Faculty & Staff

Occupational Overview

The faculty/staff data include full-time teaching faculty, research faculty, general administrators, academic administrators, public service faculty, librarians, and counselors who hold Board-approved academic rank; are tenured, on tenure track, or in positions that are not tenure track; and are employed on at least an academic year contract. Instructional faculty are a subset of the Corps of Instruction. Part-time faculty are not included.

FACULTY & STAFF	Fall 2014	Fall 2015	Fall 2016	Fall 2017	Fall 2018
INSTRUCTIONAL FACULTY (Full-Time)
Total	87	90	102	107	109
Rank
Professor	8	9	8	6	7
Associate Professor	19	17	25	29	32
Assistant Professor	54	56	48	49	48
Instructor	3	4	7	6	6
Lecturer	3	4	14	17	16
Race/Ethnicity
Hispanic	3	1	1	2	3
Minority	6	6	7	6	13
White	76	78	89	94	91
Unknown	2	5	5	5	2
Gender
Female	50	51	60	67	64
Male	37	39	42	40	45
Highest Degree
Doctorate	43	48	54	57	61
Professional	0	0	0	0	1
Master's	37	38	41	43	40
Baccalaureate	5	2	4	4	4
Other	2	2	3	3	3
Tenure Status
Tenured	21	23	24	24	29
Non-Tenure/On Track	33	38	38	41	45
Not Tenure-Type Position	33	29	40	42	35
STAFF (Full-Time)
Total	157	157	159	165	168
Occupational Class
Executive/Administrative/Managerial	26	28	24	28	30
Professional Non-Faculty	49	52	21	24	23
Secretarial/Clerical	31	34	37	37	39
Service/Maintenance	42	35	35	35	32
Skilled Crafts	7	6	6	5	5
Technical/Paraprofessional	2	2	36	36	39
Other	0	0	0	0	0

Employee Category Definitions

Instructional Personnel

• Faculty – persons whose primary assignments are instruction, research, or public service, who hold academic rank and are tenured, on tenure track, or in positions that are not tenure track; includes department chairpersons if their principal activity is instructional; includes faculty on nine-month and twelve month contracts.
• Other – persons whose primary assignments are instruction, research, or public service; who do not hold instructional rank, or who are not on at least an academic contract, or who hold a non-tenure type position.
• Executive/Administrative/Managerial – persons whose assignments require primary responsibility in management of the institution; includes department chairpersons if their principal activity is administrative.
• Professional Non-Faculty – persons with specialized professional training who cannot be classified in any of the other classifications (e.g., librarians, lawyers, physicians).
• Secretarial/Clerical – persons such as secretaries, bookkeepers, sales clerks, and data entry clerks.
• Technical/Paraprofessional – persons with technical skills (e.g., computer programmers).
• Skilled Crafts – persons with special manual skills (e.g., mechanics, electricians, machinists, carpenters).
• Service/Maintenance – persons with service or maintenance skills (e.g., food service and cleaning workers, drivers, laborers, and groundskeepers).

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SOURCE: University System of Georgia, Academic Data Collection, Mid-Term Census