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[larryc]

My administration has announced that they are going to use the Delaware Model for determining whether departments get to replace departing faculty. The model has something to do with using faculty-student ratios at comparable institutions, enrollments, and I think chicken entrails in a "formula" that makes the whole process objective and scientific. Yay progress!

Anyone know of a good description of the Delaware Model?

[systeme_d_]

It's called the "Delaware Cost Study."  Your google search may be more productive than my cursory one, but mine turned up this lucid summary:

The Delaware Cost Study began in 1992. The quantitative portion of the Delaware Study seeks to answer: “Who is teaching what to whom, and at what cost?” While the information provided in the quantitative portion of the Delaware Study is quite useful, the qualitative dimension of the study seeks to measure selected facets of out-of-classroom faculty activity. The objective of the qualitative study is to create an inter-institutionally comparable set of measures that describe what faculty do outside of the classroom.

(Found at http://frank.mtsu.edu/~instres/delaware.htm)

[sibyl]

systeme_d is right.  The study's website, including technical details and definitions, is here:

http://www.udel.edu/IR/cost/

Unfortunately it doesn't seem to contain national benchmarks, or at least none that are that recent.