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| Program Evaluation: Line Item Budget | ||
| Department: Mathematics Department | ||
| College: Jamestown College | ||
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: Students are estimating, so they do not need an actual category. -Kristen Hill |
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| Expense Line Item | Budget | Explanation |
| Faculty Staffing Salary | $568,537.00 | This was calculated by researching the average salary of the department chair ($71,247), Assistant Professors ($71,247), and Adjunct Professors ($34,500) |
| Faculty Staffing Benefits | $228,540.00 | This was calculated using a benefits calculator online. |
| Aministrative Staffing Salary | $225,618.00 | This was calculated by researching the average salary of the dean of a department ($109,689), an Assistant Dean ($70,979), and an Adminstrative Assistant ($44,950) |
| Aministrative Staffing Benefits | $58,845.40 | This was calculated using a benefits calculator online. |
| Technology Costs | $18,500.00 | Cost is factored that there is 8 classrooms in the Mathematics department. Each classroom holds a new SmartBoard Projection System, and a desktop computer. There is a shared office printer in the main office. |
| Equipment Costs | $1,000.00 | Cost includes access to tutoring software, graphing calculators, and mathematical instruments. |
| Software Costs | $160,396.00 | Cost includes Microsoft Office Membership for the college and also a Blackboard Interface for the students and classes for a year. |
| Interview Costs | $1,000.00 | These interviews are conducted by a Research Assistant over the course of a week. |
| Data Collection Instruments Costs | $2,000.00 | Recordings, Interviews, questionares, surveys, and observations. |
| External Evaluator Costs | $3,450.00 | Number comes from an online quote from an real company |
| External Evaluator Travel/Per Diem | $1,000.00 | Number comes from the cost of a standard hotel room for three days and three meals a day. |
| Research Scope of Depth Costs | $5,000.00 | Actual cost based off of CHEA data |
| Supplies and Materials | $150.00 | Paper, ink cartiage, pens, paper clips. |
| Data Analysis Time Costs | $23,400.00 | This was calculated by have a data scientist employed at the university who works two hours a day, three days a week for nine months. His hourly rate is $100. |
| Technical Expertise Costs | $2,100.00 | Cost of hiring IT consulting firm with an entry level consultant for three days at 4 hours a day. |
| Evaluation Design Costs | $875.00 | Actual cost based off of CHEA data |
| Overhead Costs and Fees | $10,000.00 | This number is 1/3 cost of research projects total cost. This includes utilities, rent, taxes, licenses, government fees, insurance, depreciation, adminstrative salaries, and legal expenses |
| Operating Costs (office space, utilities, etc.) | $3,100.00 | Extra office space, ulitities, phone access |
| Program Costs (to support evaluation) | $17,000.00 | Similar Bachelor's Program Cost at another insitution |
| Institutional Review Board (approval costs) | $1,500.00 | Actual cost based off of CHEA data |
| Other Direct Costs (ODC) | $500.00 | Extra funds for various expenses. |
| (Note: Insert additional rows above as necessary.) | ||
| Totals: | $1,332,511.40 | |
| Instructions on how to annotate items: | ||
| Include, at the bottom of this budget template or in a separate document, explanations of budgeting choices for each line item and the information and data that informs those choices. | ||
| explanations of budgeting choices for each line item and the information and data that informs those choices. | ||
| Note: Lines reflecting each individual expense type (e.g., “office supplies” ) would | ||
| be a single line as opposed to multiple lines for paper, pens, tape, and so on. | ||