2011

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FY 2011-2012: $ 56,370,425 (5.1% )

FY 2010 RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT EXPENDITURES

Total R&D: $61.235 billion

Total S&E: $58.338 billion (95.269%) Total non-S&E: $2.897 billion (4.731%)

UMASS BOSTON RANKINGS:

All R&D Expenditures: 181 All Federal R&D Expenditures: 205

Education: 16 Psychology: 41non-S&E Fields: 45 Social Sciences: 53 Environmental Sciences: 112 Computer Sciences: 116 Life Sciences (Biology, Nursing, …): 208 Chemistry: 248 Physics: 276 Engineering: 325Mathematical Sciences: 389

Institution National RankingsFY 2010 R&D Expenditures in

Education (Dollars in Thousands)

University of South Florida 1 28,603

University of Wisconsin – Madison 2 28,025

Stanford University 3 26,629

OH State University 4 23,472

University of California, Los Angeles 5 23,309

University of Texas at Austin 6 19,398

Vanderbilt University 7 18,979

Brown University 8 18,165

University of California, Berkeley 9 17,295

Harvard University 10 16,367

University of Michigan - Ann Arbor 11 15,908

New York University 12 15,821

Michigan State University 13 15,662

Texas A&M University 14 15,205

Virginia Commonwealth University 15 15,146

University of Massachusetts Boston 16 14,607

PRIDE OF UMASS BOSTON(Programs)

Established the 2nd Ph.D. Program in Gerontology in the U. S. in 1990; ranked the 2nd in the country; awarded the first Ph.D. degree in gerontology in the United States and possibly in the world on 06/03/1995 and so far awarded more Ph.D. degrees than any other program in this field

Launched the 1st Ph.D. Program in Green Chemistry in the world in 2002

Nursing ranked 50th in the country by the U.S. News & World Report and 1st

in a public university & 3rd among all nursing programs in New England

Clinical Psychology (3.1% admitted and 80% yield in 2010-2011; 100% internship placement in accredited agencies in 2011-2012)

PRIDE OF UMASS BOSTON (Faculty)

Ed Tronick, Distinguished Professor of Psychology and formerly Chief of the Child Development Unit of Boston Children’s Hospital

Kamal Bawa, Distinguished Professor of Biology, recipient of the first Gunnerus Sustainability Gold Medal from the Royal Norwegian Society of Science and Letters (“Nobel prize in sustainability”), and Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Paul Hayes Tucker, Distinguished Professor of Art, “one of America’s foremost authorities on Claude Monet and Impressionism”

Lloyd Schwartz, Frederick S. Troy Professor of English and recipient of 1994 Pulitzer Prize for criticism

Jacqueline Fawcett, Professor and Chair of Nursing, “one of the top 20 most influential people in the nursing field” (selected in 2010)

Professor of Sociology Russell K. Schutt’s 12th book (Homelessness, Housing and Mental Illness) was published by Harvard University Press in 2011 (one of his books is in its 7th edition, another in its 4th edition, a third book in its 3rd edition, and two others in their 2nd edition).

PRIDE OF UMASS BOSTON (Faculty)

The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), the largest professional organization in the world promoting excellence and innovation in science teaching and learning, has awarded its most esteemed award, the Robert H. Carleton Award, to Arthur Eisenkraft, Distinguished Professor of Science Education and Director of the Center of Science and Mathematics in Context at UMass Boston, on Friday, March 19, 2010, at their 58th National Conference on Science Education in Philadelphia.

PRIDE OF UMASS BOSTON (Alumni & Students)

Bei Wu, PhD in Gerontology (2000), UMass Boston, currently Professor of Nursing and Global Health in the Duke University School of Nursing, the Duke Global Health Institute and the Center for the Study of Aging and Chair of the Health Sciences Research Committee of the Gerontological Society of America

Thomas M. Menino, Bachelor of Arts in Community Planning (1988), UMass Boston, currently Mayor of Boston and the longest-serving mayor in the history of the city

Uttam Babu Shrestha, a current graduate student in Biology, published his research letter in Science in March of 2012. His latest research has revealed that the average annual mean temperature in the Himalayas during a 25-year period (1982-2006) has increased by 1.5°C, about three times greater than the global average. Similarly, the average annual precipitation during the same period has increased by 163 mm. His research has been partly supported by two external grants that he has received from the National Geographic Society and Rufford Small Grants Program.

Paul T. Anastas, B.S. in Chemistry (1984), UMass Boston, currentlyProfessor of Chemistry at Yale University, Assistant Administrator for EPA's Office of Research and Development and the Science Advisor to the Agency, and the "Father of Green Chemistry"

PRIDE OF UMASS BOSTON (Strategic Partners)

GoKids Boston: A result of a partnership between UMass Boston and Boston Children's Hospital

U56/U54/Center for Personalized Cancer Therapy: Partnerships between UMass Boston and Dana Farber/Harvard Cancer Center

HORIZON Center: A result of a partnership between UMass Boston and Harvard School of Public Health

Institute for Community Inclusion (ICI): Started at Boston Children's Hospital, joined UMass Boston in 2002 and remains affiliated with Boston Children's Hospital , and has partnerships in 47 states (27 institutions of higher education, five national research centers or companies, 12 national advocacy and professional organizations, …)

William E. Kiernan, Director of ICI, a University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities at UMass Boston, testified before a Senate employment subcommittee on the reauthorization of the Workforce Investment Act.

WHERE ARE WE HEADED?The Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education:

•RU/VH: Research Universities (very high research activity) (108)•RU/H: Research Universities (high research activity) (99)•DRU: Doctoral/Research Universities (90)

UMass Boston Graduate Students/Total Number of Students = 3,875/15,741 = 24.62% (Fall 2011) Total Number of Degree-Seeking Graduate Students = 3,071 (19.51%) Total Number of Doctoral Students = 442 (2.81% of All Students; 13.29% of degree-seeking and certificate graduate students)

NATIONAL AVERAGE: 25.5% Doctoral Students and 74.5% Master's/Other (Certificate)

International Graduate Students: UMass Boston = 5.38% (Fall 2010); RU/H Average = 15.6%, RU/VH = 23.3%)

VISION 2025: UMass Boston - A Distinguished Public Urban Research University

“UMass Boston should grow to an enrollment of 18,000 by FY15 and move toward a total enrollment of 20,000 by 2020 and 25,000 by 2025.”

“UMass Boston should maintain its current mix of graduate and undergraduate students but add more PhD students to our graduate numbers.”

“UMass Boston should continue to increase the number of international students on campus, moving toward 10% by 2015 and to 15% by 2020 and beyond.”

Targets and Desirable Targets:

Total Student Population = 18,000 (by 2015); Graduate Students (25%) = 4,500; Doctoral Students (25%) = 1,125 (442 in Fall 2011)Total Student Population = 25,000 (by 2025); Graduate Students (25%) = 6,250; Doctoral Students (25%) = 1,563

Annual Rate of Growth = 5%

Projections of Total Amount of External Funding for FY 2011 - 2025

Annual Rate of Growth = 10%

Annual Rate of Growth = 15%

Total Amount of External Funding in FY 2010 = $49,678,527