Table 236. | Full-time and part-time instructional faculty and staff in degree-granting institutions, by field and faculty characteristics: Fall 1992 and fall 1998 |
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ | | Fall 1998 |Number|______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Faculty | in |Number| | Agriculture | | | | | | | | | characteristic |thou- | in | All | and home | | | | | | | Natural | Social | |sands,|thou- | fields | economics | Business | Education | Engine| Fine arts | Health | Humanities | sciences | sciences | Other | 1992 |sands | | | | | | | | | | | _________________________|______|______|____________|_____________|____________|____________|____________|____________|____________|____________|____________|____________|____________ 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 _________________________|______|______|____________|_____________|____________|____________|____________|____________|____________|____________|____________|____________|____________ | Full-time instructional faculty and staff |_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Full-time, in thousands | 528| 560| 560.4 (4.8)| 10.5 (0.4)| 38.7 (1.1)| 39.9 (1.4)| 25.0 (0.9)| 33.3 (1.4)| 83.8 (2.0)| 80.8 (1.8)| 111.3 (2.1)| 58.4 (1.3)| 78.7 (2.1) Percent.................| †| †| 100.0 † | 1.9 (0.1)| 6.9 (0.3)| 7.1 (0.3)| 4.5 (0.3)| 5.9 (0.3)| 15.0 (0.4)| 14.4 (0.4)| 19.9 (0.5)| 10.4 (0.4)| 14.0 (0.5) | | |============|=============|============|============|============|============|============|============|============|============|============ | | | Percentage distribution of full-time faculty | | |_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Total ................| 528| 560| 100.0 † | 100.0 † | 100.0 † | 100.0 † | 100.0 † | 100.0 † | 100.0 † | 100.0 † | 100.0 † | 100.0 † | 100.0 † | | |____________|_____________|____________|____________|____________|____________|____________|____________|____________|____________|____________ Sex | | | | | | | | | | | | | Male...................| 353| 357| 63.7 (0.6)| 80.5 (2.9)| 65.0 (2.1)| 42.5 (2.4)| 90.8 (1.8)| 68.5 (2.2)| 49.8 (1.9)| 55.9 (1.6)| 75.1 (1.1)| 67.6 (1.6)| 66.8 (1.7) Female.................