- Surveys & Programs
- Data & Tools
- Fast Facts
- News & Events
- Publications & Products
- About Us
 |
| 2004 Tables and Figures | All Years of Tables and Figures | Most Recent Full Issue of the Digest |
 Previous Page |
Download Excel  (73KB) |
| Table 233. | 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
| |_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Faculty | Number| | | Agriculture| | | | | | | | |
characteristic |in thou-| Number| All| and home| | | | | | | Natural| Social|
| sands,|in thou-| fields| economics| Business| Education|Engineering| 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(4.80)| 10.5 (0.40)| 38.7(1.10)| 39.9(1.40)| 25.0(0.90)| 33.3(1.40)| 83.8(2.00)| 80.8(1.80)|111.3(2.10)| 58.4(1.30)| 78.7(2.10)
Percent ....................| † | † |100.0 (†) | 1.9 (0.10)| 6.9(0.30)| 7.1(0.30)| 4.5(0.30)| 5.9(0.30)| 15.0(0.40)| 14.4(0.40)| 19.9(0.50)| 10.4(0.40)| 14.0(0.50)
|________|________|___________|____________|___________|___________|___________|___________|___________|___________|___________|___________|____________
| | | 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(0.60)| 80.5 (2.85)| 65.0(2.11)| 42.5(2.40)| 90.8(1.77)| 68.5(2.18)| 49.8(1.90)| 55.9(1.59)| 75.1(1.13)| 67.6(1.59)| 66.8(1.69)
Female ...................| 176| 203| 36.3(0.60)| 19.5 (2.85)| 35.1(2.11)| 57.5(2.40)| 9.2(1.77)| 31.5(2.18)| 50.2(1.90)| 44.1(1.59)| 24.9(1.13)| 32.4(1.59)| 33.2(1.69)
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
Race/ethnicity | | | | | | | | | | | | |
White, non-Hispanic ......| 457| 477| 85.1(0.53)| 90.7 (1.92)| 86.7(1.43)| 83.8(1.71)| 77.0(2.28)| 89.3(1.41)| 85.5(1.12)| 83.9(1.43)| 85.5(0.96)| 84.0(1.25)| 87.3(1.16)
Black, non-Hispanic ......| 27| 28| 5.1(0.36)| 4.1 (1.26)| 5.3(0.87)| 8.6(1.48)| 2.4(0.53)| 6.7(1.20)| 4.4(0.58)| 4.5(0.83)| 3.1(0.45)| 6.7(0.84)| 6.2(0.76)
Hispanic .................| 14| 19| 3.3(0.24)| 1.4 (0.63)| 1.6(0.41)| 3.3(0.60)| 3.9(1.37)| 1.1(0.34)| 3.3(0.54)| 6.5(0.86)| 2.9(0.51)| 3.0(0.48)| 2.6(0.63)
Asian/Pacific Islander ...| 28| 33| 5.8(0.30)| 2.9 (0.94)| 5.2(0.76)| 3.6(0.93)| 16.1(2.11)| 2.3(0.59)| 6.1(0.67)| 4.7(1.03)| 8.2(0.63)| 5.1(0.79)| 2.9(0.58)
American Indian/ | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Alaska Native .........| 3| 4| 0.7(0.09)| 1.0 (0.96)| 1.3(0.82)| 0.8(0.32)| 0.6(0.35)| 0.6(0.29)| 0.7(0.20)| 0.4(0.15)| 0.3(0.11)| 1.3(0.32)| 1.0(0.28)
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
