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SUMMARY OF MAJOR TRENDS 42 DOCTORAL INSTITUTION GROWTH PATTERNS: PER-PERSON EXPENDITURES An index of average operating expenditures per faculty member, as well as education expenditures per student and per degree granted, reveals steady growth during the 1960s, no growth during the 1970s, then rapid growth through the 1980s. Figure 2-10: Index of Doctoral Institution Per-Unit Expenditures NOTE: Index based on financial data computed in 1988 constant dollars. DEFINITION OF TERMS: Expenditures consist of current-fund expenditures for instruction, research, public service, academic support, student services, institutional support, operation and maintenance of plant, scholarships and fellowships, and educational and mandatory transfers and expenditures for hospitals, auxiliary enterprises, and FFRDCs. Excludes expenditures from institutional plant fund accounts and Pell Grants. Educational Expenditures include current-fund expenditures for instruction, academic support, student services, institutional support, operation and maintenance of plant, scholarships and fellowships, and educational and mandatory transfers. Faculty include all instructional members of the instruction or research staff whose major regular assignment is instruction, including those with release time for research. Students include all full-time students plus a full-time equivalent of part-time students as reported by doctoral institutions. Degrees include all degreesâundergraduate and graduateâin all academic disciplines. Doctoral institutions are institutions that have granted an average of 10 or more Ph.D. degrees per year in the natural sciences or engineering over the past two decades. They include 116 public and 69 private institutions. SOURCE: National Science Foundation, Division of Policy Research and Analysis. Database: CASPAR. Some of the data within this database are estimates, incorporated where there are discontinuities within data series or gaps in data collection. Primary data source: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS): Degrees and Other Formal Awards Conferred, Fall Enrollment in Institutions of Higher Education, Financial Statistics of Institutions of Higher Education; American Council on Education; National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges.
