EMU | COE NCATE 2003 Standard 6.B Unit Budget

Standard 6.B.
Unit Budget

Target: The unit receives sufficient budgetary allocations at least proportional to other units on campus or similar units at other campuses to provide programs that prepare candidates to meet standards. The budget adequately supports on-campus and clinical work essential for preparation of professional educators.

Exhibit 6.11, which includes data from the EMU Office of Institutional Analysis publication Academic Department Profile Account Summary 1996/97-2001/02, shows that the College of Education expenditures per student credit hour for a recent six-year period exceed the University average each year and, indeed, those of all but the two smallest EMU academic colleges. See Exhibit 6.1 for information concerning the 2003-04 budget for the College of Education. Off-campus and on-line courses are supported, in large part, by EMU's Continuing Education office.

Allocations are made by EMU central administration to the College of Education and its units with the expectation that these funds will support all of the activities expected of members of the faculty under the "Agreement Between Eastern Michigan University and Eastern Michigan University American Association of University Professors" ("AAUP Contract") (Exhibit 6.12), Article IX "Professional Responsibilities of Faculty Members." This Article defines responsibilities in such areas as "instruction" (including continuing education), "scholarly/creative activity," and "service." Additional responsibilities of members of the faculty are defined in the Department Evaluation Documents.

Additional funding to support faculty professional activities is available from several other sources. Each department has access to at least small amounts of Development funds, i.e., gifts made to a departmental account. Grants received from external agencies support research and service activities in the College of Education, in the amount of $1 million to $3 million per year. Small amounts of "indirect cost recovery" funds are available for use at the discretion of the department (or other unit) head. Within the COE, the Office of Collaborative Education has small amounts of funding to support partnership and collaborative activities with area P-12 schools.

Competitive awards are supported through EMU offices outside of the College of Education (at least during "normal" financial times) for such faculty activities as sabbatical leaves, research and creative activities, travel, equipment, grant proposal development, and the like. Click here for additional information on each of these funding sources.

Many of the results of the various sources of funding, as accomplished through faculty professional activities, are shown in the Faculty Reports of service and scholarly/creative activities. Additional supporting data for accomplishments supported by budgetary resources is found in the activities listed within the COE Annual Reports.

During 2002-2003, the COE budget supported the offering of more than 2,000 sections, the generation of 96,023 credit hours (an all-time high number for the COE), and the supervision of 1,259 student teachers (duplicated count).