CAMPUS PROFILE GLOSSARY
November 1996

100-184 FACULTY AND STAFF
Source: October Paymaster file. All non-zero-percent appointments active on October 20 are selected.

Full-time equivalent (FTE) staff
The sum of the percent times on each active appointment. FTE staff are accumulated by appointing department and are shown for appointments on state funds (ledger 1) only and for all sources of funds.

Headcount
The number of employees with a non-zero appointment active on October 20. Headcounts are by the employee's home department, not appointing department, and may vary significantly from the FTE by appointing department for that reason. Employees with appointments in more than one of the categories below are counted in the category in which they hold the largest percent appointment. If appointments are evenly split among two or more categories, the employee is assigned randomly to one of the groups.

Because of the very large number of graduate assistants with more than one type of assistantship in more than one department, headcounts of graduate assistants are not broken out by type of assistantship. It is also important to note that the home department of graduate assistants tends to be the first department that ever hired the student and may have no relation to the current appointments held by that student. Appointments are categorized into employee groups using the following rules:

Academic Staff
All appointments of persons in employee group A. Equals the sum of Tenure System Faculty, Visiting Faculty, Postdoctoral Research Associates, Other Faculty, and Academic Professionals.

Tenure System Faculty
An appointment with a tenure code of A, 1-7, Q, or K is considered tenured or on tenure-track. This includes department heads and chairs but excludes visitors and permanent faculty on leave without pay. Includes instructors and several administrators who were "grandfathered" in with tenure. Includes regular, library, and cooperative extension faculty. Subdivision of this group is accomplished by examining the appointment rank code:

Professors: The appointment rank code must be BB
Associate Professors: The appointment rank code must be BC
Assistant Professors: The appointment rank code must be BD

Visiting Faculty
All appointments with tenure code of T, N, or W and rank of BB, BC, BD (visiting professor, visiting associate professor, visiting assistant professor). Regular, library, and cooperative extension faculty are included.

Postdoctoral Research Assoc
All appointments with rank code of BG or DG.

Other Faculty
All other persons in employee group A with a rank code beginning with R. Includes lecturers, instructors, research and teaching associates, visiting scholars, artists in residence, assistant and associate heads and chairs, ranked faculty with tenure code=W or T.

Academic Professional
All other appointments for academic employees (employee group=A) not counted above.

All assistants
Non-zero appointments for persons in employee group = G. Includes undergrad assistants, interns and residents. Teaching Assistants (TA), Research Assistants (RA), and Graduate Assistants (GA) are listed separately.

Civil Service staff
Appointments of persons with staff appointments (employee group=N).

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