American River College Integrated Planning System Reports

Library Program Productivity (WSCH per FTEF) for spring semesters

Productivity is defined as Weekly Contact Hours (the # of hours students meet with an instructor each week multiplied by the number of students) divided by the FTEF (full time faculty equivalent) used to teach the classes in which WSCH is generated. WSCH converts to FTES, the measure of student activity that serves as the basis for state funding. FTEF reflects the cost of instruction. Productivity is typically used as an efficiency metric to show how much student activity we're generating for a given cost of instruction (per 1.0 FTEF). Productivity increases as class size increases or as FTEF is allocated more efficiently. Districts and colleges often set productivity minimum thresholds as annual goals, recognizing that there are large differences in appropriate productivity levels across the various instructional departments. The following information is intended to provide you with a sense for how your planning unit's productivity has changed over the last five years. To provide some context, note that overall Fall 2018 productivity ranges between 470 and 530 across the four LRCCD colleges.