American Council of Learned Societies Members 2017 LEARNED SOCIETY REVENUE
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Learned Societies by the A Survey of American Council of Learned Societies Members 2017 LEARNED SOCIETY REVENUE MOST RECENT FY SOURCES OF REVENUE ANNUAL REVENUE 30 n < $1 million On average, 78% of revenue for learned $ $ n 1 million– 4.9 million societies comes from: n $5 million–$10 million 1. Membership dues 20 2. Conferences n >$10 million 4% 3. Publications 11% 10 26% 59% Average Percentage of Total Revenue Total of Percentage Average Dues Other Grants Publications Investments Conferences OVER THE PAST FIVE YEARS, revenue has Contributions increased for 72% of learned societies, remained the same for 20%, and decreased for 8%. MEMBERSHIP PREVIOUS PREVIOUS FIVE YEARS MEMBERSHIP YEAR MEMBERSHIP n <1,000 >10% n 1,000–2,499 Increased 6 -10 % n 2,500–6,000 1-5% n >6,000 No Change +/–1% 28% 24% 1-5% Decreased 6 -10 % >10% 13 % 35% 5 10 15 20 25 30 Percentage of Learned Societies OVER THE PAST FIVE YEARS, membership has remained steady at +/–5% for 62% of learned societies. Overall during this period, 42% experienced a membership increase and 32% experienced a decrease. ANNUAL CONVENTION PREVIOUS FIVE YEARS CONVENTION ATTENDANCE 11% MOST RECENT CONVENTION >10% 39% ATTENDANCE 22% Increased 6 -10 % <1,000 n 1-5% n 1,000–2,499 No Change +/–1% n 2,500–6,000 28% n >6,000 1-5% Decreased 6 -10 % 12% 23% >10% MOST RECENT CONVENTION 21% 5 25 30 35 NET REVENUE 10 15 20 Percentage of Learned Societies n $0 $ $ OVER THE PAST FIVE YEARS, attendance at 87% n 1– 99,999 44% of learned society meetings increased or remained $ $ n 100,000– 500,000 steady, with 32% increasing by more than 10%. n >$500,000 PUBLICATIONS NUMBER OF SCHOLARLY JOURNALS PUBLISHER 70 80 The vast majority of learned 60 societies (73%) publish just 70 50 one or two scholarly journals. 60 40 50 30 20 40 10 30 Percentage of Learned Societies Learned of Percentage 20 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 … 23 Number of Journals Societies Learned of Percentage 10 12% 7% PREVIOUS FY Self-publish Partner with Both PUBLICATIONS an External NET REVENUE Publisher 26% n $0 n $1– $99,999 55% 80% OF LEARNED SOCIETIES PUBLISH all or some of their journals in partnership $ $ n 100,000– 500,000 with an external publisher. n >$500,000 WHAT DO LEARNED SOCIETIES DO? 100 90 80 70 60 Percentage of Learned Societies of Percentage 50 Data About Policy Public/Media Grant- Academic and Conferences Publications the Discipline Advocacy Outreach making Professional Resources PARTICIPATING SOCIETIES WHO WORKS I N L E A R N E D American Academy of Religion Economic History Association American Anthropological Association German Studies Association SOCIETIES? American Comparative Literature History of Science Society Association International Center of Medieval Art American Economic Association Law and Society Association EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR American Folklore Society Linguistic Society of America American Historical Association Medieval Academy of America Full-time paid 65% American Musicological Society Modern Language Association American Numismatic Society of America Part-time paid 20% American Oriental Society National Communication Association Part-time unpaid 15% American Philosophical Association National Council of Teachers of English American Political Science Association National Council on Public History American Schools of Oriental Research North American Conference on FOR THOSE SOCIETIES WITH American Society for Aesthetics British Studies American Society for Oral History Association A FULL-TIME EXECUTIVE Environmental History Organization of American Historians American Society for Legal History DIRECTOR, median full-time Rhetoric Society of America American Society of Church History Shakespeare Association of America staff is 10 (range 0–102) American Society of Comparative Law American Sociological Association Sixteenth Century Society and median part-time staff is American Studies Association and Conference Society for American Music 2 (range 0–26). Societies with Archaeological Institute of America Association for Jewish Studies Society for Cinema and Media Studies part-time Executive Directors Association for Slavic, East European, Society for Ethnomusicology and Eurasian Studies Society for Music Theory have median 0 full-time staff Association for the Advancement Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (range 0–1) and median 1 of Baltic Studies Association of American Law Schools Society of Architectural Historians part-time staff (range 0–5). Dictionary Society of North America Society of Biblical Literature ACLS.ORG.