The sankey chart below shows the ratios of DMAC participants' funding. The left column shows the data without participants from Ohio State because graduate students can use tuition remission from their program funding package and faculty/staff can attend in exchange for some kind of labor (in other words, OSU participants may skew the results towards full funding). For the chart below, full funding designates coverage for all costs associated with DMAC attendance (the Institute fee, travel, accommodations, etc) and can come from any and as many sources as needed. Anything else counts as partial funding, and no funding indicates that the participant paid all expenses out-of-pocket. The length of the vertical blue bars indicates the relative frequency of responses in the corresponding categories, and the green bars indicate the relative frequency of correspondence between responses in that category and another category (for example: the ratio of graduate students who received full funding to attend DMAC to the total number of participants who received full funding).

Most significantly, the chart reveals a higher frequency of partial funding than one may expect (roughly 50% of the number of faculty who received full funding, and almost equal to the number of graduate students who received full funding). Pragmatically, the costs associated with DMAC attendance (the institute fee, travel, accommodations, and per diem for almost two weeks) may very well prohibit full funding from most departments and/or institutions, but the unexpectedly high prevalence of partial funding may also indicate a need to refine how we make a case in our local contexts for institutional support of digital media and composition studies.

financial support by employment status

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without osu ↓↓ with osu

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