The number of full-time faculty members is adequate to support the mission of the institution. The institution has adequate faculty resources to ensure the quality and integrity of its academic programs. In addition, upon application for candidacy, an applicant institution demonstrates that it meets the comprehensive standard for faculty qualifications.  (Faculty)

Texas Tech University is in compliance with Core Requirement #2.8.

Texas Tech University had a total of 1450.53 FTE teaching staff in fall 2003. This is a student to faculty ratio of 16.92. Of course, these teaching positions are not distributed equally among the 11 colleges and schools of the university, nor among the departments or other sub-units within those schools and colleges. Two colleges in the university (Rawls College of Business Administration and Visual and Performing Arts) have indicated partial compliance with Core Requirement 2.8 on the basis of accrediting agency reports that student-faculty ratios in some programs are higher than is desirable. However, it should be noted that all of the programs in question meet the basic requirements of their accrediting organization and are fully accredited. Therefore, the university is in compliance with the requirement that it have adequate faculty resources to insure the integrity of its academic programs.

Almost 350 new FTE have been added in the past decade, but enrollments also have grown. Time series data from the table below comparing student-faculty ratios by college reveal that, while the university as a whole has shown an improvement in student-faculty ratios for most of the previous 10 years, some units, most notably the Jerry S. Rawls College of Business Administration, the college of Human Sciences, and the College of Arts and Sciences have remained stable or actually increased their FTE-student ratio over the period in question.

President Whitmore, who assumed office in September 2003, has stated he will add 100 new faculty lines incrementally over the next several years, and plans have been announced for 40 new FTE to be added in the 2004-2005 academic year. It is likely that at least some of these new FTE will go to units that have not seen reductions in their Faculty Student ratios.

The university has well established procedures for recruitment of new faculty. This procedure and the required qualifications for faculty appointment are presented in Operating Policy 32.16 Faculty Recruitment.

Faculty Recruitment is supervised by the Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs, who insures that OEO and affirmative action guidelines are followed and that faculty meet the requirements stipulated in OP 32.02, Faculty Qualifications.  Both OP32.16 and OP32.02 are available in pdf files on line at http://www.depts.ttu.edu/opmanual/

Student Faculty Ratios by College, 1994-2003

Source: Office of Institutional Research