2008 Woodie Awards
State funds cut slightly
By Amy Kelly
Rocket News Editor
Issue date: 10/26/07 Section: News
"Typically, students are on a five- or six-year graduating plan," Marshall said. "PASSHE still includes the four-year plan even though it is becoming more and more uncommon."
Universities only gain money in this category if the students graduating have stayed at the university for their entire college careers. Transfers are not included in the overall number.
Junior elementary and special education major Heidi Miller, a transfer student, said she thinks the university could potentially draw in students who may attend community colleges by lowering tuition costs.
"I went to community college in Westmorland before coming to SRU," Miller said. "I saved a lot of money by doing it that way, and universities would have a higher number of freshman and sophomores if tuition wasn't so high."
The university did excel in the category of faculty productivity, where the number of credit hours faculty members carry is rated in comparison to how many credits other university faculty members take on.
SRU rose from $1,093,122 to $1,130,657 in this area.
Diversity in the classroom has always been a goal of universities, and PASSHE's indicator of employee diversity provides the opportunity for money to be allocated.
SRU's award in this category was reduced this year, down to $968,666, compared to $1,370,266 a year ago.
"The sixth classification is one that PASSHE wants to go down," Marshall said.
Personnel ratio is the amount of university dollars given out to employees: Currently 75 percent goes toward paying university workers among all PASSHE schools.
"When the amount paid to staff goes down, the university receives more money," Marshall said.
SRU rose from $67,226 to $191,881 in this category.
Instructional cost, which is how much it costs for a student to attend a university, the institution with the lowest tuition costs receives the largest slice of the pie.
Dropping from $385,930 to $304,170, SRU received the seventh-most dollars in this category.
The eighth indicator is terminal degrees of faculty.
"PASSHE takes how many doctorate-degreed faculty members teaching at the university, and the more a university has, the more money they will get," Marshall said.
Keeping pace with last year's $403,297 received from the PASSHE, SRU was allocated $372,224 for this year.
Universities only gain money in this category if the students graduating have stayed at the university for their entire college careers. Transfers are not included in the overall number.
Junior elementary and special education major Heidi Miller, a transfer student, said she thinks the university could potentially draw in students who may attend community colleges by lowering tuition costs.
"I went to community college in Westmorland before coming to SRU," Miller said. "I saved a lot of money by doing it that way, and universities would have a higher number of freshman and sophomores if tuition wasn't so high."
The university did excel in the category of faculty productivity, where the number of credit hours faculty members carry is rated in comparison to how many credits other university faculty members take on.
SRU rose from $1,093,122 to $1,130,657 in this area.
Diversity in the classroom has always been a goal of universities, and PASSHE's indicator of employee diversity provides the opportunity for money to be allocated.
SRU's award in this category was reduced this year, down to $968,666, compared to $1,370,266 a year ago.
"The sixth classification is one that PASSHE wants to go down," Marshall said.
Personnel ratio is the amount of university dollars given out to employees: Currently 75 percent goes toward paying university workers among all PASSHE schools.
"When the amount paid to staff goes down, the university receives more money," Marshall said.
SRU rose from $67,226 to $191,881 in this category.
Instructional cost, which is how much it costs for a student to attend a university, the institution with the lowest tuition costs receives the largest slice of the pie.
Dropping from $385,930 to $304,170, SRU received the seventh-most dollars in this category.
The eighth indicator is terminal degrees of faculty.
"PASSHE takes how many doctorate-degreed faculty members teaching at the university, and the more a university has, the more money they will get," Marshall said.
Keeping pace with last year's $403,297 received from the PASSHE, SRU was allocated $372,224 for this year.
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