This report has been prepared as a review and evaluation document for the use of planning unit and center coordinators in assessing the resource characteristics of each university department and the program outcomes of instructional departments at Missouri State University.  Information contained within this report has been developed with the purpose of assisting administrators in planning and managing the scope and direction of university departments.  Although many more factors could have been included in the profile, the data elements selected were viewed as the most essential in developing comparative data among university departmental units.

While several productivity measures have been included for instructional units, only limited workload measures are included in the report for noninstructional units.  Instructional units, by their nature, share a number of productivity factors in common, while measures are different for each noninstructional unit.  Administrators who are planning for administrative or noninstructional units or centers are encouraged to develop productivity measures that are applicable to their particular function within the University.

Reorganization of departments necessitates the omission of some items of data, particularly in trend data.  Generally, the omission of data was based on a judgment that the information was not comparable.

 

All the links below are to documents in PDF format.

 

Information Sources

List of Information Sources

 

Interpretive Notes

Descriptions of contents of reported items

 

Glossary and Abbreviations

Glossary of Terms and Descriptions of Abbreviations

 

 Calculation Procedures

Calculation Procedures for Ratios and Productivity Descriptors