This seminal study examines the level of college administration administrative and financial support for academic departments in the USA and Canada, highlighting the availability of funds for student workers for the department, funds for adjuncts, number of administrative support positions provided for, even the number of hours typically worked by department chairs. The study also defines the level of financial support to enable departments to adjust to shifts to online teaching. The study helps its readers to answer questions such as: How many and what kinds of departments have specific budgets for ancillary teaching by existing full time faculty? How much are these budgets? How many hours per week does the typical student employed by the department work? In addition to teaching and grading what kind of jobs are TA’s and other grad students doing for academic departments? How many hours is the typical department chair working on departmental matters? How many administrative support positions are earmarked for the department ?

Data in the report is broken out by many variables including the size, type and tuition level of the college or university, its public or private status, world university ranking as well as the type of academic department, length of tenure of the department chair, and other variables. Data is also broken out separately for US and Canadian institutions.

This report presents data from a survey of 198 department chairs from 112 colleges and universities in the United States and Canada.

Just a few of the 70-page reports many findings are that:

• The mean number of hours worked per week on departmental business by chairs in the sample was 26.29.
• Departments in math/engineering and computer science enjoyed the most positions earmarked for administrative support for the department, more than double the number allocated to departments in languages/arts/communications.
• Departments with chairs who have held their positions for more than 7 years are more likely than others to have budgets for full time faculty to teach additional courses for added compensation.
• Universities ranked in the top fifty worldwide provided more than twice as many administrative support positions for their academic departments than other universities in the sample.
• The average number of hours worked per student worker employed by an academic department was lowest in business/economics, where the mean number of hours worked per week by student employees was only 7.5 hours per week.

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