Staff at Title IV Institutions and Administrative Offices in the United States
Institutions reported employing approximately 3.9 million individuals in fall 2010 (table 1).
Of the 3.9 million individuals, about 2.5 million were reported to be employed full time and
about 1.4 million were reported to be employed part time.
Of the approximately 1.4 million full-time professionals reported to be employed at degreegranting institutions (excluding medical schools), 46 percent had faculty status: 21 percent with tenure, 8 percent on tenure track, 10 percent not on tenure track, and 7 percent who were employed by institutions without a tenure system (table 3). Institutions reported that the remaining 54 percent of full-time professionals did not have faculty status.
Compared with fall 2004, the number of instructional staff reported to be employed at
degree-granting institutions (excluding administrative offices and medical schools) in fall
2010 increased from approximately 1.1 million to about 1.3 million (table 4). During this
same time period, the proportion of these instructional staff classified as full-time decreased
from 49 percent to 45 percent.
