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	2006-2007

Faculty, Fall 2006

Demographics

Headcount[1]	Number	Percent	Full-time Equivalent (FTE)
Total faculty	207		Financial FTE	171.45
Male	113	54.6%	Teaching FTE	154.15
Female	94	45.4%
Ethnic Minority	27	13.0%

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.				96.9%
Percent of AAUP full-time faculty with doctorate or terminal degree				99.7%
Percent of AAUP full-time faculty with an earned Ph.D.				90.6%

Age of Faculty
Mean (average ) age of faculty		49.0 years
Median age of faculty		48.9 years

Headcount of Faculty by Rank

	All Faculty		Teaching Faculty
	Number	Percent	Number	Percent
Professor	67	32.4%	63	32.6%
Assoc. Professor	45	21.7%	37	19.2%
Asst. Professor	44	21.3%	42	21.8%
Instructor	7	3.4%	7	3.6%
Senior Lecturer	4	1.9%	4	2.1%
Lecturer	40	19.3%	40	20.7%
Total	207	100.0%	193	100.0%

Full-time	179	86.5%	165	85.5%
Part-time	28	13.5%	28	14.5%

Headcount of Faculty by Division

	All Faculty		Teaching Faculty
	Number	Percent	Number	Percent
Humanities	77	37.2%	74	38.3%
Natural Sciences	41	19.8%	37	19.2%
Physical Education	7	3.4%	7	3.6%
Social Sciences	65	31.4%	59	30.6%
Interdisciplinary	17	8.2%	16	8.3%
Total	207	100.0%	193	100.0%


Student Faculty Ratio:	10 to 1

Faculty by Department, Fall 2006

	Full-time Equivalent
		Financial	Teaching		Headcount[2]
African American Studies and American Cultural Studies		1.00	1.00			1
African American Studies		1.00	0.00			1
Anthropology		5.60	4.80			6
Art and Visual Culture		8.40	8.40			10
Asian Studies		0.70	0.90			3
Biology		10.10	8.00			12
Chemistry		7.00	6.00			7
Chinese		3.00	3.00			3
Classical and Medieval Studies		2.80	2.90			5
Economics		10.50	9.00			12
Education		3.60	3.30			6
English		10.40	9.80			13
Environmental Studies		3.40	3.40			4
French		4.80	3.80			5
Geology		4.00	4.00			4
Geology and Physics		0.60	0.60			1
German		3.00	2.50			4
Harward Center for Community Partnerships		0.00	0.40			2
History		9.70	9.40			14
Humanities		0.00	0.20			1
Japanese		1.80	1.80			2
Mathematics		7.90	7.10			11
Music		6.25	6.25			8
Philosophy		5.00	4.50			6
Physical Education		7.00	6.50			7
Physics		6.00	5.50			6
Politics		10.50	8.50			12
Psychology		10.40	8.90			11
Religion		4.80	3.40			5
Rhetoric		2.40	2.40			3
Russian		2.00	2.00			2
Sociology		4.00	3.50			4
Spanish		6.00	5.50			7
Theater		6.80	5.90			8
Women and Gender Studies		1.00	1.00			1
Total		171.45		154.15			207

Headcount of Faculty by Status

	Number	Percent
Tenured	96	46.4%
Tenure Track	32	15.5%
Physical Education	7	3.4%
Senior Lecturer	4	1.9%
Lecturer	33	15.9%
Administrative	8	3.9%
Other term appointments	27	13.0%
Total	207	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.