Achieving R1 Status

[Boomer]

This was posted on CSNBBS by a Rice alum for Texas schools. I don't think Louisiana has anything like this. Where would UL fit into this criteria? We have over $100M in research. I think the only place we fall short is the endowment as we are about half way there.

To help other state universities catch up with UT and aTm, the Texas Legislature set up a Tier One fund that other state schools can access once they have met a set of metrics:

$45 million in annual expenditures on restricted research.
$400 million endowment.
High-achieving freshman class.
High-quality faculty.
Membership in the Association of Research Libraries, Phi Beta Kappa or equivalent national organization.

So far, Houston, Texas Tech, and UT-Dallas have made it.

.....wow we are a ways from $400 mill endowment, but there or close in the others....think our endowment is about $175 mill!!!

[cajun4life]

.....wow we are a ways from $400 mill endowment, but there or close in the others....think our endowment is about $175 mill!!!

Im afraid we aren’t really growing.

[CajunVic]

Im afraid we aren’t really growing.

Well, are we close or not?

[cajun4life]

Well, are we close or not?

See Lannister’s answer

[CajunVic]

See Lannister’s answer

Back to crickets, what I figured.

[cajun4life]

Back to crickets, what I figured.

Let’s see, I’ve answered this question in several other threads regarding academics. We need 10 doctoral degree programs. We need to graduate over 100 doctoral students per year. Of the 100 only a certain percentage can come from each discipline. We fail to meet that criteria.

Oh and you’re still a bean counting hatchet wound.

[CajunVic]

Let's see, I've answered this question in several other threads regarding academics. We need 10 doctoral degree programs. We need to graduate over 100 doctoral students per year. Of the 100 only a certain percentage can come from each discipline. We fail to meet that criteria.

Oh and you're still a bean counting hatchet wound.

Can't remember the last time I counted beans, but that is a just a red herring anyhow.

You have proclaimed several times that we are close. I would just like to know how close we are. While you sporadically spew criteria, never do you indicate how close we are to meeting that criteria. For example:

We need 10 doctoral programs, how many do we have?

We need to graduAte 100 doctorial candidates, how many do we graduate.

Looks like we need over $400mm in endowments. How much do we have.

I believe we are sufficient in research with around $100mm. If not, where do we need to be?

I assume that there are also some athletic criteria involved in the evaluation, but don't know. If so, where are we in that respect?

Someone who says we are close' as you have proclaimed to know, should be able to answer those questions even without them being asked specifically, otherwise the opinion that we are close is nothing more than gobbledygook.

So, do you really know or is your opinion just gook?

[CajunAmos]

Can't remember the last time I counted beans, but that is a just a red herring anyhow.

You have proclaimed several times that we are close. I would just like to know how close we are. While you sporadically spew criteria, never do you indicate how close we are to meeting that criteria. For example:

We need 10 doctoral programs, how many do we have?

We need to graduAte 100 doctorial candidates, how many do we graduate.

Looks like we need over $400mm in endowments. How much do we have.

I believe we are sufficient in research with around $100mm. If not, where do we need to be?

I assume that there are also some athletic criteria involved in the evaluation, but don't know. If so, where are we in that respect?

Someone who says we are close' as you have proclaimed to know, should be able to answer those questions even without them being asked specifically, otherwise the opinion that we are close is nothing more than gobbledygook.

So, do you really know or is your opinion just gook?

No athletic.

http://carnegieclassifications.iu.ed...ions/basic.php

[cajun_lannister]

Can't remember the last time I counted beans, but that is a just a red herring anyhow.

You have proclaimed several times that we are close. I would just like to know how close we are. While you sporadically spew criteria, never do you indicate how close we are to meeting that criteria. For example:

We need 10 doctoral programs, how many do we have?

We need to graduAte 100 doctorial candidates, how many do we graduate.

Looks like we need over $400mm in endowments. How much do we have.

I believe we are sufficient in research with around $100mm. If not, where do we need to be?

I assume that there are also some athletic criteria involved in the evaluation, but don't know. If so, where are we in that respect?

Someone who says we are close' as you have proclaimed to know, should be able to answer those questions even without them being asked specifically, otherwise the opinion that we are close is nothing more than gobbledygook.

So, do you really know or is your opinion just gook?

GAST has a smaller endowment than us and are R1 don't think that has anything to do with it

[Turbine]

Can't remember the last time I counted beans, but that is a just a red herring anyhow.

You have proclaimed several times that we are close. I would just like to know how close we are. While you sporadically spew criteria, never do you indicate how close we are to meeting that criteria. For example:

We need 10 doctoral programs, how many do we have?

We need to graduAte 100 doctorial candidates, how many do we graduate.

Looks like we need over $400mm in endowments. How much do we have.

I believe we are sufficient in research with around $100mm. If not, where do we need to be?

I assume that there are also some athletic criteria involved in the evaluation, but don't know. If so, where are we in that respect?

Someone who says we are close' as you have proclaimed to know, should be able to answer those questions even without them being asked specifically, otherwise the opinion that we are close is nothing more than gobbledygook.

So, do you really know or is your opinion just gook?

At the risk of being Boomered into doing research, I'm going to go out on a limb and declare UL is real close to R1 status.

[CajunVic]

At the risk of being Boomered into doing research, I'm going to go out on a limb and declare UL is real close to R1 status.

While you you are at it, you might as well test the full limits of your limb and declare in the black "that we have been close forever."

[VObserver]

Carnegie R1 requires a minimum of 10 PhD programs; we have 9 plus two doctoral equivalent professional development programs [EdD and DNP] which may or may not count as PhD programs for Carnegie purposes. I have heard at various times that we lack 1 PhD program, and/or that we fall short of the required number [100?] of PhD graduates/year.

Our administration, as is normal around UL, is not very forthcoming with specific information on this subject. I do know that it is a stated goal of Dr. Savoie to achieve R1 status, and that ever since he has been in office, the official position when questioned has been a vague "We are very close".