| 176| 203| 36.3 (0.6)| 19.5 (2.9)| 35.1 (2.1)| 57.5 (2.4)| 9.2 (1.8)| 31.5 (2.2)| 50.2 (1.9)| 44.1 (1.6)| 24.9 (1.1)| 32.4 (1.6)| 33.2 (1.7) | | | | | | | | | | | | | Race/ethnicity | | | | | | | | | | | | | White, non-Hispanic ...| 457| 477| 85.1 (0.5)| 90.7 (1.9)| 86.7 (1.4)| 83.8 (1.7)| 77.0 (2.3)| 89.3 (1.4)| 85.5 (1.1)| 83.9 (1.4)| 85.5 (1.0)| 84.0 (1.3)| 87.3 (1.2) Black, non-Hispanic ...| 27| 28| 5.1 (0.4)| 4.1 (1.3)| 5.3 (0.9)| 8.6 (1.5)| 2.4 (0.5)| 6.7 (1.2)| 4.4 (0.6)| 4.5 (0.8)| 3.1 (0.5)| 6.7 (0.8)| 6.2 (0.8) Hispanic...............| 14| 19| 3.3 (0.2)| 1.4 (0.6)| 1.6 (0.4)| 3.3 (0.6)| 3.9 (1.4)| 1.1 (0.3)| 3.3 (0.5)| 6.5 (0.9)| 2.9 (0.5)| 3.0 (0.5)| 2.6 (0.6) Asian/Pacific Islander | 28| 33| 5.8 (0.3)| 2.9 (0.9)| 5.2 (0.8)| 3.6 (0.9)| 16.1 (2.1)| 2.3 (0.6)| 6.1 (0.7)| 4.7 (1.0)| 8.2 (0.6)| 5.1 (0.8)| 2.9 (0.6) American Indian/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | Alaska Native .......| 3| 4| 0.7 (0.1)| 1.0 (1.0)| 1.3 (0.8)| 0.8 (0.3)| 0.6 (0.4)| 0.6 (0.3)| 0.7 (0.2)| 0.4 (0.2)| 0.3 (0.1)| 1.3 (0.3)| 1.0 (0.3) | | | | | | | | | | | | | Age | | | | | | | | | | | | | Under 30 ..............| 8| 9| 1.6 (0.2)| 1.3 (0.8)| 1.8 (1.2)| 2.5 (1.8)| 1.6 (1.2)| 1.3 (0.4)| 1.3 (0.5)| 0.9 (0.2)| 1.1 (0.2)| 1.1 (0.3)| 3.2 (0.7) 30 to 34 ..............| 35| 32| 5.8 (0.3)| 7.9 (3.0)| 4.3 (0.7)| 3.2 (0.7)| 8.6 (1.7)| 3.9 (0.8)| 4.4 (0.6)| 7.3 (1.0)| 6.5 (0.7)| 7.1 (0.9)| 5.3 (0.7) 35 to 39 ..............| 67| 60| 10.7 (0.4)| 5.2 (1.6)| 10.8 (1.4)| 7.1 (0.9)| 10.6 (1.4)| 10.1 (1.6)| 13.9 (1.6)| 10.1 (0.9)| 12.8 (1.0)| 10.3 (1.2)| 8.0 (0.9) 40 to 44 ..............| 90| 82| 14.6 (0.5)| 10.6 (2.1)| 13.6 (1.7)| 9.8 (1.3)| 17.5 (2.6)| 16.3 (2.1)| 18.4 (1.4)| 10.7 (0.9)| 15.2 (1.0)| 14.4 (1.3)| 15.5 (1.3) 45 to 49 ..............| 98| 97| 17.3 (0.5)| 17.9 (2.7)| 16.5 (1.4)| 21.4 (2.1)| 17.2 (2.3)| 16.3 (1.7)| 20.4 (1.4)| 16.7 (1.3)| 14.0 (0.8)| 15.8 (1.3)| 18.6 (1.3) 50 to 54 ..............| 95| 105| 18.7 (0.5)| 21.8 (3.1)| 22.7 (1.9)| 20.7 (1.9)| 13.5 (1.6)| 23.4 (2.7)| 17.8 (1.2)| 16.2 (1.2)| 19.1 (1.2)| 17.5 (1.3)| 18.8 (1.4) 55 to 59 ..............| 67| 90| 16.1 (0.5)| 21.9 (3.3)| 17.4 (1.7)| 18.3 (2.0)| 14.3 (1.8)| 14.0 (2.2)| 12.8 (1.0)| 19.4 (1.3)| 14.3 (0.9)| 18.2 (1.5)| 16.4 (1.7) 60 to 64 ..............