Faculty By Rank
Corps of Instruction: December 2000
Full-time professors, associate professors, assistant professors, instructors, and lecturers are considered the Corps of Instruction and must be approved by the Board of Regents prior to their initial appointment upon recommendation of the Chancellor and the President of the institution. Promotion to a higher rank must also be approved by the Board upon recommendation of the Chancellor and the President of the institution. The appointment of full-time lecturers is limited to research universities.
The following 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 this group. Part-time faculty are not included.