Tenure Status
The following tables present tenure status data for full-time faculty by academic rank, gender, and ethnicity.
Headcount of Full-Time Faculty with Tenure, with Doctorate, by Rank, Fall 2010
| Full-Time Faculty | Total |
with Tenure |
with Doctorate |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Total |
Percent |
Total |
Percent |
||
| Professor | 4,503 | 4,444 | 98.7 | 3,934 | 87.4 |
| Associate Professor | 2,696 | 2,455 | 91.1 | 2,273 | 84.3 |
| Assistant Professor | 2,363 | 84 | 3.6 | 1,929 | 81.6 |
| Instructor | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 100.0 |
| Tenure-Track Subtotal | 9,563 | 6,983 | 73.0 | 8,137 | 85.1 |
| Lecturer | 1,664 | 9 | 0.5 | 420 | 25.2 |
| All Full-Time | 11,227 | 6,992 | 62.3% | 8,557 | 76.2% |
Headcount of Full-Time Faculty by Tenure Status and Ethnicity, Fall 2010 and Five Years Earlier
Fall 2010
Total |
Black or African American |
American Indian or Alaska Native |
Asian |
Hispanic |
White |
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander |
Two or More Races |
Race/ Ethnicity Unknown |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tenured | 6,992 | 274 | 49 | 1,020 | 595 | 4,856 | 10 | 36 | 152 |
| Probationary | 2,526 | 113 | 12 | 530 | 227 | 1,477 | 4 | 16 | 147 |
| Temporary | 1,709 | 62 | 11 | 133 | 149 | 1,287 | 4 | 19 | 44 |
| Total | 11,227 | 449 | 72 | 1,683 | 971 | 7,620 | 18 | 71 | 343 |
Fall 2005
Total |
Black or African American |
American Indian or Alaska Native |
Asian |
Hispanic |
White |
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander |
Two or More Races |
Race/ Ethnicity Unknown |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tenured | 6,567 | 265 | 39 | 868 | 496 | 4,830 | 69 | ||
| Probationary | 3,039 | 123 | 20 | 508 | 294 | 1,973 | 121 | ||
| Temporary | 1,670 | 52 | 10 | 121 | 116 | 1,337 | 34 | ||
| Total | 11,276 | 440 | 69 | 1,497 | 906 | 8,140 | 224 |
