College of Forestry and Conservation
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) 15.6 16.2 15.9 19.2 18.8 17.9 18.2
All faculty 24.5 22.9 28.4 30.4 29.2 29.8 30.2
  2 Tenure faculty as percentage of all faculty 
(including GTAs) 64% 71% 56% 63% 64% 60% 60%
  3 Student credit hours (SCH), total fall 5,745 5,863 5,908 6,159 5,942 5,653 5,711
Undergraduate 5,151 5,226 5,186 5,422 5,047 4,929 4,946
Graduate 594 637 722 737 895 724 765
  4 Student credit hours per faculty FTE, 
tenure faculty 301 269 284 249 252 261 256
Undergraduate 263 232 238 225 219 236 229
Graduate 38 37 45 24 33 25 27
NSICP:  SCH per faculty FTE, tenure
     faculty  (n = 38, 32, 36, 36, 32) 215 198 191 175 172 Not Avail Not Avail
Undergraduate 163 149 148 146 135 Not Avail Not Avail
Graduate 52 49 36 38 41 Not Avail Not Avail
  5 Student credit hours per faculty FTE, 
all faculty  (including GTAs)    234 256 208 203 203 190 189
Undergraduate 210 228 183 178 173 165 164
Graduate 24 28 25 24 31 24 25
NSICP:  SCH per faculty FTE, all 
     faculty  (n = 38, 32, 36, 36, 32) 180 160 156 162 151 Not Avail Not Avail
Undergraduate 141 122 123 120 115 Not Avail Not Avail
Graduate 39 38 31 30 32 Not Avail Not Avail
  6 Student FTE, total   393 401 406 423 411 389 393
Undergraduate 343 348 346 361 336 329 330
Graduate 50 53 60 61 75 60 64
  7 Student headcount  
(first and second majors)  902 844 794 826 744 747 737
Pre-majors 0 0 281 384 297 306 316
Undergraduate majors 785 727 376 285 288 282 271
Graduate majors 117 117 137 157 159 159 150
  8 Student-faculty ratio  (SFR)
(Student FTE per one Faculty FTE)
Tenure faculty 21 19 20 17 17 18 18
All faculty (including GTAs) 16 18 14 14 14 13 13
Undergraduate SFR
Tenure faculty 18 15 16 15 15 16 15
All faculty (including GTAs) 14 15 12 12 12 11 11
Graduate SFR
Tenure faculty 3 3 4 2 3 2 2
All faculty (including GTAs) 2 2 2 2 3 2 2
  9 Average class size
Undergraduate lower division Not Avail 61 53 53 58 45 50
Undergraduate upper division Not Avail 34 30 27 24 23 22
Graduate Not Avail 11 10 10 13 10 11
10 Number of class sections with 2-9 students
(excludes individual instruction, etc.) Not Avail 8 16 9 10 12 19
Undergraduate Not Avail 4 6 2 4 6 10
Graduate Not Avail 4 10 7 6 6 9
11 Organized class sections (OCS) per faculty
FTE,  tenure faculty 3.7 3.6 3.0 2.6 2.8 3.0 3.0
Undergraduate 2.9 2.9 2.1 1.9 2.0 2.4 2.3
Graduate 0.7 0.7 0.9 0.7 0.8 0.6 0.7
NSICP:  OCS per faculty FTE, tenure faculty
     (n =38, 32, 36, 36, 32) 2.8 2.7 2.4 2.8 2.6 Not Avail Not Avail
Undergraduate 1.6 1.6 1.6 1.9 1.9 Not Avail Not Avail
Graduate 0.9 0.9 0.8 0.9 0.9 Not Avail Not Avail
12 Organized class sections per faculty FTE, 
all faculty (including GTAs) 2.7 3.4 2.3 2.1 2.3 2.3 2.4
Undergraduate 2.2 2.8 1.8 1.7 1.8 1.9 1.8
Graduate 0.4 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.4 0.5
NSICP:  OCS per faculty FTE, all faculty
     (n =38, 32, 36, 36, 32) 2.2 2.1 2.0 2.2 2.5 Not Avail Not Avail
Undergraduate 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.7 1.6 Not Avail Not Avail
Graduate 0.7 0.6 0.6 0.7 0.8 Not Avail Not Avail
13 Degrees awarded   (FY) 187 195 157 220 175 168 Not Avail
Undergraduate 154 166 131 181 142 120
