The Instructional Load Summary summarizes measures of student enrollment (workload FTE, majors, and degrees) and teaching resources (budget and payroll FTE and teaching assistants) over the last five years for the campus and for each division, department, college, and committee. Highlights of the
1997-98 Instructional Load Summary include:
Three-Quarter Average Enrollment . Undergraduate enrollment (9,182 headcount) was 353 students more than the preceding year. Graduate students remained constant at 1,012. The overall three-quarter-average enrollment of 10,194 students was the highest in UCSC history; 205 more than the campus' enrollment of 9,989 in 1992-93.
Undergraduate Majors .
The percentage of UCSC undergraduate students majoring in the arts has increased in each of the last ten years. Recent growth has occurred primarily in the Art, and Film and
Video departments. The percentage of humanities majors slightly increased by 0.5% in 1997-98 even though the Legal Studies program was moved into the Social Sciences Division. The percentage of students who majored in the natural sciences declined from 11.9% to 10.8%. The decline in natural science majors is primarily due to Biology and Physics majors. Historically, there has been great variability in the percentage of biology majors. Biology majors accounted for 12.1% of all majors in
1988-89. They fell to 6.8% in 1991-92, rose to 8.2% in 1996-97, and dropped to 7% in 1997-98.
Physics majors have declined steadily in recent years. There were 96 in 1992-93, 74 in 1994-95, and
44 in 1997-98. The percentage of students majoring in engineering increased slightly to 2.3% (the high was 4.0% in 1988-89). The largest percentage of declared majors was in the social sciences (24.6%).
The percentage of students who majored in economics and politics slightly increased after several years of decline (from 233 and 158 in 1996-7 to 250 and 185 in 1997-98 respectively). Over the past five years, the percentage of psychology majors increased from 7.6% to 10.5% while Sociology majors decreased from 3.3% to 2.4%.
Percent of Undergraduate Majors
32
28
24
20
16
12
8
4
0
1988-89 1989-90 1990-91 1991-92 1992-93 1993-94 1994-95 1995-96 1996-97 1997-98
Arts Humanities Natural Sciences Sch of Engineering Social Sciences
Permanently Budgeted Faculty . In 1997-98, the State-supported student/faculty ratio increased from 17.6:1 to 18.7:1. This reduced UCSC’s total budgeted faculty FTE from 499.8 to 492.8. Due to enrollment growth and a constrained budget, the campus’ student/faculty ratio rose from 19.6 to 20.6.
Through the use of internal funds, UCSC has been able to support more faculty FTE than budgeted. A total of 523.8 faculty FTE were funded in 1997-98 making the actual student/faculty ratio 19.4:1.

Unweighted Student Workload FTE . The unweighted student workload FTE was the highest in
UCSC history (10,149), 281 higher than its peak of 9,868 FTE in 1992-93. The Arts Division's workload increased to 1,161 FTE, slightly higher than its peak in 1991-92 (1,160 FTE). The Natural
Science Division's workload increased steadily through 1994-95 then dropped slightly over the past three years (2,734 FTE in 1994-95, 2,607 FTE in 1997-98). After six years of decline, the Humanities
Division's workload increased slightly from 2,262 FTE in 1995-96 to 2,288 FTE in 1996-97 and to
2,302 FTE in 1997-98. Since 1991-92, engineering's workload FTE has increased steadily. Over half of the campus’ increase in workload FTE was due to increases in the Social Sciences Division which had the highest overall total (3,191 FTE).
Unweighted Student Workload FTE
3,600
3,000
2,400
1,800
1,200
600
0
1988-89 1989-90 1990-91 1991-92 1992-93 1993-94 1994-95 1995-96 1996-97 1997-98
Arts Humanities Natural Sciences Sch of Engineering Social Sciences
Undergraduate FTE per Teaching Assistant.
The campus’ budgeted allocation ratio for teaching assistants (TA) remained unchanged from the previous year (44.1 students per TA). In 1997-98, the budgeted student/TA ratios were 32.3 for Natural Sciences Division, 44.4 for the Humanities, 48.3 for the School of Engineering, 59.0 for the Arts, and 67.9 for the Social Sciences Division. Due to over enrollment, the actual campus ratio was 48.2. The campus augmented its state allocation with about
14.5 FTE in temporary dollars. The Executive Vice Chancellor's (EVC) office also provided funds to augment TA resources in the School of Engineering.
Undergraduate FTE per Teaching Assistant
105
90
75
60
45
30
15
0
1988-89 1989-90 1990-91 1991-92 1992-93 1993-94 1994-95 1995-96 1996-97 1997-98
Arts Humanities Natural Sciences Sch of Engineering Social Sciences Campus