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Minnesota State Colleges and Universities: Board of Trustees

System-Level Accountability Scorecard
Assessments: Progress toward Implementing the Strategic Plan

Fully Integrate the System Indicator 4: Human Resources - The system is effectively and efficiently utilizing its human resources.

Measure 4A: Employee Productivity: Student to Faculty and Staff Ratio

Measure 4A reports the ratio of students to faculty and staff for the System in fiscal years 2002 through 2005. The numerator is the total annual FYE enrollment. FYE converts all registered student credit to full-time equivalent basis. The denominator is the annual FTE faculty and staff positions considered attributable to credit instruction. This figure excludes about five percent of System faculty and staff FTE positions that are attributable to non-credit instruction (click here for a printer friendly PDF copy of this page).

Significance: Measures 4A is significant in that it indicates efficiency in the use of faculty and staff resources within the System to deliver credit instruction. This measure is complimentary to Measure 4B, student to instructional faculty ratio and Measure 3A-1, fully allocated instructional expenditures per student. Efficiency measure combined with effectiveness measure can be used to asses the changes in System productivity over time.

Measure: The student to faculty and staff ratio increased between fiscal year 2002 and 2004 and decreased slightly between fiscal year 2004 and 2005. This pattern was displayed for the System as a whole, for the universities and for the colleges. The System ratio increased from 9.9 to 1 in 2002 to 10.4 to 1 in 2004 and decreased to 10.1 to 1 in 2005.

Power Point:

Productivity and System Level Accountability Measures - This Power Point presentation was given to the Human Resources Committee on December 6, 2005.

Data:

Data for human resource measures were obtained from the Integrated Statewide Record System (ISRS) Student Subsystem and the State College and University Personnel Payroll System (SCUPPS).

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