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Faculty Fact Book |
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| Faculty members at the University of Kentucky comprise a diverse group of scholars. Many of them are among the nation's best researchers and practitioners. Faculty members are engaged in one or a combination of the following activities: instruction, research and creative activities, public and professional service, clinical activities, professional development, and administrative service. |
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| The information presented in this online Faculty Fact Book describes two groups of faculty. The first group presented in the Total Faculty Appointments section is a comprehensive picture of all full-time and part-time faculty resources, excluding graduate teaching assistants, at the University of Kentucky as of November 1 of the fall term. |
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I. Appointments (Data coming soon) |
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| The second group of faculty reported in all other sections is a subset of the total comprehensive group, as defined by federal reporting requirements: |
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| INCLUDED: Faculty included in these pages are on the payroll as of November 1 of the reporting year. Beginning in 2006, IPEDS required library faculty to be reported as ‘other professionals’, but they are included in these pages to ensure consistent comparisons over time and because they have faculty status at UK. |
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| EXCLUDED: Faculty excluded in these pages are those who spend more than 50% of their time on administrative activities, who are on leave without pay, or who are Veterans Administration faculty. |
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Fast Facts about UK Faculty |
- UK has 2,096 full-time faculty members and 459 part-time faculty members.
- Of the full-time faculty, 1,178 faculty are tenured, 427 are tenure-eligible, and 491 are not in tenure-track positions.
- The College of Medicine has the most full-time faculty members (615 faculty members) followed by the College of Arts and Sciences (371 faculty members).
- The number of full-time faculty employed at UK increased from 1,566 in 1989-90 to 2,096 in 2008-09, a gain of 33.8 percent over the past two decades.
- Eighty percent of full- and part-time instructional faculty members have a doctorate, first-professional, or other terminal degree.
- The student-to-faculty ratio in Fall 2008 was 18 to 1.
This ratio excludes teaching assistants, as well as faculty and students in stand-alone graduate or professional programs such as medicine, law, or public health.
- Faculty live in 47 counties of Kentucky.
- As of August, 2008, faculty members’ average age was 50. The average age for those with tenure was 56.
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