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Faculty, Fall 2005

 

               

Demographics    

 

Headcount[1]

Number

Percent

 

Full-time Equivalent (FTE)

Total faculty

200

 

 

Financial FTE

172.25

Male

107

53.5%

 

Teaching FTE

153.60

Female

 93

46.5%

 

On leave FTE

15.75

Ethnic Minority

 23

12.1%

 

 

 

Highest Degrees of Faculty

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

100%

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

99.0%

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

98.6%

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

88.6%

 

Age of Faculty

Mean (average ) age of faculty

48.5 years

 

Median age of faculty

49.1 years

 



 

 

Headcount of Faculty by Rank

 

 

All Faculty

 

Teaching Faculty

 

Number

Percent

 

Number

 

Percent

Professor

66

 

 33.0%

 

61

 

32.6%

Assoc. Professor

 43

 

 21.5%

 

37

 

19.8%

Asst. Professor

 47

 

 23.5%

 

46

 

24.6%

Instructor

  5

 

 2.5%

 

5

 

2.7%

Senior Lecturer

4

 

2.0%

 

4

 

2.1%

Lecturer

35

 

 17.5%

 

34

 

18.2%

Total

200

 

100.0%

 

187

 

100.0%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Full-time

180

 

90.0%

 

164

 

87.7%

Part-time

20

 

10.0%

 

23

 

12.3%



 

 

Headcount of Faculty by Division

 

 

All Faculty

 

Teaching Faculty

 

Number

Percent

 

Number

Percent

Humanities

76

 

38.0%

 

73

 

39.0%

Natural Sciences

41

 

20.5%

 

38

 

20.3%

Physical Education

9

 

4.5%

 

8

 

4.3%

Social Sciences

60

 

30.0%

 

57

 

30.5%

Interdisciplinary

14

 

7.0%

 

11

 

5.9%

Total

200

 

100.0%

 

187

 

100.0%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Student Faculty Ratio:

10 to 1

 

 

 

 

 




Faculty by Department, Fall 2005

 

Full-time Equivalent

 

 

 

Financial

Teaching

Headcount[2]

African American Studies

1.00

 

1.00

 

1

 

African American Studies and American Cultural Studies

1.00

 

1.00

 

1

 

Anthropology

5.55

 

4.65

 

6

 

Art and Visual Culture

8.70

 

7.80

 

13

 

Asian Studies

0.20

 

0.20

 

1

 

Biology

10.50

 

9.20

 

12

 

Chemistry

6.50

 

6.00

 

7

 

Chinese

2.80

 

2.30

 

3

 

Classical and Medieval Studies

3.25

 

2.50

 

5

 

Economics

10.60

 

9.10

 

12

 

Education

3.60

 

3.60

 

4

 

English

10.20

 

9.40

 

12

 

Environmental Studies

2.60

 

2.60

 

3

 

French

5.00

 

4.00

 

5

 

Geology

5.00

 

4.00

 

5

 

Geology and Physics

0.60

 

0.60

 

1

 

German

2.40

 

2.40

 

3

 

Harward Center for Community Partnerships

0.00

 

0.20

 

1

 

History

10.30

 

8.80

 

14

 

Japanese

2.80

 

2.80

 

4

 

Mathematics

7.40

 

7.10

 

9

 

Music

7.25

 

6.25

 

9

 

Philosophy

4.00

 

4.00

 

4

 

Physical Education

9.00

 

7.00

 

9

 

Physics

7.00

 

6.00

 

7

 

Political Science

9.50

 

8.50

 

10

 

Psychology

9.50

 

9.50

 

10

 

Religion

4.80

 

4.80

 

5

 

Rhetoric

2.40

 

1.90

 

3

 

Russian

2.50

 

2.50

 

3

 

Sociology

4.00

 

3.50

 

4

 

Spanish

5.00

 

5.00

 

5

 

Theater

5.30

 

4.40

 

7

 

Women and Gender Studies

2.00

 

1.00

 

2

 

Total

172.25

153.6

200

 


 

 

Headcount of Faculty by Status

 

 

Number

Percent

Tenured

98

49.0%

Tenure Track

33

16.5%

Physical Education

9

4.5%

Senior Lecturer

4

2.0%

Lecturer

33

16.5%

Administrative

5

2.5%

Other term appointments

18

9.0%

Total

200

100.0%





[1] Headcount includes persons on sabbatical or paid leave.  Four faculty on unpaid leave are not included in the counts.  Headcount is unduplicated. 

[2] 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 totals show unduplicated headcount.

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