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ACADEMIC PERSONNEL 80 DOCTORAL INSTITUTION S&E PERSONNEL RATIOS Within doctoral institutions, the over-all ratio of scientists and engineers (FTE) to total faculty (FTE) has slowly increased during the 1980s; for private doctoral institutions, the number of scientists and engineers employed (faculty and non-faculty) exceeds the total number of faculty members in all academic disciplines. The ratio of investigators (FTE) to all scientists and engineers (FTE) has been stable for the past decade. Figure 2-76: Ratio of FTE Scientists and Engineers to All Faculty in Doctoral Institutions Figure 2-77: Ratio of FTE Investigators to FTE Scientists and Engineers in Doctoral Institutions 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. FTE scientists and engineers include all professional employeesâfaculty, non-faculty, and post-doctorate personnelâemployed by higher education institutions (plus a full-time equivalent for part-time employees), within the broad fields of physical sciences, engineering, environmental sciences, life and health sciences, mathematics and computer sciences, and social and behavioral sciences. FTE investigators include those scientists and engineers (within the physical sciences, engineering, environmental sciences, life and health sciences, mathematics and computer sciences, and social and behavioral sciences) conducting separately budgeted academic R&D; an estimate derived from the fraction of faculty time spent in research activities, non-faculty scientists and engineers employed to conduct research in campus facilities (except FFRDCs), and post-doctoral researchers working in academic institutions. Doctoral Public 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, and are under the control ofâor affiliated withâfederal, state, local, state and local, or state-related agencies; they include 116 institutions. Doctoral Private 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, and are under the control ofâor affiliated withânon-profit, independent organizations with or without religious affiliation; they include 69 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: National Science Foundation, Division of Science Resource Studies, Survey of Scientific and Engineering Personnel Employed at Universities and Colleges; American Council on Education; National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges.
