The Statistical Research Center of the American Institute of Physics has been collecting Enrollment and Degree data for over four decades. This departmental census goes out in the fall of each year to all physics and astronomy departments in the US and Puerto Rico. This report is based on data collected in the fall of 2005 from the 764 departments…

Describes the norms and functions of the academic department in large American research universities. The department is seen as an arm of a specialized discipline as well as the administrative unit which applies university resources to the functions of graduate and undergraduate education, recruitment and promotion of academic staff, and research.…

The Carnegie Foundation has developed a new set of lenses for viewing American higher education that broadens description of U.S. colleges and universities. By expanding the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education from a single typology to a set of distinct classifications representing several ways to think about how colleges…