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CCHE Quality Indicator System (QIS)
CU-Boulder Fall 1999 Submission
For funding 2000-01

Indicator 2: Faculty Instructional Productivity

Faculty instructional productivity is defined as the percentage of a 40-hour work week devoted to teaching by full-time faculty paid from state-appropriated funds. CU-Boulder received 116 out of a possible 125 points on this measure.

Benchmark: For public research institutions: 22.8 hours per week or 57% of a 40-hour week.

The 22.8 hours per week is from the 1993 National Study of Postsecondary Faculty (NSOPF-93):
Instructional Faculty and Staff in Higher Education Institutions: Fall 1987 and Fall 1992.
National Center for Education Statistics, US Department of Education, July 1997, NCES 97-40.

Results: From Faculty Instructional Workload Data Forms submitted to CCHE for academic years 92-93 through 96-97.

Teaching-related activity per week = ( 205 / 30 weeks per term ) * 3.3 = 22.6 hours per week

(Where 3.3 is the agreed-upon research university multiplier from NSOPF 1993, to convert group-instruction contact hours to total teaching-related activity)

This is 56% of a 40-hour work week and is 98% of the benchmark value.

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