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Faculty composition over time

The pay, grant, and teaching patterns elsewhere on this site sit inside a changing structure. This shows the share of teaching faculty holding a tenure-track professor rank (Assistant, Associate, or Full) rather than a lecturer, instructor, adjunct, or other contingent title — a structural shift that shapes who teaches, who is paid what, and who has security, independent of any individual.

Tenure-track professors as a share of teaching faculty
Fiscal yearGeorgia TechUGAGeorgia StateKennesaw State
FY202568%57%35%35%
FY202467%58%35%36%
FY202367%57%35%37%
FY202268%60%35%36%
FY202171%63%37%38%
FY202068%62%33%38%
FY201968%61%34%38%
FY201868%65%35%36%
FY201770%65%35%36%
FY201680%76%41%57%
FY201581%78%48%56%
294052637485FY2015FY2016FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025
Georgia TechUGAGeorgia StateKennesaw State

“Teaching faculty” is everyone in the Teaching Faculty title category drawing pay that fiscal year; “tenure-track” is those holding an Assistant / Associate / Full Professor rank (adjunct and visiting professor variants are counted as contingent). Because it rests on how each institution titles its instructors, read the trend, not the exact level; much contingent teaching (graduate assistants, some part-time instructors) may also sit outside this category entirely. Individual security, benefits, and appointment terms are not in the data.