PrincetonUniversity
A Princeton Profile 1997-98The Faculty
In 1996-97 the faculty (including visitors and part-time faculty) totaled 1,046, including 428 professors, 65 associate professors, 168 assistant professors, 9 instructors, 289 lecturers, and 87 visitors.
Seventy-four percent of the professorial faculty is tenured. Excluding visitors, 263 members of the faculty are women and 139 are identified as members of minority groups. There are 68 tenured women on the faculty this year.
Approximately half of Princeton's tenured faculty members were promoted to tenure while at Princeton; the other half were hired with tenure from other institutions.
All faculty members at Princeton are expected to teach as well as engage in scholarly research. Faculty members work most closely with undergraduates in the supervision of junior-year independent work and senior theses.
A number of members of the Princeton faculty are recipients of the Nobel prize: Philip W. Anderson, Joseph Henry Professor of Physics, won the Nobel prize in physics in 1977; Val L. Fitch, James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Physics Emeritus, won the Nobel prize in physics in 1980; Chloe Anthony Morrison, Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities, won the Nobel prize in literature in 1993; Dean of the Faculty Joseph H. Taylor, James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Physics, shared the Nobel prize in physics in 1993 with Russell A. Hulse, principal research physicist at the Plasma Physics Laboratory on Princeton's Forrestal campus; John Nash, senior research mathematician, won the 1994 Nobel prize in economic sciences; and Eric Wieschaus, Squibb Professor of Molecular Biology, won the 1995 Nobel prize in medicine. Nineteen faculty members at the time of the award have been named MacArthur Fellows.