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Headcount

Number

Percent

Full-time Equivalent (FTE)
Total faculty

203

Financial FTE

167.92

Male

118

58.1%

Teaching FTE

155

Female

85

41.9%

On leave FTE

14.75

Ethnic Minority

26

12.8%

Notes:
1. Headcount includes persons on sabbatical or leave
2. Headcount is unduplicated

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 97.8%
Percent of AAUP full-time faculty with an earned Ph.D. 91.3%

 

Age of Faculty
Mean (average ) age of faculty 47 years
Median age of faculty 47 years

Headcount of Faculty by Rank
All Faculty Currently Teaching Faculty
Number Percent Number Percent
Professor

55

27.1%

52

27.1%

Assoc. Professor

51

25.7%

48

25.0%

Asst. Professor

51

25.1%

47

24.5%

Instructor

2

1.0%

2

1.0%

Lecturer

44

21.7%

43

22.4%

Total

203

100.0%

192

100.0%

Full-time

164

85.4%

Part-time

28

14.6%

Headcount of Faculty by Division
All Faculty Currently Teaching Faculty
Number Percent Number Percent
Humanities

85

41.9%

81

42.2%

Natural Sciences

43

21.2%

39

20.3%

Physical Education

9

4.4%

9

4.7%

Social Sciences

58

28.6%

55

28.6%

Interdisciplinary

8

3.9%

8

4.2%

Total

203

100.0%

192

100.0%

Faculty by Department Full-time
Equivalent
Financial Teaching Headcount
African American Studies and American Cultural Studies 1.33 0.83 2
Anthropology  5.17 5.17 6
Art 8.00 7.50 11
Biological Chemistry 0.17 0.17 1
Biology 8.67 8.33 12
Chemistry 8.00 6.00 8
Classical and Romance Languages and Literatures and Classical and Medieval Studies 11.00 11.00 15
Economics 9.00 9.00 11
Education 3.83 3.33 5
English 13.33 12.33 14
Environmental Studies Program 2.33 2.33 4
Geology 4.75 4.25 6
German, Russian and East Asian Languages and Literatures 10.83 10.33 14
History 10.50 8.67 14
Mathematics 8.50 7.50 10
Music 5.83 5.33 7
Philosophy and Religion 11.33 9.67 12
Physical Education 9.00 9.00 9
Physics 5.83 6.25 8
Political Science 7.50 7.50 8
Psychology 10.00 8.00 10
Sociology  4.00 3.50 4
Theater and Rhetoric 8.00 8.00 12
Women's Studies 1.00 1.00 1
167.92 155.00 204
Notes:
1. Headcount includes teaching faculty and those on leave as defined by the Dean of Faculty.  Several faculty have
contracts for joint or split appointments in more than one department, but total shows unduplicated headcount.
2. Five faculty (2.83 FFTE, 2.83 TFTE) who teach Classical and Romance Languages and Literatures also teach Classical
and Medieval Studies. 

Headcount of Faculty by Status
Number Percent
Tenured

94

46.3%

Tenured (Admin.)

2

1.0%

Tenure Track

34

16.7%

Physical Education

9

4.4%

Senior Lecturer

1

0.5%

Lecturer

39

19.2%

Administrative

5

2.5%

Other term appointments

98

9.4%

Total

203

100.0%

Note: Administrative includes four lecturers and one Associate Professor.

 

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