Table 2. Comparison of junior faculty success rates and outcomes (Control = no COBRE; Mentored = with COBRE support) at the University of Nevada, Reno, 2000–2014.
| Overall faculty success | Male faculty success | Female faculty success | English as 1st language success | English as 2nd or 3rd language success | Retention at UNR | Successful faculty: mean # of 1st author papers | Faculty without success: mean # of 1st author papers | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No COBRE | 15% | 30.0% | 0.0% | 10% | 20% | 40% | 11.33 | 3.24 |
| 3/20 | 3/10 | 0/10 | 1/10 | 2/10 | 8/20 | n = 3 | n = 17 | |
| p = 0.19** | ||||||||
| With COBRE | 47.1% | 66.6% | 20.0% | 45.5% | 75% | 64.7% | 13.00 | 3.33 |
| 8/17 | 10/15 | 1/5 | 5/11 | 6/8 | 11/17 | n = 11 | n = 9 | |
| p = 0.0002** | ||||||||
| Total n | 37* | 25* | 15* | 22 | 18 | 37* | 14 | 26 |
| Statistics (t-test) | p = 0.0404 | p < 0.1 | p < 0.0001 | |||||
Notes.
*
n = 37 (not 40) for the overall success and retention calculation, because three successful faculty from the two current COBREs cannot yet be compared with their peers who are still being mentored.
**
unpaired t-test; when all successful vs. non-successful faculty combined for # of 1st-author papers, p < 0.0001.
- COBRE
- Center of Biomedical Research Excellence
- UNR
- University of Nevada, Reno