Tenure Density and Student Faculty Ratio

Faculty Changes From 2009 to 2016 total FTEF grew from 644 to 703, a 9% increase This lowered our FTES to FTEF ratio from 23.6 to 22.8 However, T/TT FTEF declined from 459 to 428, a 7% decrease, while lecturer FTEF increased from 185 to 275, a 49% increase T/TT FTEF has increased by 30 in the last two years, and will also increase this year Tenure Density has declined from 71% in 2009 to 61% in 2016 (low was 59% in 2014)

Outline The big picture (CSU Budget) CSU Chico Budget Trends in FTES and FTEF Budget allocation Types of Funds How to Spend Strategic Uses Tips

CSU Chico Budget Trends Chico General Fund (GF) allocation has decreased by 4% from 2007 to 2017 Net student tuition and fees have increased by 87% Student share of net funds has increased from 26% to 41% Total budget has increased by 20% to ~$200 million

FTES 9% growth in FTES target since 2007 We normally go a little over target Thus, only an 11% increase in funds per FTES over ten years Below the 18% inflation rate over the last ten years

Tenure Density and Instructional Costs Given a budget amount and an FTES target there is a tradeoff between Tenure Density (T/TT FTEF/total FTEF) and Student Faculty Ratio (or FTES/FTEF) Budget = cost per FTES * total FTES Budget = cost per FTEF * total FTEF SFR = FTES/FTEF (or a better measure is FTES/(WTU/15)) cost per FTES * total FTES = cost per FTEF * total FTEF cost per FTES * FTES/FTEF= cost per FTEF FTES/FTEF= cost per FTEF/ cost per FTES

Costs per FTES Budget and FTES determine a cost per FTES If the annual budget for instruction is $45 million and the target annualized FTES is 15,000, then there is a budget of $3,000 per FTES, $1,500/FTES on a semester basis Basis for our ABC budget model

Instructor costs per FTEF Instructional costs are determined by the cost per WTU for T/TT, the cost per WTU of lecturers, and the ratio T/TT to lecturers – TD T/TT are more expensive for two reasons – higher average FT salary, ~$7,000/month for T/TT and ~$4,500/month for lecturers, and T/TT only teach 12 WTU instead of 15 WTU, adding an additional 20% to their costs For T/TT average cost per WTU is $3,000/WTU, while for lecturers it is $1,736/WTU Average cost per WTU is then ($1,736 + $1,260*TD)/WTU SFR = FTES/(15*WTU), SFR = FTES/($1,500/FTES) * 15*($1,736 + $1,260*TD)/WTU SFR = 17.4 + 12.6TD

Consequences Current budget model is indifferent to TD, any unit that wants to increase TD could do so, but they would need to increase their SFR Increases in TD will reduce faculty committee workload But, without additional money this leads to increased class sizes, increasing faculty workload At constant dollars increasing TD will severely reduce lecturer workload through replacement by T/TT and a reduction in overall FTEF The balance between TD and SFR is not considered in most hiring decisions