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The least amount of time (1.13 hours per year) was reported on guiding instructors' orders of textbooks. The researcher concluded from the data that most of the subjects did not have to concern themselves with routine tasks as they had sufficient staff to delegate those tasks to. The investigator developed a demographic survey and found the average continuing education administrator in Maryland to be Caucasian, 43 years old, and holding a master's degree. Fifty percent of the sample were female. The variables from the demographic survey were crosstabulated and correlated with time on tasks. A correlation coefficient of .59, t = 2.733, p. < .01, was found between time on tasks and the number of noncredit FTEs produced by the institution. The correlation coefficient for time on tasks and size of college was .62, t = 2.956, p. < .01. The generation of FTEs at the possible expense of quality was an issue of great concern to the Maryland continuing education administrators. 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