Texas A&M has two primary methods of reporting faculty (see below) unless otherwise noted all faculty data included in this Fact Book reflect numbers from TAMU Faculty as Reported by the Academic Departments.

Instructional Faculty Reported to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board: Includes all faculty members who were reported to the THECB. This includes each person who has a faculty appointment for the fall semester. Faculty who may be on leave, research faculty, librarians, and administrators are included if they have faculty appointment or if they are paid from faculty salary funds. All faculty, including teaching assistants who are teaching a course reported to the THECB are also included. This data reflects conditions as of the official census date of the fall semester.

TAMU Faculty as Reported by the Academic Departments: Includes all faculty associated with an academic department; may include research faculty, extension faculty, agency faculty, tenured faculty who are University administrators, etc.

CB Rank: Faculty member rank as defined by and reported to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.

• Ranks of Professor, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, and Instructor only include faculty with tenure or tenure track.
• Other Faculty includes faculty without TAMU tenure and not on TAMU tenure track. Including, but not limited to, adjunct, special, visiting, and lecturer.

ETHNIC ORIGIN: Indicates the ethnic origin of the faculty member. Faculty are classified as "International" if they are not citizens of the United States but are in the United States on a temporary basis and do not have the right to remain indefinitely. Non-citizen faculty members, who are lawfully admitted for permanent residence, or Resident Aliens, are reported in the appropriate racial/ethnic category along with United States Citizens.
White
Black
Hispanic
Asian
American Indian
International

Full-Time/Part-Time Status: Faculty member's status based on budgeted percent of time in relationt to a full or normal workload at Texas A&M. Full-Time are individuals budgeted full-time or 100%. Anyone who is budgeted for less than 100% is considered to be Part-Time (see also Teaching FTE below.)

Galveston: Represents the Interdisciplinary Galveston department (INTG). These are TAMU-Galveston faculty paid to teach main campus students temporarily at the Galveston campus.

Head Count: A count of faculty where each individual is counted once. This is in contrast to the Teaching FTE (see below) which may be less than one.

Retired Tenure: Faculty who had tenure at Texas A&M before they retired, but who were still teaching courses during the reporting semester (see also Tenure below).

TAMU Rank: Texas A&M Faculty rank, broken down into more distinct groups than the CB Rank, based on Personnel title codes.

Teaching FTE: Faculty member's percent of time paid to perform the teaching functions. Note that the Teaching FTE may often be smaller than the Budgeted FTE which is used to compute faculty Full-Time/Part-Time States see above). A faculty member may be Full-Time (Budgeted FTE = 1.0), but only 80% of their salary is from teaching salaries making them 0.80 FTE Teaching.

Tenure: Faculty who have received tenure.

Tenure Track: Faculty holding an appointment eligible for tenure.