Indicator 7.1
Full-Time Ladder-Rank Faculty, Fall 1989 to 2007
The drop in faculty numbers in 1993 and 1994 was due to a series of three Voluntary Early Retirement Incentive Programs between 1991 and 1994 that were instituted in response to state budget shortfalls.
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Source: Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) Human Resources (Staff) Survey. Additional information can be found at http://nces.ed.gov/IPEDS.
Counts of full-time ladder-rank faculty include professorial series faculty, agronomists, astronomers, acting faculty, faculty on sabbatical leave and lecturers with security of employment or potential security of employment.
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