1. Prepared by Ad Hoc Committee on University Budget Priorities
UMKC at a Crossroads Which Path Will We Choose? Updated Spending, Staffing, and Benefits Data
Prepared by Ad Hoc Committee on University Budget Priorities

2. Cuts—the list keeps growing
Academic Freedom and Development (TT faculty replaced by NTT)
Fewer TAs and graduate fellowships (graders for Gen Ed courses)
Diminished graduate programs
Pension plan changes (from defined benefit to defined contribution)
Diminished start-up funds
Office/work space/labs
Reduced retirement healthcare
Travel funds
Increased pension contributions
Physical library books
Increased health plan costs
No food for activities
Increased parking costs
No budget for enrichment, recruitment
Long-term care option
Printers
Reduced compensation for summer teaching
Licenses for survey/research tools, software and data-bases
Faculty Research Grants
Server space

3. Three Data Sources What are the patterns?
RooPlan Dashboard reviewed by Roger Pick (Bloch School), Tom Mardikes (A&S) and Shannon Jackson (A&S)
UM System Salary Report assembled by Roger Pick (Bloch School and AAUP)
IPEDS Data reviewed by Erik Olsen (A&S) and Larry Bunce Director, Institutional Research

4. RooPlan Dashboard http://irapweb. umkc

6. UMKC FTE Students Fall 08 - Fall 15
7.56% growth in FTE
Source: UMKC RooPlan, Dashboard

7. Fiscal Year Headcount of Executive Employees Full-Time; Benefit Eligible
Source: UMKC RooPlan, Dashboard

8. Fiscal Year Headcount  Employee Category(ies): Professor, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor Academic Load(s): Tenured, Not Tenured/On Track
Generated using UMKC rooPlan Dashboard. This line chart is NOT stacked.
Source: UMKC RooPlan, Dashboard

9. Source: UMKC RooPlan, Dashboard
Headcount
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
1 YR Change
5 YR Change
Professor
142
141
153
164
162
167
175
169
-6 (-3.43%)
5 (3.05%)
Associate Professor
180
190
184
178
186
170
-10 (-5.56%)
-14 (-7.61%)
Assistant Professor
135
130
119
116
110 96 93 70
-23 (-24.73%)
-46 (-39.66%
Source: UMKC RooPlan, Dashboard

10. Fiscal Year Headcount of Tenured Professors Full-Time; Benefit-Eligible
Source: UMKC RooPlan, Dashboard

11. Fiscal Year Headcount of Tenured Associate Professors Full-Time; Benefit-Eligible
Source: UMKC RooPlan, Dashboard

12. Fiscal Year Headcount of Full-Time, Benefit-Eligible Assistant Professors
Source: UMKC RooPlan, Dashboard

13. Total Fiscal Year Headcount Full-Time, Benefit-Eligible Not Tenure/Not on Track Professor, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, Lecturer, Instructor

14. Fiscal Year Headcount Full-Time, Benefit-Eligible Not Tenure/Not on Track Professor, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, Lecturer, Instructor  

15. Fiscal Year Headcount Full-Time, Benefit-Eligible Not Tenure/Not on Track
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
1 YR Change
5 YR Change
Professor 16 17 18 23 31 30
-1 (-3.23%)
12 (66.67%)
Associate Professor 27 37 45 51 63 75 87
12 (16.00%)
42 (93.33%)
Assistant Professor
103
121
120
124
146
144
141
-3 (-2.08%)
17 (13.71%)
Lecturer 46 54 58 40 38
-11 (-28.95%)
-31 (-53.45%)
Instructor 28 29 41 36 33
-3 (-8.33%)
4 (13.79%

16. UM System Salary Report
Salary reports are posted annually at the website:
_report.pdf (current year salary report)
_report pdf (2014 report)
_report_2013.pdf (2013 report)
Some earlier years’ reports available at Mospace Repository

17. Processing of Salary Reports
Converted from Acrobat to Excel
Year and business unit added to each row
Moved columns to align across years
Filtered by unit (campus)
Created pivot tables/charts to show headcounts of interest

18. Business Unit
KCITY
Headcount
Column Labels
Row Labels
PROF,
ASOC
AST
PROFESSOR
Grand Total
178
112
151
441
187
103
154
444
184 96
168
448
180 73
160
413
179 70
156
405

19. This is a stacked line chart
This is a stacked line chart. Headcount of each rank based on distance between lines; top line shows sum of all three ranks.
Generated from UM Annual Salary Reports at and in MOSPACE

20. UMKC Headcount of Assistant Professors
Generated from UM Annual Salary Reports at and in MOSPACE

21. Expenditure data from Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) Finance survey
Classifies spending according to function or activity. Salaries and Benefits are used here as the measure of changes in spending.

23. Tenured/Tenure Track Faculty
Data from IPEDS Human Resources survey. Included here are Tenure/Tenure Track faculty whose primary responsibility is Instruction, Research or Public Service. Faculty whose primary responsibility is administration are excluded. Medical School faculty are excluded because of reporting errors in some years.

24. Source: IPEDS

25. Source: IPEDS

26. Non-Instructional Staff
Source for Non-Instructional Staff data is IPEDS Human Resources survey. HR survey classifies employees according to occupation.

