Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 56.72
Liaison Christie-Joy Hartman
Submission Date May 12, 2017
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STARS v2.1

James Madison University
IC-3: Academics and Demographics

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete N/A Elaine Smith
Office Manager
Office of Institutional Research
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Number of academic divisions (e.g. colleges, schools):
8

Number of academic departments (or the equivalent):
45

 Headcounts

Report the unduplicated total number of students enrolled and workers employed over a 12-month period or else representative headcounts (e.g. autumn figures).

Number of students enrolled for credit:
23,782

Total number of employees (staff + faculty):
3,668

 Full-Time Equivalents (FTE)

Report the institution’s best estimates, annualized as feasible and/or calculated according to relevant national, regional or international standards. Non-credit students may be included.

Full-time equivalent student enrollment (undergraduate and graduate):
20,877

Full-time equivalent of employees (staff + faculty):
3,177

Full-time equivalent of students enrolled exclusively in distance education:
342

 On-Campus Residents

Report annualized headcounts as feasible or else representative snapshots (e.g. autumn headcounts).

Number of students resident on-site:
6,289

Number of employees resident on-site:
9

Number of other individuals resident on-site, e.g. family members of employees, individuals lodging on-site (by average occupancy rate), and/or staffed hospital beds (if applicable):
0

 Weighted Campus Users

Weighted campus users, performance year:
19,358.50

 Optional Fields

Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
Responsible party for number of employees resident on-site: Dr. James McConnel, Assistant Vice President, Student Life and Involvement. The 9 entered is comprised of 5 full-time professional hall directors and 3 to 4 (depending on the year) live-in faculty members. Responsible party for all other data except department-equivalents: Elaine Smith, Office Manager, Office of Institutional Research. Information from the Common Data Set 2015-2016 http://www.jmu.edu/instresrch/cds/2015/CDS2015-16.pdf FTE of students enrolled exclusively in distance education is calculated based on the headcount of distance education students multiplied by the ratio of FTE/headcount overall, as allowed in STARS manual in place of unavailable data. Data entered by Melissa Altman and Michael Dalmolin, Sustainability Coordinator, Facilities Management. The list of department-equivalents was established by Melissa Altman in collaboration with Kristi Shackelford, Assistant Vice Provost, Academic Policy and Curriculum Development. Each department-equivalent meets at least two of these three criteria: (1) Department-equivalents listed with separate promotion and tenure guidelines at the department-equivalent level as of February 2017 https://www.jmu.edu/academic-affairs/policies-and-reports/pnt-guidelines.shtml (2) Department-equivalents that offer for-credit courses (per list of course identifiers provided by K. Shackelford’s office for course mapping in AC1) (3) Department-equivalents that have faculty as represented in the University Faculty (p. 451-477) listing in the 2015-2016 course catalog. List of Departments 1. School of Communication Studies 2. Department of English 3. Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures 4. Department of History 5. Department of Justice Studies 6. School of Media Arts and Design 7. Department of Philosophy and Religion 8. Department of Political Science 9. Department of Sociology and Anthropology 10. School of Writing, Rhetoric and Technical Communication 11. School of Accounting 12. Department of Computer Information Systems and Business Analytics 13. Department of Economics 14. Department of Finance and Business Law 15. Program of International Business 16. Department of Management 17. Department of Marketing 18. Program of Hospitality Management 19. Program of Sport and Recreation Management 20. Department of Early, Elementary and Reading Education 21. Department of Educational Foundations and Exceptionalities 22. Department of Learning, Technology and Leadership Education 23. Department of Middle, Secondary and Math Education 24. Department of Military Science 25. Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders 26. Department of Health Sciences 27. Department of Kinesiology 28. Department of Nursing 29. Department of Psychology 30. Department of Graduate Psychology 31. Department of Social Work 32. Department of Computer Science 33. Department of Engineering 34. Department of Integrated Science and Technology 35. Department of Biology 36. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry 37. Department of Geology and Environmental Science 38. Department of Mathematics and Statistics 39. Department of Physics and Astronomy 40. School of Art, Design and Art History 41. School of Music 42. School of Theatre and Dance 43. Department of Interdisciplinary Liberal Studies 44. School of Strategic Leadership Studies 45. Department of Libraries and Educational Technologies

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