Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 66.71
Liaison Christie-Joy Hartman
Submission Date Sept. 13, 2024

STARS v2.2

James Madison University
PRE-5: Academics and Demographics

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete N/A Louis Hedrick
Associate Director for Institutional Research
Planning, Analytics, and Institutional Research
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Number of academic divisions:
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:
24,300

Total number of employees:
3,832

 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:
21,301

Full-time equivalent of students enrolled exclusively in distance education:
1,555

Full-time equivalent of employees:
3,336

 On-Campus Residents

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

Number of students resident on-site:
6,141

Number of employees resident on-site:
11

Number of other individuals resident on-site:
0

 Weighted Campus Users

Weighted campus users, performance year:
18,849.50

 Optional Fields

Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

Responsible party for FTE and Headcounts: Lou Hedrick, Associate Director for Institutional Research, Office of Planning, Analytics & Institutional Research source: IPEDS 12-Month Enrollment 2022-23 and IPEDS Human Resources 2022-23 - Summary for Fall 2022

Responsible party for On Campus Residents: Kathleen Campbell, Director, Office of Residence Life, coordinated by Lou Hedrick.

Entered January 19, 2024.

An academic division is an administrative division of a college, university, or school faculty that is devoted to a subset of students (e.g., Undergraduate School) or a particular academic degree program or discipline (e.g., School of Architecture). Divisions may exist under other nomenclature and with coarser or finer divisions, depending upon each institution’s context. JMU department equivalents and colleges for this report were established as consistent with 2018 STARS methodology.

For the 2018 STARS report, a list of department-equivalents was established by Melissa Altman, ISNW, in collaboration with Ms. Kristi Shackelford, Assistant Vice Provost, Academic Policy and Curriculum Development, in 2017. To be designated a department-equivalent, a unit met at least two of these three criteria:

(1) units that have 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) units that offer for-credit courses (per list of course identifiers provided by K. Shackelford’s office for course mapping in AC1) and

(3) units that have faculty as represented in the University Faculty (p. 451-477) listing in the 2015-2016 catalog."

For this report, Essa Paterson, ISNW conducted the analysis. A list of units that were possible department equivalents was created, and it was determined which met two or three of the three above criteria. First, a list of academic units with separate promotion and tenure guidelines as of August 2023 was created using the promotion and tenure guidelines posted by JMU at https://www.jmu.edu/academic-affairs/policies-and-reports/pnt-guidelines.shtml. Next, a list of academic units that offer for-credit courses was created using the list of course identifiers provided by K. Shackelford for AC1. Then, a list of academic units was created that have faculty as represented in the 2022 - 2023 undergraduate catalog University Faculty listing (p.658-689) and graduate catalog University Faculty listing (p.215 - 263). The 2022-23 Undergraduate Catalog was used to correspond to the year used to create the course inventory in AC 1. Units were identified as department equivalents if they met at least two of the criteria.

The resulting list of department equivalents follows:

1 Accounting, School of

2 Art, Design and Art History, School of

3 Biology, Department of

4 Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of

5 Computer Information Systems & Business Analytics, Department of

6 Communication Science and Disorders, Department of

7 Communication Studies, School of

8 Computer Science, Department of

9 Early, Elementary & Reading Education, Department of

10 Economics, Department of

11 Educational Foundations and Exceptionalities, Department of

12 Engineering, Department of

13 English, Department of

14 Finance and Business Law, Department of

15 Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Department of

16 Geology & Environmental Science, Department of

17 Hart School of Hospitality, Sport and Rec Management

18 Health Professions, Department of

19 Health Sciences, Department of

20 History, Department of 

21 International Business Program, Department of

22 Interdisciplinary Liberal Studies (IDLS), Department of

23 Integrated Sciences, School of

24 Justice Studies, Department of

25 Kinesiology, Department of 

26 Learning, Technology and Leadership Education, Department of

27 Management, Department of

28 Marketing, Department of

29 Mathematics and Statistics, Department of

30 Media Arts and Design, School of

31 Middle, Secondary and Mathematics Education, Department of

32 Military Science, Department of

33 Music, School of

34 Nursing, School of

35 Philosophy and Religion, Department of

36 Physics and Astronomy, Department of

37 Political Science, Department of

38 Graduate Psychology, Department of

39 Psychology (undergraduate), Department of

40 Social Work, Department of

41 Sociology and Anthropology, Department of

42 Strategic Leadership Studies, School of

43 Theatre and Dance, School of

44 Writing, Rhetoric and Technical Communication, School of

45 JMU Libraries

 

The following eight units, which were counted for STARS as colleges, have department-equivalents under them:

College of Arts and Letters

College of Business

College of Education

College of Health and Behavioral Studies

College of Integrated Science and Engineering

College of Science and Mathematics

College of Visual and Performing Arts

University Studies

 

Three other colleges and academic administrative units listed in the catalog do not have department-equivalents under them and were not counted as colleges for the purpose of STARS:

Graduate School

Honors College

School of Professional and Continuing Education

 

Also, the Libraries academic administrative unit was already counted as a department-equivalent and was not double-counted as a college.

 

Updated September 1, 2023 and August 8, 2024. Reviewed by Kristi Shackelford.


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