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Faculty, Fall 2007

  

Demographics

 

Headcount

Number

     Percent

          

 Full-time Equivalent (FTE)

 

Total Faculty

207

     

 Financial FTE

173.75

Male

108

 

52.2%

 

 Teaching FTE

154.15

Female

99

 

47.8%

     

Underrepresented Minority

30

 

14.5%

     


 

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.                                                                 97.6%

Percent of AAUP full-time faculty with doctorate or terminal degree                                                         97.2%

Percent of AAUP full-time faculty with an earned PH.D.                                                                              90.1%

 

Age of Faculty

Mean (average) age of faculty                           49.5 years

Median age of faculty                                         49.8 years

  

Headcount of Faculty by Rank

 
 

All Faculty

 

Teaching Faculty

 

Number

Percent

 

Number

Percent

Professor

68

 

32.9%

   

60

 

31.7%

 

Assoc. Professor

47

 

22.7%

   

40

 

21.2%

 

Asst. Professor

40

 

19.3%

   

38

 

20.1%

 

Instructor

7

 

3.4%

   

7

 

3.7%

 

Senior Lecturers

6

 

2.9%

   

6

 

3.2%

 

Lecturer

39

 

18.8%

   

38

 

20.1%

 

Total

207

 

100.0%

   

189

 

100.0%

 
                   

Full-time

179

 

86.5%

   

162

 

85.7%

 

Part-time

28

 

13.5%

   

27

 

14.3%

 


  

Headcount of Faculty by Division

 
 

All Faculty

 

Teaching Faculty

 

Number

Percent

 

Number

Percent

Humanities

78

 

37.7%

   

72

 

38.1%

 

Natural Sciences

40

 

19.3%

   

37

 

19.6%

 

Physical Education

8

 

3.9%

   

7

 

3.7%

 

Social Sciences

65

 

31.4%

   

59

 

31.2%

 

Interdisciplinary

16

 

7.7%

   

14

 

7.4%

 

Total

207

 

100.0%

   

189

 

100.0%

 


  

Student Faculty Ratio:        10 to 1

    

Faculty by Department, Fall 2007

 

Full-time Equivalent

 
 

Financial

Teaching

Headcount[1]

African American Studies and American Cultural Studies

1.00

 

1.00

 

1

African American Studies

0.50

 

0.00

 

1

Anthropology

5.20

 

5.20

 

6

Art and Visual Culture

9.10

 

8.10

 

12

Asian Studies

0.20

 

0.40

 

2

Biology

11.60

 

8.80

 

13

Chemistry

6.00

 

6.00

 

6

Chinese

2.60

 

2.60

 

3

Classical and Medieval Studies

2.80

 

2.80

 

5

Economics

11.90

 

8.90

 

13

Education

3.80

 

3.80

 

6

English

10.90

 

9.80

 

15

Environmental Studies

3.60

 

3.10

 

4

French

3.80

 

3.80

 

4

Geology

4.00

 

4.00

 

4

Geology and Physics

0.60

 

0.60

 

1

German

2.40

 

2.40

 

3

Harward Center for Community Partnerships

0.00

 

0.40

 

2

History

9.60

 

9.30

 

12

Japanese

2.80

 

2.80

 

3

Mathematics

7.40

 

7.10

 

9

Music

6.25

 

6.25

 

8

Philosophy

5.60

 

5.60

 

6

Physical Education

8.00

 

6.50

 

8

Physics

7.00

 

5.00

 

7

Politics

10.70

 

8.40

 

12

Psychology

10.90

 

9.40

 

12

Religion

5.00

 

3.00

 

5

Rhetoric

2.40

 

2.40

 

3

Russian

2.00

 

1.50

 

2

Sociology

3.90

 

3.90

 

5

Spanish

5.30

 

4.80

 

6

Theater

5.90

 

5.50

 

7

Women and Gender Studies

1.00

 

1.00

 

1

Total

173.75

 

154.15

 

207



  

Headcount of Faculty by Status, Fall 2007

 

Number

Percent

Tenured

99

47.8%

Tenure Track

28

13.5%

Physical Education

8

3.9%

Senior Lecturer

6

2.9%

Lecturer

31

15.0%

Administrative

8

3.9%

Other term appointments

27

13.0%

Total

207

100%





[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 totals show unduplicated headcount.

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