Calendar Year 2004 Activity:

This report presents MSU's submitted scores and comparisons between MSU's departments and the closest comparator match among participating institutions. All MSU data are based on faculty questionnaires about activity in 2004, completed by tenured and tenure-track faculty, tallied within departments, with totals submitted to the Office of Planning and Analysis in Spring, 2005. Please see the Delaware Study of Out-of-Classroom Faculty Activity questionnaire and data definitions for 2005 for complete definitions.

Report Format and Definitions:

1. The first CIP code listed in the top left box indicates the code used to submit MSU's departmental data. The remaining CIP codes indicate the comparison disciplines. One department had no comparators among participating institutions. As more universities participate, we expect to have comparators for all departments.
2. For most departments, columns two through five display the mean response among participating institutions, by Carnegie class. Blank columns indicate fewer than three participating institutions in that discipline and Carnegie class. Column six presents a weighted mean across all reporting institutions (because of the small number of participating institutions in this third year of the study, a mean is calculated for all responding departments across Carnegie classes). This column appears in bold and represents the benchmark score. The remaining columns detail the MSU department scores and the MSU scores relative to the benchmarks. Columns shaded in grey are previous years' results, for comparative purposes. Blanks indicate that the department did not respond to the item or the item was added over time.
3. Interdisciplinary departments and/or departments requesting more than one comparison CIP code follow a slightly different format. Columns two through three, four, or five give the means for all institutions reporting in each CIP code, averaged across Carnegie class. If you would like to see the Carnegie classes broken out, please contact Chris Fastnow (cfastnow@montana.edu) in the Office of Planning and Analysis for details. These columns are followed by a column of combined means for each item, which is a mean of all institutions in all related CIP codes in all Carnegie classes. This column appears in bold and is used as the benchmark. The remaining columns detail the MSU department scores and the MSU scores relative to the benchmarks. Columns shaded in grey are previous years' results, for comparative purposes. Blanks indicate that the department did not respond to the item or the item was added over time.
4. For some departments with very few comparators in the reporting discipline in our Carnegie Class, we have included additional comparators in related CIP codes and treated them as an interdisciplinary department.
5. Relative scores are calculated as follows: MSU amount per FTE/benchmark score. A score below 100% indicates the MSU department scored lower than the benchmark.
6. No relative score is calculated when the comparison group mean is zero or the MSU department reported "not applicable."
7. Relative scores may fluctuate over time because of 1) additional disciplines or universities included in the Delaware Study, 2) the small number of universities participating in the first years of the study, and/or 3) changes in the department's and comparators' activity.
8. Ranks within MSU are calculated for the MSU score relative to the benchmark. Highest ratios are ranked 1. Departments with no response or a zero in the comparison group are excluded from the rankings.
9. Only tenured and tenure-track faculty are included in this study.
10. It is not possible to make direct comparisons between the grant dollars reported here and the data reported in the Delaware Study of Instructional Costs and Productivity or in reports issued by the Vice President for Research. This report contains the number and amount of grants awarded, as reported by the participating faculty during the calendar year. The other Delaware Study reports expenditures during the fiscal year for all principal investigators affiliated with the department, regardless of where the dollars are actually expended. The VP Research report counts fiscal year expenditures but does not split expenditures across departments when there are inter-disciplinary co-PIs.

Please direct any questions to Chris Fastnow in the Office of Planning and Analysis, x2870 or email for questions.

Continue to the Delaware Study of Faculty Activity.

Updated September 29, 2006, Terry Dysart, facts@montana.edu

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