Percentage of full-and part-time instructional faculty and staff who taught distance education courses and average number of courses taught, by employment and distance education status, rank, and type of institution: Fall 2003

Distance Education by Postsecondary Faculty

Table 47-1. Percentage of full-and part-time instructional faculty and staff who taught distance education courses and average number of courses taught, by employment and distance education status, rank, and type of institution: Fall 2003

	Percentage who taught distance education course		Average number of credit and noncredit courses taught
Faculty rank and type of institution	Full-time	Part-time	Did not teach distance education	Taught distance education

Total¹	8.3	5.9	2.3	3.7
Full or associate professor	8.3	7.6	2.5	4.1
Public doctoral	6.5	4.5	2.0	3.2
Private not-for-profit doctoral	2.9	2.5	2.0	3.7
Public master’s	9.6	10.4	3.0	3.7
Private not-for-profit master’s	7.3	15.1	2.9	3.4
Private not-for-profit bachelor’s	4.0	5.3	3.0	3.9
Public associate’s	22.4	9.2	3.7	5.3
Assistant professor, instructor, or lecturer	8.0	5.0	2.5	3.9
Public doctoral	5.2	5.5	2.0	3.2
Private not-for-profit doctoral	2.9	3.1	1.8	2.6
Public master’s	7.1	2.5	2.8	3.7
Private not-for-profit master’s	8.5	7.3	2.5	3.8
Private not-for-profit bachelor’s	2.8	7.2	2.6	3.0
Public associate’s	15.2	5.1	2.9	4.4

¹Faculty who had some other title or no rank were included in the total but not shown separately.
NOTE: Included are faculty and instructional staff at public and private not-for-profit institutions who had instructional duties for which students earned credit in fall 2003. Distance education includes classes in which students and instructors are separated either primarily or exclusively by distance or time.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 2004 National Study of Postsecondary Faculty (NSOPF:04), previously unpublished tabulation (November 2005).