Goals The University of California's faculty are crucial to its success as a leading research university and to the excellent educational experience it provides. Accordingly, the recruitment and retention of a world-class, diverse faculty are the University's most important overarching goals.

UC faculty deliver excellence in academic programs, research productivity and public service to fulfill the University's goals. They educate the workforce that keeps California's economy competitive, create new jobs, and generate billions of tax dollars in state revenues. Their scientific discoveries, meantime, are translated into technological and other innovations and advances in healthcare.

Measures As with graduate student data, data on faculty are disparate and complicated to aggregate. Accordingly, this section will receive a great deal of attention as the framework is developed in the years to come. In addition, the University will present a faculty accountability sub-report annually to the Regents, which will include a more detailed description of the faculty and emerging issues and trends.

The data presented here cover the size and diversity of the University of California faculty. The small percentages of women and minority faculty are a major challenge for the University. To respond to the challenge, efforts must be made to identify and overcome the barriers preventing women from obtaining faculty appointments and to expand the pipeline and pool of women and minority students entering graduate and professional programs.

This section also contains data on student-faculty ratios. The undergraduate educational experience is tied in part to the level of contact that students have with their teachers; a low student-faculty ratio is paramount. The section also contains data on the teaching activity of UC faculty and faculty salaries at UC and the comparison institutions.