Faculty Composition

Harvard's faculty consists of both tenured professors and "ladder faculty" (associate and assistant professors), and other teaching...

Harvard's faculty consists of both tenured professors and "ladder faculty" (associate and assistant professors), and other teaching faculty (professors of practice, lecturers, adjuncts, and visitors). Adjusted to full-time equivalents, the heft of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences becomes apparent. So does the mix -- of regular faculty appointees versus others, often practitioners (compare business and law, for example). These data for the fall of 2003 exclude hospital-based medical-faculty members (who equal those shown, from the "Quad" departments), and 9,000-plus unpaid medical and dental clinical appointees.


Chart by Stephen Anderson



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