A Faculty Time Allocation Schema Bruce P. Szelest Bszelest@uamail.albany

1. A Faculty Time Allocation Schema • Bruce P. Szelest • Bszelest@uamail.albany.edu • Nelson A. Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy • State University of New York at Albany

2. Figure 4.1: Overview of the Student Enrollment Management System • Faculty Activity • Office & Other Hours • Research • Service • Class Preparation • Instruction • Relative Attractiveness • Academic Reputation • Relative Cost • Student Programming • Visual Attractiveness • Academic Program Breadth • Financial Resources • Enrollment Derived Revenues • Research Derived Revenue • Other Revenue • Resource Investments • Adjuncts • Full-time Faculty • Physical Plant Maintenance • Financial Aid • Student Support Programs • Research Infrastructure • Administration & Other Research Activity Retention Effects of Faculty Activities • Internal Attractiveness • Student-Faculty Interaction • Instructional Quality • Academic & Social Integration • Course Availability Competitor Institutional Characteristics Faculty Reputation prospective students Students incoming outgoing students students Frosh Quality Research Revenue Retention Effects of non-Faculty Activities External Perceptions of non-Faculty Resource Investments Faculty Resource Investments Research Capacity

3. Model Structure of Faculty Time Allocation to Service & Program Review Hours

4. Functional Form of Willingness to Allocate Time to Service and Program Review Activities 0.94 0.76 Percent of Total Time Available Unallocated

5. Functional Form of Willingness to Allocate Time to Research Activities 0.76 Percent of Total Time Available Unallocated

6. Comparative Plot of Functional Forms of Willingness to Allocate Time

9. Summary: Table Lookups appear to work well as an allocation method Pros: Anchor endpoints and inflection points, visual clarity Cons: Difficult to empirically estimate? Other options: Cobb-Douglas Production Function, others? Q = a * Kb * Lc