| 45| 55| 9.8 (0.4)| 8.5 (1.7)| 9.3 (1.3)| 11.8 (1.6)| 11.1 (2.0)| 11.0 (1.6)| 7.1 (0.7)| 11.2 (1.1)| 10.0 (0.8)| 11.3 (1.2)| 8.7 (0.9) 65 or older ..........| 24| 31| 5.5 (0.3)| 4.9 (1.5)| 3.7 (0.7)| 5.1 (1.4)| 5.7 (1.0)| 3.8 (0.8)| 3.9 (0.5)| 7.7 (1.0)| 7.0 (0.9)| 4.3 (0.8)| 5.6 (1.0) | | | | | | | | | | | | | Degree | | | | | | | | | | | | | Less than bachelor's ..| 6| 7| 1.2 (0.1)| 1.1 (0.7)| 0.3 (0.2)| 0.4 (0.2)| 1.5 (0.6)| 1.4 (0.5)| 1.7 (0.3)| 0.1 (0.1)| 0.4 (0.2)| # (#)| 4.6 (0.8) Bachelor's ............| 21| 23| 4.0 (0.3)| 5.3 (1.4)| 4.6 (0.9)| 1.5 (0.4)| 5.3 (1.5)| 4.8 (0.9)| 5.1 (0.7)| 0.9 (0.4)| 3.6 (0.6)| 0.9 (0.3)| 9.4 (1.1) Master's...............| 156| 156| 27.8 (0.7)| 19.2 (3.1)| 42.5 (2.4)| 27.2 (2.3)| 16.4 (2.2)| 58.9 (2.9)| 23.0 (1.6)| 30.5 (1.6)| 20.0 (1.2)| 16.0 (1.4)| 34.4 (1.9) First-professional.....| 58| 52| 9.2 (0.6)| 0.8 (0.5)| 3.9 (0.8)| 0.9 (0.3)| 0.5 (0.3)| 1.4 (0.9)| 41.1 (2.1)| 2.3 (0.9)| 2.0 (0.5)| 2.3 (0.9)| 12.6 (1.3) Doctorate .............| 284| 324| 57.7 (0.8)| 73.7 (3.7)| 48.7 (2.3)| 70.1 (2.4)| 76.3 (2.7)| 33.6 (2.7)| 29.0 (1.7)| 66.3 (1.7)| 74.1 (1.3)| 80.8 (1.6)| 39.1 (2.1) | | | | | | | | | | | | | Rank | | | | | | | | | | | | | Full professor.........| 161| 172| 30.7 (0.7)| 42.9 (4.4)| 23.9 (1.9)| 24.8 (2.1)| 37.3 (2.8)| 29.9 (2.6)| 21.1 (1.3)| 30.9 (1.6)| 38.2 (1.5)| 38.8 (1.9)| 28.8 (2.0) Associate professor....| 124| 132| 23.6 (0.6)| 23.2 (3.2)| 26.4 (2.1)| 23.7 (2.0)| 27.9 (2.6)| 25.8 (2.6)| 28.4 (1.7)| 21.5 (1.3)| 23.1 (1.2)| 24.0 (1.6)| 18.0 (1.3) Assistant professor....| 124| 125| 22.3 (0.6)| 16.5 (3.4)| 19.8 (1.7)| 24.8 (2.1)| 20.4 (2.3)| 21.3 (2.2)| 30.5 (1.5)| 21.3 (1.4)| 20.7 (1.2)| 22.6 (1.4)| 18.6 (1.3) Instructor or lecturer | 74| 75| 13.4 (0.6)| 8.0 (2.0)| 19.5 (2.2)| 10.9 (1.5)| 8.6 (2.2)| 11.9 (2.2)| 14.9 (1.2)| 15.4 (1.3)| 10.1 (0.8)| 7.0 (1.1)| 20.6 (1.6) Lecturer .............| 12| 14| 2.5 (0.3)| 2.0 (0.9)| 3.4 (0.9)| 4.3 (1.9)| 0.9 (0.4)| 2.1 (0.6)| 0.9 (0.2)| 5.0 (0.9)| 2.0 (0.3)| 1.1 (0.3)| 3.2 (0.7) Other/no rank .........| 17| 26| 4.7 (0.3)| 5.6 (1.4)| 3.8 (0.7)| 8.5 (1.3)| 4.3 (1.4)| 3.3 (0.7)| 3.1 (0.5)| 2.3 (0.4)| 3.6 (0.5)| 4.2 (0.7)| 6.8 (0.7) No rank ..............