Table 226. | Employees in degree-granting institutions of higher education, by primary occupation, employment status, and control of institution: Fall 1976, fall 1991, and fall 2001 |
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ | Fall 1976\1\ | Fall 1991\1\ | Fall 2001\2\ |_________________________________________________|______________________________________|______________________________________ Primary occupation and | Total staff |Full-time equivalent| Total staff |Full-time equivalent| Total staff |Full-time equivalent control of institution | | staff | | staff | | staff |____________________________|____________________|_________________|____________________|_________________|____________________ | Number | Per- | Full- | Total |FTE stu- | Number | Per- | Total |FTE stu- | Number | Per- | Total |FTE stu- | | cent | time | |dents per| | cent | |dents per| | cent | |dents per | | | | |FTE staff| | | |FTE staff| | | |FTE staff ____________________________________________|__________|______|__________|__________|_________|__________|______|__________|_________|__________|______|__________|_________ 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 ____________________________________________|__________|______|__________|__________|_________|__________|______|__________|_________|__________|______|__________|_________ Total, all institutions ....................| 1,863,790| 100.0| 1,339,911| 1,541,339| 5.4| 2,545,235| 100.0| 2,094,628| 4.9| 3,083,353| 100.0| 2,436,473| 4.8 Professional staff .......................| 1,073,119| 57.6| 709,400| 845,456| 9.8| 1,595,460| 62.7| 1,244,588| 8.3| 2,132,150| 69.2| 1,598,710| 7.4 Executive/administrative/managerial ....| 101,263| 5.4| 97,003| 98,972| 84.0| 144,755| 5.7| 141,718| 73.1| 152,038| 4.9| 149,051| 78.9 Faculty (instruction and research) .....| 633,210| 34.0| 434,071| 500,533| 16.6| 826,252| 32.5| 632,565| 16.4| 1,113,183| 36.1| 783,036| 15.0 Instruction and research assistants ....| 160,086| 8.6| 28,007| 82,684| 100.5| 197,751| 7.8| 81,467| 127.2| 261,136| 8.5| 107,943| 109.0 Non-faculty professionals ..............| 178,560| 9.6| 150,319| 163,267| 50.9| 426,702| 16.8| 388,838| 26.6| 605,793| 19.6| 558,680| 21.1 Nonprofessional staff ....................| 790,671| 42.4| 630,511| 695,883| 11.9| 949,775| 37.3| 850,040| 12.2| 951,203| 30.8| 837,763| 14.0 | | | | | | | | | | | | | Public, total ..............................| 1,329,122| 100.0| 946,354| 1,092,558| 5.8| 1,783,328| 100.0| 1,449,398| 5.4| 2,136,970| 100.0| 1,660,294| 5.2 Professional staff .......................| 769,836| 57.9| 502,325| 601,942| 10.5| 1,133,264| 63.5| 868,112| 9.1| 1,477,953| 69.2| 1,083,384| 8.0 Executive/administrative/managerial ....| 60,733| 4.6| 58,649| 59,579| 106.6| 84,446| 4.7| 82,835| 94.9| 82,811| 3.9| 80,942| 106.7 Faculty (instruction and research) .....| 448,733| 33.8| 313,367| 357,761| 17.7| 580,908| 32.6| 446,113| 17.6| 771,124| 36.1| 539,581| 16.0 Instruction and research assistants ....| 127,925| 9.6| 19,076| 63,420| 100.1| 173,560| 9.7| 70,707| 111.2| 219,475| 10.3| 89,412| 96.6 Non-faculty professionals ..............| 132,445| 10.0| 111,233| 121,182| 52.4| 294,350| 16.5| 268,458| 29.3| 404,543| 18.9| 373,449| 23.1 Nonprofessional staff ....................| 559,286| 42.1| 444,029| 490,616| 12.9| 650,064| 36.5| 581,286| 13.5| 659,017| 30.8| 576,910| 15.0 | | | | | | | | | | | | | Private, total .............................| 534,668| 100.0| 393,557| 448,781| 4.4| 761,907| 100.0| 645,231| 3.9| 946,383| 100.0| 776,179| 4.0 Professional staff .......................| 303,283| 56.7| 207,075| 243,514| 8.1| 462,196| 60.7| 376,476| 6.6| 654,197| 69.1| 515,327| 6.1 Executive/administrative/managerial ....| 40,530| 7.6| 38,354| 39,393| 49.8| 60,309| 7.9| 58,883| 42.4| 69,227| 7.3| 68,109| 45.9 Faculty (instruction and research) .....| 184,477| 34.5| 120,704| 142,772| 13.7| 245,344| 32.2| 186,452| 13.4| 342,059| 36.1| 243,455| 12.8 Instruction and research assistants ....| 32,161| 6.0| 8,931| 19,264| 101.9| 24,191| 3.2| 10,760| 232.1| 41,661| 4.4| 18,531| 168.7 Non-faculty professionals ..............| 46,115| 8.6| 39,086| 42,085| 46.6| 132,352| 17.4| 120,380| 20.7| 201,250| 21.3| 185,231| 16.9 Nonprofessional staff ....................| 231,385| 43.3| 186,482| 205,267| 9.6| 299,711| 39.3| 268,755| 9.3| 292,186| 30.9| 260,853| 12.0 ____________________________________________|__________|______|__________|__________|_________|__________|______|__________|_________|__________|______|__________|_________ |
\1\Data are for 4-year and 2-year institutions that were accredited by an agency or organization that was recognized by the U.S. Department of Education, or recognized directly by the Secretary of Education. NOTE: Detail may not sum to totals due to rounding. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS), "Staff, 1976" survey; and Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), "Fall Staff" 1991, and Winter 2001-02 surveys. (This table was prepared September 2003.)
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