Age | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Under 30 .................| 8| 9| 1.6(0.21)| 1.3 (0.75)| 1.8(1.23)| 2.5(1.82)| 1.6(1.22)| 1.3(0.43)| 1.3(0.50)| 0.9(0.23)| 1.1(0.23)| 1.1(0.27)| 3.2(0.69)
30 to 34 .................| 35| 32| 5.8(0.30)| 7.9 (3.04)| 4.3(0.72)| 3.2(0.67)| 8.6(1.67)| 3.9(0.76)| 4.4(0.56)| 7.3(0.99)| 6.5(0.68)| 7.1(0.85)| 5.3(0.69)
35 to 39 .................| 67| 60| 10.7(0.43)| 5.2 (1.57)| 10.8(1.40)| 7.1(0.94)| 10.6(1.44)| 10.1(1.59)| 13.9(1.58)| 10.1(0.92)| 12.8(0.97)| 10.3(1.18)| 8.0(0.94)
40 to 44 .................| 90| 82| 14.6(0.47)| 10.6 (2.05)| 13.6(1.67)| 9.8(1.27)| 17.5(2.57)| 16.3(2.11)| 18.4(1.38)| 10.7(0.87)| 15.2(1.01)| 14.4(1.26)| 15.5(1.33)
45 to 49 .................| 98| 97| 17.3(0.46)| 17.9 (2.66)| 16.5(1.40)| 21.4(2.05)| 17.2(2.26)| 16.3(1.70)| 20.4(1.41)| 16.7(1.34)| 14.0(0.83)| 15.8(1.34)| 18.6(1.31)
50 to 54 .................| 95| 105| 18.7(0.49)| 21.8 (3.14)| 22.7(1.91)| 20.7(1.86)| 13.5(1.58)| 23.4(2.69)| 17.8(1.19)| 16.2(1.16)| 19.1(1.22)| 17.5(1.30)| 18.8(1.41)
55 to 59 .................| 67| 90| 16.1(0.51)| 21.9 (3.33)| 17.4(1.70)| 18.3(2.02)| 14.3(1.82)| 14.0(2.22)| 12.8(0.97)| 19.4(1.28)| 14.3(0.88)| 18.2(1.47)| 16.4(1.69)
60 to 64 .................| 45| 55| 9.8(0.39)| 8.5 (1.71)| 9.3(1.29)| 11.8(1.55)| 11.1(1.99)| 11.0(1.64)| 7.1(0.71)| 11.2(1.08)| 10.0(0.82)| 11.3(1.21)| 8.7(0.90)
65 or older ..............| 24| 31| 5.5(0.33)| 4.9 (1.48)| 3.7(0.71)| 5.1(1.35)| 5.7(1.02)| 3.8(0.76)| 3.9(0.52)| 7.7(1.01)| 7.0(0.90)| 4.3(0.81)| 5.6(0.99)
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
Degree | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Less than bachelor's .....| 6| 7| 1.2(0.14)| 1.1 (0.65)| 0.3(0.16)| 0.4(0.19)| 1.5(0.59)| 1.4(0.49)| 1.7(0.33)| 0.1(0.06)| 0.4(0.15)| # (†) | 4.6(0.80)
Bachelor's ...............| 21| 23| 4.0(0.28)| 5.3 (1.40)| 4.6(0.91)| 1.5(0.41)| 5.3(1.48)| 4.8(0.88)| 5.1(0.72)| 0.9(0.38)| 3.6(0.58)| 0.9(0.25)| 9.4(1.09)
Master's .................| 156| 156| 27.8(0.74)| 19.2 (3.08)| 42.5(2.38)| 27.2(2.34)| 16.4(2.22)| 58.9(2.85)| 23.0(1.57)| 30.5(1.57)| 20.0(1.15)| 16.0(1.37)| 34.4(1.88)
First-professional .......| 58| 52| 9.2(0.61)| 0.8 (0.46)| 3.9(0.79)| 0.9(0.30)| 0.5(0.31)| 1.4(0.91)| 41.1(2.10)| 2.3(0.85)| 2.0(0.50)| 2.3(0.92)| 12.6(1.26)
Doctor's .................| 284| 324| 57.7(0.83)| 73.7 (3.74)| 48.7(2.33)| 70.1(2.41)| 76.3(2.68)| 33.6(2.65)| 29.0(1.68)| 66.3(1.73)| 74.1(1.30)| 80.8(1.61)| 39.1(2.14)
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
