Faculty
Instructional Faculty Profile Report | Who's Teaching Whom | Semester Teaching Analysis Report (STAR) | Faculty Workload Report
Instructional Faculty Profile Report
Faculty Profile Report provides an in-depth overview of the university’s instructional faculty:
- Instructional Faculty Reported to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board - includes all faculty members who were reported on CBM-008 report to the THECB, e.g. each person who has a faculty appointment for the fall semester or paid from faculty salary funds, as well as all faculty (including teaching assistants) who are teaching a course reported to the THECB. For this population the metrics include head count, teaching FTE, average salary, average age, average years of experience at Texas A&M as well as average years of total experience. These metrics are summarized by various demographic categories (ethnicity, gender, tenure status) and shown for each college and rank.
Additionally, each report file contains detailed definitions of important terms and variables contained in the report.
Production
Faculty Profile Report for each fall semester is usually produced towards the end of the following spring semester. The report is based on certified faculty data from the DARS data warehouse as well as additional Faculty data obtained from the Dean of Faculties office.
Approximate Availability
- Spring semester – May 1st
Available Editions
Who's Teaching Whom
Who's Teaching Whom report includes 5 major sections:
- Graphs - gives visual representation summarizing the data presented in the report
- Semester Credit Hours - This section reflects the semester credit hours taught by faculty rank for each level of instruction. The data are shown by department and college.
- Weighted Semester Credit Hours - This section reflects the weighted semester credit hours taught by faculty rank for each level of instruction. The data are shown by department and college.
- Organized Sections - This section reflects the number of organized classes taught by each faculty rank for each level of instruction.
- Faculty Rank - Professor through Instructor shown on this report represent tenure or tenure-track faculty. TAMU visiting faculty a included in “Other Faculty.”
Production
Who's Teaching Whom report is published each fall, spring, and summer (combined, unduplicated) semesters.
Approximate Availability
- Fall semester – Late December
- Spring semester – Late April
- Summer semester – Late August
Available Editions
Semester Teaching Analysis Report (STAR)
Semester Teaching Analysis Report (STAR) is a compilation of reports designed to provide departments and colleges with a comprehensive overview of their teaching effort.
STAR consists of two major parts. The first part contains teaching summaries shown by college, department, funding area, and level. Each summary displays total Semester Credit Hours (SCH) and Weighted SCH (WSCH) generated by the college or department as well as number of bonus WSCH gained by tenured faculty (Teaching Supplement [1]) and lost due to Excess PhD[2] students. The result of the calculation is the Net WSCH for that college or department. Also displayed are the teaching Full-Time Equivalents (FTE) and salaries paid to faculty members and teaching assistants, which allows for computation of cost per SCH and per WSCH by the college or department. Aside from actual numbers, percentage change from the previous like semester is also shown for the high-level reports (to department level only), as well as the actual numeric change.
[1] Teaching Supplement – Every lower level course taught by a tenured or tenure-track faculty member receives a specified percentage as bonus hours.
[2] Excess PhD – Credit hours by doctoral students whose number of attempted hours exceeds the limit set by the Coordinating Board. These hours are ineligible to receive State funding and are therefore ‘lost’ by the University.
Production
STAR report is published each fall, spring, and summer (combined, unduplicated) semesters. Additionally, the report is published for the entire fiscal year.
Approximate Availability
- Fall semester – Late December
- Spring semester – Late April
- Summer semester – Late August
- Fiscal Year – Late October
The teaching load section of the STAR is no longer being published. If you have a need for this data, please complete and submit a Data Request Form (click here for the form). We will be happy to furnish this data in either a PDF or Excel format.
Available Editions
Faculty Workload Report
Faculty Workload Report shows which TAMU faculty members are in compliance or not in compliance with the minimum workload requirements approved by the Texas A&M Board of Regents. Three times a year (fall, spring and summer) the departments review and make corrections to the course and faculty data used to generate this report through an on-line web application. This application is password protected; new department heads must contact DARS for a password and instructions on accessing the system. The Faculty Workload Report is not required in the summer but the corrected course and faculty data are used to generate other reports (i.e. STAR and reports to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board).
The report consists of several sections. The first section is a listing of faculty members not in compliance for the current semester and it includes their budget data, teaching data and the reason for non-compliance. The next section is a university summary, which shows the total classroom teaching credits (CTC), total teaching credits (TTC) (including equivalent teaching credits), faculty FTE and the percent of classroom teaching credits to total teaching credits. The same data is provided for each college by department. The last section of the report shows an individual listing of faculty members and GAT’s by department. It shows their classroom and equivalent teaching credits, and their compliance status and reason for non-compliance if applicable.
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Production
The Faculty Workload is generated and sent to the Dean of Faculties each Fall and Spring Semester.
Approximate Availability
- Fall semester – December 1st
- Spring semester – April 1st