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At a Glance

Faculty and Staff

 

 Full-time Faculty Fall 2010

PAID FULL-TIME FACULTY1 (filled positions, fall 2010): 650    Tenure/Tenure-Track: 525 
School 
Prof. 
Assoc. Prof. 
Asst. Prof. 
Instr. and Lect.2 
Visiting 
Other Faculty 
Total Faculty
Total Tenured 
 Total Tenure Track  % Tenured of Tenured and Tenure Track 
Architecture 6 5 1 3 5 0 20  11 1 92%
Engineering 68 16 27 19 1 5 136  84 27 76%
Humanities 54 37 30 38 1 0 160  91 30 75%
Business 20 18 12 9 1 1 61  38 12 76%
Music 27 7 1 3 0 5 43  32 3 91%
Natural Sciences 70 16 34 19 1 7 147  86 34 72%
Social Sciences 37 16 23 1 0 0 77  53 23 70%
Dean of Undergraduates 0 0 0 6 0 0 6  0 0 0%
Total (Headcount) 282 115 128 98 9 18 650  395 130 75%
1The full-time faculty figures reflect each faculty member's rank, but excludes deans and other faculty with administrative appointments.
2The number of full-time lecturers includes professors in the practice and senior lecturers. (Professor in the practice is a nontenure-track, nontenure-eligible faculty appointment established to fill specific and important programmatic instructional needs of the university.)

 

2010 Staff (Headcount)

Full-time
1,897
Part-time
255
Total 

2,152 

 

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