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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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4-year public institutions

Rank	Institution	Total staff members with faculty status	Tenured	On tenure track	Either 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

Rank	Institution	Total staff members with faculty status	Tenured	On tenure track	Either 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

Rank	Institution	Total staff members with faculty status	Tenured	On tenure track	Either 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.

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