FACULTY ACCOUNTABILITY AND FACULTY WORKLOAD: A Preliminary Cost Analysis of Their Relationship As

General concerns forfaculty accountability are examined in the context of faculty workload and costs. Graduating a PhD student isused as the unit for analysis. The unit is compared to instructional productivity. The data came from a 10-year interval at a major graduate university. Six liberal arts departments with a 225-member faculty pro-vide the PhD output and workload information. Work equivalents are determined from institutional nd faculty self-reports, Graduating a PhD is found to be equivalent to one-third of a full workload. Implications are given for comparisons between programs with-in a university and between types of institutions in the larger system of higher education. Concerns also emerge for improved personnel practices w th respect to faculty work assignments,.................................. ,.............. 0.................. ,............ Two matters press on higher education today with increasing intensity. They are faculty accountability and the need for criteria for allocating limited re-sources among competing and differing programs and institutions. Questions being asked are: What does a program cost? Are faculty doing their jobs? Is faculty output commensurate with the dollars being expended? 1 Importan