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Percentage of Faculty by Full & Part-Time Status, Five Year Trends

Full-Time| |Part-Time

Percentage of Instructional Faculty
By Rank, Gender, and Ethnic Background
Full-Time

                         

Rank

Fall '04

Fall '05

Fall '06

Fall '07

Fall '08

Professors

26.8%

25.8%

23.2%

22.7%

22.4%

Associate Professors

23.3%

22.8%

19.9%

20.2%

20.8%

Assistant Professors

28.9%

27.8%

30.8%

33.5%

34.0%

Instructors

5.3%

3.6%

4.3%

3.8%

2.7%

Lecturers

15.6%

20.1%

21.8%

19.8%

20.1%

TOTAL

100%

100%

100%

100%

100%

Gender

Fall '04

Fall '05

Fall '06

Fall '07

Fall '08

% Male

53%

51%

49%

48%

48%

% Female

47%

49%

51%

52%

52%

Ethnic Background

Fall '04

Fall '05

Fall '06

Fall '07

Fall '08

African American

4.2%

4.7%

4.8%

5.4%

5.3%

Native American

0.2%

0.2%

0.1%

0.1%

0.1%

Asian American

7.9%

7.8%

7.8%

8.4%

8.1%

Hispanic

1.3%

1.7%

1.7%

2.3%

2.2%

White

86.2%

85.4%

84.4%

81.7%

81.6%

Foreign

0.3%

0.3%

1.2%

1.4%

1.4%

Other

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

0.7%

1.3%


Source: IPEDS, Employee Data System File.


Percentage of Instructional Faculty
By Rank, Gender, and Ethnic Background
Part-Time

                         

Rank

Fall '04

Fall '05

Fall '06

Fall '07

Fall '08

Professors

0.3%

0.5%

0.7%

0.5%

0.1%

Associate Professors

0.3%

0.5%

1.3%

1.1%

0.4%

Assistant Professors

0.6%

0.7%

0.5%

0.5%

0.3%

Instructors

0.3%

0.3%

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

Lecturers

98.4%

97.9%

97.5%

98.0%

99.2%

TOTAL

100%

100%

100%

100%

100%

Gender

Fall '04

Fall '05

Fall '06

Fall '07

Fall '08

% Male

49%

49%

46%

46%

44%

% Female

51%

51%

54%

54%

56%

Ethnic Background

Fall '04

Fall '05

Fall '06

Fall '07

Fall '08

African American

5.2%

4.1%

4.4%

4.9%

4.7%

Native American

0.2%

0.3%

0.7%

0.5%

0.6%

Asian American

2.7%

2.9%

2.9%

3.4%

3.3%

Hispanic

2.2%

1.5%

2.0%

2.0%

1.7%

White

89.8%

91.1%

89.9%

88.3%

87.6%

Foreign

0.0%

0.0%

0.2%

0.3%

0.4%

Other

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

0.6%

1.7%


Source: IPEDS, Employee Data System File.

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