Research Pages

Links to important information about Teaching Assistants posted on the WMU website.

 

Research Committee Proposed Charge

 

 

Members

 

 

Tasks

 

• What makes an institution Research I and what are implications? (eg. faculty recruitment)

 

The category 'Research I' is a reference to the amount of Federal funding granted to a doctorate-granting institution according to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching prior to 2000. Changes in categorization in 2005 has made the term obsolete, though it is still used in reference to universities with the largest research budgets, often by the institutions themselves in promotional materials.

 

 

 

 

Western Michigan University is now categorized as a Research University with high research activity (RU/H), but not very high research activity (RU/VH). The further classifications of WMU can be found here

 

 

 

 

What the Carnegie Foundation calls 'similar institutions' to WMU include Florida International, George Mason, Georgia State, New Mexico State, Texas Tech, University of Oregon, University of Toledo, and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

 

 

 

 

Further information can be found at the Carnegie Foundation website.

 

 

 

 

On WMU's website they do mention student research in this pat on the back "welcome to the Office of the Vice President for Research" page, so it apparently means something to them... "Research projects for faculty and students range from scholarly works on the Medieval era to applied use of biopolymers as barrier coatings in packaging applications. In 2005-2006 FY, more than $39 million in external funding dollars were received through OVPR. Furthermore, faculty and students published more that 700 refereed journal articles and 77 books, and juried more than 700 performances, in that same year." (my emphasis) The research page has lots of interesting links. For more info go to http://www.wmich.edu/research/

 

Also check out the "Fact Sheet" link on this page for some great 2005/2006 stats on the University http://www.wmich.edu/ir/fb05/index.htm#

 

 

• What do we teach and how many students?

 

For the WMU History Department

class level	students taught by graduate IORs	total students	percentage
1000	183	535	34.21%
2000	364	663	54.90%
3000	175	1739	10.06%
4000	38	453	8.39%
Total	760	3390	22.42%

 

For the WMU Math Department

class level	students taught by graduate IORs	total students	percentage	#(Rcitatn stdnt's taught by Grads	Students Taught by Tenure(track) Faculty	% of total
1000	825	2627	31.4%		500	19.03%
2000	12	418	2.8%		243	59.85%
3000	45	384	11.7%		289	75.26%
4000	0	82	00.0%		82	100.00%
Total	882	3511	25.12%		1114	44.36%

 

For the WMU Spanish Department Class Levels 1000-3000

(In Spanish, no grad student currently teaches above the 3000 level.)

class level	students taught by graduate IORs	total students	percentage	Students Taught by Tenure(track) Faculty	% of total
1000	408	434	94.01%	26	5.99%
2000	117	187	62.57%	33	17.65%
3000	170	406	41.87%	217	53.45%
Total	695	1027	67.67%	276	26.87%

 

 

• How does scheduling work in various departments?

 

• How do we compare?

 

comparable universities

SUNY – Binghamton

University of Maryland – Baltimore

University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee

University of Alabama

Florida International University

University of Texas at Arlington

 

 

Michigan universities

University of Michigan

Michigan State University