Graduate 33 29 26 39 33 48
14 State appropriated operating budget ($)  (FY) 1,010,459 1,029,826 1,087,922 1,179,701 1,259,221 1,269,880 1,373,131
Total salaries/wages (excludes benefits) 974,248 996,115 1,024,791 1,115,156 1,195,417 1,213,874 1,302,965
Total operating expenses 36,211 33,711 63,131 64,545 63,804 56,006 70,166
Total equipment / capital and transfers 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
15 Revenue from "super tuition"  ($)   (FY) Not Appl Not Appl Not Appl Not Appl Not Appl Not Appl Not Appl
16 Direct instructional expenditures ($)  (FY) 1,162,390 1,208,655 1,334,325 1,474,147 1,552,118 1,797,920 Not Avail
Total personnel cost (salaries plus benefits) 1,122,610 1,166,157 1,215,594 1,391,524 1,482,368 1,711,022 Not Avail
Total other expenses 39,780 42,498 118,731 82,623 69,750 86,898 Not Avail
17 Direct instructional expenditure per SCH  (FY) 105 104 114 126 139 164 Not Avail
NSICP:  Direct instructional expenditure 
    per SCH (n=35, 30, 32, 29) 244 274 304 306 321 Not Avail Not Avail
18 Direct instructional exp per student FTE  (FY) 2,958 3,010 3,287 3,486 3,776 4,623 Not Avail
NSICP:  Direct instructional expenditure
    per student FTE (n=35, 30, 32, 29) 6,684 7,365 8,082 7,862 8,071 Not Avail Not Avail
19 Personnel cost as percentage of direct
instructional expenditure (FY) 97% 96% 91% 94% 96% 95% Not Avail
NSICP:  Personnel cost as a percentage 
    of direct instructional expenditure 
    (n=35, 30, 32, 29) 91% 91% 91% 92% 93% Not Avail Not Avail
20 Research expenditures  (FY) 5,926,132 5,885,081 6,384,774 7,063,787 7,860,377 8,622,471 Not Avail
UM State-appropriated funds 1,142,967 1,290,738 1,314,590 1,337,705 1,236,895 1,369,896
Sponsored (includes sponsored instruction) 4,783,165 4,594,343 5,070,184 5,726,082 6,623,482 7,252,575
Research expenditures per tenure faculty FTE 401,558 367,906 418,997 482,511 Not Avail
NSICP:   Research expenditures per
    tenure faculty FTE
   (n=30, 32, 29) 181,658 192,818 215,051 Not Avail Not Avail
21 Public service expenditures  (FY) 0 11,712 6,357 18,793 70,581 53,818 Not Avail
UM State-appropriated funds 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sponsored  0 11,712 6,357 18,793 70,581 53,818
22 AY Student credit hours 11,042 11,625 11,676 11,663 11,142 10,971 Not Avail
Undergraduate 9,871 10,300 10,222 10,196 9,393 9,396
Graduate 1,171 1,325 1,454 1,467 1,749 1,575
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 4,692 4,363 4,510 4,778 4,724 4,673 4,649
Undergraduate 4,104 3,756 3,792 4,316 4,101 4,222 4,155
Graduate 588 607 718 462 623 451 494
  6 Student FTE  (derived from SCH)
  6A From Tenure Faculty SCH 323 301 313 326 325 319 318
Undergraduate 274 250 253 288 273 281 277
Graduate 49 51 60 39 52 38 41
  6B From All Faculty SCH 393 401 406 423 411 389 393
Undergraduate 343 348 346 361 336 329 330
Graduate 50 53 60 61 75 60 64
11 Total organized class sections -- 
tenure faculty 57 59 48 50 53 53 55
Undergraduate 46 47 33 37 38 43 43
Graduate 11 12 15 13 15 11 13
12 Total organized class sections -- 
all faculty (including GTAs) 66 77 66 65 68 69 72
Undergraduate 55 65 51 51 52 56 56
Graduate 11 12 15 14 16 13 16