The current landscape of higher education requires those in academe to be accountable to an array of constituents. With students, parents, and government seeking proof of a return on their investment and efficient management of fiscal and human resources, it is essential to have access to appropriate and useful data when researching the operation…

Workload clauses in 92 collective bargaining contracts provides one basis for predicting future trends and tradeoffs. (Editor)

British universities are following some American techniques and devising their own for measuring faculty workload. (Editor)

Longitudinal data from seven institutions demonstrate the utility of comparative trend analysis of teaching loads. (Editor)

A survey of state government action regarding faculty workload and utilization shows the extent of legislative and executive department concern. (Editor)

Argues that institutional research efforts to ascertain faculty workload will continue to fail because of basic methodological and conceptual fallacies. (Author)

THE AUTHOR STATES THAT UNIT COSTS ARE MEASURES AND STANDARDS OF BUDGETING AND ARE USED TO DIRECT ATTENTION TO PROBLEMS AND AID IN THE SOLUTION OF THOSE PROBLEMS. UNITS FOR COSTS COULD INCLUDE STUDENT CREDIT HOUR, DEPARTMENT COSTS, COST BY LEVEL OF INSTRUCTION, ETC. COSTS IDENTIFIED WITH INSTRUCTION WOULD BE FACULTY TIME. WORKLOAD AND COST…

As more colleges and universities coordinate institutional research as a support system for long-range planning, new analytical tools become necessary. A system developed in Massachusetts to project the effect of statewide policy alternatives may have wide applicability to other institutions and to multi-institutional planning groups. (Author)

How changing purposes of faculty workload studies have changed the type of data gathered and the techniques for gathering them. (Editor)

THIS STUDY DESCRIBES A 1960 EVALUATION OF INSTRUCTIONAL COSTS BY STUDENT LEVEL AT WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY IN DETROIT. DIRECT COSTS OF INSTRUCTION WERE DETERMINED BY AMOUNT OF FACULTY TIME DEVOTED TO INSTRUCTION AND REPORTED AS A PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL FACULTY TIME. A COST PER CREDIT HOUR WAS OBTAINED BY STUDENT LEVEL. DATA WAS COMPUTERIZED. COMPUTER…

The way that funding allocations are made to colleges and departments at Appalachian State University (ASU) (North Carolina) was examined. Funding patterns related to full-time equivalent (FTE) enrollment and faculty allocation units (FAU) were addressed. An account is provided on attempts to gather information on how funds are distributed to…

Kinds of faculty workload data that can be obtained from college and faculty reports are examined, along with potential problems in workload studies. A main research concern is deciding which faculty activities should be considered as workload. Types of data that are sometimes used in colleges' faculty workload formulas concern student credit…

A two-year interinstitutional study among 15 cooperating universities was conducted to determine whether significant differences exist in teaching loads among the selected universities as measured by student credit hours produced by full-time equivalent faculty. The statistical model was a multivariate analysis of variance with fixed effects and…

A statewide system of reporting faculty workload for the 18 Maryland state community colleges is described, and study findings on faculty workload are presented. Data are collected for full-time teaching faculty who are tenured or on continuous contract. Major findings include: 89 percent of faculty workload is spent in formal classroom…

A report is given of the results of four surveys of education faculties between 1981 and 1986, with particular emphasis on findings applicable to the reform issues addressed by "A Nation at Risk" and "Carnegie Forum on Education and the Economy." Study subjects at 32 institutions completed a questionnaire requiring information…