Faculty

The faculty member’s academic rank as classified for federal reporting. Rutgers-specific faculty titles are mapped to the applicable reporting category, such as Professor, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, Instructor/Lecturer, or No Academic Rank.

One of four Chancellor Led Units at Rutgers University: Camden, New Brunswick, Newark, or Rutgers Health. For federal reporting, Rutgers Health is combined with New Brunswick.

The calendar year of the fall reporting period. Faculty characteristics reflect employment status as of November 1 of that year.

A faculty member classified by Rutgers as full-time based on the standard work schedule or workload for their position category or applicable negotiated agreement.

Indicates whether the faculty member is classified as instructional or non-instructional based on their primary occupational activity. Instructional faculty include those whose primary responsibilities are instruction, as well as those whose responsibilities combine instruction with research and/or public service.

Faculty counts can differ because reports may use different employee populations, reporting dates, appointment definitions, or classification rules. This dashboard uses a November 1 fall reporting snapshot and applies the faculty classifications described in the glossary and data notes.

Faculty with appointments across multiple campuses or schools are assigned to a designated primary reporting unit for reporting purposes. This allows faculty to be represented consistently while avoiding double-counting in university-wide totals.

Rutgers uses a variety of faculty titles that do not correspond directly to the academic rank categories used for federal reporting. For this dashboard, Rutgers-specific titles are mapped to the applicable reporting category, such as Professor, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, Instructor/Lecturer, or No Academic Rank.

Headcount counts individual faculty members, regardless of whether they are full-time or part-time. FTE converts faculty into a standardized full-time equivalent for reporting purposes. In some reports, including certain IPEDS-derived measures, each full-time faculty member counts as one FTE, and each part-time faculty member counts as 1/3 FTE, regardless of the individual’s actual percent effort or appointment. As a result, FTE should be interpreted as a standardized reporting measure rather than a precise measure of faculty workload.

Tenured faculty have been granted tenure by the university. Tenure-track faculty hold appointments that may lead to tenure but have not yet been granted tenure. Non-tenure-track faculty hold appointments that are not part of the tenure system.