This report examines how the pandemic has impacted and is likely to impact departmental budgets, hiring and personnel practices across various academic departments in the United States and Canada. One hundred six department chairs from 57 colleges and universities provide detailed data on their budgets and on personnel practices such as buyouts, early retirement and tenure promotion. This 70-page report helps its readers to answer questions such as: how are academic departments adjusting their budgets and spending? Have early retirement offers and buyouts increased? Will tenure be more difficult to get in the near future? What is the near term future for departmental technology budgets?
Just a few of this report’s many findings are that:
- Departments in business and economics faculties had the grimmest budget outlook for the next year.
- Canadian faculties were less likely than those from the USA to believe that their department or discipline was treated less well than others at their institutions.
- Mathematics and statistics departments had the brightest outlook for future budget increases.
- A shade more than 11% of survey participants felt that tenure decisions in their departments were likely to be postponed.
Data in the 58-page report is broken out by many variables related to the individual survey participants and their institutions including but not limited to academic department, host country, tuition level, public/private status, and college type or Carnegie class.
Table of Contents
1. THE QUESTIONNAIRE
2. INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATIONS OF THE SURVEY PARTICIPANTS
- Characteristics of the Sample
3. SUMMARY OF MAIN FINDINGS
- Departmental Budget Outlook
- Departmental Spending Areas of Adjustment
- Future Treatment of Departmental Budget
- Current Treatment of Departmental Budget
- Departmental Budget 2021-2022 Percentage Change
- Pandemic Impact on Tenure Decisions
- Retirement and Buyoff Changes
- Departmental Software and Hardware Budget
- Long-Term Impact on the Number of Employees
- What areas of departmental spending may be adjusted, upward or downward, in the next year? Broken out by the academic department
List of Tables
Table 1.1 How do you feel that your departmental budget will be treated by college administration relative to other academic departments?
Table 1.2 How do you feel that your departmental budget will be treated by college administration relative to other academic departments? Broken out by the academic department
Table 1.3 How do you feel that your departmental budget will be treated by college administration relative to other academic departments? Broken out by country
Table 1.4 How do you feel that your departmental budget will be treated by college administration relative to other academic departments? Broken out for public and private colleges
Table 1.5 How do you feel that your departmental budget will be treated by college administration relative to other academic departments? Broken out by type or Carnegie class
Table 1.6 How do you feel that your departmental budget will be treated by college administration relative to other academic departments? Broken out by enrollment
Table 1.7 How do you feel that your departmental budget will be treated by college administration relative to other academic departments? Broken out by tuition, $
Table 1.8 How do you feel that your departmental budget will be treated by college administration relative to other academic departments? Broken out by FTE department size
Table 1.9 How do you feel that your departmental budget will be treated by college administration relative to other academic departments? Broken out by how long, in years, have you been chair?
Table 2.1 Relative to other administrative departments of your university would you say that your departmental budget and personnel allocation has been hit harder, about the same, or less hard than the norm for others?
Table 2.2 Relative to other administrative departments of your university would you say that your departmental budget and personnel allocation has been hit harder, about the same, or less hard than the norm for others? Broken out by the academic department
Table 2.3 Relative to other administrative departments of your university would you say that your departmental budget and personnel allocation has been hit harder, about the same, or less hard than the norm for others? Broken out by country
Table 2.4 Relative to other administrative departments of your university would you say that your departmental budget and personnel allocation has been hit harder, about the same, or less hard than the norm for others? Broken out for public and private colleges
Table 2.5 Relative to other administrative departments of your university would you say that your departmental budget and personnel allocation has been hit harder, about the same, or less hard than the norm for others? Broken out by type or Carnegie class
Table 2.6 Relative to other administrative departments of your university would you say that your departmental budget and personnel allocation has been hit harder, about the same, or less hard than the norm for others? Broken out by enrollment
Table 2.7 Relative to other administrative departments of your university would you say that your departmental budget and personnel allocation has been hit harder, about the same, or less hard than the norm for others? Broken out by tuition, $
Table 2.8 Relative to other administrative departments of your university would you say that your departmental budget and personnel allocation has been hit harder, about the same, or less hard than the norm for others? Broken out by FTE department size
Table 2.9 Relative to other administrative departments of your university would you say that your departmental budget and personnel allocation has been hit harder, about the same, or less hard than the norm for others? Broken out by how long, in years, have you been chair?
Table 3.1 What will likely be the percentage change in the departmental budget for the 2021-22 academic year?
