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  2. COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATION
  3. PART 1. Signatures Attesting to Compliance
  4. PART 2. List of Substantive Changes Approved Since the Last Reaffirmation
  5. PART 3. Institutional Assessment of Compliance
    1. Section 2: Core Requirements
      1. 2.1 Degree-granting Authority
      2. 2.2 Governing Board
      3. 2.3 Chief Executive Officer
      4. 2.4 Institutional Mission
      5. 2.5 Institutional Effectiveness
        1. 2.5 Institutional Effectiveness (Continued)
      6. 2.6 Continuous Operation
      7. 2.7.1 Program Length
        1. 2.7.1 Program Length (Continued)
      8. 2.7.2 Program Content
      9. 2.7.3 General Education
      10. 2.7.4 Course work for Degrees
      11. 2.8 Faculty
      12. 2.9 Learning Resources and Services
      13. 2.10 Student Support Services
        1. 2.10 Student Support Services (Continued)
      14. 2.11.1 Financial Resources
      15. 2.11.2 Physical Resources
    2. Section 3: Comprehensive Standards
      1. 3.1.1 Mission
      2. 3.2.1 CEO evaluation/selection
      3. 3.2.2 Governing board control
      4. 3.2.3 Board conflict of interest
      5. 3.2.4 External Influence
      6. 3.2.5 Board dismissal
      7. 3.2.6 Board/administration distinction
      8. 3.2.7 Organizational structure
      9. 3.2.8 Qualified administrative/academic officers
      10. 3.2.9 Personnel appointment
      11. 3.2.10 Administrative staff evaluations
      12. 3.2.11 Control of intercollegiate athletics
      13. 3.2.12 Fund-raising activities
      14. 3.2.13 Institution-related entities
      15. 3.2.14 Intellectual property rights
      16. 3.3.1 Institutional Effectiveness
        1. 3.3.1.1
          1. 3.3.1.1 (Continued)
        2. 3.3.1.2
        3. 3.3.1.3
          1. 3.3.1.3 (Continued)
        4. 3.3.1.4
          1. 3.3.1.4 (Continued)
        5. 3.3.1.5
          1. 3.3.1.5 (Continued)
      17. 3.4.1 Academic program approval
      18. 3.4.2 Continuing education/service programs
      19. 3.4.3 Admissions policies
      20. 3.4.4 Acceptance of academic credit
      21. 3.4.5 Academic policies
      22. 3.4.6 Practices for awarding credit
      23. 3.4.7 Consortial relationships/contractual agreements
      24. 3.4.8 Noncredit to credit
      25. 3.4.9 Academic support services
        1. 3.4.9 (Continued)
        2. 3.4.9 (Continued - 2)
      26. 3.4.10 Responsibility for curriculum
      27. 3.4.11 Academic program coordination
      28. 3.4.12 Technology use
      29. 3.5.1 General education competencies
      30. 3.5.2 Institutional credits for a degree
      31. 3.5.3 Undergraduate program requirements
      32. 3.5.4 Terminal degrees of faculty
      33. 3.6.1 Post-baccalaureate program rigor
        1. 3.6.1 Post-baccalaureate program rigor (Continued)
      34. 3.6.2 Graduate curriculum
      35. 3.6.3 Institutional credits for a graduate degree
      36. 3.6.4 Post-baccalaureate program requirements
      37. 3.7.1 Faculty competence
      38. 3.7.2 Faculty evaluation
      39. 3.7.3 Faculty development
      40. 3.7.4 Academic freedom
      41. 3.7.5 Faculty role in governance
      42. 3.8.1 Learning/information resources
      43. 3.8.2 Instruction of library use
      44. 3.8.3 Qualified staff
      45. 3.9.1 Student rights
      46. 3.9.2 Student records
      47. 3.9.3 Qualified staff
      48. 3.10.1 Financial Stability
      49. 3.10.2 Financial aid audits
      50. 3.10.3 Control of finances
      51. 3.10.4 Control of sponsored research/external funds
      52. 3.11.1 Control of physical resources
      53. 3.11.2 Institutional environment
      54. 3.11.3 Physical facilities
      55. 3.12.1 Substantive change
      56. 3.13 Policy compliance
        1. 3.13.1 "Accrediting Decisions of Other Agencies"
        2. 3.13.2. "Collaborative Academic Arrangements: Policy and Procedures"
        3. 3.13.3. "Complaint Procedures Against the Commission or Its Accredited Institutions"
        4. 3.13.4. "Reaffirmation of Accreditation and Subsequent Reports"
          1. 3.13.4.a.
          2. 3.13.4.b.
      57. 3.14.1 Publication of accreditation status
      58. 3.13.5. "Separate Accreditation for Units of a Member Institution"
        1. 3.13.5.a.
        2. 3.13.5.b.
    3. Section 4: Federal Requirements
      1. 4.1 Student Achievement
      2. 4.2 Program curriculum
        1. 4.2 Program curriculum (Continued)
      3. 4.3 Publication of policies
      4. 4.4 Program length
        1. 4.4 Program length (Continued)
      5. 4.5 Student complaints
      6. 4.6 Recruitment materials
      7. 4.7 Title IV program responsibilities
      8. 4.8 Distance and correspondence education
        1. 4.8.1
        2. 4.8.2
        3. 4.8.3
      9. 4.9 Definition of credit hours
  6. PART 4. Institutional Summary Form Prepared for Commission Reviews
  7. FOCUSED REPORT
  8. QUALITY ENHANCEMENT PLAN (QEP)

