Table 1.
Data sources and research questions.
Fig 1.
PEER demographics in study department compared to national science & engineering faculty.
A) The percentages of PEER faculty are shown for both the study department (n = 94 faculty) and nationwide science & engineering doctorate holders (average n = 70,227 faculty per year) as listed in the WMPwD report for the years that WMPwD was published. The study department percentages are indicated by black points and the nationwide science & engineering doctorate holders are indicated by green, red, and blue circles. For the nationwide data, colors represent the survey sample specification–science & engineering doctorate holders employed in all postsecondary institutions (green); science & engineering doctorate holders employed at 4-year colleges and universities (red); and tenured and tenure-track doctorate holders in the biological sciences employed at 4-year colleges and universities (blue). Years with significantly higher PEER percentages in the study department faculty compared to nationwide faculty are indicated by stars. B) The percentage of PEER faculty at the study department (black points) and nationwide faculty at 4-year institutions (violin plots) as reported in IPEDS for the years with mandatory reporting (average n = 512 institutions per year). The orange violin plots represent the years where Asian and Pacific Islander ethnicities were classified in one group considered non-PEER. The teal violin plots represent the years where there were two separate categories: 1) Asian, and 2) Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander. For those years, the Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander category was included in the PEER percentage.
Fig 2.
Ratio of PEER faculty to students in study department compared to national master’s-granting institutions.
This plot shows the ratio of PEER faculty percentage/PEER student percentage at the study department (black points), at the study institution (blue points), and the ratios of PEER faculty percentage/PEER student percentage at institutions nationwide (n = 673 institutions per year) as reported in IPEDS (violin plots). The horizontal line represents the ratio of one, where the faculty PEER percentage and student PEER percentage would be equal. Ratios above one indicate institutions with higher PEER faculty percentages than PEER student percentages. Ratios below one indicate institutions with lower PEER faculty percentages than PEER student percentages. The colors of the violin plots reflect the differences in IPEDS race/ethnicity categorizations: the orange violin plots represent the years where Asian and Pacific Islander ethnicities were classified together and the Pacific Islander ethnicity was not included in the PEER percentage, while the teal violin plots represent the years where there were two separate categories: Asian; and Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander; and the Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander category was included in the PEER percentage. For the study department, “Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander” was included in the PEER percentage for all years.
Fig 3.
Departmental hiring of before, during, and after CHP.
These plots show changes in proportion of faculty hired (n = 69) before the CHP, during the CHP, and after the CHP in terms of (a) faculty hires who are non-PEERs (green) and PEERs (pink), and (b) faculty hires who are non-PEGs (purple) and PEGs (orange).
Table 2.
Demographic composition of hires before, during, and after CHP.
Table 3.
Correlation between search committee composition and hiring demographics.
Table 4.
Sister institution and study department demographics.