B Delaware Cost Study (DCS) Information
A Data-Centered Approach to Managing Instructional Costs and Enhancing Faculty Productivity
Michael F. Middough
Assistant President for Institutional Research and Planning
University of Delaware
National Director
Delaware Study of Instructional Costs and Productivity
The Delaware Study
Over the past decade has grown and matured from small beginnings into a major data-sharing consortium of close to 400 colleges and universities that have elected to participate since its inception.
It is the tool of choice for benchmarking data on faculty teaching loads, instructional costs, and externally funded research and service activity, all at the academic discipline level of analysis.
The Delaware Study
- Begun in 1992 with initial participant pool of 15 research universities, 16 doctoral universities, and 65 comprehensive and baccalaureate institution.
Today, the participant pool in any given year embraces 50+ research universities, 30+ doctoral universities, 60+ comprehensive institutions, and 30+ baccalaureate colleges. (Note that the Delaware Study continues to employ the 1995 Carnegie Institutional Taxonomy).
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