Colgate by the numbers (The Colgate Scene, September 1999)

The Colgate Scene September 1999 Table of contents	Colgate by the numbers
Case Library (foreground) loans more than 130,000 items each year. Lawrence Hall, Persson Hall and Memorial Chapel in the background are among the 87 buildings on the college's 515-acre campus.	"You should do a summary of Colgate facts," said a West Coast reader who was surprised by the changes in the place when he returned for his 50th reunion. The more we thought about the suggestion, the more it appealed. So here's a collection of facts and figures that tell a story all their own. Students Undergraduates, fall 1999: 2,811 Class of 2000 -- 675 Class of 2001 -- 662 Class of 2002 -- 724 Class of 2003 -- 750 Geographic distribution of current undergraduates: New York State 32% New England 21% Mid-Atlantic 23% Southwest 3% Midwest 10% West and Southwest 9% International students: 70 (2.5% of undergraduates) from the following countries Australia Bangladesh Bosnia/Herzogovina Bulgaria Canada China & Hong Kong Costa Rica Czech Republic Finland Germany Hungary India Jamaica Korea Lithuania Mexico Nepal Netherlands Nigeria Pakistan Poland Singapore Trinidad Turkey United Kingdom Zambia Undergraduate students of color: 430 (15.3%) Asian 146 Black 125 Hispanic 94 Native American 14 Pacific Islander 2 Other 49 Undergraduates by gender: 1452 women 1359 men Graduate students, fall 1999: 5 Number of employees enrolled in courses, fall 1999: 7 Area high school students enrolled in Colgate courses, fall 1999: 35 Admission statistics, Class of 2003 Inquiries: 40,949 Visitors: 5,031 Applications: 5,589 Acceptances: 2,341 Enrollments: 750 Median test scores: SAT: 1339 ACT: 30 Number of high schools attended by members of the Class of 2003: 544 Percent of Class of 2003 from public school/private school: 70/30 Financial aid Requests (Class of 2003): 1339 Percentage of students on aid First-year students: 39.2% All students: 41.2% Average grant award From all sources: $18,563 From Colgate funds: $16,904 Source of financial aid dollars Colgate: $17,749,649 Government (state and federal): $4,811,318 Other (outside awards): $680,453 Loan funds Average loan (annual): $2,903 Number of students with subsidized loans: 920 Campus student jobs Number of students employed: 1,550 Student payroll: $1,140,300 Average weekly hours per student worker: 10-12 Student charges Tuition: $24,575 Activity fee: $175 Room: $3,055 Board: $3,275
Half of Colgate's classes have fewer than 20 students; less than two percent have 50 or more.	Faculty Number of faculty, by rank Full professor: 79 Associate professor: 62 Assistant professor: 50 Instructor: 2 Distinguished visiting professors: 8 Continuing faculty with reduced loads: 13 Senior lecturers: 15 Lecturers: 27 Percentage tenure track/tenured: 72.8% Full-time faculty with Ph.D. or terminal degree: 96% Faculty by gender Men: 145 Women: 111 Staff Full-time and part-time continuing staff Administrative: 173 Support staff/technical: 183 Buildings and grounds: 123 Majors Major fields of concentration for the Bachelor of Arts Africana Studies Art and Art History Asian Studies Astrogeophysics Astronomy/Physics Biochemistry Biology Chemistry Classics Computer Science Computer Science/Mathematics Economics Education English Environmental Biology Environmental Economics Environmental Geography Environmental Geology French Geography Geology German Greek History Humanities International Relations Latin Latin American Studies Mathematical Economics Mathematics Molecular Biology Music Native American Studies Natural Science Neuroscience Peace Studies Philosophy Philosophy/Religion Physical Science Physics Political Science Psychology Religion Russian Social Sciences Sociology/Anthropology Spanish Theater Women's Studies Most popular majors Economics: 10% English: 10% Political Science: 10% Sociology: 8% History: 6% Majors by academic