| 17| 16| 2.8 (0.4)| 1.8 (0.9)| 3.3 (0.8)| 2.9 (0.9)| 0.5 (0.4)| 5.8 (1.5)| 1.1 (0.3)| 3.7 (0.7)| 2.3 (0.4)| 2.3 (0.5)| 4.0 (0.7) |__________________________|_____________|____________|____________|____________|____________|____________|____________|____________|____________|____________ | Part-time instructional faculty and staff |_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Part-time, in thousands | 377| 416| 416.0 (5.9)| 2.5 (0.2)| 31.6 (1.8)| 33.6 (1.6)| 9.3 (0.8)| 38.1 (1.5)| 48.7 (2.2)| 74.1 (2.1)| 65.5 (2.2)| 41.2 (2.4)| 71.6 (2.1) Percent ................| †| †| 100.0 † | 0.6 (0.1)| 7.6 (0.6)| 8.1 (0.5)| 2.2 (0.3)| 9.2 (0.5)| 11.7 (0.7)| 17.8 (0.7)| 15.7 (0.7)| 9.9 (0.7)| 17.2 (0.8) | | |============|=============|============|============|============|============|============|============|============|============|============ | | | Percentage distribution of part-time faculty | | |_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Total ................| 377| 416| 100.0 † | 100.0 †| 100.0 † | 100.0 †| 100.0 † | 100.0 †| 100.0 † | 100.0 †| 100.0 † | 100.0 †| 100.0 | | |____________|_____________|____________|____________|____________|____________|____________|____________|____________|____________|____________ Sex | | | | | | | | | | | | | Male...................| 209| 217| 52.2 (1.1)| 34.5 (10.1)| 61.9 (4.1)| 28.2 (2.8)| 95.8 (1.6)| 48.5 (3.1)| 41.3 (3.8)| 44.3 (2.2)| 62.8 (2.3)| 55.1 (3.7)| 61.8 (2.8) Female.................| 168| 199| 47.9 (1.1)| 65.5 (10.1)| 38.1 (4.1)| 71.8 (2.8)| 4.2 (1.6)| 51.5 (3.1)| 58.7 (3.8)| 55.7 (2.2)| 37.3 (2.3)| 44.9 (3.7)| 38.2 (2.8) | | | | | | | | | | | | | Race/ethnicity | | | | | | | | | | | | | White, non-Hispanic ...| 333| 364| 87.6 (0.7)| 88.2 (7.0)| 91.1 (1.7)| 89.2 (2.1)| 75.0 (6.2)| 92.4 (1.7)| 90.2 (1.5)| 86.6 (1.4)| 86.8 (1.5)| 85.2 (2.3)| 86.3 (2.2) Black, non-Hispanic ...| 18| 19| 4.5 (0.4)| 1.3 (1.3)| 5.4 (1.4)| 5.1 (1.4)| 4.9 (2.5)| 2.9 (0.9)| 2.8 (0.7)| 2.7 (0.6)| 6.0 (1.1)| 8.1 (1.7)| 4.4 (0.9) Hispanic...............| 11| 16| 3.7 (0.4)| 3.9 (3.1)| 1.4 (0.4)| 3.5 (1.1)| 11.2 (5.7)| 3.1 (1.3)| 1.9 (0.5)| 5.8 (1.0)| 2.4 (0.5)| 4.8 (1.4)| 4.1 (0.8) Asian/Pacific Islander | 12| 13| 3.2 (0.4)| 6.6 (6.3)| 2.2 (0.6)| 0.5 (0.3)| 8.1 (2.6)| 1.0 (0.3)| 3.7 (0.9)| 3.7 (0.8)| 4.3 (0.8)| 1.0 (0.3)| 4.3 (2.0) American Indian/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | Alaska Native .......