Rank | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Full professor ...........| 161| 172| 30.7(0.72)| 42.9 (4.36)| 23.9(1.88)| 24.8(2.11)| 37.3(2.84)| 29.9(2.64)| 21.1(1.30)| 30.9(1.60)| 38.2(1.48)| 38.8(1.90)| 28.8(1.99)
Associate professor ......| 124| 132| 23.6(0.60)| 23.2 (3.15)| 26.4(2.11)| 23.7(1.95)| 27.9(2.60)| 25.8(2.62)| 28.4(1.70)| 21.5(1.25)| 23.1(1.22)| 24.0(1.61)| 18.0(1.31)
Assistant professor ......| 124| 125| 22.3(0.55)| 16.5 (3.43)| 19.8(1.72)| 24.8(2.07)| 20.4(2.29)| 21.3(2.18)| 30.5(1.53)| 21.3(1.43)| 20.7(1.16)| 22.6(1.39)| 18.6(1.29)
Instructor or lecturer ...| 74| 75| 13.4(0.59)| 8.0 (2.04)| 19.5(2.20)| 10.9(1.50)| 8.6(2.17)| 11.9(2.23)| 14.9(1.24)| 15.4(1.32)| 10.1(0.81)| 7.0(1.05)| 20.6(1.63)
Lecturer .................| 12| 14| 2.5(0.27)| 2.0 (0.90)| 3.4(0.93)| 4.3(1.87)| 0.9(0.39)| 2.1(0.55)| 0.9(0.22)| 5.0(0.85)| 2.0(0.30)| 1.1(0.26)| 3.2(0.72)
Other/no rank ............| 17| 26| 4.7(0.29)| 5.6 (1.42)| 3.8(0.73)| 8.5(1.32)| 4.3(1.42)| 3.3(0.65)| 3.1(0.54)| 2.3(0.37)| 3.6(0.46)| 4.2(0.70)| 6.8(0.74)
No rank ..................| 17| 16| 2.8(0.35)| 1.8 (0.91)| 3.3(0.76)| 2.9(0.85)| 0.5(0.40)| 5.8(1.51)| 1.1(0.30)| 3.7(0.70)| 2.3(0.40)| 2.3(0.51)| 4.0(0.74)
|========|========|===========|============|===========|===========|===========|===========|===========|===========|===========|===========|===========
Part-time instructional | | | | | | | | | | | | |
faculty and staff | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
Part-time, in thousands ....| 377| 416|416.0(5.90)| 2.5 (0.20)| 31.6(1.80)| 33.6(1.60)| 9.3(0.80)| 38.1(1.50)| 48.7(2.20)| 74.1(2.10)| 65.5(2.20)| 41.2(2.40)| 71.6(2.10)
Percent ....................| † | † |100.0 (†) | 0.6 (0.10)| 7.6(0.60)| 8.1(0.50)| 2.2(0.30)| 9.2(0.50)| 11.7(0.70)| 17.8(0.70)| 15.7(0.70)| 9.9(0.70)| 17.2(0.80)
|________|________|___________|____________|___________|___________|___________|___________|___________|___________|___________|___________|____________
| | | 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(1.08)| 34.5(10.12)| 61.9(4.12)| 28.2(2.79)| 95.8(1.59)| 48.5(3.06)| 41.3(3.84)| 44.3(2.17)| 62.8(2.34)| 55.1(3.68)| 61.8(2.80)
Female ...................| 168| 199| 47.9(1.08)| 65.5(10.12)| 38.1(4.12)| 71.8(2.79)| 4.2(1.59)| 51.5(3.06)| 58.7(3.84)| 55.7(2.17)| 37.3(2.34)| 44.9(3.68)| 38.2(2.80)
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
Race/ethnicity | | | | | | | | | | | | |
White, non-Hispanic ......| 333| 364| 87.6(0.70)| 88.2 (6.99)| 91.1(1.65)| 89.2(2.12)| 75.0(6.22)| 92.4(1.65)| 90.2(1.46)| 86.6(1.43)| 86.8(1.54)| 85.2(2.28)| 86.3(2.21)
