To continue to align state university degree programs with the economic development and workforce needs of the state, the Florida Board of Governors has identified several Areas of Programmatic Strategic Emphasis. These targeted degree areas include:

• Critical Workforce - Education
• Critical Workforce - Health
• Critical Workforce - Gap Analysis
• Economic Development - Global Competitiveness
• Economic Development - STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)

Click here to see a list of UWF degree programs which have been identified as serving these areas of emphasis.

Student credit hours are calculated by multiplying course enrollment by course credit hours. The numbers included in this table represent the student credit hours generated from courses offered by the department in the Fall and Spring semesters. In CICS, this is determined using the DPT1 and/or DPT2 field listed on the course section (see RCSO).

The weighted student credit hour totals displayed in the table are calculated using the following weighting factors:

For more detail on the numbers displayed in this table, see the Academic Affairs Budget Office website. Student credit hour reports are in the Financial Information section under Student Credit Hours Per Semester.

Please note that the table does not include student credit hours generated from student exchange courses (those with a location code of "IE" or "NE") while the student credit hour reports on the website include these hours. For some departments this will cause a small discrepancy between the two sources. You may click on any row in the student credit hour reports on the website to see a complete breakdown of each course included in the total. The location code for each course is displayed in that breakdown.

Departmental growth capacity represents a department's ability to support more students by offering more courses or raising course enrollment. The growth capacity rank identifies the departments with the greatest need of more faculty lines to support its current student credit hour load. This ranking is determined by dividing the department's weighted fall/spring student credit hours by the number of regular line-item instructional faculty in the department at the start of that academic year. These numbers are displayed in the Student Credit Hours table and the # of FTE Faculty by Tenure Status table, respectively. Departments with lower rank values have less capacity for growth based on this calculation than those with higher rank values.

The complete growth capacity ranking of all academic departments is available for each year displayed in the table. To see the complete ranking, click on the academic year in the heading of the table.

The instructor types used for the Average Class Size table and the Percent of student credit hours taught by instructor type table do not correspond directly to the instructor type listed on the instructor's record on the course offering in CICS (see RIND and/or RCSO). The instructor type listed in CICS is referred to as the reported instructor type and the instructor type used for the tables is referred to as the effective instructor type. The effective instructor type is calculated as follows:

If the reported instructor type is:

• R (Regular) or O (Overload/ESC)
  • If the instructor is a regular faculty member and is teaching a course:
    • Offered by his/her home department:
      
      The effective instructor type is the same as the reported instuctor type.
    • Offered outside his/her home department:
      
      The effective instructor type is Adjunct.
  • If the instructor is not a regular faculty member then the reported instructor type is incorrect and the effective instructor type is Adjunct.
• A (Adjunct) or T (Teaching Assistant)
  The effective instructor type is the same as the reported instuctor type.

The low enrollment courses table displays the number of courses at the undergraduate and graduate level which have enrollment beneath the standard benchmark value for that level. The standard benchmark value is 20 students for undergraduate courses and 15 students for graduate courses. The following rules apply to both the count and the percentage of low enrollment courses:

• Only course lecture sections are included in this calculation. Course lecture sections include both those which are coded with course type "C" and those coded with course type "O" and location code "OL". All other course types - Labs, Theses, Dissertations, Directed Studies, Internships and Other (non-online) - are excluded from this calculation.
• Exchange courses (those with a "NE" or "IE" location code) are excluded from this calculation.
• Cross-listed and dual-listed courses are counted as a single course and the total enrollment across all sections is combined to compare to the benchmark value.
• Only Fall and Spring courses are included in this calculation.