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Bates Faculty, 2000-2001

Demographics

Headcount

Number

Percent

Full-time Equivalent (FTE)
Total faculty 199 Financial FTE

167.33

Male 111 55.8% Teaching FTE

148.67

Female

88

44.2%

Sabbatical/pre-tenure leave FTE

18.00

Ethnic Minority

27

13.6%

Highest Degrees of Faculty

Percent of tenured or tenure-track faculty with doctorate or terminal degree in their field

99.2%

Percent of tenured or tenure-track faculty with an earned Ph.D.

97.7%

Percent of AAUP full-time faculty with doctorate or terminal degree

95.7%

Percent of AAUP full-time faculty with an earned Ph.D.

88.5%

Age of Faculty
Mean (average) age of faculty

48.4 years

Median age of faculty

45.0 years

 

Headcount of Faculty by Rank

All Faculty

Currently Teaching Faculty

Number

Percent

Number

Percent

Professor

52

26.1%

48

25.4%

Assoc. Professor

52

26.1%

49

25.9%

Asst. Professor

49

24.6%

46

24.3%

Instructor

6

3.0%

6

3.2%

Lecturer

40

02.1%

40

21.2%

Total

199

100.0%

189

100.0%

Full-time

166

87.8%

Part-time

23

12.2%

 

Headcount of Faculty by Division

All Faculty

Currently Teaching Faculty

Number

Percent

Number

Percent

Humanities

81

40.7%

79

41.8%

Natural Sciences

43

21.0%

39

20.6%

Physical Education

9

4.5%

9

4.8%

Social Sciences

57

28.6%

55

29.1%

Interdisciplinary

9

4.5%

7

3.7%

Total

199

100.0%

189

100.0%

 

Faculty by Primary Teaching Department, Fall 2000

Full-time Equivalent

Financial

Teaching

Headcount

African American Studies

1.50

1.50

2

American Cultural Studies

0.50

0.50

1

Anthropology

4.67

4.67

5

Art

9.00

8.00

11

Biology

11.13

9.33

13

Chemistry

6.50

6.00

7

Classical and Medieval Studies

2.67

2.67

5

Classical and Romance Languages and Literatures

11.33

9.83

16

Economics

8.67

7.67

11

Education

3.33

3.33

4

English

11.33

10.33

12

Environmental Studies Program

2.50

2.00

4

Geology

4.58

4.08

6

German, Russian and East Asian Languages and Literatures

11.17

10.17

13

History

10.50

9.00

15

Mathematics

9.00

8.50

11

Music

6.50

4.67

8

Philosophy and Religion

9.67

8.17

11

Physical Education

9.00

8.50

9

Physics and Astronomy

6.25

5.75

6

Political Science

8.50

7.50

9

Psychology

9.00

8.00

9

Sociology

4.00

3.50

4

Theater and Rhetoric

7.50

6.67

10

Women's Studies

1.00

1.00

2

Total

167.33

148.67

199

 

Headcount of Faculty by Status

Number

Percent

Tenured

96

48.2%

Tenured (Admin.)

2

1.0%

Tenure Track

31

15.6%

Physical Education

9

4.5%

Lecturer

37

18.6%

Administrative

4

2.0%

Other term appointments

20

10.1%

Total

199

100.0%

Notes:
1. Headcount includes teaching faculty and those on leave as defined by the Dean of the Faculty.
2. Sabbatical/pre-tenure leave FTE does not include leave without pay or special leaves.
3. Several faculty have contracts for joint or split appointments in more than one department but total shows unduplicated headcount. Their FTE's have been split between their respective departments or programs.
4. Faculty with Administrative status includes two lecturers and one associate professor.
Source: Dean of the Faculty

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