Arizona State University Facts: Faculty

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Arizona State University combines an unparalleled commitment to academic excellence with major responsibility for the economic, social and cultural well-being of its community. The university's rapid and unique development since 2002 is a reflection of a faculty energized by and committed to ASU's transdisciplinary environment, inspiring new ways of thinking, innovating and solving problems in our region and in the global community.

Among the great thinkers and creative minds leading and inspiring students are 1,831 tenured or tenure track faculty members and another 1,044 faculty members serving as research professors, clinical professors, lecturers, professors of practice and instructors. Among our tenure line faculty, 48 percent have achieved tenure. There are 113 prominent and influential faculty members holding endowed chairs and professorships. ASU attracts top faculty who want to be a part of the new university model - an inclusive, accessible academic experience not bound by traditional disciplinary distinctions, but embracing a transdisciplinary, collaborative environment defined by excellence.

ASU's current community of scholars includes:



NOBEL LAUREATES

Leland Hartwell
Virginia G. Piper Chair of Personalized Medicine and co-director of the Center for Sustainable Health in the Biodesign Institute won the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for insights into the genes that control cell growth and division.

Edward Prescott
Regents' Professor, W. P. Carey Chair in Economics and Guggenheim Fellow shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for work on dynamic macroeconomics relating the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles.

PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS

Stephen Doig - 1993, Journalism and Mass Communication
Leonard Downie Jr.- 2000, 2008, Journalism and Mass Communication
Bert Hoelldobler- 1991, Social Dynamics and Complexity
William Marimow- 1978, 1985, Journalism and Mass Communication

FACULTY PROFILE, FALL 2010, FULL AND PART TIME

Total Faculty: 2,875

  Number Percent
Business 249 8.7%
Design and the Arts Institute 219 7.6%
Education 164 5.7%
Engineering 279 9.7%
Honors 19 0.7%
Journalism 32 1.1%
Law 44 1.5%
Letters and Sciences 106 3.7%
Liberal Arts and Sciences 1,163 40.5%
New College 120 4.2%
Nursing and Health 155 5.4%
Public Programs 121 4.2%
Sustainability 9 0.3%
Technology and Innovation 116 4.0%
University College 1 0.0%
Online Extended Campus 23 0.8%
Other 55 2.0%





Tenure Status/Appointment Line

Tenured 1,370 47.7%
On Tenure Track 461 16.0%
Not On Tenure Track 1,044 36.3%




Faculty Rank

Full Professor 926 32.2%
Associate Professor 680 23.7%
Assistant Professor 586 20.4%
Instructor 196 6.8%
Lecturer 375 13.0%
No Rank 112 3.9%
Faculty Appointed to Endowed Professorships 113 3.9%
Faculty Holding Highest Degree 2,420 84.2%




Gender

Female 1,211 42.1%
Male 1,664 57.9%



 

Ethnicity

American Indian/Alaska Native 25 0.9%
Asian 319 11.1%
Black/African American 67 2.3%
White 2,201 76.6%
Hispanic/Latino 213 7.4%
Two or More Races 12 0.4%
Unspecified 38 1.3%