| 2| 4| 1.0 (0.2)| # (#)| # (#)| 1.9 (1.3)| 0.9 (0.9)| 0.7 (0.4)| 1.4 (0.8)| 1.3 (0.5)| 0.5 (0.3)| 0.9 (0.4)| 1.0 (0.7) | | | | | | | | | | | | | Age | | | | | | | | | | | | | Under 30 ..............| 20| 15| 3.6 (0.4)| # (#)| 1.3 (0.5)| 1.6 (0.5)| # (#)| 5.3 (1.7)| 2.0 (0.6)| 7.4 (1.4)| 3.8 (0.9)| 3.4 (0.8)| 2.4 (0.5) 30 to 34 ..............| 36| 37| 8.9 (0.7)| 15.9 (7.6)| 9.4 (4.2)| 5.1 (1.5)| 3.7 (2.4)| 8.6 (1.9)| 7.7 (1.8)| 9.7 (1.3)| 7.9 (1.0)| 9.1 (2.5)| 11.6 (1.8) 35 to 39 ..............| 59| 47| 11.4 (0.7)| 25.6 (8.0)| 8.1 (1.5)| 9.3 (2.1)| 13.4 (4.8)| 14.6 (2.4)| 15.5 (2.9)| 7.1 (1.0)| 13.6 (1.8)| 8.8 (1.7)| 12.6 (1.7) 40 to 44 ..............| 70| 60| 14.5 (0.8)| 18.0 (5.5)| 13.7 (2.2)| 8.9 (2.0)| 19.7 (6.2)| 20.4 (2.7)| 17.0 (2.2)| 13.0 (1.7)| 12.8 (1.7)| 14.7 (2.0)| 16.1 (2.3) 45 to 49 ..............| 68| 72| 17.3 (0.8)| 18.4 (8.1)| 15.6 (2.6)| 16.4 (2.8)| 8.0 (2.5)| 16.5 (1.8)| 23.9 (2.4)| 14.5 (1.4)| 14.9 (1.8)| 22.3 (3.9)| 18.0 (2.0) 50 to 54 ..............| 45| 70| 16.8 (0.8)| 16.5 (6.9)| 20.1 (2.9)| 24.1 (2.8)| 14.7 (3.4)| 14.9 (1.9)| 16.4 (2.4)| 15.7 (1.5)| 17.3 (2.0)| 15.4 (2.6)| 15.5 (1.9) 55 to 59 ..............| 29| 47| 11.3 (0.6)| # (#)| 13.4 (2.0)| 8.7 (1.4)| 17.2 (5.2)| 8.7 (1.5)| 6.5 (1.4)| 13.1 (1.6)| 15.3 (2.0)| 10.8 (1.8)| 10.4 (1.4) 60 to 64 ..............| 23| 29| 6.9 (0.5)| 3.2 (3.1)| 8.3 (1.8)| 13.3 (2.8)| 6.8 (2.1)| 4.9 (1.3)| 3.0 (0.8)| 7.8 (1.2)| 6.1 (1.0)| 9.3 (2.4)| 5.3 (1.1) 65 or older ..........| 27| 38| 9.2 (0.6)| 2.4 (2.4)| 10.2 (2.3)| 12.8 (1.8)| 16.5 (4.4)| 6.1 (1.2)| 8.1 (1.5)| 11.7 (1.4)| 8.4 (1.5)| 6.3 (1.5)| 8.3 (1.8) | | | | | | | | | | | | | Degree | | | | | | | | | | | | | Less than bachelor's ..| 17| 20| 4.9 (0.5)| 11.6 (5.4)| 3.1 (1.4)| 0.5 (0.3)| 3.7 (1.7)| 3.3 (0.9)| 7.7 (1.8)| 0.2 (0.1)| 4.3 (1.3)| 0.2 (0.2)| 13.4 (1.8) Bachelor's ............| 63| 59| 14.1 (0.7)| 20.0 (8.2)| 18.0 (2.8)| 11.9 (2.9)| 19.1 (4.4)| 27.0 (3.3)| 15.1 (2.1)| 7.1 (1.1)| 14.1 (1.7)| 4.1 (1.3)| 17.7 (1.9) Master's...............