division Humanities: 25% Interdisciplinary Fields: 3% Natural Sciences & Mathematics: 25% Social Sciences: 47% Students with double majors: 19% Minors Minor concentrations in virtually all major programs, plus: African Studies African-American Studies Caribbean Studies Cognitive Science Creative Writing Environmental Studies Interdisciplinary Writing Jewish Studies Southeast Asian Studies Independent study Last year, 22% of undergraduates took advantage of the opportunity to study independently with a faculty member Graduation rate (average 1995-99) Graduate in four years: 83.8% Graduate in five years: 87.5% Class of 1998 following graduation Employed: 84% Graduate school: 14% Competitive fellowships and awards for 1999 Post-graduate (Class of 1999) Churchill Foundation Scholarship (Cambridge) Fulbright Grants (3) Rhodes Scholarship (Oxford) Watson Fellowship (study and travel) Undergraduate (Class of 2000) Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships (2) Financial facts Operating budget: $89 million (1998/99 fiscal year) Expenditures on personnel (faculty and staff total): 55% Major sources of operating income Student charges (less financial aid awarded): 65% Income from endowment: 13% Gifts & grants: 11% Capital investment in facilities and equipment (fiscal 1998/99): $9,981,724 Credit ratings Standard & Poor's: AA- Moody's: A+ Endowment market value: $372 million (May 31, 1999) Giving to Colgate Total for 1998/99 fiscal year: $20,687,890 Annual giving: $6,738,647 Capital giving: $13,949,243 By source Alumni: $17,347,982 Parents: $830,330 Friends: $799,517 Corporations/foundations: $1,094,503 Other: $615,558 Classes with highest giving rates Class of 1932: 76% Class of 1938: 73% Class of 1952: 73% Class of 1943: 72% Percentage of solicited alumni who gave a gift: 50% Alumni Total living alumni: 26,649 Men: 18,955 Women: 7,694 Oldest living alumnus: Mark Baldridge '19 (born 11/28/1894) Half of Colgate's living alumni graduated before (and half after) 1979 Distribution NYC, Westchester, Fairfield, Long Island: 24% New Jersey: 9% New England: 17% Upstate NY: 13% Middle Atlantic: 16% Midwest: 8% Southeast: 6% Far West: 4% International: 3% Active alumni clubs: 63
West Hall, the oldest building on campus, is built of stone quarried on the Hill.	Physical plant Number of buildings on campus: 86 Value of campus buildings: $274 million Oldest building on campus: West Hall (1827) Newest building: Persson Hall (1994) Under construction: Little Art & Art History Building (opening fall 2000) Recent acquisition: Schupf Studio Arts Center (1998) Campus acreage: 515 Elevation above sea level Andy Kerr Stadium: 1,100 feet Watson House (President's home): 1,300 feet Square feet under one roof in Sanford Field House: 67,000 Acres of grass mowed Campus and athletic fields: 120 acres Seven Oaks Golf Course: 100 acres Miles of roads and walkways plowed: 10 Number of beds in campus residence halls and college apartments: 2,075 (98% filled for fall 1999) Special Interest Residences Asia Interest House Ralph Bunche House (Peace Studies) La Casa Pan-Latina Americana Creative Arts House Ecology House French and Italian House Harlem Renaissance Center Three residences are self-governing, with residents choosing their own theme Cushman House Class of '34 House 118 Broad Street Fraternities and sororities Fraternities Alpha Tau Omega Beta Theta Pi Delta Upsilon Delta Kappa Epsilon Kappa Delta Rho Phi Delta Theta Phi Tau Sigma Chi Theta Chi Sororities Delta Delta Delta Gamma Phi Beta Kappa Alpha Theta Kappa Kappa Gamma Percent membership in fraternities and sororities Men: 35% Women: 30%
