Departmental Self Review - UCLA Academic Senate

Residence to Full Professor in the regular series; Sondra Hale went from Associate AdjunctProfessor to ladder faculty (with a.5 FTE in Anthropologyand .5 in Women's Studies); JosephManson went from.5 to a 1.0 FTE; and Elinor Ochs (linguistic) transferred her FTE to ourdepartment from the UCLA Applied Linguistics Department.At the moment (Fall 2007), the Department has a total of 33 FTEs (housed in Anthropology). Ofthese FTEs, four are faculty who are 50% in Anthropology-three of them split their positionwith another department or center on campus (Hale, Park, and Slyomovics), and one is a facultymember who was appointed at 50% (Perry). In addition, we have four joint appointments: threewith zero FTE and voting rights, i.e. the faculty who are housed at the Neuro-PsychiatricInstitute (NPl, Browner, Edgerton, and Weisner); and one with zero appointment and no votingrights (History and International Institute, Apter). By the end of the academic year, weanticipate two retirements (Brodkin and Donnan), which will bring our total FTE allocationdown to 31. We are currently in the process of searching for a new biological anthropologist.Subfield FTE, Fall 1997 Fall 2007 ChangeArchaeological 5.5 7.33 +1.83Biological 5.3 6.83 +1.53Linguistic 4.0 5.0 +1Sociocultural 12.3 13.83 +1.53TOTAL 27.1 32.99 +5.89Table 1. FTEs in the four subfields-Our faculty currently reflects diversity in rank, gender and ethnicity (Table 2). Among ourladder faculty 46.1% (18 of 40) are women and 53.8% are men (21 of 40). Among the tenuredfaculty, women and men are equally represented; all 18 women in the department occupyAssociate or Full Professor ranks, while 17 of 21 men are Associate or Full Professor rank.Currently, eight of our ladder faculty are minorities. This is one minority faculty position morethan at the time of the last review but represents a percentage decline given growth of thefaculty overall.Our faculty is "top-heavy" (Table 2). As of Fall 2007, only four of our faculty members as of Fall2007 are untenured (Alim, Brantingham, Schachner, Throop). Nine ladder faculty are Associaterank. Twenty six faculty hold the rank of Full Professor and constitute 65% of the department.24