Monthly Archive for January, 2007

Faculty Productivity

Academic Analytics has released its second annual Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index (FSP), ranking doctoral programs at research universities.

Large Research Universities:
1) Harvard University
2) California Institute of Technology
2) University of California - San Francisco
3) Massachusetts Institute of Technology
4) Yale University
5) Carnegie Mellon University
6) Washington University St. Louis
7) Vanderbilt University
8) Johns Hopkins University
9) Duke University
10) University of Pennsylvania

Small Research Universities
1) DePaul University
2) San Diego State University
3) Bryn Mawr College
4) Wright State University
5) University of Alaska - Fairbanks
5) University of Massachusetts - Boston
6) Clarkson University
7) College of William and Mary
8) University of Colorado at Denver
9) Central Michigan University
10) University of Missouri - St. Louis

Here is the ranking for my discipline, Philosophy:

1) Michigan State U 2) City U. of New York Graduate Center 2) Princeton U 4) U of Virginia 5) Rutgers U at New Brunswick 6) U of California at San Diego 7) Pennsylvania State U. at University Park 8) U of Texas at Austin 9) State U of New York at Stony Brook 10) Rice U

If you have a subscription to the Chronicle of Higher Education, you can also view the results for other top departments in 104 fields as determined by the Index.

Stealing from ‘God’

A new study by an Economics professor at Villanova University finds that 85% of Catholic Diocese respondents had uncovered some kind of embezzlement within their organization over the last five years.

Banished Words

Lake Superior State University publishes its annual list of banished words from the Queen’s English for “Mis-Use, Over-Use and General Uselessness”:
  • GITMO
  • COMBINED CELEBRITY NAMES
  • AWESOME
  • GONE/WENT MISSING
  • PWN or PWNED
  • NOW PLAYING IN THEATERS
  • WE’RE PREGNANT
  • UNDOCUMENTED ALIEN
  • ARMED ROBBERY/DRUG DEAL GONE BAD
  • TRUTHINESS
  • ASK YOUR DOCTOR
  • CHIPOTLE
  • i-ANYTHING
  • SEARCH
  • HEALTHY FOOD
  • BOASTS

Looks like I need to fix my poll…

Here is last year’s list: http://www.lssu.edu/banished/archive/2006.php.

And here is the complete list: http://www.lssu.edu/banished/complete_list.php.