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Number of 9-10 Month Faculty by Rank Print Friendly PDF
  1998-99 1999-00 2001-02* 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 % change 98-99 to 08-09
Professor
 120184 121478 119771 121000 122903 124331 124931 126551 127638 128386 6.8
Associate
 94873 95566 94721 96102 97848 100302 101964 104684 106906 109103 15.0
Assistant
 86902 90821 97751 102408 104806 107822 109879 112925 115433 118144 36.0
Instructor
 21273 24010 56829 57187 58344 59341 62384 64382 65539 66581 213.0
Lecturer
 9905 10836 13149 14674 17510 19223 20175 21748 23415 24628 148.6
No Rank
 47651 52320 29152 30527 30436 31388 31161 32960 33631 34458 -27.7
Total
 380788 395031 411373 421898 431847 442407 450494 463250 472562 481300 26.4
* 2000-2001 data not available

% Women for 9-10 Month Faculty by Rank
  1998-99 1999-00 2001-02* 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 Change in % 98-99 to 08-09
Professor
 23.2 23.9 24.6 26.6 25.3 25.9 26.7 27.4 28.2 28.9 24.6
Associate
 37.2 37.8 38.6 40.1 39.4 40.0 40.5 40.9 41.3 41.7 12.1
Assistant
 48.0 48.0 48.0 47.5 46.7 46.9 47.5 48.1 48.7 49.0 2.1
Instructor
 58.9 58.8 58.2 56.4 53.6 54.5 54.8 55.3 55.5 56.0 -4.9
Lecturer
 56.4 55.5 55.3 52.7 54.6 54.0 54.6 54.8 54.9 55.1 -2.3
No Rank
 45.8 46.7 46.8 44.9 50.9 51.8 52.6 52.7 53.3 53.5 16.8
Total
 36.6 37.1 37.8 39.3 40.5 41.1 41.8 42.4 43.1 43.6 19.1
* 2000-2001 data not available


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