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Table 4 Comparison of the Percentage of Respondents by Tenure Status Doctoral Four-year Two-year Status NDUS National NDUS National NDUS National Non-tenured-% 43.8 32.1 44.8 38.7 38.8 60.8 Men-% 35.5 24.1 43.8 30.7 27.9 59.7 Women-% 60.0 51.2 45.2 52.6 52.8 62.1 Tenured-% 56.2 67.9 55.2 61.3 61.2 39.2 Men-% 64.5 75.9 56.2 69.3 72.1 40.3 Women-% 40.0 48.8 54.8 47.4 47.2 37.9 Generally, North Dakota faculty reflected their peers nationally with regard to age. Table 5 displays that, given the ranges of ages in each category, NDUS doctorate and four-year faculty noted highest percentages in the 45 to 54 years of age. Two-year faculty, by comparison, cited the highest percentage in the 35 to 44 years of age range. Table 5 Comparison of the Percentage of Respondents by Age Doctoral Four-year Two-year Age NDUS National NDUS National NDUS National Under 35--% 7.3 7.1 8.6 8.9 9.0 6.6 35-44--% 26.2 25.7 25.4 24.7 35.2 22.0 45-54--% 37.9 33.5 39.5 33.8 31.4 41.6 55-64--% 26.4 28.5 26.0 28.9 22.5 25.4 65 and over--% 2.2 5.2 0.5 3.7 1.9 4.4 Table 6 records that a significant majority of the respondents from all eleven campuses were White/Caucasian. Except for the racial background of American Indian at North Dakota’s doctorate institutions, faculty members from all three types of institutions generally reported lower percentages for all racial backgrounds when compared to the national norms. Table 6 Comparison of the Percentage of Respondents by Racial Background Doctoral Four-year Two-year Race NDUS National NDUS National NDUS National White/Caucasian 95.2 91.3 96.7 91.1 93.9 92.1 African Amer./Black 0.2 2.3 0.0 2.6 2.1 2.7 American Indian 1.9 1.2 1.7 1.7 3.3 4.3 Asian Amer./Asian 4.1 4.2 2.2 3.6 1.8 2.3 Mexican Amer./Chicano 0.5 0.9 0.6 0.9 1.2 1.5 Puerto Rican American 0.2 0.3 0.0 0.4 0.5 0.7 Other Latino 0.2 1.5 0.0 1.0 0.8 1.1 Other 0.7 1.7 1.1 2.1 2.0 2.6 6
Inasmuch as the HERI Faculty Survey was designed to profile the full-time teaching faculty at American colleges and universities, it was to be expected that the majority of respondents from the eleven NDUS public campuses would indicate that their principal activity was teaching. Table 7 shows that, from a high of 99.4 percent reported at two-year institutions to a low of 84.8 percent at doctorate-granting institutions, a significant majority of faculty were engaged in teaching as their primary responsibility. Faculty at the four-year and two-year institutions not active in teaching reported administration as their principal activity. Only at the two doctorategranting institutions did some faculty report research or service as principal activities. It is further shown that faculty in doctoral institutions nationally cited a significantly greater percentage of research as their principal activity than North Dakota faculty at similar institutions. The emphasis for doctorate institutions in North Dakota was on teaching as seen in the significantly higher percentage in this category than the national percentage. Table 7 Comparison of the Percentage of Respondents by Principal Activity Doctoral Four-year Two-year Activity NDUS National NDUS National NDUS National Administration 3.9 4.0 5.9 4.1 0.6 1.4 Teaching 84.8 79.7 94.1 93.0 99.4 97.4 Research 9.6 15.1 0.0 2.0 0.0 0.1 Services to clients/patients 1.4 0.5 0.0 0.3 0.0 0.8 Other 0.2 0.7 0.0 0.6 0.0 0.3 Faculty Interests Appendix B shows the percentages for faculty across North Dakota. Table 8 displays the collective results of faculty responses when asked to indicate whether their primary job interest was in teaching or research. A strong majority of North Dakota faculty members in all three categories of institutions reported that their primary interest was in teaching. Table 8 Percent Distribution for the Primary Interest of Faculty Doctoral Four-year Two-year Primary Interest NDUS National NDUS National NDUS National Very heavily in teaching 25.1 14.6 57.8 31.0 84.4 69.1 Leaning toward teaching 45.6 35.9 27.0 44.7 12.3 25.4 Leaning toward research 26.7 42.7 14.6 21.9 3.3 4.9 Very heavily in research 2.6 6.8 0.5 2.4 0.0 0.6 In comparison to their peers at four-year and doctorate institutions, faculty from the two-year institutions were most likely to state that their primary interest was in teaching. Percentages for primary interest in teaching ranged from a high of 96.7 percent for two-year colleges to 84.8 percent for four-year institutions and 70.7 percent for doctorate institutions. Overall, NDUS faculty in each category of institution stated greater interest in teaching than the national average. The two doctorate institutions expressed considerably more interest in 7
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