Level is defined as lower divisional, upper divisional, masters, first professional, and doctorate. Level is defined as lower divisional, upper divisional, masters, first professional, and doctorate. A full time faculty member is defined by the typical number of teaching hours required of a teaching faculty member under regular contract. The staff believes that all institutions in each sector defined in Act 359 should be required to adopt a common definition for that sector. First time, full time students refers to undergraduate students only for this indicator.
First time refers to a student's first time at a college.
Employed is defined as work for pay or profit or temporary absence form a job to which the worker will return as a percent of graduates in any given year. Supplemental surveys by the institutions would only be used to further explain or clarify data collected from the Employment Security Commission and would not be used for initial funding purposes for this indicator. The level of satisfaction with the graduates of the institution, on a statewide survey, reported on a scale of satisfaction, by institution. These examinations have been defined for Act 255 and will remain the same for Act 359. Consensus was not reached on the Task Force regarding graduate examinations such as GRE's, LSAT's,MCAT's, etc.