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Non-Online and Online
Business Instruction
Comparative Outcomes
Thaddeus W. Usowicz
INTRODUCTION
Budget austerity and the associated teaching load increases over the past half-decade have criti-
cally affected the local state-funded college and university system. At the College of Business, the
number of enrolled declared students has increased by 16%, while the average student-to-faculty
ratio has doubled from about 20 to 40. The increased load has led to larger section sizes. In order to
maintain manageable sizes for the core and concentration courses, signicant increases in size have
been made to prerequisite course sections, with the resulti ...