Office of Strategic Initiatives Regental Task Force Requests 5/4/2011

10:11 AM
Req. Date of Due Date Requestor Related Responding Component Request Details Status Date Notes
# Request Task Force Party Number Complete
1 2/14/11 3/9/11 Pejovich E&P OAA 1.1 Total compensation for each person teaching or doing research (salary + benefits) Completed  3/10/11
3/9/11 E&P 1.2 Total number of students taught in the last year, including number of sections taught and Completed  3/10/11
number of credit hours taught, weighted and unweighted
3/17/11 E&P 1.3 Externally funded research dollars brought in per person ‐last year and last 5 years Completed  3/21/11
3/17/11 E&P 1.4 Student satisfaction scores for each teacher Completed Acknowledgement sent 4/19; BOR scheduling phone call for
clarification - A sampling of the data was provided

3/17/11 E&P 1.5 Grade distribution for each section taught by a teacher Completed Acknowledgement sent 4/19; BOR scheduling phone call for
clarification - A sampling of the data was provided

4/26/11 Cranberg E&P 1.6 Add all TA's; Replace all "-" and "." with zeros In progress Acknowledgement sent 4/26
1a 4/18/11 4/28/11 Pajovich/ E&P OAA 1.1a Clarification of faculty data re: TA’s teaching allocation and high numbers of sections Completed 4/22/11
Cranberg
1b 4/18/11 5/23/11 Pejovich/ E&P OAA 1.1b Complete Data for items 1.4 and 1.5 In progress A sampling of the data provided previously;
Cranberg Acknowledgement sent. Should be compiled by 5.23.11
2 2/15/11 None Cranberg N/A OAA 2.1 Faculty authored textbooks required in classes Completed  2/21/11
3 2/24/11 None Hall BOL OAA 3.1 List of online programs Completed 2/25/11
3/4/11 BOL 3.2 Number of classes w/ student enrollment and SCH generated by campus Completed 3/4/11
3/18/11 BOL 3.3 List of online college credit courses by campus Completed 3/18/11
4/1/11 BOL 3.4 List of hybrid college credit courses by campus Completed 4/1/11
4 3/8/11 3/15/11 Pejovich E&P OAA 4.1 Campus survey of progress implementing THECB recommendations (17) Completed 4/15/11
5 3/23/11 None Cranberg N/A OAA 5.1 Resolutions from the UT System Faculty Advisory Council for the last 10 years Completed 3/24/11
6 3/28/11 None Pejovich E&P OAA 6.1 Background information on how research funding works Completed 4/14/11
7 4/4/11 4/12/11 Powell N/A OAA/OSI 7.1 National rankings/peer information Completed 4/12/11
8 4/5/11 4/14/11 Pejovich E&P OAA 8.1 Draft template for below items for consistency of information ("signed off") Completed 4/14/11
4/14/11 E&P 8.1a Top 3 productivity and efficiency efforts for each campus Completed 4/14/11
4/14/11 E&P 8.1b Are THECB recommendations 2, 3, 6, 9, and 10 institutional priorities and if not, why not Completed 4/14/11
4/14/11 E&P OBA 8.2 Classroom facility usage template Completed 4/14/11 Not presented due to lack of time
5/3/11 E&P OAA 8.3 Rightsize PhD programs and improve time to PhD graduation In progress For May 3rd meeting
5/3/11 E&P OAA 8.4 External reviews ‐current RR and implementation & suggest improvements In progress For May 3rd meeting
5/3/11 E&P OAA 8.5 Research capital assets ‐identify benchmarks & suggest guidelines In progress For May 3rd meeting
5/3/11 E&P OAA 8.6 \DPAC/Faculty (and eventually student) Management System In progress To be discussed at CAI and provosts' meeting April 27th
4/27/11 Cranberg UT Austin 8.7 Individual examples of their faculty compression measures and the sampling of data from the In progress
DPAC system
9 4/19/11 4/28/11 Hall BOL OBA 9.1 Sources of potential funding for System support to campuses Completed 4/28/11 Acknowledgment sent 4/19/11
4/28/11 BOL OAA 9.2 Existing public‐private partnerships at campuses Completed 4/28/11 Acknowledgment sent 4/19/11
4/28/11 BOL OAA 9.3 Top 25 courses based on enrollment Completed 4/28/11 Acknowledgment sent 4/19/11
