2/20/2012: There’s a lot of misinformation about student-faculty ratios floating around. If you look at the number of students per tenure track faculty, you get this:
All the data from UO institutional research. It’s ugly, so Jim Bean has been counting NTTFs, which makes us look much prettier. I’ve got nothing but respect for NTTFs. But while denial may work for US News – where UO reports a student-faculty ratio of 20 – it is probably not the way to stay in the AAU.
dog says
yes 2 years ago we commented on all of this
the raw data is here
http://ir.uoregon.edu/sites/ir/files/ten2011.pdf
the point is clear from the raw data that
TTF faculty in now way have scaled with increasing student enrollment.
and for those that don’t have time to access the link
in 1993 TTF faculty headcount was 639
in 2010 TTF faculty headcount was 683
but UO admin refuses to admit this astounding constancy of TTF faculty for 20 years. (constant to within +/- 5 percent)