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ACADEMIC PERSONNEL 74 TOTAL ACADEMIC FACULTY With rapid increases in student enrollments during the 1960s and 1970s, the total number of academic faculty increased from 270,000 in 1958 to a peak of 750,000 in 1983, then declined to 720,000 by 1988. For the past three decades, the distribution of faculty among types of institutions has remained nearly constant, with 35 percent in doctoral institutions, 40 percent in comprehensive institutions, and 25 percent in 2-year institutions. Figure 2-64: Academic Faculty by Institution Type Figure 2-65: Distribution of Academic Faculty by Institution Type NOTE: Data series within the figures are not overlapped; top line represents total. DEFINITION OF TERMS: Faculty include all instructional members of the instruction or research staff whose major regular assignment is instruction, including those with release time for research. Doctoral institutions are higher education institutions that have granted an average of 10 or more Ph.D. degrees per year in the natural sciences or engineering over the past two decades; they include 116 public and 69 private institutions. Comprehensive institutions are those that grant at least half of their degrees for courses of study that normally require 4 or more years to complete; they include 370 public and 854 private institutions. Two-year institutions award primarily 2-year associate or technician degrees; they include 902 public and 486 private institutions. SOURCE: National Science Foundation, Division of Policy Research and Analysis. Database: CASPAR. Some of the data within this database are estimates, incorporated where there are discontinuities within data series or gaps in data collection. Primary data source: American Council on Education; U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics; National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges.