Data Requirements

School of Humanities & Sciences Departmental External Review Data Requirements

The list below suggests items that all departments will consider in the course of their Self-Study and should supply to reviewers; departments may add additional materials to support the analysis of specific issues. To ensure that a complete set of data is provided to the reviewers, the planning team is committed to working directly with the departments to provide all required data.

Faculty Data
- Faculty roster with research areas
- Faculty arrivals and departures
- Faculty awards, honors, academy memberships or other indications of national recognition
- Please ask your faculty to update their Stanford Faculty Profile (profiles.stanford.edu) during the fall semester, as this will be a useful site during the review process
Teaching
- Courses enrollments
Research
- Grant activity: proposals & awards
Graduate Education
- Admissions
  - Application offer selectivity and yield
  - GRE and TOEFL scores (Recent Applicant Population)
  - Applicant diversity profile
- Graduate program description and requirements
- Graduate student placement data, last 5 years
- Dissertations by advisor (date, student, advisor, dissertation title), last 5 years
- Graduate student grant funding – Fellowship awards, Training Grants
- Size of graduate student groups per faculty member
Undergraduate Education
- Undergraduate enrollments over time
- Courses offered
- Completed majors by ethnicity and gender
- Multiple majors
- Senior Survey description and results
- Undergraduate major description(s) and requirements
- Undergraduate advising (freshman, sophomore, major), last 5 years
Department Information
- Mission statement (if available)
- Description of departmental approach to assessing faculty teaching excellence and research productivity
  - (Not Required)Departments are welcome to provide:
    - Comparative data (with department-identified peers) on department size, teaching load, research productivity, and other metrics
    - Peer program information: if the department has data on peer programs that would support the self-study, please include it