Achieving R1 Status

[HoustonCajun]

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?

Keep in mind that the $400M in endowment is part of requirements only by Texas legislature for schools to access Tier 1 funds when meeting those criteria. It has nothing to do with achieving actual Carnegie R1 status.

[cajun4life]

Keep in mind that the $400M in endowment is part of requirements only by Texas legislature for schools to access Tier 1 funds when meeting those criteria. It has nothing to do with achieving actual Carnegie R1 status.

Our endowment has been over $100M since the late ‘90’s. Yet we haven’t broken $200M in 20 years. It just goes to show that we have a very long way to go.

[CajunVic]

Our endowment has been over $100M since the late ‘90’s. Yet we haven’t broken $200M in 20 years. It just goes to show that we have a very long way to go.

Or maybe, just maybe we don't if lanny is correct that GaSt has less endowment $$$$ than us and they have achieved R1 Status.

[Cajun90]

All you never wanted to know about Carnegie Classification...….. below are a couple of weblinks for Carnegie classification. They are in depth and have multiple data links which if given enough time can be interesting to go through. The most important thing though is this..... there is NO list or check sheet for classification. Classifications are based on a statistical formula. The formula IS NOT PUBLIC.

See the quote below regarding their methodology>

The final classification of each school is based on a standardized (Carnegie does not specify the exact formula) distance of the Carnegie principal component scores from a particular point (again unspecified, but approximately the minimum of each score). The very-high-research category is the set of schools farthest away from this point.

Starting points if you want to do your own research:

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

http://carnegieclassifications.iu.ed...dex_Method.pdf

https://amstat.tandfonline.com/doi/f...1#.XEH8A_ZFxPY

Ultimately it is impossible to know with certainty what needs to be done to achieve R1. I would believe that persons associated with the University have certainly researched the issue enough to have a good idea of what needs to happen.

I will say this. In my review of the data there is a tremendous gap in R&D monies between most R2 & R1 universities.

For example, the latest data from Carnegie has median Science and Engineering R&D expenditures at approximately 296 million for R1 and 26 million for R2. We had approximately 79 million. Well above median R2 but well below median R1.

For non Science and Engineering R&D expenditures the median was approximately 19 million for R1 and 2 million for R2. We had approximately 22 million. Obviously we do not have an issue in this category.

If you really want to dig into it follow the excel spreadsheet links in the articles referenced above.

[cajun4life]

Or maybe, just maybe we don't if lanny is correct that GaSt has less endowment $$$$ than us and they have achieved R1 Status.

See above post.....🖕🏻

[DieHard1280]

Sounds like we'll be very close to reaching R1 status in 2029.

[cajun_lannister]

See above post.....🖕🏻

I think some are confusing endowment and R&D money

[Cajun90]

I think some are confusing endowment and R&D money

Just to be clear. Endowments do not show up on the list of variables used by Carnegie.

[cajun4life]

I think some are confusing endowment and R&D money

No he is just stalking every post I make.

[CajunVic]

No he is just stalking every post I make.

Your posts on this board (while many) were nothing more than a gnat on a bull's behind to me until you decided to attack me for no apparent reason. You and I had never even had friendly banter on this board before then. Well, you asked for it and you got it.

By the way, I'm sure that you noticed that Turbine censored me earlier this week for calling you a douchebag, so I won't do that again. And for the record, I can't take credit for that thought as it was PM to me by another poster.

On the other hand, you got censored by Turbine for posting totally inaccurate information (I call it lying), and from having paid attention to your posts since you attacked me, I'm not sure you are capable of learning from you censorship.

[cajun4life]

Your posts on this board (while many) were nothing more than a gnat on a bull's behind to me until you decided to attack me for no apparent reason. You and I had never even had friendly banter on this board before then. Well, you asked for it and you got it.

By the way, I'm sure that you noticed that Turbine censored me earlier this week for calling you a douchebag, so I won't do that again. And for the record, I can't take credit for that thought as it was PM to me by another poster.

On the other hand, you got censored by Turbine for posting totally inaccurate information (I call it lying), and from having paid attention to your posts since you attacked me, I'm not sure you are capable of learning from you censorship.

Inaccurate? By the way I don’t care what turbine censors. Not a single post of yours stood out until you championed against cigar smoke, looked like a fool. Then didn’t drop it and criticized coach Napier for celebrating a division championship.

Then when people post inside information you continuously try to discredit the info or stalk every single post that is made by said person. You’ve done that to at least one other poster on this forum besides myself.

The difference is that my credibility on this forum since the early days of Ragin Pagin has been pretty darn good. But you can keep acting like a fool. I’ll keep calling spades a spade. If you don’t like that, then put me on ignore.

[CajunVic]

Inaccurate? By the way I don't care what turbine censors. Not a single post of yours stood out until you championed against cigar smoke, looked like a fool. Then didn't drop it and criticized coach Napier for celebrating a division championship.

I challenge you to find one post where I did this.