| 190| 225| 54.1 (1.2)| 54.6 (8.8)| 65.7 (3.4)| 59.7 (3.5)| 32.3 (6.7)| 59.5 (3.3)| 34.8 (3.7)| 69.6 (2.0)| 57.6 (2.4)| 56.3 (0.4)| 39.3 (2.8) First-professional.....| 40| 36| 8.7 (0.8)| 2.7 (2.7)| 3.8 (1.0)| 2.1 (0.6)| 4.2 (2.3)| 1.4 (0.5)| 33.3 (4.3)| 2.9 (0.7)| 2.7 (0.8)| 6.7 (1.6)| 15.2 (2.0) Doctorate .............| 59| 76| 18.2 (0.8)| 11.1 (4.7)| 9.4 (2.0)| 25.8 (2.9)| 40.7 (7.1)| 8.7 (1.6)| 9.0 (1.6)| 20.2 (1.8)| 21.3 (2.0)| 32.8 (3.3)| 14.5 (2.1) | | | | | | | | | | | | | Rank | | | | | | | | | | | | | Full professor.........| 32| 30| 7.3 (0.7)| 5.6 (3.9)| 6.3 (2.0)| 4.3 (1.0)| 16.8 (4.1)| 6.5 (1.7)| 8.1 (1.9)| 6.7 (1.1)| 7.4 (1.6)| 10.0 (4.0)| 7.3 (1.4) Associate professor....| 23| 19| 4.7 (0.5)| 3.0 (3.0)| 3.7 (1.0)| 3.5 (1.0)| 9.9 (4.5)| 3.0 (0.9)| 11.3 (1.9)| 2.4 (0.7)| 4.1 (1.0)| 5.5 (1.7)| 3.8 (1.0) Assistant professor....| 24| 23| 5.6 (0.6)| 2.6 (2.4)| 3.0 (0.8)| 4.5 (1.0)| 2.2 (1.2)| 5.7 (1.4)| 16.8 (3.7)| 3.3 (0.7)| 3.4 (0.7)| 6.2 (1.1)| 4.3 (0.9) Instructor or lecturer | 215| 205| 49.4 (1.2)| 64.5 (9.0)| 50.6 (4.2)| 43.5 (3.3)| 37.5 (6.4)| 53.4 (3.1)| 46.0 (3.9)| 54.9 (2.3)| 51.0 (2.5)| 43.2 (3.6)| 48.9 (2.9) Lecturer ..............| 45| 46| 11.1 (0.8)| 10.2 (4.4)| 11.4 (2.3)| 12.9 (2.8)| 9.3 (2.8)| 14.5 (2.5)| 5.9 (1.6)| 11.9 (1.5)| 10.8 (1.6)| 12.8 (2.4)| 11.3 (2.6) Other/ no rank ........| 28| 75| 18.1 (0.8)| 11.5 (5.0)| 21.0 (2.6)| 24.8 (2.8)| 18.1 (4.6)| 12.0 (1.8)| 10.8 (1.5)| 17.6 (1.8)| 17.1 (1.7)| 20.2 (2.4)| 21.7 (2.3) No rank ...............| 9| 16| 4.0 (0.4)| 2.6 (2.6)| 4.1 (1.6)| 6.4 (2.2)| 6.2 (4.2)| 5.0 (1.1)| 1.3 (0.4)| 3.3 (0.7)| 6.1 (1.2)| 2.1 (0.7)| 2.7 (0.6) _________________________|______|______|____________|_____________|____________|____________|____________|____________|____________|____________|____________|____________|____________ |
† Not applicable. NOTE: Totals may differ from figures reported in other tables because of varying survey methodologies. Detail may not sum to totals due to survey item nonresponse and rounding. Standard errors appear in parentheses. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 1993 National Study of Postsecondary Faculty (NSOPF:93) and 1999 National Study of Postsecondary Faculty (NSOPF:99). (This table was prepared July 2001.)
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