- A. Purpose and Methodology
- B. Institutional Information
- C. Community Service/Service-learning/Civic Engagement on Campus
- D. Faculty Roles and Rewards
- E. Infrastructure
B. Institutional Information
As shown in Figure 1, Campus Compact membership has increased dramatically over the past two decades, originating with 4 member institutions in 1985 and increasing to 1045 in October 2006.
Figure 1. Growth of Campus Compact (1985-2006)
As shown in Figure 2, 51% of respondents were from public two- and four-year institutions and 49% were from private two-year and four-year institutions.
Figure 2. Institutional Characteristics
As shown in Figure 3 below, the majority of colleges and universities were Liberal Arts institutions (53%) or Religiously-affiliated/Faith-based (29%) with a smaller percentage being described by respondents as predominantly Hispanic-serving (5%) or Historically Black (3%). These patterns of results are similar to those presented in the 2003-04 and 04-05 report, with more Liberal Arts and Religiosity-affiliated/Faith-based schools participating.
Figure 3. Other Institutional Characteristics
For the 11% of respondents who indicated there were other characteristics about their institutions not included, the majority of those responses described their institutions as either (a) technical, professional, business, and/or career; (b) minority-serving (including tribal, Native American-serving, Hawaiian and women); and/or (c) regional/state institutions.
Undergraduate Enrollment and Faculty
Of the 551 respondents who reported on their full-time equivalent undergraduate enrollment, a total number of 3,462,563 students were accounted for. Enrollment among member institutions ranged from 69 to 60,000 students with an average enrollment of 6,284 students per campus. These rates are generally consistent with an average of 6,911 students in 2004-05, 6,836 students in 2003-04, 7,037 students in the 2002-03 year and 7,185 students in the 2001-02 year. As shown in Figure 4, 28% of schools had 1,501 to 3000 students, followed by schools with more than 7,500 students (27%), schools with 3,001 to 7,500 students (23%) and schools with less than 1,500 students (22%).
Figure 4. Current FTE Undergraduate Enrollment
In addition to student enrollment, the total number of full-time faculty at member institutions was also assessed. Of the 531 respondents who reported this information, a total of 252,068 full-time faculty were reported on the 2005-06 survey as compared with 183,097 in the 2004-05 administration, and 165,943 full-time faculty members reported on in 2003-04. The number of full-time faculty ranged from 4 to 16,058 with an overall average of 474 faculty members per institution, which is more than the 422 faculty per institution reported in 2004-05. When broken down into categories, 28% of institutions had fewer than 100 full-time faculty, 30% had between 100 and 200, 28% had between 200 and 750 and 14% of institutions had more than 750 full-time faculty.
Figure 5: Current Full-time faculty
