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COMPUTING RESEARCH NEWS CRN At-A-Glance COMPUTING RESEARCH NEWS Computing Research Association Uniting Industry, Academia and Government to Advance Computing Research and Change the World. MAY 2019 Vol. 31 / No. 5 CRN At-A-Glance Creating Institutional Homes for Computing: Transforming a Department In This Issue into a School or College 2 Creating Institutional Homes for This white paper addresses the growing interest and trend in Computing: Transforming a Department into a School or College transforming a department of computer science, usually housed within a 3 2018 Taulbee Survey: Undergrad college of engineering or science, into a school or college of computing. Enrollment Continues Upward; Doctoral See page 2 for full article. Degree Production Declines but Doctoral Enrollment Rises 75 Call for Nominations! -- 2019 CCC 2018 Taulbee Survey: Undergrad Leadership in Science Policy Institute 76 Expanding the Pipeline: 2019 CRA-W Enrollment Continues Upward; Doctoral Grad Cohort for Women Strengthens Degree Production Declines but Doctoral Community of Women in Computing 78 CRA Education Committee Selects New Enrollment Rises Graduate Fellow 79 Career Interests of Graduate Students in This article and the accompanying figures and tables present the results Computing Doctoral Degree Programs from the 48th annual CRA Taulbee Survey, which documents trends in 81 Forbes Article on Inclusivity in Higher student enrollment, degree production, employment of graduates, and Education Highlights CERP Project faculty salaries in academic units in the United States and Canada that 82 CCC Announces New Council Members grant the Ph.D. in computer science, computer engineering, or information. 86 CCC Council Member Shwetak Patel Receives ACM Prize in Computing This year’s survey includes for the first time data about the existence 87 CCC's Catalyzing Computing Podcast of online and hybrid master’s programs, and about the size of startup Included on NSF’s Science360 packages for new assistant professors. We also obtained more fine-grained Radio Stream information about teaching faculty and about the previous position held by 88 Former CRA Board Chair James Foley new faculty hires. This year’s survey also included questions asked only Inducted into Georgia Tech College of every three years, about such matters as teaching loads, space, support Computing Hall of Fame staff, recruitment incentives and reasons for salary differential among grad 89 Microsoft Research Ad students, and sources of external research funding. 90 Board Members, Staff, Column Editor 91 Professional Opportunities See page 3 for full article. cra.org/crn Creating Institutional Homes for Computing: Transforming a Department into a School or College The Computing Research Association has released its latest white paper, “Creating Institutional Homes for Computing: Transforming a Department into a School or College.” This white paper addresses the growing interest and trend in transforming a department of computer science, usually housed within a college of engineering or science, into a school or college of computing. It follows up on a successful panel at the 2016 CRA Conference at Snowbird on Schools and Colleges of Computing and a second panel on transitioning to Colleges of Computing at the 2018 CRA Conference at Snowbird. As computing continues to grow by tremendous leaps and bounds and to permeate universities’ intellectual landscape, many department chairs are finding their programs have outgrown, or are outgrowing, the confines of their current locations in colleges of engineering or science. Discussions are taking place in many departments about exploring the possibility of expanding to a school or college of computing (or a similar name). This white paper examines the multifold administrative, social, strategic, and economic challenges confronting these departments, discusses strategies for transforming a department into a school or college of computing, cites examples of existing schools and colleges of computing, and provides a list of current schools and colleges of computing in North America. Click here to download the white paper. Contributors: Carla Brodley, Northeastern University; Randy Bryant, Carnegie Mellon University; Lori Clarke, University of Massachusetts Amherst (Emerita); Juan Gilbert, University of Florida; Susanne Hambrusch, Purdue University; Chris Johnson (Chair), University of Utah; Richard LeBlanc, Georgia Tech (Emeritus) and Seattle University; John Paxton, Montana State University; and Bobby Schnabel, Indiana University (Emeritus) and University of Colorado Boulder. 2 cra.org/crn May 2019 2018 Taulbee Survey Undergrad Enrollment Continues Upward; Doctoral Degree Production Declines but Doctoral Enrollment Rises By Stuart Zweben and Betsy Bizot This article and the accompanying figures and tables present the results from the 48th annual CRA Taulbee Survey1. The survey, conducted annually by the Computing Research Association, documents trends in student enrollment, degree production, employment of graduates, and faculty salaries in academic units in the United States and Canada that grant the Ph.D. in computer science (CS), computer engineering (CE), or information (I)2. Most of these academic units are departments, but some are colleges or schools of information or computing. In this report, we will use the term “department” to refer to the unit offering the program. CRA gathers survey data during the fall. Responses received by that responded to both 2017 and 2018 surveys. This is a more February 14, 2019 are included in the analysis. The period covered meaningful indication of the one-year changes affecting the data. by the data varies from table to table. Degree production and Departments that responded to the survey were sent preliminary enrollment (Ph.D., Master’s, and Bachelor’s) refer to the previous results about faculty salaries in December 2018; these results academic year (2017-18). Data for new students in all categories included additional distributional information not contained in refer to the current academic year (2018-19). Projected student this report. The CRA Board views this as a benefit of participating production and information on faculty salaries are also for the in the survey. current academic year; salaries are those effective January 1, 2019. Degree, enrollment, and faculty salary data for the U.S CS We surveyed a total of 283 Ph.D.-granting departments and departments are stratified according to: a) whether the institution received responses from 174, for an overall response rate of 61 is public or private; and b) the tenure-track faculty size of the percent. This is lower than last year’s 181 respondents and 64 reporting department. The faculty size strata deliberately overlap, percent response rate. One contributing factor to the lower so that data from most departments affect multiple strata. This response rate may be the additional questions about department may be especially useful to departments near the boundary profiles that are only asked every three years, along with some of one stratum. Salary data is also stratified according to the new questions to learn more about enrollment responses and population of the locale in which the institution is located.3 the use of teaching faculty. The response rates from CE and These stratifications allow our readers to see multiple views of Canadian departments in particular continue to be low. The U.S. important data, and hopefully gain new insights from them. In CS response rate of 73 percent is, as usual, the highest of all addition to tabular presentations of data, we will use “box and of the categories, although it also dropped from last year’s 77 whisker” diagrams to show medians, quartiles, and the range percent. Figure 1 shows the history of the survey’s response between the 10th and 90th percentile data points. rates. Response rates are inexact because some departments provide only partial data, and some institutions provide a single This year’s survey includes for the first time data about the joint response for multiple departments. Thus, in some tables the existence of online and hybrid master’s programs, and about the number of departments shown as reporting will not equal the size of startup packages for new assistant professors. We also overall total number of respondents shown in Figure 1 for that obtained more fine-grained information about teaching faculty category of department. and about the previous position held by new faculty hires. This year’s survey also included questions asked only every three To account for the changes in response rate, we will years, about such matters as teaching loads, space, support comment not only on aggregate totals but also on averages staff, recruitment incentives and reasons for salary differential per department reporting or data from those departments among grad students, and sources of external research funding. 3 cra.org/crn May 2019 2018 Taulbee Survey (continued) We took advantage of this extra section to also include a few We thank all of the respondents to this year’s questionnaire. questions about the manner that departments are responding The participating departments are listed at the end of this to the undergraduate enrollment surge, to see if there are any article. CRA member respondents will again be given the noticeable changes from three years ago. We will comment on opportunity to obtain certain survey information for a self- the results of one of these enrollment surge questions in this selected peer group. Instructions for doing
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