Table 4.
Hierarchical Generalized Linear Modeling (HGLM) results for faculty’s propensity to include undergraduates on their research project(s)
| Faculty N = 4,832, Institutional N = 194 | Log odds | SE | Δ-P | Sig. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Demographic characteristics | ||||
| Sex: female | −0.09 | 0.11 | 0.62 | |
| Native language: English | 0.11 | 0.17 | 0.34 | |
| Asian | 0.02 | 0.27 | 0.84 | |
| Latino | 0.79 | 0.78 | 0.28 | |
| Black | 0.13 | 0.37 | 0.78 | |
| Native American | −0.09 | 0.49 | 0.88 | |
| Professional career | ||||
| Tenured | 0.08 | 0.22 | 0.72 | |
| Time since appointed at present institution | −0.02 | 0.01 | −0.48% | 0.00 |
| Professor | −0.10 | 0.15 | 0.48 | |
| Assistant Professor | 0.30 | 0.25 | 0.23 | |
| Lecturer | −0.54 | 0.40 | 0.18 | |
| Instructor | −0.61 | 0.39 | 0.12 | |
| Discipline (life sciences is the reference group) | ||||
| Engineering and computer science | −0.69 | 0.14 | −17.04% | 0.00 |
| Health sciences | −1.47 | 0.16 | −34.55% | 0.00 |
| Physical sciences | −0.81 | 0.11 | −19.97% | 0.00 |
| Teaching activities | ||||
| Taught an honors course | 0.43 | 0.16 | 9.63% | 0.01 |
| Taught an interdisciplinary course | 0.25 | 0.11 | 5.76% | 0.02 |
| Taught a course exclusively on the Internet | −0.24 | 0.19 | 0.21 | |
| Taught a seminar for first-year students | 0.17 | 0.15 | 0.14 | |
| Number of undergraduate courses taught this term | 0.07 | 0.05 | 0.17 | |
| Number of graduate courses taught | −0.15 | 0.06 | −3.69% | 0.01 |
| Hrs/week scheduled teaching (actual, not credit hours) | 0.08 | 0.05 | 0.13 | |
| Other scholarly activities | ||||
| Collaborated with the local community in research/teaching | 0.35 | 0.12 | 7.94% | 0.00 |
| Advised student groups involved in service/volunteer work | 0.31 | 0.12 | 7.08% | 0.01 |
| Hrs/Week Research and scholarly writing | 0.21 | 0.04 | 4.87% | 0.00 |
| Extent: engage in academic work that spans multiple disciplines | 0.24 | 0.09 | 5.51% | 0.01 |
| Extent: mentor new faculty | 0.22 | 0.09 | 5.09% | 0.03 |
| Publications and funding | ||||
| Number of articles published in academic/professional journals (career) | 0.19 | 0.05 | 4.41% | 0.00 |
| Number of published books, manuals, or monographs (career) | −0.16 | 0.08 | −3.87% | 0.04 |
| Number of professional writings published/accepted for publication in the last 2 years | 0.11 | 0.08 | 0.14 | |
| Source of stress: research or publishing demands | 0.38 | 0.09 | 8.58% | 0.00 |
| Received funding for your work from: foundations | 0.38 | 0.13 | 8.58% | 0.01 |
| Received funding for your work from: state or federal government | 0.61 | 0.13 | 13.22% | 0.00 |
| Received funding for your work from: business or industry | 0.34 | 0.14 | 7.73% | 0.02 |
| Goals for undergraduates | ||||
| Promote ability to write effectively | 0.10 | 0.10 | 0.31 | |
| Help students evaluate the quality and reliability of information | 0.18 | 0.11 | 0.10 | |
| Encourage student habits of mind for learning (factor) | 0.29 | 0.06 | 6.64% | 0.00 |
| Goal for undergrads: enhance social understanding (factor) | −0.13 | 0.07 | 0.06 | |
| Institutional climate | ||||
| Institutional priority prestige (factor) | −0.04 | 0.07 | 0.61 | |
| Faculty are rewarded for their efforts to work with underprepared students | −0.14 | 0.09 | 0.13 | |
| Faculty feel that most students are well-prepared academically | 0.15 | 0.07 | 3.50% | 0.03 |
| Faculty here are strongly interested in the academic problems of undergraduates | 0.16 | 0.07 | 3.65% | 0.02 |
| My research is valued by faculty in my department | 0.13 | 0.06 | 3.04% | 0.05 |
| My values are congruent with the dominant institutional values | −0.13 | 0.07 | 0.06 | |
| Institutional characteristics | ||||
| Faculty average: importance of research | 0.17 | 0.20 | 0.38 | |
| Faculty average: institutional priority is prestige | −0.21 | 0.22 | 0.33 | |
| HBCU | 0.82 | 0.41 | 17.03% | 0.05 |
| Institution has a medical center | −0.45 | 0.30 | 0.13 | |
| Institutional control: private | −0.22 | 0.16 | 0.15 | |
| Liberal arts institution | 0.60 | 0.20 | 13.03% | 0.00 |
| Doctoral institution | −0.19 | 0.20 | 0.36 | |
| Institutional selectivity | 0.15 | 0.05 | 3.50% | 0.01 |
| Intercept | −2.30 | 0.87 | ||
| Variance at level-2 | 0.06 | |||
| Explained variance at level-2 | 0.59 | |||