3.3.1.4 (Continued)

Narrative (Continued)

Others:  A number of other activities take place that are important for economic development efforts, though rather more indirectly. In the College of Humanities and Social Science, the Southern Regional Climate Center, the Southern Climate Impacts Planning Program, and the Louisiana Office of State Climatology—all of which are based in the Department of Geography and Anthropology—work together to provide short- and long-term climate data to various businesses, private industries, individuals, and other stakeholders for the state and the region.

In addition, an important consideration for strategic economic development and encouraging business growth is public safety. The Highway Safety Research Group (HSRG), a division of the Information Systems and Decision Sciences Department within the College of Business, works with over 180 law enforcement agencies in the state concerning traffic safety. The HSRG helps provide data to many local, state, and federal agencies.  The HSRG assists the Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program Division of Louisiana State Police with reporting Commercial Motor Vehicle Crash data to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.  Also, working with the Department of Transportation and Development, the HSRG assists with reporting fatal crash data to the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration. Utilizing business intelligence systems developed in-house, the HSRG analyzes crash-related data at the request of the Louisiana Highway Safety Commission, the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development, the Louisiana Division of the Federal Highway Safety Administration, the Louisiana State Police, sheriffs’ offices, and police departments.  By performing safety studies and supplying crash data, the HSRG has assisted many projects successfully to decrease the number of fatal and serious injury crashes occurring on Louisiana’s roadways, making Louisiana more attractive to potential employers.

Likewise, the LSU Office of Social Service Research and Development has partnered with the Office of the Mayor-President, the district attorney, and local law enforcement to develop and implement the Baton Rouge Area Violence Elimination program to help reduce violent crime in socioeconomically distressed communities in Baton Rouge. Crime and fear of crime are major impediments to successful implementation of economic development strategies, and this community violence reduction strategy potentially has important implications for future economic development initiatives in communities where it is most needed.

Finally, the College of Human Sciences and Education has more than 25 distinct community engagement and grant-supported programs in place that address academic preparedness among the K-12 student population and among existing educators. Sound educational foundations are vital to the future of the state and local workforce needs, and while it is more difficult to discern any immediate impact of these activities on economic development, the long term expectation is that such efforts will positively impact economic development in the local community and throughout the state over the long term.

Business Innovations and Startups. LSU retains an active and expanding portfolio of business innovations and startups. Element C, item v documents the establishment of one new start-up in FY11. The number of surviving companies is nine. LSU also fully executed two SBIR awards and one STTR award in FY12.

Table 4: Dollar Amount of Research and Development Expenditures in Louisiana's Key Economic Development Industries

2013 Annual Report: Five-year average of FY 2007-08 through 2011-2012 (in thousands)

Federal

State

Industry

Institution

Other

Total

$78,208

$84,792

$10,694

$88,113

$12,305

$274,112

$87,469

$79,217

$11,046

$93,188

$17,055

$287,975

$94,621

$74,624

$20,110

$92,394

$1,008

$282,757

$95,167

$71,747

$22,132

$91,253

$1,101

$281,400

$90,001

$73,461

$22,572

$92,396

$647

$279,077

$89,093

$76,768

$17,311

$91,469

$6,423

$281,064

*NSF modified its survey fields beginning FY 09-10; LSU reclassified R&D funding sources to appropriately reflect these changes

Peer Comparison. Two data sources are used to compare LSU's research productivity to its peers: the National Science Foundation (NSF) for federal expenditures and the National Center of Education Statistics IPEDS data on total expenditures. Using these two sources, LSU can be compared to the SREB 4 Year 1 Peer Institutions. In this context, LSU ranked 18 out of 40, with $97,517,000 in federal research expenditures, and 13 out of 39, with $262,677,656 in total research expenditures (Table 5). In short, these data indicate LSU compares very favorably to its peers in research expenditures and, thus, research productivity.

The technology transfer activity at LSU compared to its peer institutions is provided in Table 4.

These data were secured from the AUTM U.S. Licensing Survey: FY12. These data may be different from NSF reported data for a number of reasons; for example, the data reported for LSU to NSF includes all of the LSU System Baton Rouge campuses. In addition, numerous institutions provided in this table do not report to the AUTM survey, and for others, the scope of the reporting unit is ambiguous. Nevertheless, the raw number of inventions disclosed, patents issued, licenses and options issued, and startups are provided in the table. In addition, these figures are standardized by LSU research expenditures to provide comparability. It is notable that the meaningfulness of these comparisons is unclear given the questionable comparability of data sources across the reporting units.

