Changes to UW Faculty Definitions

UW reports faculty information as of November 1^st each year to accreditation agencies, federal agencies, and national publications. In addition, UW gathers market data for faculty salaries by participating in the OSU Faculty Salary by Discipline, CUPA Faculty Survey, and AAUP Faculty Compensation Study. All these publications depend on institutions using a standard definition of faculty which allows comparisons between institutions and over time.

Sometimes national definitions change. For instance, whether clinical faculty should be included or excluded. Recently, national definitions have expanded from being just instructional faculty to instruction combined with research and public service.

This year, UW took the leap and began reporting our faculty under the instruction combined with research and public service category. This definition more clearly describes our faculty, but results in a loss of comparability to the past.

So, who is included in instruction combined with research and public service?

• Tenured/Tenure-Track Faculty
• Instructors and Lecturers
• Visiting Faculty
• Professors of Practice and Instructional Professors
• Clinical Professors in fully academic units
• Faculty on sabbatical
• Assistant Deans if they are faculty

Who is excluded in instruction combined with research and public service?

• Deans
• Associate Deans from Colleges
• Faculty Development Specialists
• Research Scientists
• Research Professors
• Faculty from the Art Museum, Family Medical Residency Programs, Graduate Medical Education, R & E Centers, Extension, Librarians
• Faculty on leave without pay
• Executive Professors
• Faculty involved only with non-credit course instruction
• Temporary lecturers

With this new definition, we hope the change results in more meaningful understanding of faculty to UW and to our constituents.