Faculty & Staff

Occupational Overview

Fall Semester 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 DATA	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
INSTRUCTIONAL FACULTY (Full-Time)
Total	87	90	102	107	109	111
Rank
Professor	8	9	8	6	7	8
Associate Professor	19	17	25	29	32	33
Assistant Professor	54	56	48	49	48	50
Instructor	3	4	7	6	6	7
Lecturer	3	4	14	17	16	13
Race/Ethnicity
American Indian or Alaska Native	0	0	0	0	0	0
Asian	0	0	0	0	1	3
Black or African American	6	6	7	6	10	10
Hispanic or Latino	3	1	1	2	3	2
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	0	0	0	0	0	0
White	76	78	89	94	91	93
Two or more races	0	0	0	0	2	2
Race/ethnicity unknown	2	5	5	5	2	1
Gender
Female	50	51	60	67	64	65
Male	37	39	42	40	45	46
Highest Degree
Doctorate	43	48	54	57	61	67
Professional	0	0	0	0	1	0
Master's	37	38	41	43	40	42
Baccalaureate	5	2	4	4	4	1
Other	2	2	3	3	3	1
Tenure Status
Tenured	21	23	24	24	29	32
Non-Tenure/On Track	33	38	38	41	45	46
Not Tenure-Type Position	33	29	40	42	35	33
STAFF (Full-Time)
Total	162	159	161	170	172	175
Race/Ethnicity
American Indian or Alaska Native	0	0	0	0	0	0
Asian	0	0	0	1	1	1
Black or African American	44	34	41	46	45	47
Hispanic or Latino	3	6	5	6	6	5
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	0	0	0	0	0	0
White	111	114	111	112	115	118
Two or more races	0	0	0	0	0	0
Race/ethnicity unknown	4	5	4	5	5	4
Occupational Class
Executive/Administrative/Managerial	26	28	24	28	30	32
Professional Non-Faculty	49	52	21	24	23	22
Secretarial/Clerical	31	34	37	37	39	39
Service/Maintenance	42	35	35	35	32	33
Skilled Crafts	7	6	6	5	5	5
Technical/Paraprofessional	2	2	36	36	39	41
Temporary Faculty	5	2	2	5	4	3

EMPLOYEE CATEGORY DEFINITIONS

• 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.
• 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).
• Temporary Faculty – persons whose primary assignments are instruction, research, or public service, whose employment is short in duration to address business needs, and who are non-benefits eligible and do not have an expectation of long-term employment. May be full or part-time.

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