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Presented to the UMass Boston Retired Faculty Council, November 16 , 2012,

Research and Graduate Education at UMass Boston: A Status Report Zong-Guo Xia Vice Provost for Research/Dean of Graduate Studies University of Massachusetts Boston. Presented to the UMass Boston Retired Faculty Council, November 16 , 2012,

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Presented to the UMass Boston Retired Faculty Council, November 16 , 2012,

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  1. Research and Graduate Education at UMass Boston: A Status ReportZong-Guo XiaVice 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

  2. EARLY DAYS OF GRADUATE EDUCATION IN 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).

  3. 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.”

  4. IMPORTANT MILESTONES FOR UMASS BOSTON 1852: Girls’ High School→1922: Teachers College of the City of Boston→1968: Boston State College 1964: The University of Massachusetts Boston Established 1982: Boston State College joined the University of Massachusetts Boston 1973: First Master of Arts Degrees in English and Mathematics Awarded by UMass Boston 1982: First Doctoral Program in Environmental Science Started 1988: First Doctoral Degree Awarded 2000: Classified as a Doctoral/Research Intensive Institution by the Carnegie Foundation 2010: Classified as a Research University with High Research Activity by the Carnegie Foundation Vice Provost for Research & Strategic Initiatives

  5. 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] Fall 2011 Enrollment in Doctoral Programs Number of Undergraduate Students = 11,866 (75.38%) Number of Graduate Students = 3,875 (24.62%) Total Number of Students = 15,741 Most Popular Master’s Programs Number of Graduate Students by College

  6. New Doctoral Programs in Fall 2012 Business Administration (Organizations and Social Change Track) PhD Counseling and School Psychology (2 tracks), PhD Developmental & Brain Sciences, PhD Global Governance and Human Security, PhD New Doctoral Programs Expected in Fall 2013 Applied Linguistics, PhD Exercise and Health Sciences, PhD Sociology, 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

  7. Growth of External Funding at UMass Boston from FY 1989 to FY 2011 Institute for Community Inclusion joined UMass Boston in January of 2002. FY 2011-2012: $ 56,370,425 (5.1% ) Vice Provost for Research & Strategic Initiatives

  8. FY 2010 RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT EXPENDITURESTotal R&D: $61.235 billionTotal 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: 205Education: 16 Psychology: 41non-S&E Fields: 45 Social Sciences: 53Environmental Sciences: 112 Computer Sciences: 116 Life Sciences (Biology, Nursing, …): 208 Chemistry: 248 Physics: 276 Engineering: 325 Mathematical Sciences: 389

  9. 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 1stPh.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)

  10. PRIDE OF UMASS BOSTON (Faculty) Lloyd Schwartz, Frederick S. Troy Professor of English and recipient of 1994 Pulitzer Prize for criticism 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 Jacqueline Fawcett, Professor and Chair of Nursing, “one of the top 20 most influential people in the nursing field” (selected in 2010) Paul Hayes Tucker, Distinguished Professor of Art, “one of America’s foremost authorities on Claude Monet and Impressionism”

  11. PRIDE OF UMASS BOSTON (Faculty) Professor of Sociology Russell K. Schutt’s12th 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). 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.

  12. PRIDE OF UMASS BOSTON (Alumni & Students) UttamBabuShrestha, 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. 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 BeiWu, 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 Paul T. Anastas, B.S. in Chemistry (1984), UMass Boston, currently Professor 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"

  13. PRIDE OF UMASS BOSTON (Strategic Partners) GoKidsBoston: 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. 

  14. 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

  15. Projections of Total Amount of External Funding for FY 2011 - 2025 Total Amount of External Funding in FY 2010 = $49,678,527 Annual Rate of Growth = 5% Annual Rate of Growth = 10% Annual Rate of Growth = 15%

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