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Survey of Best Practices in Researching the Wealthy Donor
The Survey of Library Database Licensing Practices, 2014 Edition
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Primary Research Group has published:
International Benchmarks for University Departments of
Economics & Finance, ISBN 1-57440-148-3. This unique report presents the
results of a survey of 55 major departments of economics or
finance from the
The 180+ page report presents data on a broad range of issues including budgets, salaries, personnel planning, departmental governance, student assessment, research plans, grants and other forms of support, tenure decisions and other critical issues.
The report also probes trends in enrollment in specific types of courses, with trend data for more than 12 categories of economics/finance classes including econometrics, mathematical methods, game theory, macro, micro and international economics, public finance, behavioral economics, industrial organization, healthcare economics and other categories and subject areas.
The report also tracks policies, budgets and spending on research institutes attached to economics departments and services offered by these departments to non-academic audiences including consultancy, classes for executives and special seminars.
In addition to data defining major trends in scholarship, research support and education, the report also provides practical management information on such topics as the financial support the departments receive for information technology and new faculty recruitment.
Data is broken out for
Just a few of the participating
institutions were: the University of
Maryland, the University of Melbourne, the University of
Minnesota, Cornell University, Polytechnique, Sogang
University, the Graduate Institute of Geneva, Chinese Culture
University, Federal University of Pernambuco, Toulouse
Business School, Universita di
Turino, University of California Berkeley, and King Faisal
University.
Some of the reports
findings were that:
Mean costs for recruiting new faculty were $12,437.50 while median costs were $6,500.
55% of departments surveyed contribute or archive journal articles or other publications authored by the department\'s faculty to a digital repository maintained by the college library.
In 36.59% of cases the department
chairman was elected by the faculty and in 26.83% of cases he
or she was appointed by the dean; in the remaining cases, some
combination of these two methods was used. Elections were most
common in
More than 44% of departments surveyed planned to increase their efforts to attract international students. None said that they would be decreasing their efforts.
Enrollment in courses in behavioral
economics increased significantly over the past two years,
particularly in
The programs in the sample spent a mean of about $275,000 US for salaries and other forms of financial support for graduate students. The median was $185,700 and the range was $20,000 to $798, 617.
A third of departments sampled offer seminars on economic policy developments or other issues to fee-paying, largely or partially non-academic audiences
The departments in the sample had a mean of 16.65 tenured faculty, only about a third of all faculty members; the median was 15.
A third of the departments sampled have
conducted ongoing meetings or formed a formal assessment
committee within the past year. Once again European
departments lagged all others in this respect and only 10% of
European departments in the sample conducted such meetings or
maintained a formal assessment committee.