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.<div>
</div><div>-archer</div><div><div>Archer Gravely, Director<br>Institutional Research<br>UNC Asheville<br>(828) 232-5118</div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Jason Canales <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Jason.Canales@mcla.edu" target="_blank">Jason.Canales@mcla.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Dear IR Colleagues<br>
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I have been requested to calculate a student to faculty ratios at the<br>
departmental level. I have done some research on this subject but have<br>
not found allot of information on this topic. I am know reach out to my<br>
fellow IR colleagues hoping that if you have developed departmental<br>
student to faculty ratio that you would be willing to share the<br>
methodology you used to calculate these ratios. Any help would be<br>
greatly appreciated.<br>
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Jason Canales<br>
Staff Associate, Institutional Research<br>
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts<br>
Office of Institutional Research, Assessment, and Planning<br>
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