Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 62.47
Liaison Chris Frantsvog
Submission Date March 3, 2017
Executive Letter Download

STARS v2.1

Luther College
IC-3: Academics and Demographics

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete N/A Jon Christy
Director of Assessment and Institutional Research
Dean's Office
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Number of academic divisions (e.g. colleges, schools):
3

Number of academic departments (or the equivalent):
22

Number of students enrolled for credit:
2,380

Total number of employees (staff + faculty):
608

Full-time equivalent student enrollment (undergraduate and graduate):
2,327

Full-time equivalent of employees (staff + faculty):
475

Full-time equivalent of students enrolled exclusively in distance education:
0

Number of students resident on-site:
2,112

Number of employees resident on-site:
7

Number of other individuals resident on-site, e.g. family members of employees, individuals lodging on-site (by average occupancy rate), and/or staffed hospital beds (if applicable):
2

Weighted campus users, performance year:
2,633.25

Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

Prior to 2008 IPEDS, for both Professional Staff and Service/Support Staff FTE calculations, the Office of Human Resources reported as full-time any employee working a .75 -.99 position equivalent due to their qualifying for full employee benefits. Beginning with 2008 IPEDS, in an effort to align our reporting with IPEDS requirements, only persons working a 1.00 position equivalent were counted as full-time. Consequently, the total number of full-time persons used for both the salaried and hourly FTE calculations decreased, while the total number of part-time persons increased. As the FTE calculations (above) all use the formula, FTE = full-time + (1/3)part-time, the change noted greatly impacted the FTE calculation.

This change in reporting puts us at a slight disadvantage when comparing baseline to performance years for baselines that were set prior to 2007. Our baselines in 2004 and 2007 were 559 and 568, respectively, compared to 475 in 2016.


Prior to 2008 IPEDS, for both Professional Staff and Service/Support Staff FTE calculations, the Office of Human Resources reported as full-time any employee working a .75 -.99 position equivalent due to their qualifying for full employee benefits. Beginning with 2008 IPEDS, in an effort to align our reporting with IPEDS requirements, only persons working a 1.00 position equivalent were counted as full-time. Consequently, the total number of full-time persons used for both the salaried and hourly FTE calculations decreased, while the total number of part-time persons increased. As the FTE calculations (above) all use the formula, FTE = full-time + (1/3)part-time, the change noted greatly impacted the FTE calculation.

This change in reporting puts us at a slight disadvantage when comparing baseline to performance years for baselines that were set prior to 2007. Our baselines in 2004 and 2007 were 559 and 568, respectively, compared to 475 in 2016.

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