Finally, FAU has a major project underway to assist units in improving student retention and graduation rates and uses those data as primary determinants in awarding funds for improving performance. The University of West Florida Resource Allocation Model is based on the allocation of faculty lines to the colleges in proportion to the three-year weighted average of modified student FTE generation. Each college's projected share of available faculty discretionary lines are calculated using a percent calculated of the grand total three-year weighted average of the modified student FTE generation data. USPS positions are allocated based on the number of academic departments and number of faculty lines. University of Central Florida UCF developed the Pegasus Model for the internal allocation of resources for instruction and research.
Counseling is incorporated into the model depending on the number of majors by unit.
Research and administration are allocated based on fixed fractions of instruction. The model calculates incremental faculty positions for each unit from the data using productivity factors by level and it derives dollar allocations from the incremental positions, using national average salary figures by discipline from Oklahoma State University survey data. Both staff positions and non-salary funds are included in the model. Based on the University of Central Florida's Pegasus Model and the University of Florida's Bank, FIU developed the Panther Model for budget allocation in academic affairs. Another similarity to the UF Bank is that FIU's Panther model considers the state-funded research grant activity for each academic unit.