National Study of Postsecondary Faculty, 1988-2004

The NSOPF:88/04 dataset contains data from a series of studies that form the National Study of Postsecondary Faculty (NSOPF) program; public-use program data are available since 1988 at https://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/getpubcats.asp?sid=011. NSOPF (https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/nsopf/) is a cross-sectional survey that provides a national profile of postsecondary faculty and instructional staff: their professional backgrounds, responsibilities, workloads, salaries, benefits, and attitudes. The studies were conducted using self-administered web-based questionnaires and a computer-assisted telephone interview (CATI) of postsecondary faculty and instructional staff. Key statistics produced from NSOPF are counts of faculty, faculty hires and departures, tenure of faculty, tenure policies, retirement and other benefits of faculty, faculty characteristics, employment history, current employment status including rank and tenure, workload, courses taught, publications, job satisfaction and attitudes, career and retirement plans, and benefits and compensation.