Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1964 [PAGE 215]

EXTRACTED TEXT FROM PAGE:

170

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[October 17

for the preceding biennium; an increase of 1,010 at junior-senior level; an increase of 428 at the graduate-professional level. T h e estimate of total funds needed has been based on the following standa r d s : freshman-sophomore level, fifteen full-time-equivalent ( F T E ) students per full-time-equivalent instructor; junior-senior level, twelve full-time-equivalent students per full-time-equivalent instructor; graduate-professional level, seven full-time-equivalent students per full-time-equivalent instructor. Average salaries of |8,000, $9,000, and $10,000 have been assumed for these three levels, respectively, in calculating the salary funds needed. (Since a slight decrease in enrollment is predicted at the freshman-sophomore level, a corresponding deduction was made in arriving at the amount needed.) B. Nonteaching Staff, Expense, and Equipment 1. Urbana-Champaign and Medical Center $ 2 060 000 2. Congress Circle .$ 1 000 000 It seems desirable to separate the estimate for Congress Circle from that for the other two campuses, in accordance with the breakdown shown in Schedule A (page 167). For 1963-64, the need at Congress Circle is for administrative, technical, and clerical staff that will be needed t o plan for the move to the new campus. Heads of departments, for example, will be needed to recruit staff for the increased enrollment expected in 1964-65. Administrative and clerical staff must be added in the Office of Admissions and Records, the Business Office, the Library, and the Physical Plant Department. T h e total of $500,000 per year for the two years of the biennium is considerably below the amounts requested by the administrative officers in the various units concerned. T h e increased enrollment expected at Urbana-Champaign and at the Medical Center will require substantial increases in nonteaching staff and in expense and equipment budgets. T h e total requested will cover all kinds of "indirect costs" associated with instruction and with student services. After a careful analysis of the existing relationship between teaching and nonteaching (indirect) costs, it was determined that the latter would be approximately 75 per cent of the former if adequate provision is to be made in the budget for enrollment increases. This figure will be too low if the enrollment at advanced (especially graduate) levels increases disproportionately in the laboratory sciences.

V. T o PROVIDE FOR INCREASED ENROLLMENT I N 1964-65 OVER THE

1963-64 LEVEL

A. Teaching Staff (Congress Circle only) $ 1 770 000 With the opening of the Congress Circle campus in September, 1964, it has been assumed that there will be a drop in undergraduate enrollment at UrbanaChampaign, most heavily in the freshman class but also in the junior class which in the past has received a substantial number of transfer students from the Chicago Undergraduate Division. Although lacking relevant data for making definitive predictions in the new situation, the Bureau of Institutional Research estimated tentatively that the over-all decline in undergraduate enrollment at Urbana might be as high as 1,800 students. T o offset this drop, however, the Bureau predicted a sharp increase in graduate enrollment that might run to more than 1,400 students. After lengthy study of both sets of predictions, and of the various conditions that might well combine to upset them, it was decided to assume that the two conflicting trends would virtually cancel each other in terms of their net impact upon budgetary requirements. So no additional funds are requested for increased enrollment at Urbana-Champaign in 1964-65. An increase of 100 students was predicted for the Medical Center, but here, too, it was decided not to request increased funds on the assumption that the increases requested for 1963-64 could be utilized so as to meet the needs for the following year. Admittedly, these assumptions and calculations might turn out to be quite inaccurate, and substantial increases in applications for undergraduate admission might occur at Urbana-Champaign in 1964-65. In that event, the budgetary provision will be seriously inadequate and some limitation upon enrollment might be necessary. With respect to Congress Circle, it is assumed that there will be an increase of 3,035 students in 1964-65, bringing the total for the new campus to approxi-