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Wake Forest Space Utilization Study
Project Scope and Summation of Findings
Chart 1: Current and Projected Personnel
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Senior Dir./Ch
Admin. air
Asst.
Dir.
WFU Personnel Data
Current and Projected
Faculty
Other
Fac
Adj.
Faculty
Current 55.5 116.0 142.0 432.0 85.5 39.0 490.0 278.0 168.0 21.0 259.0 2,086.0
7% Growth 55.5 116.0 142.0 455.0 91.0 42.0 495.0 284.0 178.0 22.0 259.0 2,139.5
12.5% Growth 55.5 116.0 142.0 473.0 95.0 44.0 500.0 288.0 185.0 23.0 258.0 2,179.5
25% Grow th 55.5 116.0 142.0 514.0 105.0 48.0 509.0 298.0 203.0 25.0 259.0 2,274.5
Staff
Cler./T
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Grad
Assts.
Post
Docs
Pers.
w /o
Office
Schedule of Classes: as a proxy for the class file, a database maintained by
Institutional Research entitled “Duplicated Class Load Data” was used.
Although containing most of the records and data found in a typical class
file, manipulation of this database to eliminate duplicate records was
required. Also, independent collection of data not reported for certain
instructional rooms was also necessary. For the rooms that had scheduled
use that were not reported and later added, course enrollments were
estimated applying the station occupancy factor of 65%. This data was used
to generate the current room utilization profile.
Student Credit Hours: this data file was provided through Institutional
Research. Although this office maintains accurate current credit hour data
for the College and Calloway, not all of the data for the professional schools
Totals
is readily available. The file was supplemented after a detailed survey was
conducted by Institutional Research.
Peer Data Analysis
Space data was collected from six peer institutions that were used for
comparative benchmarking and to analyze the reasonableness of the space
needs model. The six peer institutions included: North Carolina-Chapel
Hill, Notre Dame, Rice, Stanford, Vanderbilt and William and Mary.
The data show that the FTE Student to FTE faculty ratio for Wake Forest is
about 10, which is on par with the peer institutions.
Compared to peer universities, WFU has fairly substantial current space
shortage when viewed both on a per student FTE and faculty basis. The
major space categorical needs identified by the WFU space model appear to
be confirmed by the peer data with several of the calculated needs per
category aligning with the peers. Overall, the ASF/Faculty ratio for the six
peers was 2,812, while the WFU ratio is 2,042. The ASF/FTE Student ratio
for the peers is 299 while WFU‘s ratio is 213.
Table 7: Peer Institution Summary Data
University (a)
FTE
Faculty
FTE
Enroll
Total ASF ASF per
Faculty
ASF per
Student
Student
Faculty
Ratio
NC at Chapel Hill 3,089 25,043 5,913,829 1,915.5 236.1 8.1
Notre Dame 917 11,485 3,520,096 3,836.7 306.5 12.5
Rice University 618 4,855 1,567,459 2,536.7 322.9 7.9
Stanford University 1,400 14,009 6,130,915 4,379.2 437.6 10.0
Vanderbilt University 592 6,329 2,268,626 3,832.1 358.4 10.7
William & Mary 758 7,624 1,334,116 1,760.0 175.0 10.1
Peer Average 1,229 11,558 3,455,840 2,811.9 299.0 9.4
Wake Forest - Current 518 5,349 1,057,636 2,041.8 212.9 10.3
(a) Main Campus only
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