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Instructional Faculty and Staff Who Teach Undergraduates
Table 46-1.  Percentage of full-time instructional faculty and staff in doctoral, master’s, and bachelor’s degree-granting institutions who taught at least one undergraduate class for credit or who taught only undergraduate classes for credit, by tenure status: Fall 2003

  Taught at least one
undergraduate class for credit
  Taught only undergraduate
classes for credit
Academic rank All Doctoral Master’s Bachelor’s   All Doctoral Master’s Bachelor’s

    Total 77.6 66.6 89.7 97.4   59.2 45.6 70.8 92.3
Tenured or on tenure track 77.6 66.6 89.9 97.8   56.2 42.0 68.6 92.1
Not on tenure track 77.4 66.7 88.9 96.5   68.3 56.7 78.8 92.8

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. Nontenure-track faculty includes those who were not on the tenure track and those in institutions without tenure systems.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 2004 National Study of Postsecondary Faculty (NSOPF:04), previously unpublished tabulation (April 2006).

 
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