Monday, April 11, 2011

AAUP Faculty Salary report – 2010/2011


Per the press release, the results of the latest AAUP survey:
“…are only marginally better than last year and represent the continuation of a historic low period for faculty salaries. For the second consecutive year, the overall average salary level increased at a rate less than inflation, and this is the fifth of the last seven years in which overall faculty salaries declined in purchasing power.”
Top Private Universities in Faculty Salaries for Full Professors, 2010-11

University
Average Salary
1. Harvard University
 $193,800
2. Columbia University
 $191,400
3. University of Chicago
 $190,400
4. Stanford University
 $188,400
5. Princeton University
 $186,000


Top Public Universities in Pay for Full Professors, 2010-11

University
Average Salary
1. New Jersey Institute of Technology
 $158,700
2. University of California at Los Angeles
 $153,700
3. University of California at Berkeley
 $149,100
4. University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
 $146,900
5. University of Maryland at Baltimore
 $144,800


Adapated from Losing Ground on Salary (Inside Higher Ed. article)

Monday, April 4, 2011

SciVal Strata: new tool to measure academic performance

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Elsevier announces a new tool to "measure individual or team performance using customizable indicators."


Another study questions the impact of open access journals

Mr. Philip M. Davis, a researcher in the department of communication at Cornell University, publishes a study in the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology journal and concludes that "open access publishing may reach more readers than subscription access publishing, although additional readership may not translate into more citations."

Friday, March 18, 2011

Milestone: more people get their news online than in print

The Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism has released its latest report on the "State of the Media." 

The study finds that, "When it came to any kind of news, 46% of people now say they get news online at least three times a week, surpassing newspapers (40%) for the first time."

Source: Nielsen Media Research, Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, Audit Bureau of Circulation

Monday, March 7, 2011

Professional Ranking of World Universities

2011 results of the Ecole des Mines ranking. This is the fifth edition, for previous years click here.
This school ranking is based on the number of alumni now CEOs (or equivalent) on the Fortune 500 2010 list.

Top 5

  1. Harvard
  2. Tokyo
  3. Keio
  4. HEC, France
  5. Kyoto

Friday, March 4, 2011

NYU Stern drops GMAT requirement for EMBAs

Like Chicago Booth, Kellogg, Cornell's Johnson or others, Stern now drops GMAT requirement for EMBAs



Monday, February 14, 2011

Higher Education Emerging Technologies for 2011


Per Educause press release:
Each year, the Horizon Report describes six areas of emerging technology that will have significant impact on higher education and creative expression over the next one to five years. The areas of emerging technology cited for 2011 are:
Time to adoption: One Year or Less
  • Electronic Books
  • Mobiles
Time to adoption: Two to Three Years
  • Augmented Reality
  • Game-based Learning
Time to adoption: Four to Five Years
  • Gesture-based Computing
  • Learning Analytics

Does online access boost citations?



This is the question posed by two researchers in their working paper:
Did Online Access to Journals Change the Economics Literature? (SSRN)

Mark McCabe, adjunct professor at the University of Michigan’s School of Information, and Christopher Snyder, economics professor at Dartmouth College question the often reported 'citation advantage' to publishing in online open-access journals.

This Steve Kolowich article explains more about the study and its potential  impact for the proponents of open-access publishing.