 

Table 5:  Total and Federal Research Expenditures: LSU vs. SREB 4 Year 1 Peer Institutions
   

2010-2011 Research Expenditures

  

Institution

  

Total

  

Federal

  

Auburn University

  

$129,023,989

  

$59,559,000

  

Clemson University

  

$144,236,963

  

$52,919,000

  

Florida International University

  

$59,579,377

  

$65,446,000

  

Florida State University

  

$158,549,153

  

$140,850,000

  

George Mason University

  

$74,990,459

  

$65,301,000

  

Georgia State University

  

$97,452,722

  

$28,210,000

  

Louisiana State University

 

$262,677,656

13/39

$97,517,000

18/40

Mississippi State University

  

$173,509,811

  

$98,998,000

  

North Carolina State University at Raleigh

  

$253,620,692

  

$155,293,000

  

Oklahoma State University-Main Campus

  

$122,584,424

  

$81,855,000

  

Old Dominion University

  

$6,997,079

  

$39,534,000

  

Texas A & M University-College Station

  

$502,438,272

  

$291,812,000

  

Texas Tech University

  

$136,842,075

  

$35,191,000

  

The University of Alabama

  

$55,068,280

  

$32,999,000

  

The University of Tennessee

  

$280,311,733

  

$111,942,000

  

The University of Texas at Arlington

  

$61,475,926

  

$30,659,000

  

The University of Texas at Austin

  

$482,660,863

  

$355,437,000

  

The University of Texas at Dallas

  

$82,607,919

  

$33,216,000

  

University of Alabama at Birmingham

  

$370,984,347

  

$344,164,000

  

University of Arkansas

  

$124,556,347

  

$37,587,000

  

University of Central Florida

  

$115,051,584

  

$69,098,000

  

University of Delaware

  

N/A

  

$118,673,000

  

University of Florida

  

$622,863,000

  

$306,349,000

  

University of Georgia

  

$337,789,631

  

$137,328,000

  

University of Houston

  

$115,777,978

  

$59,580,000

  

University of Kentucky

  

$305,713,001

  

$179,161,000

  

University of Louisville

  

$152,357,000

  

$96,010,000

  

University of Maryland-College Park

  

$416,683,464

  

$338,780,000

  

University of Memphis

  

$40,355,997

  

$20,348,000

  

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  

$500,924,315

  

$561,708,000

  

University of North Carolina at Greensboro

  

$19,772,521

  

$20,868,000

  

University of North Texas

  

$20,459,234

  

$14,754,000

  

University of Oklahoma Norman Campus

  

$113,558,000

  

$95,505,000

  

University of South Carolina-Columbia

  

$134,090,089

  

$103,296,000

  

University of South Florida-Main Campus

  

$276,479,512

  

$243,030,000

  

University of Southern Mississippi

  

$52,903,681

  

$40,984,000

  

University of Virginia-Main Campus

  

$353,781,413

  

$232,525,000

  

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

  

$312,655,623

  

$189,198,000

  

West Virginia University

  

$172,374,405

  

$88,419,000

  

     Average

  

$201,151,540

  

$130,105,205

  

Total:  Source=IPEDS Data Center; Federal: Source: NSF

          

Note:  LSU includes LSU Agricultural Center, Hebert Law Center, and Pennington Biomedical Research Center.

  

Measures of Accountability

State-wide

Information relating to the previously described research and the progress the institution has made is produced annually in the spring and reported to the Louisiana Board of Regents in the form of a Metrics Report (research expenditures) and Grad Act Report (institution-wide metrics).  

Institutional

ORED is undergoing the institutional process for internal program review. In 2012, the review procedure initiated by the University Review and Assessment Council (URAC) included (1) a self-study [10], (2) external review by the vice provost for research at the University of Georgia [44], and 3) an internal review [45].   

The results of this year-long examination identified the strengths and weaknesses of the office and provided an action plan designed to improve the impact of the office and focus it more clearly on institutional research priorities, such as “Conventional and Renewable Energy,” “Biological, Biotechnological, and Biomedical research,” and “Communication and Expression.”

The three reports were consistent in requesting additional funding to the office, refining the strategic plan for the office and developing a robust Annual Report. The ORED 2013 Action Plan is an example of incorporating the suggestions of all the reports into a product that will both increase ORED strategic initiatives and provide summary progress each year in the unit’s annual report.

Other measures used to assess the significant research efforts include faculty publications and presentations. Each year, as part of the institution’s assessment process, departments and colleges report this information as part of the unit reviews as outlined in the LSU Handbook of Institutional Effectiveness [46]. Additional aspects related to research done at LSU are contained in the compliance certificates for Core Requirement 2.5 and Comprehensive Standard 3.7.3.

NOTE: A full list of attachments is available in the first half of the narrative.

Author: Stephenie Franks
Last modified: 7/1/2015 8:33 AM (EDT)