About this data

Source

Augusta University's public Banner class-search (POUNCE) — a structured JSON feed — cross-referenced with the Open Georgia salary & travel export.

Coverage: Fall 2024 onward only (the public feed exposes just recent terms), overlapping the salary window in FY2025; salary FY2015–FY2025.

How it was collected

• Every available term's sections are read from the public class-search feed (full instructor name, meeting times with weekly hours, enrollment, cross-list group, schedule type, campus).
• Instructors are linked to Open Georgia salary by full name using a tiered accept / review / reject scorer; only confident matches are kept.
• Data was fetched politely to respect the university's systems.
• Cross-listed / co-scheduled sections sharing a group are collapsed to one event so a class is never counted twice.

Accuracy & instructor linking

• About 95% of sections carry a linked instructor, and roughly 92% of distinct instructor names link to a salary record — the strongest section linkage of the institutions covered.
• Unlinked names are mostly clinical or visiting instructors absent from the salary export, not mismatches.
• The feed's per-section instructor id is term-scoped and reused, so identity is resolved by name, not that id.

Limitations

• Augusta's public class-search only exposes recent terms (Fall 2024 onward), so teaching history reaches back far less than the other institutions — it overlaps the salary window only in FY2025.
• The feed provides a subject but no department or college, so the subject is used as the department; a college is shown only for subjects that map unambiguously to one college (including the Medical and Dental colleges).
• Salary is attributed to the subject(s) a person taught in each fiscal year — teaching-faculty pay, not a unit's full payroll.
• All figures derive from public records and are shown as published, names included.