SHSU Gets High Ranking For Doctoral Faculty Productivity
Sam Houston State University has been ranked 5th nationally based on faculty scholarly productivity in its
three Ph. D. programs by the Academic
Analytics company.
The SHSU ranking
was in the Academic Analytics specialized research category of
Business, Education and Social Sciences. SHSU has Ph. D.
programs in Criminal Justice (College of Criminal Justice), Counselor
Education (College of Education) and Clinical Psychology (College
of Humanities and Social Sciences).
SHSU also has
education doctorates (Ed. D.) in Reading and Educational Leadership,
which were not part of the evaluation.
"The recognition
that our programs rank 5th in the nation among specialized doctoral
universities is a tremendously important validation of their
excellence," said John de Castro, dean of the College of
Humanities and Social Sciences.
"This
is particularly satisfying because the methodology used for this
ranking was objective and based upon the quantifiable scholarly
productivity of our faculty."
De Castro expects
the SHSU rankings to continue, and to have an effect on the university's
reputation.
"These
ratings are based on past performance," he said. "In
the near future even higher rankings should be evidenced. Our
students receive a world-class education. They already know it.
Now these rankings let the rest of the nation know."
Ranked
ahead of SHSU were the Rand Graduate School, Teachers College
at Columbia University, Pacific Graduate School of Psychology
and Cleveland State University.
Rounding out
the top 10 in the SHSU category were Alliant International University,
Adelphi University, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Indiana University
of Pennsylvania-Main Campus, and University of the Incarnate
Word.
Academic Analytics
is a for-profit company founded in 2005. Their Faculty Scholarly
Productivity Index ranks doctoral programs based on the scholarly
productivity of their faculty, considering their publications,
citations and financial and honorary awards won.
"At research
universities, more than 50 percent of a faculty member's salary
is compensation for scholarly work," said Lawrence Martin,
graduate school dean at Stony Brook University and the company's
chief scientific consultant. "The FSP
Index allows university leadership for the first time to get
a clear picture of the comparative scholarly strength and vitality
of their doctoral programs relative to others on an annual basis."
In its second
year of analysis, the FSP Index has expanded its data-gathering
program to include information from nearly 200,000 faculty members
based at 354 institutions and representing 118 academic disciplines
in nearly 7,300 Ph. D. programs throughout the country, according
to information released by the company.
In all, the
FSP Index research matched those faculty to more than 15,000
books authored by slightly more than 9,500 faculty, more than
one million journal articles, almost seven million cititations,
over 6,000 awards and honors and more than 83,000 federal research
grants, they reported.
Genevieve Brown,
dean of the College of Education, said she was proud of her college's
contribution to the ranking and emphasized that good research
and teaching go hand in hand.
"Universities
emphasize research because that is how the latest knowledge
is imparted to our students," she said. "Good research
and good teaching are compatible."
Additional
information on the rankings is available on the Academic
Analytics Web site
including institutions
and their groupings
and the rationale
for the rankings.
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SHSU Media Contact: Frank Krystyniak
July 6, 2007
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