4/28/11 BOL OAA 9.4 Existing analytics platforms at campuses Completed 4/28/11 Acknowledgment sent 4/19/11
4/28/11 BOL OBA/OAA 9.5 Details of System operation for world‐class analytics platform Completed 4/28/11 Acknowledgment sent 4/19/11
Office of Strategic Initiatives Regental Task Force Requests 5/4/2011
10:11 AM
Req. Date of Due Date Requestor Related Responding Component Request Details Status Date Notes
# Request Task Force Party Number Complete
10 4/19/11 Pejovich E&P CHA 10.1 RR 31006 ‐Faculty workload requirements In progress
E&P 10.2 Assemble faculty panel to discuss the following: In progress Assist Chancellor and assemble panel
E&P 10.2a How do we measure quality of teaching & can they be strengthened In progress
E&P 10.2b How do we define, identify and honor our most effective teachers In progress
E&P 10.2c Are we attracting enough world class scholars or can we do better In progress
E&P 10.2d How do our graduate programs prepare future faculty to be great teachers In progress
E&P 10.2e What are our professional initiatives for faculty and can they be strengthened In progress
11 4/19/11 4/29/11 Pejovich E&P OBA/OSI 11.1 Tuition growth for 10 years; nominal and real dollars Completed 4/29/11 Acknowledgment sent 4/20/11 - Update 4/27/11
4/29/11 E&P 11.2 Enrollment for each institution over 10 years Completed 4/29/11 Acknowledgment sent 4/20/11 - Update 4/27/11
4/29/11 E&P 11.3 Funding trend from state over 10 years Completed 4/29/11 Acknowledgment sent 4/20/11 - Update 4/27/11
4/29/11 E&P 11.4 Count of non‐faculty over 10 years Completed 4/29/11 Acknowledgment sent 4/20/11 - Update 4/27/11
5/11/11 E&P 11.5 Current overhead rate of faculty labor costs (non self‐supporting units) In progress 5/11/11 Acknowledgment sent 4/20/11 - Update 4/27/11
5/11/11 E&P 11.6 10 year trend of overhead & administrative costs of non self‐supporting units In progress 5/11/11 Acknowledgment sent 4/20/11 - Update 4/27/11
4/29/11 E&P 11.7 Counts w/n salary ranges for non‐faculty employees Completed 4/29/11 Acknowledgment sent 4/20/11 - Update 4/27/11
5/11/11 E&P 11.8 Current cost per undergraduate degree for 3 most heavily enrolled degree programs (how do we In progress 5/11/11 Acknowledgment sent 4/20/11 - Update 4/27/11
define cost per degree)
12 4/26/11 4/26/11 Cranberg E&P OGR 12.1 Tuition cost for UG, Grad, MBA, Law & Engineering students at UT Austin Completed 4/26/11
13 Hall BOL OAA 13.1 Electronic Binder for Blended Learning Completed 4/27/11
14 14.1 Binder for EPTF Completed 4/21/11
15 4/29/11 Cranberg E&P OSI 15.1 Clarification of Invited Faculty Data In Progress
16 5/2/11 Pejovich E&P OSI 16.1 Tuition Rates; State Funding past 5 years. UT Austin USNWR ranking; 6-yr grad rate average past Completed 5/2/11
5 years; UT Austin Current 4-yr grad rate.
17 5/3/11 Pejovich E&P OAA 17.1 Written thoughts pertaining to the questions/topics posed on the student panel this morning
from Pan American (see agenda for the questions).  Please coordinate through President Nelsen
responses from one of his student leaders since they were not represented at the task force
meeting.
Pejovich 17.1a Role of student evaluations  in teacher selections
Pejovich 17.1b Process of teacher evaluations
Pejovich 17.1c Accessibility and method of posting for student evaluations
Pejovich 17.1d Thoughts on improvements to the student evaluation process
Pejovich 17.1e Credibility of student evaluations
Pejovich 17.1f Ways to engage input from the students and specifically, how can students be more
knowledgeable contributors to the budget discussion
Leslie 17.2 From Provost Leslie, the Task Force wanted more examples of initiatives that they have ongoing
to move more of their senior, highly paid faculty into teaching at the undergraduate level. 
(Policies/initiatives/ projects, etc.).