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Faculty and Staff
Detail of Faculty and Staff Headcount - West Lafayette Campus
(for Fall in Academic Years 2008-09 and 2009-010)
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Year
 
 
2008-09
 2009-10
  Academic, Associate, Assistant Deans 60 57
  Academic Department Heads 71 73
  Professors 766 788
  Associate Professors 529 532
  Assistant Professors 463 466
  Instructors 1 2
Subtotal Tenured/Tenure Track 1,890 1,918
  Clinical/Professional 93 108
  Research Faculty 29 30
  Faculty less than 50%1 3 3
  Continuing Lecturers 131 144
  Limited-Term Lecturers 166 140
  Visiting Faculty 115 74
  Post Doctoral 316 346
Subtotal Non-Tenure Track Faculty and Lecturers 853 845
  Adjunct Faculty 295 330
Subtotal Adjunct Faculty2 295 330
  
 
 
Year
 
 
2008-09
 2009-10
  Administrative Staff 1,057 1,089
  Management1 517 532
  Operations Assistant 369 382
Subtotal Administrative 1,943 2,003
  Professional 298 282
  Professional Assistant1 1,238 1,233
  Technical Assistant 238 265
Subtotal Professional 1,774 1,780
  Extension Educators 292 294
  Clerical 1,346 1,325
  Service 2,480 2,561
Subtotal Staff3 7,835 7,963
  Graduate Teaching Assistants 1,830 1,765
  Graduate Lecturers4 27 26
  Fellow Administered as Assistantship1 114 131
  Graduate Research Assistants 2,361 2,401
  Graduate Student Administratives 269 289
Subtotal Graduate Student Staff 4,601 4,612
Grand Total
15,474
15,668

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