Footnotes

¹Carole Beere, a Graduate Dean, served as the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Council of Graduate Schools.


²Beere, C. A. (2007, April), Value of the Graduate College, a paper presented at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Midwest Association of Graduate Schools, Indianapolis.


³Indeed, the first sentence of the first chapter of Adam Smith’s book An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations attributes increase in productivity to division of labor: “The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment with which it is any where directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labour.” [Edwin Cannan, ed. 1904. Library of Economics and Liberty. Retrieved April 11, 2011 from the World Wide Web: http://www.econlib.org/library/Smith/smWN1.html

⁴Source: State of Washington Department of Personnel.


⁵The cost allocation study was submitted March 29, 2011 to the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Cost Allocation, the federal office designated to negotiate the indirect cost rates with the University.


⁶Consider one function, admissions, for example. While application packages for undergraduate admissions are uniform and decisions are made by admission officers, for graduate admissions each program has its own application requirements and some include prior identification of and negotiation with faculty on research areas.


⁷We calculated this figure on the basis of undergraduate enrollment because departmental administrators serve the needs of those students, while the Graduate School staff serves the needs of graduate students. This calculation is an underestimate since we did not include the cost of the support staff in departments that do not offer graduate programs yet we divide by the number of students In all departments, thus underestimating support staff costs per student. The numbers of students both undergraduate and graduate are those reported by the University in the Common Data Set.  


⁸This, too, is an underestimate since we multiply by the actual fall 2010 enrollment rather than the total enrollment from the Common Data Set of 1,179 which is the number of all graduate students including those who did not register for credits in fall of 2010.

⁹Staffing is determined from the University budge.


¹⁰The functions that would be transferred to the Registrar and to Student Financial resources currently consume 1.50 FTE, or 50%, of Graduate School staff time. Assuming zero cost for these functions under the decentralized system, again underestimates the cost of that system.


¹¹This can be regarded as a major deficiency of decentralization: the universities that have no graduate school are not in the circuit of discussion of current issues in graduate education, have limited access data on innovations and best practices and have no input in policy formation or advocacy for legislation affecting graduate education. Furthermore, they have no single individual whose is focused on such issues.


¹²We needed to develop the methodologies, collect the data complete the analyses in less than one week.


¹³Our university has an average of .59 and including it would have lowered the average for centralized graduate schools.