UIC Academic RPM 1992-1995 - Glossary


UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO

ANNUAL RESOURCE PERFORMANCE MEASURES EXTRACT

Glossary


FISCAL YEAR

The twelve month period beginning July 1st and ending June 30th. Designated by the calendar year in which fiscal year ends.

FUNDS - Source: Office of Business Affairs, UFAS Database.

SPACE - Source: Facilities Planning & Space Management.

16 - Total Square Feet
Total Net Assignable Square Feet (NASF) for all room use categories.

STAFF - Source: Appointments effective October 10th (November Payroll) Office of Business Affairs.

20 - Fall Academic Hdct
Number of discrete academic staff employed, both full-time and part-time. If a staff member has appointments in more than one department, only "home" department is counted (so we don't double count).

21 - Fall Support Staff Hdct
Same as 20 for support staff full-time and part-time, as opposed to academic staff.

22 - Fall FTE Budgeted Faculty
This is "proposed time" from frozen Personnel Planning File. It is calculated by summarizing proposed percentage time for all appointments in a unit and dividing by 100.

23 - Fall FTE
This is actual FTE derived from November payroll (for all appointments effective October 10th) as opposed to original budgeted FTE. This is aggregate of lines 24-28.

STUDENT - Source: Office of Admissions & Records (Official 10th Day Enrollment).

29 - Student Major Headcount (Fall)
Aggregate of fall student headcount lines 30-32, based on student's home department curriculum major, rather than course enrollment. Line 33 Resident is excluded in this aggregate count.

34 - Student Instruction FTE (Fall)
Aggregate fall FTE calculated from course enrollment credit hours for lines 35, 36, 38 & 39. Line 40, Resident, is excluded in this aggregate count.

41 - Credit Hours (Annual)
Aggregate credit hours for all terms for lines 42, 43, 45 and 46. Line 47, Resident, is excluded in this aggregate count. Annual credit hours are based on quarter hours through FY91; beginning FY92 credit hours are semester credit hours.

Degrees Awarded (Annual) - Includes summer through spring. Source: Office of Admissions & Records.

Student Major Headcount by Ethnicity (shown for college roll-up only):

SPONSORED PROJECTS - Source: Office of Research Services.
Information on research and sponsored activity, proposals and awards does not include gifts to the University of Illlinois Foundation. Also, gifts and awards made to the individual are not included.

73 - Number of Proposals
Proposals submitted during fiscal year. Note that a single proposal can generate more than one award. Also, since proposals precede awards, proposals may not occur in same fiscal year as corresponding awards.

Awards

Awards are included having a start date in the current fiscal year. When an award spans more than one fiscal year, each continuation or supplement is shown in the fiscal year when it is awarded.

COST STUDY - Source: Illinois Board of Higher Education.

Cost per Semester Credit Hour:

RATIOS

For lines 83-92 if any values are equal to zero or negative, ratios are not shown. Also, if any of the student values are under five or staff values are under one, ratios are not shown.

83 - Student Fall FTE / Budgeted Faculty FTE - line 34 / 22.

84 - Student Fall FTE / Faculty Fall FTE - line 34 / 24.

85 - Grants Exp / Budgeted Tenured FTE - line 14 / FTE of Tenured or tenured-track based on last 2 characters of rank code equal to BB, BC, BD, BF.

86 - Total Expenditures / Student Fall FTE - line 9 / 34 (less self-supporting)

87 - Total State Budget / Student Fall FTE - line 1 / 34.

88 - Admin. Salaries
Sum of all academic salaries for fiscal year based on allocation to administration on Faculty Activity Analysis forms plus all support staff salaries for fiscal year for job classifications associated with administrative activities.

89 - Admin. Salaries / Total Expenditures - line 88 / line 9.

90 - Admin. FTE
Sum of all academic staff-years for fiscal year based on allocation to administration on Faculty Activity Analysis forms plus all support staff FTE for fall term for job classifications associated with administrative activities.

91 - Admin. FTE / Annualized Student FTE - line 90 / Student FTE calculated by summing student enrollment credit hours over entire fiscal year, then dividing by 45 (30 beginning FY92) for undergraduate and by 36 (24 beginning FY92) for graduate and professional students.

92 - Admin. FTE / Budgeted Faculty FTE - line 90 / line 22.

FACULTY FELLOWS & AWARDS - SCHOLARLY/CREATIVE - Source: Academic Departments.
This is either fiscal year or academic year data received from academic departments in the fall of each year based on prior year's performance.

FACULTY FELLOWS & AWARDS

93 - Sum of counts for all categories. This includes data for faculty fellows extracted from fall payroll plus awards as reported by departments.

SCHOLARLY/CREATIVE

94 - All categories are shown for college roll-ups from highest counts to lowest. At the departmental level we show the 3 highest counts for each unit; for LAS, only Refereed Articles, Books Published, and Chapters Published are included.


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