Black, non-Hispanic ......| 18| 19| 4.5(0.40)| 1.3 (1.32)| 5.4(1.41)| 5.1(1.39)| 4.9(2.45)| 2.9(0.86)| 2.8(0.70)| 2.7(0.55)| 6.0(1.08)| 8.1(1.72)| 4.4(0.89)
Hispanic .................| 11| 16| 3.7(0.38)| 3.9 (3.14)| 1.4(0.41)| 3.5(1.07)| 11.2(5.74)| 3.1(1.34)| 1.9(0.52)| 5.8(1.00)| 2.4(0.53)| 4.8(1.44)| 4.1(0.79)
Asian/Pacific Islander ...| 12| 13| 3.2(0.40)| 6.6 (6.33)| 2.2(0.63)| 0.5(0.33)| 8.1(2.59)| 1.0(0.33)| 3.7(0.93)| 3.7(0.81)| 4.3(0.79)| 1.0(0.31)| 4.3(1.98)
American Indian/ | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Alaska Native .........| 2| 4| 1.0(0.21)| # (†) | # (†) | 1.9(1.28)| 0.9(0.87)| 0.7(0.35)| 1.4(0.82)| 1.3(0.46)| 0.5(0.34)| 0.9(0.40)| 1.0(0.72)
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
Age | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Under 30 .................| 20| 15| 3.6(0.37)| # (†) | 1.3(0.54)| 1.6(0.54)| # (†) | 5.3(1.73)| 2.0(0.64)| 7.4(1.35)| 3.8(0.91)| 3.4(0.83)| 2.4(0.51)
30 to 34 .................| 36| 37| 8.9(0.66)| 15.9 (7.63)| 9.4(4.15)| 5.1(1.49)| 3.7(2.42)| 8.6(1.87)| 7.7(1.80)| 9.7(1.26)| 7.9(1.00)| 9.1(2.53)| 11.6(1.84)
35 to 39 .................| 59| 47| 11.4(0.67)| 25.6 (8.03)| 8.1(1.46)| 9.3(2.12)| 13.4(4.83)| 14.6(2.44)| 15.5(2.87)| 7.1(1.02)| 13.6(1.79)| 8.8(1.70)| 12.6(1.69)
40 to 44 .................| 70| 60| 14.5(0.76)| 18.0 (5.53)| 13.7(2.22)| 8.9(2.02)| 19.7(6.20)| 20.4(2.73)| 17.0(2.18)| 13.0(1.67)| 12.8(1.70)| 14.7(2.04)| 16.1(2.30)
45 to 49 .................| 68| 72| 17.3(0.80)| 18.4 (8.12)| 15.6(2.59)| 16.4(2.76)| 8.0(2.52)| 16.5(1.80)| 23.9(2.44)| 14.5(1.41)| 14.9(1.79)| 22.3(3.90)| 18.0(2.03)
50 to 54 .................| 45| 70| 16.8(0.75)| 16.5 (6.85)| 20.1(2.89)| 24.1(2.82)| 14.7(3.35)| 14.9(1.88)| 16.4(2.38)| 15.7(1.51)| 17.3(1.96)| 15.4(2.55)| 15.5(1.88)
55 to 59 .................| 29| 47| 11.3(0.63)| # (†) | 13.4(1.96)| 8.7(1.38)| 17.2(5.20)| 8.7(1.51)| 6.5(1.39)| 13.1(1.61)| 15.3(2.01)| 10.8(1.75)| 10.4(1.44)
60 to 64 .................| 23| 29| 6.9(0.48)| 3.2 (3.14)| 8.3(1.81)| 13.3(2.80)| 6.8(2.13)| 4.9(1.28)| 3.0(0.75)| 7.8(1.23)| 6.1(0.98)| 9.3(2.36)| 5.3(1.11)
65 or older ..............| 27| 38| 9.2(0.57)| 2.4 (2.41)| 10.2(2.26)| 12.8(1.80)| 16.5(4.43)| 6.1(1.16)| 8.1(1.50)| 11.7(1.36)| 8.4(1.45)| 6.3(1.45)| 8.3(1.77)
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
Degree | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Less than bachelor's .....| 17| 20| 4.9(0.53)| 11.6 (5.36)| 3.1(1.42)| 0.5(0.33)| 3.7(1.70)| 3.3(0.86)| 7.7(1.83)| 0.2(0.11)| 4.3(1.27)| 0.2(0.18)| 13.4(1.78)
