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ACADEMIC PERSONNEL 77 DOCTORAL INSTITUTION FACULTY: PER STUDENT AND DEGREE In the late 1970s, the student-to-faculty ratio within doctoral institutions returned to 1950s levels, where it remained stable throughout the 1980s. During the 1950s, the growth rate in student enrollments exceeded the growth rate in numbers of faculty, raising the over-all student-to-faculty ratio. While enrollment growth slowed in the early 1970s, doctoral institutions, as a whole, continued to employ additional faculty. By 1978, the student-to-faculty ratio returned to the 1958 level. The ratio of total degrees awarded per faculty member followed a similar pattern and has remained stable for the past decade. Figure 2-70: Student-to-Faculty Ratio in Doctoral Institutions Figure 2-71: Degrees Awarded-per-Faculty Ratio in Doctoral Institutions DEFINITION OF TERMS: Student-to-Faculty Ratio is derived for each year by dividing total number of students (FTE) by total number of faculty. Degrees Awarded-per-Faculty Ratio is derived for each year by dividing the total number of degrees awarded by doctoral institutions by the total number of faculty. Students (FTE) include all full-time students plus a full-time-equivalent of part-time students as reported by doctoral institutions. Degrees include all degrees awarded by doctoral institutions in all academic disciplines, both undergraduate and graduate. Faculty include all instructional members of the instruction or research staff of doctoral institutions whose major regular assignment is instruction, including those with release time for research. Doctoral institutions are higher education 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; they include 116 public and 69 private institutions. SOURCE: National Science Foundation, Division of Policy Research and Analysis. Database: CASPAR. Some of the data within this data base 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): Fall Enrollment in Institutions of Higher Education; Degrees and Other Formal Awards Conferred, Salaries, Tenure, and Fringe Benefits of Full-time Instructional Faculty; American Council on Education; National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges.