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Faculty and Staff
Detail of Faculty and Staff Headcount - West Lafayette Campus
(for Fall in Academic Years 2007-08 and 2008-09)
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Year
 
 
2007-08
 2008-09
  Academic, Associate, Assistant Deans 60 60
  Academic Department Heads 63 71
  Professors 753 766
  Associate Professors 547 529
  Assistant Professors 447 463
  Instructors 2 1
Subtotal Tenured/Tenure Track 1,872 1,890
  Clinical/Professional 77 93
  Research Faculty 29 29
  Faculty less than 50%1 3 3
  Continuing Lecturers 130 131
  Limited-Term Lecturers 150 166
  Visiting Faculty 126 115
  Post Doctoral 377 316
Subtotal Non-Tenure Track Faculty and Lecturers 892 853
  Adjunct Faculty 259 295
Subtotal Adjunct Faculty2 259 295
  
 
 
Year
 
 
2007-08
 2008-09
  Administrative Staff 990 1,057
  Management1 513 517
  Operations Assistant 357 369
Subtotal Administrative 1,860 1,943
  Professional 280 298
  Professional Assistant1 1,364 1,238
  Technical Assistant 161 238
Subtotal Professional 1,805 1,774
  Extension Educators 296 292
  Clerical 1,362 1,346
  Service 2,452 2,480
Subtotal Staff3 7,775 7,835
  Graduate Teaching Assistants 1,830 1,830
  Graduate Lecturers4 20 27
  Fellow Administered as Assistantship1 99 114
  Graduate Research Assistants 2,331 2,361
  Graduate Student Administratives 226 269
Subtotal Graduate Student Staff 4,506 4,601
Grand Total
15,304
 15,474

1New category as of 2007-08.
2Adjunct faculty are not compensated by Purdue University.
3Includes temporary employees.
4New staff category as of 2005-06.

Source: Human Resource Services

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