Other Support Fraction (OSF)

Other Support Fraction indicates the share of a faculty person’s individual department appointment that is supported by state funding other than the instructional or administrative support budgets.

Logical Transformation/Calculation

Other Support Fraction (OSF) = Other faculty FTE / Total workload FTE.

Examples

This faculty data element represents (for a given faculty person) the total reported Other Support Fraction (OSF) taken over all department appointments.

For example, a faculty person with a one-fourth time department appointment funded by sources other than the state would be reported with an OSF of 0.250.

Where Data Element Appears

ASIR Public Faculty Data Dashboards and Reports:

• Faculty Workload Reports

See Also

• Appointments
• Instructional Administrative Fraction (IAF)
• Instructional Faculty Fraction (IFF)
• 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 state funding other than the instructional or administrative support budgets. This element should be used to indicate:

1. The appointment fraction for a person with a single department appointment who teaches one or more sections and is being paid for same from state funds other than instructional budget or administrative budget.
2. Reimbursed faculty time. For example, a librarian, administrator, or computer center employee who teaches a course funded from the total state support budget (rather than the instructional budget) would have his/her appointment fraction recorded as Other Support Fraction (OSF).  ROTC, volunteer faculty, and dollar-a-year faculty should be reported with zero OSF."