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Alongside the specific questions about the state of humanities departments, the survey also asked about a set of more general practices, such as perceptions of the criteria for tenure and practices of student assessment. Note that the degree-granting departments and programs studied in the Humanities Departmental Survey (HDS-2) were all at four-year colleges and universities.

Considerations in Tenure Decision Made by Humanities Departments (All Disciplines Combined), by Institutional Type, Fall 2012

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* CC—Carnegie Classification: PUG—Primarily Undergraduate, Comp—Comprehensive, PRes—Primarily Research
Note: Information for the individual disciplines is provided in their sections of the report. (Comparisons to 2007 data are not valid because the question in HDS-2 is not the same as in HDS-1.)
Source: Susan White, Raymond Chu, and Roman Czujko, The 2012–13 Survey of Humanities Departments at Four-Year Institutions (College Park, MD: Statistical Research Center, American Institute of Physics, 2014). Study conducted for the American Academy of Arts Sciences’ Humanities Indicators Project.

Availability of Institutional or Departmental Support for Research from Humanities Departments (All Disciplines Combined), Fall 2012

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Note: Information for the individual disciplines is provided in the disciplinary section of the report.
Source: Susan White, Raymond Chu, and Roman Czujko, The 2012–13 Survey of Humanities Departments at Four-Year Institutions (College Park, MD: Statistical Research Center, American Institute of Physics, 2014). Study conducted for the American Academy of Arts Sciences’ Humanities Indicators Project.

Assessment of Overall Undergraduate Student Learning by Discipline as of Fall 2012 Term

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Note: The sum of the columns across each row may exceed 100% because respondents could select multiple choices.
* The “assessment” is an aggregate assessment based on examining the results from a given cohort of students in an attempt to examine the effectiveness of a program.
Source: Susan White, Raymond Chu, and Roman Czujko, The 2012–13 Survey of Humanities Departments at Four-Year Institutions (College Park, MD: Statistical Research Center, American Institute of Physics, 2014). Study conducted for the American Academy of Arts Sciences’ Humanities Indicators Project.

Assessment* of Overall Undergraduate Student Learning by Carnegie Classification and Form of Control, Fall 2012 Term

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Information for individual disciplines is available in the disciplinary section of the report.
Note: The sum of the four rows in any column may exceed 100% because respondents could select multiple choices.
* The “assessment” is an aggregate assessment based on examining the results from a given cohort of students in an attempt to examine the effectiveness of a program.
Source: Susan White, Raymond Chu, and Roman Czujko, The 2012–13 Survey of Humanities Departments at Four-Year Institutions (College Park, MD: Statistical Research Center, American Institute of Physics, 2014). Study conducted for the American Academy of Arts Sciences’ Humanities Indicators Project.

Departments Ceasing to Grant Degrees at Some Level (Fall 2007–Fall 2012), by Carnegie Classification and Form of Control

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° The number of respondents was too small to provide a reliable estimate.
Source: Susan White, Raymond Chu, and Roman Czujko, The 2012–13 Survey of Humanities Departments at Four-Year Institutions (College Park, MD: Statistical Research Center, American Institute of Physics, 2014). Study conducted for the American Academy of Arts Sciences’ Humanities Indicators Project.

Departments with Language Requirements for Doctoral Degree, by Carnegie Classification and Form of Control, Fall 2012

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° The number of respondents was too small to provide a reliable estimate.
Source: Susan White, Raymond Chu, and Roman Czujko, The 2012–13 Survey of Humanities Departments at Four-Year Institutions (College Park, MD: Statistical Research Center, American Institute of Physics, 2014). Study conducted for the American Academy of Arts Sciences’ Humanities Indicators Project.

Percentage of Humanities Departments in Which Selected Tenure Criteria Are of Various Degrees of Importance, Fall 2012

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*For the purposes of HDS-2, the “public humanities” was defined as making the humanities and/or humanities scholarship accessible to the general public.


Source: Susan White, Raymond Chu, and Roman Czujko, The 2012–13 Survey of Humanities Departments at Four-Year Institutions, Table 7, p. 14 (College Park, MD: Statistical Research Center, American Institute of Physics, 2014). Study conducted for the American Academy of Arts Sciences’ Humanities Indicators Project.

Percentage of Humanities Departments Indicating Activity Is an “Essential” or “Very Important” Consideration in Tenure Decisions, by Discipline, Fall 2012

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*For the purposes of HDS-2, the “public humanities” was defined as making the humanities and/or humanities scholarship accessible to the general public.
Source: Susan White, Raymond Chu, and Roman Czujko, The 2012–13 Survey of Humanities Departments at Four-Year Institutions, Table 7, p. 14 (College Park, MD: Statistical Research Center, American Institute of Physics, 2014). Study conducted for the American Academy of Arts Sciences’ Humanities Indicators Project.

Percentage of Humanities Departments in Which Activity Is an “Essential” or “Very Important” Consideration in Tenure Decisions, by Discipline, Fall 2012

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* Includes research, scholarship, and creative work.

** For the purposes of HDS-2, the “public humanities” was defined as making the humanities and/or humanities scholarship accessible to the general public.
Source: Susan White, Raymond Chu, and Roman Czujko, The 2012–13 Survey of Humanities Departments at Four-Year Institutions, Table 13 in each discpline profile (College Park, MD: Statistical Research Center, American Institute of Physics, 2014). Study conducted for the American Academy of Arts Sciences’ Humanities Indicators Project.

Percentage of Humanities Departments That Conduct an Undergraduate Learning Outcomes Assessment,* by Scope of Assessment and Carnegie Classification, Fall 2012

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* An aggregate evaluation involving the measurement of the learning outcomes of a given cohort of students in an attempt to gauge the effectiveness of a program. The bars for each discipline will not necessarily sum to 100%, because departments could indicate they had conducted assessments based on more than one group of students. See disciplinary tables for specific totals.
Source: Susan White, Raymond Chu, and Roman Czujko, The 2012–13 Survey of Humanities Departments at Four-Year Institutions, Table 13, p. 21 (College Park, MD: Statistical Research Center, American Institute of Physics, 2014). Study conducted for the American Academy of Arts Sciences’ Humanities Indicators Project.

Percentage of Humanities Departments That Conduct an Undergraduate Learning Outcomes Assessment,* by Scope of Assessment and Discipline, Fall 2012

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* An aggregate evaluation involving the measurement of the learning outcomes of a given cohort of students in an attempt to gauge the effectiveness of a program. The bars for each discipline will not necessarily sum to 100%, because departments could also indicate they had conducted assessments of some other group of students. See disciplinary tables for specific totals.

** A combined department is one that grants degrees in English and also in languages and literatures other than English.
Source: Susan White, Raymond Chu, and Roman Czujko, The 2012–13 Survey of Humanities Departments at Four-Year Institutions, Table 12, p. 21 (College Park, MD: Statistical Research Center, American Institute of Physics, 2014). Study conducted for the American Academy of Arts Sciences’ Humanities Indicators Project.

Percentage of Humanities Departments Engaged in Service to the Community, by Type of Service and Discipline, Academic Year 2011–12

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* A combined department is one that grants degrees in English and also in languages and literatures other than English.
Source: Susan White, Raymond Chu, and Roman Czujko, The 2012–13 Survey of Humanities Departments at Four-Year Institutions, Table 22, p. 31 (College Park, MD: Statistical Research Center, American Institute of Physics, 2014). Study conducted for the American Academy of Arts Sciences’ Humanities Indicators Project.
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