Table 3.2 What will likely be the percentage change in the departmental budget for the 2021-22 academic year? Broken out by the academic department
Table 3.3 What will likely be the percentage change in the departmental budget for the 2021-22 academic year? Broken out by country
Table 3.4 What will likely be the percentage change in the departmental budget for the 2021-22 academic year? Broken out for public and private colleges
Table 3.5 What will likely be the percentage change in the departmental budget for the 2021-22 academic year? Broken out by type or Carnegie class
Table 3.6 What will likely be the percentage change in the departmental budget for the 2021-22 academic year? Broken out by enrollment
Table 3.7 What will likely be the percentage change in the departmental budget for the 2021-22 academic year? Broken out by tuition, $
Table 3.8 What will likely be the percentage change in the departmental budget for the 2021-22 academic year? Broken out by FTE department size
Table 3.9 What will likely be the percentage change in the departmental budget for the 2021-22 academic year? Broken out by how long, in years, have you been chair?
Table 4.1 Do you feel that tenure decisions in your department might be impacted by the pandemic?
Table 4.2 Do you feel that tenure decisions in your department might be impacted by the pandemic? Broken out by the academic department
Table 4.3 Do you feel that tenure decisions in your department might be impacted by the pandemic? Broken out by country
Table 4.4 Do you feel that tenure decisions in your department might be impacted by the pandemic? Broken out for public and private colleges
Table 4.5 Do you feel that tenure decisions in your department might be impacted by the pandemic? Broken out by type or Carnegie class
Table 4.6 Do you feel that tenure decisions in your department might be impacted by the pandemic? Broken out by enrollment
Table 4.7 Do you feel that tenure decisions in your department might be impacted by the pandemic? Broken out by tuition, $
Table 4.8 Do you feel that tenure decisions in your department might be impacted by the pandemic? Broken out by FTE department size
Table 4.9 Do you feel that tenure decisions in your department might be impacted by the pandemic? Broken out by how long, in years, have you been chair?
Table 5.1 Have retirements in the department been moved up or buyouts offered to departmental faculty?
Table 5.2 Have retirements in the department been moved up or buyouts offered to departmental faculty? Broken out by the academic department
Table 5.3 Have retirements in the department been moved up or buyouts offered to departmental faculty? Broken out by country
Table 5.4 Have retirements in the department been moved up or buyouts offered to departmental faculty? Broken out for public and private colleges
Table 5.5 Have retirements in the department been moved up or buyouts offered to departmental faculty? Broken out by type or Carnegie class
Table 5.6 Have retirements in the department been moved up or buyouts offered to departmental faculty? Broken out by enrollment
Table 5.7 Have retirements in the department been moved up or buyouts offered to departmental faculty? Broken out by tuition, $
Table 5.8 Have retirements in the department been moved up or buyouts offered to departmental faculty? Broken out by FTE department size
Table 5.9 Have retirements in the department been moved up or buyouts offered to departmental faculty? Broken out by how long, in years, have you been chair?
How has the departmental Software and Hardware Budgets been impacted by the pandemic? Broken out by the academic department
Table 6.1 What do you think will be the long term impact on the number of employees in your immediate department?
Table 6.2 What do you think will be the long term impact on the number of employees in your immediate department? Broken out by the academic department
Table 6.3 What do you think will be the long term impact on the number of employees in your immediate department? Broken out by country
Table 6.4 What do you think will be the long term impact on the number of employees in your immediate department? Broken out for public and private colleges
Table 6.5 What do you think will be the long term impact on the number of employees in your immediate department? Broken out by type or Carnegie class
Table 6.6 What do you think will be the long term impact on the number of employees in your immediate department? Broken out by enrollment
Table 6.7 What do you think will be the long term impact on the number of employees in your immediate department? Broken out by tuition, $
Table 6.8 What do you think will be the long term impact on the number of employees in your immediate department? Broken out by FTE department size
Table 6.9 What do you think will be the long term impact on the number of employees in your immediate department? Broken out by how long, in years, have you been chair?
Samples
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Sources / Contributors
- Acadia University
- Assumption University
- Auburn University
- Boise State University
- Boston University
- Brandon University
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Clemson University
- Columbus State Community College
- Concord University
- Dalhousie University
- East Carolina University
- Fort Lewis College
- Iowa State University
- Jackson State University
- Kennesaw State University
- Laurentian University
- LSU School of Veterinary Medicine
- MacEwan University
- McGill University
- Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Mount Allison University
- Northern Kentucky University
- Ohio State University
- Quinnipiac University
- Saint Mary's University
- South Dakota State University
- St. Cloud State University
- The University of Winnipeg
- Towson University
- Truman State University
- UNC-Chapel Hill
- University of Manitoba
- University of Pittsburgh
- University of Saskatchewan
- University at Buffalo
- University at Buffalo
- University of Georgia
- University of Idaho
- University of Louisville
- University of Manitoba
- University of Missouri
- University of Nevada, Reno
- University of New Brunswick
- University of New Mexico
- University of North Dakota
- University of Oklahoma
- University of Oregon
- University of South Carolina
- University of the Fraser Valley
- University of Toronto
- University of Victoria
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Utah State University
- Wichita State University
- York University
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