Keeping Track of DMAC



Visualizing Influence Across Space and Time


Trey Conatser

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The majority of institutions sending participants to DMAC have a student population of 20,000 or fewer, but the majority of DMAC participants come from institutions with a student population of 25,000 or fewer. Smaller institutions have smaller departments and fewer faculty to send to DMAC. For example, institutions with a population of 0 to 5,000 account for over 20% of institutional participation but only about 10% of individual participation. Because the 67 participants from Ohio State dramatically skew the percentages, charts excluding Ohio State more accurately represent DMAC's influence beyond its host institution. For both sets, the before chart is weighed by institution (thus, an institution that has sent one participant weighs equally with an institution that has sent more than one participant), and the after chart is weighed by individual (thus, three participants from the same institution count three times as much as one participant from a different institution). The next page considers DMAC participation based on institutional control (public, private not-for-profit) and classification (2-year, 4-year, 4-year plus graduate).


   


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same, without the ohio state university:


   


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