This issue has been raised time and again with respect to U of L's BoT and how it compares. So I went to each university's website to get the breakdown of Board representation for "university affiliated" members as well as U of L and LPT alumni. "Affiliation" means alumni/graduates, faculty and staff members, and students of a particular university.
This first chart shows the representation on the Boards of Kentucky's largest universities by its own affiliated members...
U of L has the lowest representation of its own affiliated Board members at 46%. LPT is about average for the rest.
This second chart shows the representation of unaffiliated members on the respective Boards, focusing on U of L and LPT alumni. These are Board members without an affiliation to the university for which those people serve. U of L is obviously the highest overall on this basis, and LPT grads clearly exceed other alumni on Boards statewide. (NOTE: the percentages between the two charts don't necessarily sum to 100 because of "cross affiliations", i.e., multiple degrees involving different schools).
I may try a statistical test on the first chart to see if any differences are statistically significant. If they are, that would mean the process resulting in the numbers shown is not random, but rather, due to some other potentially assignable factor...
This first chart shows the representation on the Boards of Kentucky's largest universities by its own affiliated members...
U of L has the lowest representation of its own affiliated Board members at 46%. LPT is about average for the rest.
This second chart shows the representation of unaffiliated members on the respective Boards, focusing on U of L and LPT alumni. These are Board members without an affiliation to the university for which those people serve. U of L is obviously the highest overall on this basis, and LPT grads clearly exceed other alumni on Boards statewide. (NOTE: the percentages between the two charts don't necessarily sum to 100 because of "cross affiliations", i.e., multiple degrees involving different schools).
I may try a statistical test on the first chart to see if any differences are statistically significant. If they are, that would mean the process resulting in the numbers shown is not random, but rather, due to some other potentially assignable factor...
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