Department of Philosophy
College of Arts and Sciences
Academic Unit Data
Fall 1999 Fall 2000 Fall 2001 Fall 2002 Fall 2003 Fall 2004 Fall 2005
(FY 2000) (FY 2001) (FY 2002) (FY 2003) (FY 2004) (FY 2005) (FY 2006)
  1 Instructional faculty FTE
Tenure faculty (tenured and tenure track) 5.0 8.0 8.0 7.7 7.7 6.4 5.6
All faculty 8.2 12.5 9.4 9.1 9.1 9.4 8.4
  2 Tenure faculty as percentage of all faculty 
(including GTAs) 61% 64% 85% 85% 85% 68% 67%
  3 Student credit hours (SCH), total fall 3,023 2,380 2,639 1,596 2,532 2,354 2,533
Undergraduate 2,762 2,259 2,350 1,342 2,405 2,291 2,428
Graduate 261 121 289 254 127 63 105
  4 Student credit hours per faculty FTE, 
tenure faculty 360 236 298 194 305 333 260
Undergraduate 313 221 261 161 288 325 249
Graduate 47 15 36 33 16 8 11
NSICP:  SCH per faculty FTE, tenure
     faculty  (n = 23, 29, 30, 33, 32) 217 240 215 230 231 Not Avail Not Avail
Undergraduate 210 233 206 217 223 Not Avail Not Avail
Graduate 12 11 14 21 17 Not Avail Not Avail
  5 Student credit hours per faculty FTE, 
all faculty  (including GTAs)    369 190 281 175 279 250 302
Undergraduate 337 181 250 147 265 243 289
Graduate 32 10 31 28 14 7 13
NSICP:  SCH per faculty FTE, all 
     faculty  (n = 23, 29, 30, 33, 32) 271 280 260 279 258 Not Avail Not Avail
Undergraduate 265 274 254 275 255 Not Avail Not Avail
Graduate 10 10 9 14 11 Not Avail Not Avail
  6 Student FTE, total   206 161 181 111 171 158 171
Undergraduate 184 151 157 89 160 153 162
Graduate 22 10 24 21 11 5 9
  7 Student headcount  
(first and second majors)  63 56 63 64 66 75 63
Pre-majors
Undergraduate majors 41 26 39 48 50 56 48
Graduate majors 22 30 24 16 16 19 15
  8 Student-faculty ratio  (SFR)
(Student FTE per one Faculty FTE)
Tenure faculty 25 16 20 14 21 22 18
All faculty (including GTAs) 25 13 19 12 19 17 20
Undergraduate SFR
Tenure faculty 21 15 17 11 19 22 17
All faculty (including GTAs) 22 12 17 10 18 16 19
Graduate SFR
Tenure faculty 4 1 3 3 1 1 1
All faculty (including GTAs) 3 1 3 2 1 1 1
  9 Average class size
Undergraduate lower division Not Avail 84 81 67 77 70 72
Undergraduate upper division Not Avail 11 16 17 17 16 15
Graduate Not Avail 7 11 7 8 5 7
10 Number of class sections with 2-9 students
(excludes individual instruction, etc.) Not Avail 9 3 3 2 2 5
Undergraduate Not Avail 5 3 1 0 0 2
Graduate Not Avail 4 0 2 2 2 3
11 Organized class sections (OCS) per faculty
FTE,  tenure faculty 2.5 2.1 2.1 2.1 2.3 2.5 2.5
Undergraduate 1.8 1.4 1.6 1.6 1.8 2.0 2.1
Graduate 0.7 0.8 0.4 0.6 0.5 0.5 0.4
NSICP:  OCS per faculty FTE, tenure faculty
     (n = 23, 29, 30, 33, 32) 2.6 2.7 2.4 2.7 2.5 Not Avail Not Avail
Undergraduate 2.3 2.3 2.2 2.4 2.3 Not Avail Not Avail
Graduate 0.5 0.5 0.4 0.6 0.4 Not Avail Not Avail
12 Organized class sections per faculty FTE, 
all faculty (including GTAs) 2.5 2.2 2.2 2.1 2.5 2.3 2.9
Undergraduate 2.0 1.7 1.8 1.6 2.0 1.9 2.4
Graduate 0.5 0.5 0.4 0.5 0.4 0.4 0.5
NSICP:  OCS per faculty FTE, all faculty
     (n = 23, 29, 30, 33, 32) 2.8 2.9 2.7 3.0 2.7 Not Avail Not Avail
Undergraduate 2.6 2.8 2.5 2.8 2.5 Not Avail Not Avail
Graduate 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.4 0.3 Not Avail Not Avail
13 Degrees awarded   (FY) 15 9 12 13 18 14 Not Avail
