Instructional Faculty and Class Size

Mercer University

Common Data Set
2001-02

I. Instructional Faculty and Class Size

Instructional Faculty | Student to Faculty Ratio | Undergraduate Class Size

I. INSTRUCTIONAL FACULTY AND CLASS SIZE

I-1. Number of instructional faculty members in each category for Fall 2001.

The following definition of instructional faculty is used by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) in its annual Faculty Compensation Survey. Instructional Faculty is defined as those members of the instructional-research staff whose major regular assignment is instruction, including those with released time for research. Institutions are asked to EXCLUDE:
(a) instructional faculty in preclinical and clinical medicine
(b) administrative officers with titles such as dean of students, librarian, registrar, coach, and the like, even though they may devote part of their time to classroom instruction and may have faculty status,
(c) undergraduate or graduate students who assist in the instruction of courses, but have titles such as teaching assistant, teaching fellow, and the like
(d) faculty on leave without pay, and
(e) replacement faculty for faculty on sabbatical leave.

Full-time: faculty employed on a full-time basis
Part-time: faculty teaching less than two semesters, three quarters, two trimesters, or two four-month sessions. Also includes adjuncts and part-time instructors.
Minority faculty: includes faculty who designate themselves as black, non-Hispanic; American Indian or Alaskan native; Asian or Pacific Islander; or Hispanic.
Doctorate: includes Ph.D., Ed.D in education, DMA in musical arts, DBA in business administration, D. Eng or DES in engineering.
First-professional: includes the fields of dentistry (DDS or DMD), medicine (MD), optometry (OD), osteopathic medicine (DO), pharmacy (DPharm or BPharm), pediatric medicine (DPM), veterinary medicine (DVM), chiropractic (DC or DCM), law (JD) and theological professions (MDiv, MHL).
Terminal degree: the highest degree in a field: example, M. Arch (architecture) and MFA (master of fine arts).

	Includes all Instruction Faculty per Above Definitions. School of Medicine Faculty are NOT Included.
	Full time	Part time	Total
Total number of instructional faculty	318	236	554
Total number who are members of minority groups	43	28	71
Total number who are women	127	106	233
Total number who are men	191	130	321
Total number who are n on-resident aliens (international)	9	0	9
Total number with doctorate, first professional, or other terminal degree	266	76	342
Total number whose highest degree is a master’s but not a terminal master’s	52	149	201
Total number whose highest degree is a bachelor’s	0	10	10
Total number whose highest degree is unknown or other	0	1	1

I-2. Student to Faculty Ratio

Fall 2001 ratio of full-time equivalent students (full-time plus 1/3 part time) to full-time equivalent instructional faculty (full time plus 1/3 part time). Excluded are both faculty and students in stand-alone graduate or professional programs such as medicine, law, veterinary, dentistry, social work, business, or public health in which faculty teach virtually only graduate level students. Mercer does not have undergraduate or graduate student teaching assistants.

Mercer's faculty and students in the Schools of Medicine, Law, Pharmacy, Theology are excluded. Graduate faculty and students in Business, Engineering and Education are included; these graduate programs are not stand-alone.

Fall 2001 Student to Faculty ratio: 15:1

I-3. Undergraduate Class Size

Mercer University has several distinct programs for undergraduate degree-seeking students: 1. Our "traditional" program is offered on our main campus in Macon, Georgia; it is a daytime program geared toward traditional age, first-time college students. 2. Mercer offers an evening and weekend continuing education program geared toward adults held at off-campus centers around the state of Georgia. 3. Our branch campus in Atlanta offers upper division undergraduate courses leading to a BBA in business. 4. Our recently acquired Georgia Baptist College of Nursing offers undergraduate nursing degrees on the Atlanta Campus

Class Sections: A class section is an organized course offered for credit, identified by discipline and number, meeting at a stated time or times in a classroom or similar setting, and not a subsection such as a laboratory or discussion session. Undergraduate class sections are defined as any sections in which at least one degree-seeking undergraduate student is enrolled for credit. Excluded are distance learning classes and noncredit classes and individual instruction such as dissertation or thesis research, music instruction, or one-to-one readings. Excluded are students in independent study, co-operative programs, internships, foreign language taped tutor sessions, practicums, and all students in one-on-one classes. Each class section is counted only once and are not duplicated because of course catalog cross-listings.

Class Subsections: A class subsection includes any subsection of a course, such as laboratory, recitation, and discussion subsections that are supplementary in nature and are scheduled to meet separately from the lecture portion of the course. Undergraduate subsections are defined as any subsections of courses in which degree-seeking undergraduate students enrolled for credit. As above, excluded are noncredit classes and individual instruction such as dissertation or thesis research, music instruction, or one-to-one readings. Each class subsection is counted only once and is not duplicated because of cross-listings.

Following are the the number of class sections and class subsections offered in Fall 2001 by class-size intervals. For example, a lecture class with 800 students who met at another time in 40 separate labs with 20 students is counted once in the "100+" column in the class section column and 40 times under the "20-29" column of the class subsections table.

Number of Class Sections with Undergraduates Enrolled.

Undergraduate Class Size (number of sections)

	2-9	10-19	20-29	30-39	40-49	50-99	100+	Total
All Undergraduate Programs Combined
CLASS SECTIONS	183	392	322	144	15	12	1	1069
CLASS SUB- SECTIONS	10	26	17	0	0	0	0	53
Macon Campus Traditional Program Only
CLASS SECTIONS	104	180	192	90	9	6	1	582
CLASS SUB- SECTIONS	5	15	15	0	0	0	0	35
Atlanta Campus Nursing Program Only
CLASS SECTIONS	8	7	5	6	5	6	0	37
CLASS SUB- SECTIONS	5	11	2	0	0	0	0	18
Off Campus Adult Extended Education Only
CLASS SECTIONS	70	196	119	43	0	0	0	428
CLASS SUB- SECTIONS	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Atlanta Campus Upper Division Business Only
CLASS SECTIONS	1	9	6	5	1	0	0	22
CLASS SUB- SECTIONS	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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Common Data Set 2001-02

Common Data Set
2001-02