Classified personnel are non-exempt employees in clerical and maintenance support positions.
The total number of tenure-track, ranked faculty held at 271 for Fall, 1996. The average age of tenured and tenure-track faculty is 49.7 years. One-third of the faculty hold the rank of professor, and they have taught at the College for an average of 22.7 years. Adjunct faculty teaching credit courses totaled 247 this fall and represented 23 percent of the full-time equivalent teaching staff. The minority representation among the faculty and administrative, professional, and technical employees is 31 percent, up 20 percent since the fall of 1985.