Instructional Faculty Fraction (IFF)

Instructional Faculty Fraction (IFF) indicates the share of a faculty person’s individual department appointment that is supported by the state instructional budget. 

Logical Transformation/Calculation

Instructional Faculty Fraction (IFF) = Instructional faculty FTE / Total workload FTE.

Examples

This faculty data element represents (for a given faculty person) the total reported Instructional Faculty Fraction (IFF) taken over all department appointments.

For example, a faculty person with a one-fourth time instructional faculty appointment in a specific department would be reported with an IFF of 0.250.

Where Data Element Appears

ASIR Public Faculty Data Dashboards and Reports:

• Faculty Workload Reports

See Also

• Appointments
• Instructional Administrative Fraction (IAF)
• Other Support Fraction (OSF)
• Time Base (Timebase)
• Total Support Fraction (TSF)

Definition Source

"A faculty data element, expressed as a decimal fraction of a full-time faculty position (1.000), which indicates the share of a faculty person’s individual department appointment that is supported by the state instructional budget.  The value is not affected by tenure status, e.g., a non-tenured faculty teaching a full load of classes should be reported with an IFF of 1.000.  An “overage” of 25% over and above a 1.000 full time position is allowed under certain conditions as outlined in article 36 (“Additional Employment”) of the 2002 California Faculty Association labor relations contract. This faculty data element represents (for a given faculty person) the total reported Instructional Faculty Fraction (IFF) taken over all department appointments."