Report focusing on computer science

Link: The report

How are the student-faculty ratios calculated? Get specific as there are many ways to generate this statistic, and very few accurately model reality.

Anyone know about the context of the Board target of 14:1? Specifically, how does institutional overhead affect this ratio? What components of this ratio are actually tied to efficiencies of the department itself? What components are tied to the efficiencies of the institution itself--are administrative inefficiencies averaged between departments or is there a weighting in effect?

If you understand how property taxes work, then you get where this is going -- property taxes are directly proportional to the budget of the governing body doing the taxing; they spend more money, your taxes go up, they spend less money, your taxes go down. How is this similar and how is it different from this magic number called the "student-faculty ratio"?

How is the cost per student credit hour calculated exactly? Is my skipping a class factored in? What if I am bored and target a particular class for non-attendance, but still go enough so that I pass the class -- what effect do I have on that little "cost" metric? What about the theology class that I had to drop mid way into my junior year because of a 3-way conflict between school, wife, and job?

Someone explain the tenth-day majors measurement.