Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 51.46
Liaison Bradley Flamm
Submission Date March 6, 2020

STARS v2.2

West Chester University of Pennsylvania
IN-15: Full-Time Faculty Employment

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.50 / 0.50 Bradley Flamm
Director of Sustainability
Office of the President
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Percentage of courses offered by the institution that are taught by academic staff who are full-time, tenured, and/or eligible for tenure (“tenure track”):
87.50

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At West Chester University in Academic Year 2018-2019, there were 687 full-time faculty members (tenured, tenure track, and full-time adjunct) and 785 FTE (see page 24 of the attached Common Data Set publication, available online at https://www.wcupa.edu/viceProvost/institutionalResearch/dataSet.aspx). The standard teaching load for full-time faculty at WCU is 4 courses per semester.


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At WCU and the other 13 members of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, the use of part-time faculty is contractually limited: "The full-time equivalent (FTE) of temporary and regular part-time FACULTY MEMBERS at any University shall not exceed twenty-five percent (25%) of the full-time equivalent (FTE) of all FACULTY MEMBERS employed at that University." Paths to tenure-track status are available to adjunct faculty, many of whom are employed to work full course loads of four courses per semester.


At WCU and the other 13 members of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, the use of part-time faculty is contractually limited: "The full-time equivalent (FTE) of temporary and regular part-time FACULTY MEMBERS at any University shall not exceed twenty-five percent (25%) of the full-time equivalent (FTE) of all FACULTY MEMBERS employed at that University." Paths to tenure-track status are available to adjunct faculty, many of whom are employed to work full course loads of four courses per semester.

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