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>>>                 Thanks to Professor Mike Russell for directing our
>>>attention to educational benchmark data from the National Center for
>>>Education Statistics.  In spite of inevitable time lags on the reporting
>>>year of the data, the trends seem clear.
>>>
>>>                 As Mike observed, in FY 2000 public universities generally
>>>spent 31% of their revenue on instruction, 10.1% on academic
>>>support  (including libraries), 4.5% on scholarships, 10.5% on research,
>>>17.1% on administration (institutional support).  The data reveal a
>>>declining trend in expenditures on instruction from 39 to 31% over some
>>>twenty-five years and administration expenditures rising from 13% to 17.1%.
>>>
>>>                 Annual audits by the UT System/Office of Comptroller
>>>produce reports of UT System and UTC expenditures by the same universally
>>>accepted categories.  Aligned side by side, these are the comparable
>>>expenditure patterns.
>>>
>>>Table 347       National Data 2000        UT System 2003        UTC 2003
>>>Instruction                     31%                     46.5%
>>>47.3%
>>>Academic Support        7.9%                    10.1%           8.6%
>>>Libraries                               2.2%                    Included
>>>in Academic Support
>>   Scholarships                          4.5%
 >>        3.9%                    7.6%
>>>Research                        10.5%                           8.6%
 >>>               1.3%
>>>Inst. Sup
>>>(Admin)               17.1%                           10.2%           7.8%
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>***************************************
>>>Dick Gruetzemacher, Ed.D.
>>>Director,
>>>Planning, Evaluation, and Institutional Research
>>>University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
>>>B-107 Siskin Memorial
>>>615 McCallie Avenue
>>>Chattanooga, TN    37403
>>>Phone:  423.425-4007
>>>Fax:            423.425-2216
>>>**************************
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