Once a year the members of the women's rugby team -- one of the more than 30 club teams on campus -- dress up for a "formal practice." [Zoom]	Athletics/recreation Intercollegiate women's teams Basketball Cross Country Field Hockey Ice Hockey Lacrosse Soccer Softball Swimming/Diving Tennis Indoor Track Outdoor Track Volleyball (Rowing becomes varsity in 2000) Intercollegiate men's teams Basketball Cross Country Football Golf Hockey Lacrosse Soccer Swimming/Diving Tennis Indoor Track Outdoor Track (Rowing becomes varsity in 2000) Club sports 30+ club teams involve 650 students Intramurals 30+ tournaments involve 900 students Outdoor Education 900+ students involved in organized O.E. activities annually Intercollegiate coaches Full-time: 27 Part-time: 15 Intercollegiate athletic operating budget (excluding salaries): $1,149,505 Revenue from intercollegiate athletics: $1,157,087 Miles of tape used by the training staff annually: 80 Gallons of water transported to athletic fields and courts: 14,300
In addition to university-sponsored groups such as the Colgate Orchestra, more than 80 organizations are run by students.	Clubs and extracurricular activities Clubs and organizations run by students: 80+ Activities sponsored by student organizations: 300+ Students who volunteer in the community: 1,800 (est.) Budget of the Colgate Activities Board: $120,000 Activities budget of the Student Government Association: $435,000 Libraries Volumes in the Case and Cooley Libraries: 618,940 Volumes added to the collection in 1998/99: 18,233 (net) Newspaper and periodical subscriptions: 2,333 Sound recordings in collection: 7,877 Miles of bookshelves on Case Library's 2nd floor: 5.68 Questions asked of reference librarians 1998/99: 14,354 Items borrowed by Colgate students and faculty through interlibrary loans: 11,013 *Items requested from* Colgate by other libraries: 16,371 Books returned and shelved during first two weeks of May 1999: 12,000+ Items borrowed from Case and Cooley Libraries in 1998/99: 131,275 Books and journals available electronically: Too many to count Database searches in 1998/99: 130,000+ Study groups off campus 22 in the following locations: Wollongong, Australia Beijing (Hong Kong and Taipei), China Dijon, France Santiago, Dominican Republic Freiburg, Germany Madras, India Kyoto, Japan London, England (3) Madrid, Spain Manchester, England Sante Fe, New Mexico Bethesda, Maryland Bradford, England Moscow, Russia St. Andrews, Scotland Venice, Italy Cardiff, Wales Washington D.C. Trinidad, Trinidad & Tobago Also, extended study to the following locations: Copenhagen, Denmark Jerusalem, Israel Rome, Italy Johannesburg/Capetown, South Africa Charleston, South Carolina Michoacan, Mexico Students who studied off campus last year: 505 Percent of Colgate students who study off campus as undergraduates: 50% Computers on campus Colgate-owned computers on campus: 1,700 Student-owned computers: 2,300 Dial-in services for personally owned computers: 450 Large computers acting as servers: 41 Number of students with home pages: 164 Number of "hits" per month on the Colgate home page (all sites):** 1,657,925 On admission pages: 248,688 On the Scene pages: 5,184 Number of first-year seminars 45, with titles such as: America, Singing What is Real? What is True? Life in the Universe: A Cosmic Perspective Things Fall Apart: Paradoxes of the Free Market in Soviet Russia Crime and Chemistry Body Politics in Africa Handel's Messiah Visits to the Health Center annually 11,000 X-rays: 650 Throat cultures: 500 Blood tests: 500 Screenings for mononucleosis: 140 Food service facts Eggs consumed per week: 12,000 Weekly poultry consumption: one ton Milk poured: 600 gallons Colgate's Presidents Nathaniel Kendrick 1836-1848 Stephen William Taylor 1851-1856 George Washington Eaton 1856-1868 Ebenezer Dodge 1868-1890 George William Smith 1895-1897 George Edmands Merrill 1899-1908 Elmer Burritt Bryan 1909-1921 George Barton Cutten 1922-1942 Everett Needham Case 1942-1962 Vincent MacDowell Barnett Jr 1963-1969 Thomas Alva Bartlett 1969-1977 George D. Langdon Jr 1978-1988 Neil R. Grabois 1988-1999 Charles Karelis 1999-
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