ACADEMIC FACULTY CAPACITY PLANNING

Forecast faculty needs to plan resources and meet student demand.

Manage faculty resources across academic programs with Ad Astra's smart Faculty Capacity Planning dashboard.

✔ Forecast future faculty capacity needs
✔ Analyze full-time and adjunct faculty
✔ Balance resources to meet student demand
✔ Report by faculty type, program, department, and more

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Partners in success since 1996 | Serving 550+ campuses with 4.5M students

Full-Time and Adjunct Faculty Metrics

Understand how full-time and adjunct faculty are meeting student needs.

Save time assessing the impact of your faculty on institutional goals with key metrics related to full-time and adjunct faculty.

✔ Data for accreditation requirements	✔ Metrics by institution and department
✔ Annual and individual term reporting	✔ Credits, enrollment, and seats by faculty type

Change Recommendations & Analyses

Balance current faculty resources to meet student demand and minimize disruption.

Maximize student progression and minimize faculty disruptions by balancing resources to best meet current student demand. Review section change recommendations to understand the impact on seat offerings, enrollment, and faculty load.

✔ Section addition and reduction candidates	✔ Guiding parameters for custom recommendations
✔ Analyze current faculty resources	✔ Account for faculty course history

Future Faculty Capacity Forecasts

Forecast future faculty needs to plan resources and anticipate hiring.

Plan for program growth and avoid future constraints by modeling the needs of your faculty resources. Understand the full potential capacity of a program by year and identify any requirements that will limit any future growth.

✔ Model academic program capacity	✔ Identify and mitigate constraints
✔ Analyze required sections, enrollment, and seats	✔ Report by program, by year

Faculty Workload Insights

Assess identify available and overloaded faculty by department.

Analyze full-time and adjust faculty load to identify individuals and departments with potential available load and overload in your institution's schedule.

✔ Faculty load by type, year, and term	✔ View overloaded faculty
✔ View faculty with potential available load

Faculty Assignment

+ Included with Academic Scheduling

Assign faculty to sections during the schedule building process.

Academic Faculty Assignment

Faculty Load Management

+ Data-informed Add-on
Track faculty capacity with detailed reporting into instructional and non-instructional assignments.

Faculty Load Management

Faculty Capacity Planning

+ Integrated Planning Add-on
Balance faculty resources and forecast future capacity needed to match student demand.

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Ad Astra Success Stories

Learn how institutions just like yours are achieving their outcomes with smarter planning and scheduling solutions.

Efficient scheduling for 15,000+ unique class sections a year.

Discover how the University of Missouri-Kansas City improved student success through smart academic course scheduling.

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8% increase in retention year over year

See how Northwest Missouri State University leveraged Ad Astra’s scheduling tools to create operational efficiency, transparency across departments, and ultimately help improve student outcomes.

20+ hours per term saved

Discover how Butler Community College said goodbye to manual processes & automated their scheduling process, saving 20-30 hours of work each term.

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Streamlining Events Scheduling with Supercharged Reporting

Joy Medford, Executive Director of Institutional Effectiveness, set out to bring a centralized approach to scheduling at Angelina College. Learn how Angelina College streamlines its event process and efficiently scheduled 300+ events and 2000+ meetings.

$350k savings during a multi-year configuration of academic building resources

When Western Kentucky had to reallocate 156 rooms due to a building shutdown, Ad Astra powered fast rescheduling decisions using room and resource data – ultimately helping the university achieve a six-figure savings.

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ACADEMIC FACULTY CAPACITY PLANNING

Forecast faculty needs to plan resources and meet student demand.

Partners in success since 1996 | Serving 550+ campuses with 4.5M students

The Smart Scheduling Guide to Faculty Capacity Planning

Full-Time and Adjunct Faculty Metrics

Understand how full-time and adjunct faculty are meeting student needs.

Change Recommendations & Analyses

Balance current faculty resources to meet student demand and minimize disruption.

Future Faculty Capacity Forecasts

Forecast future faculty needs to plan resources and anticipate hiring.

Faculty Workload Insights

Assess identify available and overloaded faculty by department.