[COPLAC-IR] Departmental Student to Faculty Ratio

[Archer Gravely]

we generate student credit hours (SCH) per faculty FTE all the time.  This
would include majors and non-majors and provides a measure of instructional
productiivty for the dept.  A lot of our faculty teach outside the dept, so
that adds complications and we usually include the SCH (course enrollment X
credit hrs) for courses outside the dept.  Science depts often have labs
that have contact hours but no credit hours thus 0 SCH.  So we also
calculate contact hours per faculty fte.  The difficult part is how to
account for the exceptions - e.g. lab managers that teach and/or deans,
etc.  These are just a few things to think about.  You may want to look at
the Delaware Study.

-archer
Archer Gravely, Director
Institutional Research
UNC Asheville
(828) 232-5118


On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Jason Canales <Jason.Canales at mcla.edu>wrote:

> Dear IR Colleagues
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> I have been requested to calculate a student to faculty ratios at the
> departmental level.   I have done some research on this subject but have
> not found allot of information on this topic.   I am know reach out to my
> fellow IR colleagues hoping that if you have developed departmental
> student to faculty ratio that you would be willing to share the
> methodology  you used to calculate these ratios.   Any help would be
> greatly appreciated.
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