Part V. Faculty
Create a profile for any individual fitting one of the following descriptions:
(a) A full-time faculty member of the law school during the most recently completed academic year.
(b) Any person who is not a full-time faculty member of the law school who teaches at least one class in the J.D. program of the law school during the most recently completed academic year.
The most recently completed academic year (2016-2017) includes Fall 2016 through Summer 2017.
NOTE: Report a person only once and do not enter a person in more than one category. If a person fits in more than one category, report that person in (a) if appropriate. If (a) is not appropriate, report that person in (b).
Section 1 – FULL-TIME FACULTY MEMBERS
Include the following in this category:
Anyone who is a full-time member of the law school faculty. The definition of “Full-time faculty member” from the ABA Standards for Approval of Law Schools is:
an individual whose primary professional employment is with the law school, who is designated by the law school as a full-time faculty member, who devotes substantially all working time during the academic year to responsibilities described in Standard 404(a), and whose outside professional activities, other than those described in Standard 404(a), if any, do not unduly interfere with his or her responsibilities as a full-time faculty member.
Members of the full-time faculty even if they are on a leave of absence during all or part of the 2016-2017academic year, as long as they have a right to return to the full-time faculty at the end of their leave.
Administrators, librarians, clinicians, legal writing faculty, and other professional skills faculty if they are full-time faculty members at the law school.
Emeritus or retired faculty members or those faculty members in a phased retirement status who are full-time employees of the law school and who meet the definition of a full-time faculty member.
Full-time visitors at the law school who are full-time faculty members at another law school.
1a. Full-time faculty members of the law school during the 2016 academic year.
Name
Race/Ethnicity
Men;Women;Other/Not reported
Status
Tenured
Tenure-Track
On Presumptively Renewable Contract
Type:
Clinical
Legal writing
Other
Length of contract
≥5 years
≥3 years and less than 5 years
≥1 year and less than 3 years
On track to a Presumptively Renewable Contract
Type
Clinical
Legal writing
Other
On contract that does not lead to a PresumptivelyRenewable Contract
Type: Clinical
Legal writing
Other
Visitor
1b. Course information for each full-time faculty member.
For each J.D. course taught in the most recently completed academic year, report the credit hours and student enrollment. If a course has more than one professor, allocate the credit hours but not the enrollment figure among the professors. Indicate whether a course is part of the first one-third of a student’s coursework.
Any course in which a J.D. student enrolls and earns credit towards the J.D. degree is considered a J.D. course for these purposes.
Include any course that enrolls both J.D. and non-J.D. students.
Report only the J.D. enrollment in the course.
Course Title
Credit Hours
Enrollment
Is this course part of the first one-third of a student’s coursework Yes/No
Section 2 – NON-FULL-TIME FACULTY MEMBERS
A non-full-time faculty members is any person who is not a full-time faculty member of the law school who teaches at least one class in the J.D. program of the law school during the most recently completed academic year.
Include the following in this category:
Full-time employees of the university or law school who are not full-time faculty members at the law school.
Administrators, librarians, clinicians, legal writing faculty, and other professional skills faculty whoare not full-time faculty members at the law school.
Emeritus or retired faculty members or those faculty members in a phased retirement status who are not full-time faculty members at the law school.
Visitors who do not meet (a) above.
Part-time faculty/adjunct faculty who are not full-time faculty members at the law school.
Do not include the following in this category:
An individual who offers a Distance Education course if that individual is directly compensated for the instruction by another institution.
Field placement supervisors.
Teaching assistants and teaching fellows.
2a. Any person who is not a full-time faculty member of the law school who teaches at least one class in the J.D. program of the law school during the most recently completed academic year.
Name
Race/Ethnicity
Men;Women;Other/Not reported
2b. Course Information for each non-full-time faculty member
For each J.D. course taught in the most recently completed academic year, report the credit hours and student enrollment. If a course has more than one professor, allocate the credit hours but not the enrollment figure among the professors. Indicate whether a course is part of the first one-third of a student’s coursework.
Any course in which a J.D. student enrolls and earns credit towards the J.D. degree is considered a J.D. course for these purposes.
Include any course that enrolls both J.D. and non-J.D. students.
Report only the J.D. enrollment in the course.
Course Title
Credit Hours
J.D. Enrollment
Is this course part of the first one-third of a student’s coursework Yes/No
Section 3 – FULL-TIMEFACULTY RECRUITMENT
3.Provide details on recruiting during the most recently completed academic year for faculty members to begin their appointments in the current academic year.
Report on recruitment for each type of position
PositionsEntry level tenure track
Lateral tenure track
Lateral tenure
Contract
Minority Yes/No
Men;Women;Other/Not reported
AALS initial interviews
Campus or other initial interviews
Total initial interviews
Final campus interviews
Offers
Acceptances
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