Wow, I believe we have reached President Khator’s goal.
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Didn’t know this was one of her goals but still awesome!
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Says we still have the top 50 goal in the US News rankings. This link is Forbes but is still great and a step towards top50 in the US News rankings.
I’m sure Dr Khator will elaborate on whether this is it or still wanting top 50 in US News.
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Still awesome.
Top 50 in public school research spending also comes up w AAU.
Far benchmark.
Big-time in AAU territory & cranking out the IP, etc.
UH # 113 w privates u included. (2022)
https://ncsesdata.nsf.gov/profiles/site?method=rankingbysource&ds=herd
And this.
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Now, go be a top 25 public school!
I think the goal is to be a USNEWS public Top 50.
Still need to move up about 20 places for that.
But we’re at least heading in the right direction.
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We still need to do what UH1927 said and upgrade other areas like:
-A stronger fish camp
-Building more dorms like the new proposed one for 1000 by the 2027 b day
-attracting / accepting more ROI students who care about UH just like other p4 students at GaTech, UT , Lsu , Ole Miss etc.
(Note: there was an article that said Notre dame and about 20 other schools target rural small town kids or at least out of their commuting zone.
This increases donations in the future and creates more like a Tillman or chances for it. We’re going corporate for donations which is good but also bc many here don’t get it and want us to continue as is without addressing the “root” cause of why we don’t have the alumni engagement like at least Texas tech or ole miss or miss st/most p4 s.
It’s good if we get top50 or AAU but we need to be p4 in alumni engagement.
The other way is to simply increase on campus or near campus population regardless of what city they are from but getting them from out of the area forces them to live on campus then it helps UH down the road.
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Unfortunately, R&D expenditures at UH appear to be down for fiscal year 2023. We are now fourth in Texas with TTU passing to becoming third. UTSA is fifth but will likely double UH after the merger.
TAMU - $1,278 billion
UT - $956.61 million
TTU - $240.11 million
UH - $232.68 million
UTSA - $150.33 million
does the medical school research factor into this? Really disappointing to see that we’re down for 2023. I hope there are plans to address this for next year
Yes, the College of Medicine is an academic college at UH.
I hope there’s positive news at the Division of Research, but the budget cuts have me concerned.
Sadly, post-merger, UTSA will leapfrog everyone else to be #3 in research budget.
They truly might have moved in front of us in the waiting line for AAU.
It’s depressing.
We need to hit about 500 mm. I remember that being the AAU average
This is our real problem, and this is a direct result of the budget cuts that are impacting faculty hiring and retention. All the rest is just window dressing.
This is actually really bad. How can we be top 50 and TTU AND UTSA pass us in R&D. I’m extremely disappointed in UH for letting these schools leap frog them when they are double our ranking.
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At least in the case of UTSA, there’s not really a ton that we can do about that. If the UT system decides, as they seemingly have, that they’re willing to throw a couple bil worth of resources at a school and basically spin up an AAU school out of whole cloth, we can’t really compete with that. I’d be unsurprised if they end up doing something similar with UTD and UT-Southwestern. That’d give us 4 AAU-level publics and more AAU degrees per capita than CA.
I really feel the State of Texas missed the boat on higher education.
Every public school in the state should have been filtered into either the UT or TAMU system.
It would have been a unified front to rise all public Universities in the state and eliminate Texans seeking out of state options, similar to how California operarates. Yes, there are some things we can learn from Cali Politics and higher education is one of them- Their public AAU members puts us to shame.
instead the State of Texas operated on an “Orphan” public school system where they ONLY funded two systems and the rest (i.e UH, TT, and the other publics) had to travel to the State Capitol and literally BEG for minimum funding. Im sure we’ve all seen those "begging " caravans.
Looks like they are finally changing that strategy, in 2023, but that move is a HUNDRED years behind many of our bigger competition states
There is ZERO reasons why UH can’t be equal to UCLA TODAY other than the State of Texas did not want UH to be their version of UCLA…the funding disparity proves that at the UT-H proposal proved the UT system was going to attempt to create an AAU potential school, out of thin air , completely bypassing and ignoring the GIANT “Orphan” public state school already in that market. Had UH already been in the UT or TAMU system, that NEVER would have been proposed and you also notice how those two systems are very sensitulive to treading on the other’s turf. TAMU could EASILY justify a TAMU- Austin campus but they have not!
Luckily, UT-H was viewed as redundant and a waste of resources, especially with the steep population decreases projected due to declining birth rates.
Birth rates plummeted during the 2008-2010 recession and those born will start turning 18 in 2026…let’s see how it effects enrollment numbers.
I’m not quite sure that’s the way that the UC system’s selectivity has affected California. They have quite a lot of students that still go out of state, owing at least in part to the fact that the UCs are extraordinarily selective and don’t seem to give any real preference to in-state students, which means that they push out a lot of very good local students. Arizona and Oregon might as well be UC-Tucson and UC-Eugene, demographically; both of those schools owe their vitality in large part to CA students who weren’t quite good enough for the UCs but wanted more than a CSU can offer.
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California’s system is good IF you are a member of the University of California system. Many of its members are AAU, and others R1.
It’s not so great if you are in the Cal State Whatever or Cal Poly systems, or Cal Maritime.
Many of those schools are R2 or less, with little hope of moving up.
In EVERY state, you have flagship publics (California has Cal and UCLA) that get funded way better than anyone else, and non-flagships that have to fight to keep up.
I do wish that, like California, Texas had more AAU publics. As it stands now, it’s just UT and aTm. Sadly, UTSA may have moved ahead of us in the AAU waiting line by merging with UT Med Branch in San Antonio, and massively upping its research dollars.
By contrast, EIGHT members of the University of California system are AAU.
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Enough about Texas Tech and Arizona State, though.
Actually the Cal Poly Schools are quite good. The state has made a concerted effort to invest in them.
Also, the state has put more money into the Cal State system, specifically San Diego State, Fresno State and San Jose State (SoCal, CenCal and NorCal). It used to be that the Cal State system as focused on teaching and didn’t even grant PhDs, but that began to change about 20 years ago.