Promotion is up to the academic unit based upon teaching, scholarship, and professional service.
Simplified, FTFE is the number of semester credit hours taught, divided by a full load. A full load for undergraduate faculty is four courses, and three courses for graduate faculty. Exhibit 1-11 compares TSU's faculty and staff in fall 1997 to its peer institutions. Similar to the peers, faculty make up the largest percent of staff. As indicated in Exhibit 1-13, TSU had a higher proportion of tenured faculty than four of the other five institutions.