Undergraduate 9 4 4 9 11 10
Graduate 6 5 8 4 7 4
14 State appropriated operating budget ($)  (FY) 439,452 415,999 427,442 428,909 470,051 488,764 532,609
Total salaries/wages (excludes benefits) 426,062 402,609 414,052 415,219 456,361 475,074 518,546
Total operating expenses 13,390 13,390 13,390 13,690 13,690 13,690 14,063
Total equipment / capital and transfers 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
15 Revenue from "super tuition"  ($)   (FY) Not Appl Not Appl Not Appl Not Appl Not Appl Not Appl Not Appl
16 Direct instructional expenditures ($)  (FY) 495,238 531,429 552,457 582,972 624,777 646,694 Not Avail
Total personnel cost (salaries plus benefits) 479,958 517,938 536,668 569,812 616,270 633,387 Not Avail
Total other expenses 15,280 13,491 15,789 13,160 8,507 13,307 Not Avail
17 Direct instructional expenditure per SCH  (FY) 93 102 102 148 142 140 Not Avail
NSICP:  Direct instructional expenditure 
    per SCH (n = 22, 29, 26, 27, 26) 129 120 126 118 136 Not Avail Not Avail
18 Direct instructional exp per student FTE  (FY) 2,405 3,307 3,056 5,269 3,655 4,093 Not Avail
NSICP:  Direct instructional expenditure
per student FTE (n = 22,29,26,27,26) 3,857 3,981 3,782 3,673 4,107 Not Avail Not Avail
19 Personnel cost as percentage of direct
instructional expenditure (FY) 97% 97% 97% 98% 99% 98% Not Avail
NSICP:  Personnel cost as a percentage 
    of direct instructional expenditure 
    (n = 22, 29, 26, 27, 26) 95% 95% 96% 95% 95% Not Avail Not Avail
20 Research expenditures  (FY) 55,290 24,943 17,363 0 0 0 Not Avail
UM State-appropriated funds 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sponsored (includes sponsored instruction) 55,290 24,943 17,363 0 0 0
Research expenditures per tenure faculty FTE 2,170 0 0 0 Not Avail
NSICP:   Research expenditures per
    tenure faculty FTE
   (n=26, 27, 26) 1,196 3,962 759 Not Avail Not Avail
21 Public service expenditures  (FY) 654,086 906,296 265,654 33,890 0 4,421 Not Avail
UM State-appropriated funds 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sponsored  654,086 906,296 265,654 33,890 0 4,421
22 AY Student credit hours 5,306 5,231 5,403 3,927 4,392 4,622 Not Avail
Undergraduate 4,824 4,868 4,961 3,507 4,148 4,434
Graduate 482 363 442 420 244 188
NOTES:   Data are for Fall semester, unless noted otherwise.  
FY denotes Fiscal Year.    AY denotes Academic Year.
Detail may not add to total due to rounding or separate calculation.   
ADDITIONAL  DATA:          
  4 Tenure faculty SCH, total 1,801 1,891 2,380 1,497 2,357 2,141 1,462
Undergraduate 1,564 1,770 2,091 1,243 2,230 2,087 1,399
Graduate 237 121 289 254 127 54 63
  6 Student FTE  (derived from SCH)
  6A From Tenure Faculty SCH 124 128 163 104 159 144 99
Undergraduate 104 118 139 83 149 139 93
Graduate 20 10 24 21 11 5 5
  6B From All Faculty SCH 206 161 181 111 171 158 171
Undergraduate 184 151 157 89 160 153 162
Graduate 22 10 24 21 11 5 9
11 Total organized class sections -- 
tenure faculty 13 17 17 17 18 16 14
Undergraduate 9 11 13 12 14 13 12
Graduate 4 6 4 5 4 3 2
12 Total organized class sections -- 
all faculty (including GTAs) 21 28 21 20 22 22 24
Undergraduate 16 22 17 15 18 18 20
Graduate 5 6 4 5 4 4 4