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Colleges With the Highest Percentages of Faculty Members Who Are Tenured or on the Tenure Track, Fall 2016

Almanac 2018 August 19, 2018

At some colleges, all or nearly all of staff members with faculty status were tenured or on the tenure track in the fall of 2016. But that did not mean that students at those institutions could expect to be taught entirely by tenured and tenure-track professors. Most of the institutions on the list below had a significant number of staff members without faculty status who were involved in instruction, and several had a sizable number of graduate assistants. Of the institutions listed below, only Rush University, in Chicago, classified all of its instructional staff members, even instructors who were on annual contracts and who were not on the tenure track, as having faculty status.

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At some colleges, all or nearly all of staff members with faculty status were tenured or on the tenure track in the fall of 2016. But that did not mean that students at those institutions could expect to be taught entirely by tenured and tenure-track professors. Most of the institutions on the list below had a significant number of staff members without faculty status who were involved in instruction, and several had a sizable number of graduate assistants. Of the institutions listed below, only Rush University, in Chicago, classified all of its instructional staff members, even instructors who were on annual contracts and who were not on the tenure track, as having faculty status.


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4-year public institutions

RankInstitution Total staff members with faculty status TenuredOn tenure trackEither tenured or on tenure track All instructional, research, and public-service staff Graduate assistants
1. Fashion Institute of Technology 281 86.8% 13.2% 100.0% 1,116 -
1. Henry Ford College 193 78.8% 21.2% 100.0% 708 -
3. New Jersey City U. 256 71.5% 27.0% 98.4% 847 40
4. U. of Minnesota at Morris 100 71.0% 26.0% 97.0% 168 -
5. Salem State U. 363 71.3% 23.1% 94.5% 832 46
6. William Paterson U. of New Jersey 447 74.3% 18.6% 92.8% 1,075 79
7. Western Connecticut State U. 235 63.4% 28.9% 92.3% 573 24
8. Rhode Island College 371 70.6% 21.0% 91.6% 753 57
9. Spokane Falls Community College 149 78.5% 12.1% 90.6% 285 -
10. Eastern Connecticut State U. 368 62.2% 27.2% 89.4% 503 3
11. Bridgewater State U. 362 59.9% 29.3% 89.2% 767 121
12. Central State U. 101 51.5% 37.6% 89.1% 160 -
13. Eastern Michigan U. 828 60.0% 29.0% 89.0% 1,345 548
14. Virginia Military Institute 134 53.7% 35.1% 88.8% 176 -
15. Youngstown State U. 414 66.4% 21.3% 87.7% 990 280

4-year private nonprofit institutions

RankInstitution Total staff members with faculty status TenuredOn tenure trackEither tenured or on tenure track All instructional, research, and public-service staff Graduate assistants
1. Saint Joseph’s College (N.Y.) 164 45.1% 54.9% 100.0% 549 -
2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1,024 75.0% 24.1% 99.1% 6,555 3,339
3. John Carroll U. 197 83.2% 12.7% 95.9% 412 82
4. Robert Morris U. (Pa.) 224 77.2% 17.9% 95.1% 461 -
5. Webster U. 205 74.6% 19.5% 94.1% 1,388 17
6. Hobart and William Smith Colleges 202 59.4% 34.7% 94.1% 239 -
7. Calvin College 288 70.1% 22.2% 92.4% 393 -
8. New York Medical College 514 20.2% 72.0% 92.2% 570 36
9. Pomona College 206 76.7% 15.0% 91.7% 262 -
10. Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology 199 64.8% 26.6% 91.5% 193 -
11. Ouachita Baptist U. 105 71.4% 20.0% 91.4% 136 -
12. Gallaudet U. 181 63.0% 28.2% 91.2% 191 -
13. Presbyterian College 110 61.8% 28.2% 90.0% 134 -
14. Rush U. 1,053 21.4% 68.2% 89.6% 1,053 -
15. Knox College 120 72.5% 16.7% 89.2% 147 -

2-year public institutions

RankInstitution Total staff members with faculty status TenuredOn tenure trackEither tenured or on tenure track All instructional, research, and public-service staff Graduate assistants
1. Alvin Community College 106 59.4% 40.6% 100.0% 364 -
1. Camden County College 112 95.5% 4.5% 100.0% 794 -
1. Finger Lakes Community College 117 75.2% 24.8% 100.0% 313 -
1. Hutchinson Community College and Area Vocational School 101 77.2% 22.8% 100.0% 359 -
1. Kansas City Kansas Community College 159 83.6% 16.4% 100.0% 357 -
1. Mercer County Community College 110 85.5% 14.5% 100.0% 500 -
7. Community College of Rhode Island 317 77.6% 22.1% 99.7% 819 -
8. Temple College 130 53.8% 45.4% 99.2% 237 -
9. Lakeland Community College 129 79.1% 20.2% 99.2% 543 -
10. North Shore Community College 125 60.8% 38.4% 99.2% 547 -
11. Lorain County Community College 115 79.1% 20.0% 99.1% 604 -
12. Lewis and Clark Community College 105 88.6% 10.5% 99.0% 313 -
13. Gateway Community College 101 67.3% 30.7% 98.0% 342 -
14. Scottsdale Community College 167 75.4% 22.2% 97.6% 492 -
15. Paradise Valley Community College 119 65.5% 31.9% 97.5% 471 -

Note: Categories include both full-time and part-time employees. The number of staff members with faculty status is generally a subset of all staff members involved in instruction, research, and/or public service. At institutions in this table, those staff members are all or almost all devoted to instruction, rather than research or public service, except at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and New York Medical College. Questions or comments on the Almanac should be sent to the Almanac editor.

Source: Chronicle analysis of U.S. Department of Education data</small></p>

A version of this article appeared in the August 24, 2018, issue.
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