Credit Hour Reports, Fall 2011

The student credit hour reports are produced each semester from the student course enrollments and instructor information. The reports show the total credit hours and total contact hours for each college. Separate reports are made for the college offering the course and the home college of the faculty member.

For fall 2011 the credit hour reports are produced from SIS for the first time. The definitions and structure of the resulting reports are the same as before.

The college summary reports (Credit Hours and Contact Hours by College Offering Course) have sub-tables after the summary for On-Campus and Distance Education SCHs. These SCHs are as-of census date and include fundable and non-fundable credit hours both.

These credit hours are summed from all records in the database, including on-campus instruction, Vet Medicine, and Distance Education instruction. Placeholder courses for our students taking instruction at some other institution are deleted (Study Abroad, National Student Exchange, and Inter-Institutional.) Other institution's students taking instruction here are included.

The total FTE is used to determine the Credit Hours per FTE and Contact Hours per FTE by college. The calculations are as follows:

• Instructional FTE - All faculty (Occupational Activity code = 20) who are permanent or on leave with pay, or are temporary but not replacing a faculty member on leave with pay, are included in this population. The instructional FTE is then computed by summing all of the 101-1310 and 106-1310 FTEs for this population.
• Supplemental FTE - All others teaching a class are included in the supplemental faculty. This includes administrators who are teaching, graduate teaching assistants, undergraduate lab assistants, and those not paid through PeopleSoft. The supplemental FTE for each organizational unit is computed by dividing total credit hours taught by the population by 12. The factor 12 represents 4 classes of 3 credits each in the semester.
• Total FTE - The sum of Instructional FTE and Supplemental FTE for each college.

The crossover analysis report is also known as a producer-comsumer matrix. Some of NC State's colleges provide instruction to other college's majors, this table is designed to show those patterns. This report shows the college of the student major as consumer of SCHs on the left side of the table, and the college offering the course as producer of SCHs across the top of the table. The second crossover table in the same report has more detail for SCHs by level of course and level of student.

The difference in total hours between the standard reports and the crossover analysis is that classes with no assigned instructor at this point in the semester do not count in the totals on the standard reports. The crossover report can count these classes with missing instructor information.