Senate Reference No. 04-18

Question Time

Based upon SR 04‑15, Table 3, IPFW appears to be comparatively underfunding in the Research and Academic Support areas, while overfunding in the Institutional Support area.  Could you please explain these apparent divergences?

Michael Nusbaumer

Department of Sociology

Table 3

                                                  IPEDS Finance Survey, 2002/03

                                       Public Baccalaureate Institutions in Indiana

	Indiana Univ-    Purdue Univ     Fort Wayne	Ball State      University	Indiana Univ-    Purdue Univ    Indianapolis	University of       Southern         Indiana	Indiana           State      University
Instruction	$36,670,904         (44.0%)	112,671,755         (37.2%)	261,891,986         (31.0%)	25,937,752         (30.4%)	60,420,852         (34.3%)
Research	673,713          (0.8%)	19,792,799          (6.5%)	131,546,708         (15.6%)	223,972          (0.3%)	10,660,140          (6.0%)
Public Service	3,417,175          (4.1%)	7,790,889          (2.6%)	61,450,143          (7.3%)	1,505,594          (1.8%)	941,867          (0.5%)
Academic Support	3,171,509          (3.8%)	32,385,815         (10.7%)	91,322,072         (10.8%)	7,273,273          (8.5%)	13,422,294          (7.6%)
Student Services	4,712,708          (5.7%)	14,203,118          (4.7%)	13,360,608          (1.6%)	5,119,820          (6.0%)	7,627,210          (4.3%)
Institutional Support	11,916,578         (14.3%)	22,848,497          (7.5%)	55,295,962          (6.6%)	8,743,524         (10.3%)	17,863,153         (10.1%)
Physical Plant	7,252,626          (8.7%)	27,451,463          (9.1%)	50,336,839          (6.0%)	6,203,280          (7.3%)	24,852,895         (14.1%)
Depreciation	4,451,218          (5.3%)	13,151,125          (4.3%)	34,704,070          (4.1%)	6,562,814          (7.7%)	11,981,149          (6.8%)
Scholarships/ Fellowships	3,690,707          (4.4%)	2,708,823          (0.9%)	16,017,823          (1.9%)	4,243,058          (5.0%)	4,275,099          (2.4%)
Auxiliary Enterprises	3,140,259          (3.8%)	45,591,103         (15.0%)	116,238,698         (13.8%)	14,958,138         (17.6%)	24,247,857         (13.8%)
Hospital	0	0	0	0	0
Ind Operations	0	0	0	0	0
Other Expenses	90,544          (0.1%)	0	0	369,481          (0.4%)	0
Interest	2,075,370          (2.5%)	3,969,333          (1.3%)	11,483,198          (1.4%)	4,025,769          (4.7%)	0
Other Non Exp	2,139,698          (2.6%)	697,003          (0.2%)	0	33,847          (.04%)	0
Total Expend	83,403,009	303,261,723	843,648,107	85,200,322	176,292,516

                                                              Table 3-continued

                                                  IPEDS Finance Survey, 2002/03

                                       Public Baccalaureate Institutions in Indiana

	Indiana      University-        Kokomo	Indiana      University-     South Bend	Indiana      University-    Bloomington	Indiana      University-      Northwest	Indiana      University-      Southeast
Instruction	$8,748,092         (36.0%)	26,254,086         (45.8%)	273,165,537         (32.1%)	17,957,913         (42.6%)	20,619,624         (44.3%)
Research	260,146          (1.1%)	756,661          (1.3%)	67,880,426          (8.0%)	341,762          (0.8%)	441,731          (0.9%)
Public Service	629,578          (2.6%)	615,322          (1.1%)	55,184,765          (6.5%)	1,887,318          (4.5%)	586,822          (1.3%)
Academic Support	1,400,278          (5.8%)	3,827,620          (6.7%)	49,040,151          (5.8%)	2,603,267          (6.2%)	2,151,168          (4.6%)
Student Services	1,294,071          (5.3%)	1,536,598          (2.7%)	32,623,332          (3.8%)	2,123,834          (5.0%)	2,555,657          (5.5%)
Institutional Support	3,159,870         (13.0%)	6,368,458         (11.1%)	72,726,243          (8.5%)	4,027,894          (9.5%)	7,540,901         (16.2%)
Physical Plant	2,478,738         (10.2%)	4,328,236          (7.5%)	52,100,429          (6.1%)	3,931,971          (9.3%)	2,873,758          (6.2%)
Depreciation	1,804,293          (7.4%)	2,843,187          (5.0%)	56,260,757          (6.6%)	2,300,961          (5.5%)	2,166,758          (4.7%)
Scholarships/ Fellowships	1,088,325          (4.5%)	2,971,158          (5.2%)	42,496,610          (5.0%)	2,541,508          (6.0%)	2,531,519          (5.4%)
Auxiliary Enterprises	1,576,610          (6.5%)	5,026,443          (8.8%)	146,306,847         (17.2%)	2,604,537          (6.2%)	3,400,183          (7.3%)
Hospital	0	0	0	0	0
Ind Operations	0	0	0	0	0
Other Expenses	0	0	0	0	0
Interest	1,829,120          (7.5%)	2,811,694          (4.9%)	3,913,370          (0.5%)	1,874,038          (4.4%)	1,665,756          (3.6%)
Other Non Exp	0	0	0	0	0
Total Expend	24,269,121	57,339,463	851,698,467	42,195,003	46,533,877

                                                              Table 3-continued

                                                  IPEDS Finance Survey, 2002/03

                                       Public Baccalaureate Institutions in Indiana

	Indiana         University-               East	Purdue         University-           Calumet	Purdue         University-       North Central	Purdue         University-     West Lafayette
Instruction	$7,372,925            (28.2%)	33,440,496            (51.2%)	11,229,269            (36.4%)	332,311,809            (32.8%)
Research	235,586             (0.9%)	862,292             (1.3%)	149,503             (0.5%)	163,025,142            (16.1%)
Public Service	4,631,760            (17.7%)	2,212,330             (3.3%)	648,561             (2.1%)	79,160,479             (7.8%)
Academic Support	1,050,671             (4.0%)	2,352,554             (3.6%)	473,650             (1.5%)	38,486,510             (3.8%)
Student Services	2,060,345             (7.9%)	3,931,777             (6.0%)	1,203,930             (3.9%)	19,159,549             (1.9%)
Institutional Support	2,809,811            (10.7%)	5,817,644             (8.9%)	4,090,178            (13.3%)	80,636,655             (8.0%)
Physical Plant