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 2011
| Full-Time Faculty | Total |
With Tenure |
With Doctorate |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Total |
Percent |
Total |
Percent |
||
| Professor | 4,549 | 4,504 | 99.0 | 3,977 | 87.4 |
| Associate Professor | 2,706 | 2,502 | 92.5 | 2,272 | 84.0 |
| Assistant Professor | 2,247 | 103 | 4.6 | 1,842 | 82.0 |
| Instructor | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Tenure-Track Subtotal | 9,502 | 7,109 | 74.8 | 8,091 | 85.2 |
| Lecturer | 1,827 | 5 | 0.3 | 485 | 26.5 |
| All Full-Time | 11,329 | 7,114 | 62.8% | 8,576 | 75.7% |
Headcount of Full-Time Faculty by Tenure Status and Ethnicity, Fall 2011 and Five Years Earlier
Fall 2011
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 | 7,114 | 273 | 53 | 1,076 | 629 | 4,858 | 13 | 39 | 173 |
| Probationary | 2,348 | 101 | 14 | 510 | 210 | 1,334 | 2 | 14 | 163 |
| Temporary | 1,867 | 54 | 9 | 144 | 168 | 1,399 | 7 | 19 | 67 |
| Total | 11,329 | 428 | 76 | 1,730 | 1,007 | 7,591 | 22 | 72 | 403 |
Fall 2006
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 | 6,643 | 255 | 40 | 899 | 527 | 4,836 | 86 | N/A | N/A |
| Probationary | 3,121 | 137 | 20 | 547 | 292 | 1,964 | 161 | N/A | N/A |
| Temporary | 1,858 | 59 | 12 | 154 | 140 | 1,452 | 41 | N/A | N/A |
| Total | 11,622 | 451 | 72 | 1,600 | 959 | 8,252 | 288 | N/A | N/A |