FACULTY

This year’s faculty data cover diversity, faculty characteristics, and pay. New this year is a table on the ratio of graduate assistants to faculty members at public and private doctoral and master’s institutions. Salary changes for full-time faculty members were fairly consistent across all institution types, while the percentage of faculty members on the tenure track varies. Tenured faculty members are still mostly male and mostly white, and salaries for male and female instructional staff at four-year institutions have still not reached parity.

Here’s a sampling of statistics researched by The Chronicle data team.

Even though nearly a third of full-time instructional-staff members at four-year public and private nonprofit institutions had no tenure status in the fall of 2017, at many colleges, students had a high chance of being taught at some point by tenured or tenure-track professors.

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More than 60 percent of all non-tenure-track faculty members worked part time in the fall of 2018.

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More than 40 percent of faculty members at all institutions worked part time in the fall of 2018. Among sectors, four-year public institutions had the highest share of faculty members who were either tenured or on the tenure track.

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More faculty data

• Graduate Assistant to Full-Time Instructional Staff Ratio, Fall 2018
• Percentages of Full-Time Faculty Members Who Were Non-Tenure-Track, by Institutional Classification, 2018-19
• Annual Salary Change for Continuing Full-Time Faculty Members, 2018-19 to 2019-20
• Average Pay per Standard Course Section, 2018-19