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tony
05-15-2011, 08:41 PM
In the 46-page document that NDSU prepared for the state legislature, they listed state support per FTE student funding for the last two bienniums.

I'd like to create data that shows those two bienniums combined plus the 2011-2013 biennium, but I'm not really sure what the final numbers are.

Can somebody verify my math on this? (four-year schools only):

General funds* / FTE**

* General fund figure comes from Page 23 of the NDUS Analysis of the 2011-2013 Legislative Appropriation document.
** Since nobody knows what enrollments will be in 2011-13, I'm using the 2009 and 2010 totals here:


UND 141,005,358 / 20325 = 6938
NDSU 121,666,942 / 24000 = 5069
DSU 22,315,454 / 4586 = 4865
MaSU 12,943,815 / 1157 = 11,187
MiSU 38,170,973 / 6302 = 6057
VSU 17,814,057 /1670 = 10,667
Bison bison
05-15-2011, 09:07 PM
Your data is messy.

Why are you including one-time capital expenses for some schools but not others?

Why are you not included the School of Medicine and Health Sciences? SBoHE is to include it for these types of comparisons?
tony
05-15-2011, 09:48 PM
Your data is messy.

Why are you including one-time capital expenses for some schools but not others?

Why are you not included the School of Medicine and Health Sciences? SBoHE is to include it for these types of comparisons?

I didn't realize I was including one-time capital expenses. I could have inadvertantly since copying stuff from PDFs does terrible stuff to alignments. I'll attach the a screen print of the part of the budget I was looking at.

Didn't include the School Medicine because as soon as you include the school of medicine people say, "Oh, you included the school of medicine! That renders any comparison moot because schools of medicine produce graduates that are 20x more important than graduates who actually contribute to a state's GDP." (hehe, actually, they don't say that last bit.)

Here's what the formatted data looks like:

http://whynotnd.areavoices.com/sample-page/

Heh, if you do exclude one-time expenditures, NDSU's total funding went down over 10% from the last biennium.