Institutional Policies and Practices Regarding Postsecondary Faculty: Fall 2003. First Look

摘要

This report presents information collected from 2- and 4-year degree-granting postsecondary institutions that were sampled for the 2004 National Study of Postsecondary Faculty (NSOPF:04). NSOPF:04 surveyed institutions as well as faculty and instructional staff who were employed in these institutions in the United States in fall 2003. This report describes recent hiring and retirement patterns as well as tenure-related changes and actions taken by institutions. NSOPF:04 is the fourth in a series of data collections on postsecondary faculty conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). The first was conducted in 198788, the second in 199293, and the third in 199899. Readers should consult appendix B of this report for more technical information about NSOPF:04. The estimates presented in this report were produced using the NCES Data Analysis System (DAS), a web-based table-generating application that provides the public with direct, free access to NSOPF data as well as other postsecondary datasets collected by NCES. The DAS produces the design-adjusted standard errors necessary for testing the statistical significance of differences in the estimates (all differences reported in the text are statistically significant at the .05 level).