Bachelor's ...............| 63| 59| 14.1(0.74)| 20.0 (8.21)| 18.0(2.78)| 11.9(2.93)| 19.1(4.35)| 27.0(3.29)| 15.1(2.06)| 7.1(1.06)| 14.1(1.70)| 4.1(1.25)| 17.7(1.85)
Master's .................| 190| 225| 54.1(1.22)| 54.6 (8.82)| 65.7(3.40)| 59.7(3.49)| 32.3(6.71)| 59.5(3.32)| 34.8(3.74)| 69.6(2.03)| 57.6(2.43)| 56.3(0.36)| 39.3(2.83)
First-professional .......| 40| 36| 8.7(0.84)| 2.7 (2.72)| 3.8(0.95)| 2.1(0.63)| 4.2(2.29)| 1.4(0.50)| 33.3(4.32)| 2.9(0.71)| 2.7(0.79)| 6.7(1.55)| 15.2(2.03)
Doctor's .................| 59| 76| 18.2(0.80)| 11.1 (4.72)| 9.4(1.99)| 25.8(2.92)| 40.7(7.09)| 8.7(1.64)| 9.0(1.55)| 20.2(1.82)| 21.3(2.04)| 32.8(3.34)| 14.5(2.10)
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
Rank | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Full professor ...........| 32| 30| 7.3(0.71)| 5.6 (3.92)| 6.3(1.98)| 4.3(0.96)| 16.8(4.06)| 6.5(1.65)| 8.1(1.88)| 6.7(1.07)| 7.4(1.61)| 10.0(3.99)| 7.3(1.39)
Associate professor ......| 23| 19| 4.7(0.45)| 3.0 (2.99)| 3.7(0.97)| 3.5(0.98)| 9.9(4.48)| 3.0(0.90)| 11.3(1.91)| 2.4(0.73)| 4.1(0.98)| 5.5(1.65)| 3.8(0.97)
Assistant professor ......| 24| 23| 5.6(0.61)| 2.6 (2.44)| 3.0(0.79)| 4.5(1.04)| 2.2(1.23)| 5.7(1.38)| 16.8(3.68)| 3.3(0.73)| 3.4(0.69)| 6.2(1.10)| 4.3(0.89)
Instructor or lecturer ...| 215| 205| 49.4(1.19)| 64.5 (9.01)| 50.6(4.19)| 43.5(3.34)| 37.5(6.43)| 53.4(3.09)| 46.0(3.93)| 54.9(2.28)| 51.0(2.50)| 43.2(3.60)| 48.9(2.85)
Lecturer .................| 45| 46| 11.1(0.82)| 10.2 (4.41)| 11.4(2.29)| 12.9(2.84)| 9.3(2.81)| 14.5(2.51)| 5.9(1.60)| 11.9(1.54)| 10.8(1.57)| 12.8(2.38)| 11.3(2.61)
Other/no rank ............| 28| 75| 18.1(0.78)| 11.5 (5.03)| 21.0(2.56)| 24.8(2.78)| 18.1(4.55)| 12.0(1.78)| 10.8(1.45)| 17.6(1.77)| 17.1(1.72)| 20.2(2.36)| 21.7(2.25)
No rank ..................| 9| 16| 4.0(0.37)| 2.6 (2.61)| 4.1(1.56)| 6.4(2.17)| 6.2(4.16)| 5.0(1.09)| 1.3(0.44)| 3.3(0.73)| 6.1(1.18)| 2.1(0.74)| 2.7(0.59)
____________________________|________|________|___________|____________|___________|___________|___________|___________|___________|___________|___________|___________|___________ |
|
†Not applicable. NOTE: Totals may differ from figures reported in other tables because of varying survey methodologies. Detail may not sum to totals because of 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.)
|
Join Newsflash
NCES Blog
EdNCES X
EdNCES Facebook
EdNCES LinkedIn
EdNCES YouTube
