By Walter W. Olson, Ph.D., P.E.

The questions posed by the title have been nagging questions for many people at The University of Toledo for quite a few years. Different answers have been given by different people.  So what answer do I believe? Not knowing which to accept as fact, I decided to try to find the best answer I could from base data.

I arrived at the following answers: we have a total of 1105 faculty (377 on the Health Science Campus and 728 on the Main Campus.) The faculty salaries ($85,900,844.93) are 30.88% of the total salaries ($278, 157, 503.11). These numbers are dependent on which personnel are included and which are not. Furthermore, this is only a snapshot of the day the data was for.

The basis for these results is the Personnel Control Roster (PCR). There are several costs which do not show up in the PCR for the Main Campus. These include Part Time Faculty (which would fall under Employee Classification Code F7), summer compensation and extra compensation. My best estimate of this is approximately $10 million.  However, these costs would probably be offset by similar non-faculty adjustments which also are not in the PCR and would not significantly change the percentage of the total salaries expended on faculty. The procedures are described and the reduced data is provided below.

The roster of all employees for The University of Toledo Academic Enterprise is the Personnel Control Roster kept in the web report library at

https://reports.utoledo.edu/businessobjects/enterprise115/InfoView/logon.aspx 

This data is accessible on campus and through a VPN channel off campus. I downloaded the "Position Control Roster Data" from the "Budget Tab under Human Resources" under the "Public Folders" on February 11, 2011, which contains the data as of February 10, 2011.

Then using Microsoft Excel, I unmerged the cells of the file. I then sorted the file by name. The duplicate name entries were then deleted leaving a file with the salary data, the employee classifications and the bargaining unit data intact. This file was then sorted by employee classification. The total salaries and the count of members for each of the 49 employee classifications was computed.

The definition of faculty used to create the following results were people who are employed solely as faculty. In the Employee Classification A1, Faculty Full Time 12 Mth HSC, 23 people of the total 315 were listed by position as Associate Deans, Assistant Deans and Chairs. These were removed from the totals for faculty. This resulted in the following for faculty:

If the above table in unreadable, please see this link.