GOVERNING DOCUMENTS: ACADEMIC
POLICY:
ENROLMENT QUOTAS AND STAFFING POLICY
Effective Date:
December 17, 1970
Revised Date:
 
Review Date:
 
Approving Body:
Board of Governors
Authority:
 
Implementation:
 
Contact:
Vice-President (Academic) and Provost
Applies to:
All Staff

The Board of Governors, at its meeting in April, 1970, requested a study of the implications of enrolment quotas for the University of Manitoba. A report was prepared and considered by the Planning Secretariat, the Senate Planning and Priorities Committee and Senate. The report led to the formulation of a policy on enrolment quotas and staffing as outlined below.


Enrolment Quotas

The University of Manitoba adopts, as guidelines for budgetary and planning purposes, the interim enrolment quotas as contained in the report (1970), with the understanding that an annual assessment be made of the suitability of the enrolment total and the relative quotas therein.

Factors that were considered in developing appropriate enrolment quotas for the various academic areas included:

  1. student interest or demand for entry into a given programme of studies;

  2. the employment prospects for graduates, the workforce needs, our degree of responsibility for meeting these needs, signs of overproduction, and both economic and social implications of the work of Faculties and Schools; and

  3. the University's obligations to develop graduands well grounded in the fundamentals of a liberal education.

Finally, consideration was given to the numbers of staff required in each area to discharge in an academically reasonable way their responsibilities at both undergraduate and graduate levels of operation.


Staffing Policy

Senate, meeting on December 15, 1970, adopted the following three-component method for determining load and staffing requirements:

  1. undergraduate teaching using the undergraduate student credit hour (UGSCH) to express the relative amount of work done by staff in teaching undergraduates;

  2. graduate teaching for which the FTE head count of graduate students is taken as a measure of the effort required; and

  3. extraordinary commitments to community service or special research missions.

In addition to these components, the effective teaching equivalent of post-doctoral fellows, teaching assistants and other teaching personnel without academic rank is to be calculated by dividing the funds budgeted for their teaching activities by $12,000, the resulting number to be added to the numbers of academic staff in determining the effective teaching staff of a faculty or school.

The normative load units adopted by Senate (1970 report) are not fixed. Changes have taken place during the intervening years reflecting changes in programmes.

Details of the procedures used in determining enrolment quotas and the method for calculating staffing requirements are contained in the document "Enrolment Limitation and Staff Policy for the University of Manitoba, Report 5". Copies of this report can be examined in the Planning Office, 405 Administration Building, or the University Secretariat, 312 Administration Building.