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
| 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
| 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
| 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>