Colleagues,
Our research activity is important information used for ranking many of our graduate programs. For the U.S. News ranking of graduate engineering programs, for example, research activity accounts for 50% of a program’s “score”. Metrics such as total research funding and expenditures, publications, citations and impact, degrees awarded, etc. are important factors for ranking, however these do not stand alone in influencing our rank. Deans, program directors, and senior faculty/administrators across the U.S. (and abroad, depending on the ranking organization), as well as employers recruiting our students, are surveyed to assess program quality.
We need your help to reach our peers and partners.
We are collecting contact information for these folks in this shared Google sheet. Please respond in the Google sheet with information for any colleagues, collaborators, former students, former research advisors/colleagues, influencers, those who should/need to be influenced, etc. from peer and collaborating institutions, industry partnerships/collaborations, and research sponsors. Please follow the requested format in the sheet wherever possible to make the follow-on actions of our colleagues smoother. While we ask for as much contact information as possible, even the name of an institution or organization alone is worth including. We will have support to pull relevant personnel info (e.g., Deans, VPs for Research, etc.) and contact info using as much information as you can offer.
We know that those who are surveyed are subjectively influenced by how much they already know and have recently learned about peer programs. With this in mind, we are launching an initiative to increase the amount and frequency of what we are sharing with the world about our research, along with the number of people/organizations with whom we share. How can our peers give us great quality scores if they aren’t regularly hearing from us?
We know that not all of us buy into the approaches used to rank programs, the reflection of a program’s true quality in rankings, etc. Regardless, what we do know is that prospective students are influenced by these rankings. The higher the rankings, the more we can depend on attracting strong students into our programs.
THANK YOU for your support!
Separately we’ll be following up with individuals and groups across campus to showcase your work in these communications. Please stay tuned! If you have specific interest in having your research highlighted sooner than later, please reach out to Madison Tripoli who will share this with the team coordinating the communications.
Please consider this as an opportunity to let the world know about the great work that you and your colleagues are doing. We’ll also be using this content to attract your future graduate students.
Thank you!Clarkson’s Marketing Team,
Sponsored Research Services, and The Graduate School