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ACADEMIC PERSONNEL 76 DOCTORAL INSTITUTION FACULTY Doctoral institutions employed 255,000 faculty members in 1988, roughly stable since the mid-1970s. Over the past three decades, the public doctoral institution share of faculty members has slowly increased from 70 percent in 1958 to over 75 percent in 1988. Figure 2-68: Doctoral Institution Faculty by Institution Governance Figure 2-69: Distribution of Doctoral Institution Faculty by Institution Governance NOTE: Data series within the figures are not overlapped; top line represents total. DEFINITION OF TERMS: Faculty include all instructional members of the instruction or research staff whose major regular assignment is instruction, including those with release time for research. Private doctoral institutions are institutions that have granted an average of 10 or more Ph.D. degrees per year in the natural sciences or engineering over the past two decades, and are under the control ofâor affiliated withânon-profit, independent organizations with or without religious affiliation; they include 69 institutions. Public doctoral institutions are institutions that have granted an average of 10 or more Ph.D. degrees per year in the natural sciences or engineering over the past two decades, and are under the control ofâor affiliated withâfederal, state, local, state and local, or state-related agencies; they include 116 institutions. SOURCE: National Science Foundation, Division of Policy Research and Analysis. Database: CASPAR. Some of the data within this database are estimates, incorporated where there are discontinuities within data series or gaps in data collection. Primary data source: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS): Salaries, Tenure, and Fringe Benefits of Full-time Instructional Faculty; American Council on Education; National Association of Universities and Land Grant Colleges.