27. Non-Instructional Staff
“Death by a Thousand Cuts” report documented growth in “Executive/Administrative/Managerial” employees. Changes to occupational classifications beginning with the 2012 IPEDS HR survey make data incompatible with earlier years.

28. Non-Instructional Staff
Also, during this period UMKC undertook a “global grading process”. This resulted in many employees’ titles being changed, and in many cases their occupational code was changed as well. This introduces additional incompatibilities in the data pre and post 2012, and may be responsible for some of the changes observed since 2012.

29. UMKC NON-INSTRUCTIONAL STAFF: Full Time (excluding Medical School)
Change
Occupational Classification
Fall 2008
Fall 2009
Fall 2010
Fall 2011
Fall 2012
Fall 2013
Fall 2014
08-11
12-14
Management
277
267
259
-18
Community, Social Service, Legal, Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media
166
173
213 47
Business and Financial Operations 73 75 91 18
Librarians 31 36 38 7
Archivists, Curators, and Museum Technicians 4 5 1
Production, Transportation, and Material Moving 8 12 9
Sales and Related
Public Service Staff 3 2 -1
Office and Administrative Support
326
313
323 -3
Healthcare Practitioners and Technical 21
Computer, Engineering and Science
184
182
177 -7
Natural Resources, Construction , and Maintenance 72 70 64 -8
Service
183
174 -9
Research Staff 26 23 13
-13
Student, Academic Affairs, Other Education Services 53 55 29
-24
Library Technicians 28
-26
Executive/Administrative/Managerial
245
258
252
274
Other Professional (Support/Service)
348
355
356
354 6
Service/Maintenance
157
150
149
152 -5
Skilled Crafts 78 76 69
Clerical and Secretarial
333
331
324
-20
Technical/Paraprofessional
209
217
216
188
-21

30. Expenditures: Definitions

31. Instruction
“Expenditures of the colleges, schools, departments, and other instructional divisions of the institution and expenditures for departmental research and public service that are not separately budgeted are included in this classification. Also included are expenditures for both credit and noncredit activities. Expenditures for academic administration where the primary function is administration (e.g., academic deans) are excluded. The instruction category includes general academic instruction, occupational and vocational instruction, special session instruction, community education, preparatory and adult basic education, and remedial and tutorial instruction conducted by the teaching faculty for the institution's students.”
Source: Source: Higher Education Data Center, highereddata.aft.org

32. Institutional Support
“Expenditures for the day-to-day operational support of the institution, excluding expenditures for physical plant operations. Expenditures for general administrative services, executive direction and planning, legal and fiscal operations, and public relations/development are included.”
Source: Source: Higher Education Data Center, highereddata.aft.org

33. Academic Support
“This category includes expenditures for the support services that are an integral part of the institution's primary mission of instruction, research, or public service. Expenditures for libraries, museums, galleries, audio/visual services, academic computing support, ancillary support, academic administration, personnel development, and course and curriculum development are included. Expenditures for veterinary and dental clinics if their primary purpose is to support the institutional program are included.”
Source: Source: Higher Education Data Center, highereddata.aft.org

34. Research
“This category includes all funds expended for activities specifically organized to produce research outcomes and commissioned by an agency either external to the institution or separately budgeted by an organizational unit within the institution. Non-research sponsored programs are not reported.”
Source: Source: Higher Education Data Center, highereddata.aft.org

35. Student Services
“Funds expended for admissions, registrar activities, and activities whose primary purpose is to contribute to students' emotional and physical well-being and to their intellectual, cultural, and social development outside the context of the formal instructional program. Examples are career guidance, counseling, financial aid administration, and student health services (except when operated as a self-supporting auxiliary enterprise). The administrative allowance for Pell Grants is included.”
Source: Source: Higher Education Data Center, highereddata.aft.org

36. Public Service
“Funds budgeted specifically for public service and expended for activities established primarily to provide noninstructional services beneficial to groups external to the institution are reported. Examples are seminars and projects provided to particular sectors of the community. Include expenditures for community services and cooperative extension services.”
Source: Source: Higher Education Data Center, highereddata.aft.org

37. Operation & Maintenance of Plant
“Expenditures for operations established to provide service and maintenance related to grounds and facilities used for educational and general purposes. Also included are expenditures for utilities, fire protection, property insurance, and similar items. Expenditures made from the institutional plant funds account are not included.”
Source: Source: Higher Education Data Center, highereddata.aft.org

38. What are the patterns?
All faculty and instructional staff continue to experience cuts in salary, benefits, resources, and access to the tools essential to education and research
Headcount of Tenured and Tenure-Track faculty continue to decline while NTT faculty increase
Expenditure at the Executive Managerial and non-instructional levels continues to increase

39. Draft Resolution
The UMKC Faculty Senate is dismayed by the decline in numbers of tenure-track and tenured faculty at this institution and urges that resources be raised and/or reallocated in order to rebuild the ranks of Assistant, Associate, and full Professors. In order for UMKC to excel in the future, we must also develop plans to convert part-time non- tenure-track positions to full-time tenure-track positions or positions that are long-term. This may include conversion of existing contingent faculty to jobs that are tenure-eligible.