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 4B: Instructional Productivity: Student to Faculty Ratio

Measure 4B reports the ratio of students to instructional faculty for the System in fiscal years 2002 through 2005. The numerator is the total annual FYE enrollment. The denominator is the annual FTE for faculty teaching credit courses. This figure excludes FTE for faculty teaching non-credit instruction (click here for a printer friendly PDF copy of this page).

Significance: Measures 4B is significant in that it indicates efficiency in the use of instructional faculty resources to deliver credit instruction. This measure is complimentary to Measure 4A, student to faculty and staff 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 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 20.7 to 1 in 2002 to 21.4 to 1 in 2004 and decreased to 20.8 to 1 in 2005.