About Faculty

About IU Bloomington Faculty

Who we are: The Bloomington Faculty of Indiana University

2011-12 Highlights

Carnegie Classification—Research University, Very High Activity
Member—Association of American Universities (AAU)
Member—Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC)

  • ♦  1,534 tenured and tenure-track faculty and librarians:
    • 64.3% men, 35.6% wom­en,
    • 8.9% Asian, 4.3% Black/African American, 3.2% Hispanic/Latino, 0.2% Native American, 1.3% multi-ethnic
  • ♦  1,187 full-time non-tenure faculty and academic professionals:
    • 52.1% men, 47.9% women,
    • 13.5% Asian, 3.2% Hispanic/Latino, 3.1% Black/African American, 0.5% Native American, 1.7% multi-ethnic
  • ♦  From 2007–11, hired 366 total tenure faculty
    • 267 from AAU, 101 from CIC, 53 from Ivy League,
    • 24 from international institutions


2011-12  Full-time academic appointees by school

Arts & Sciences . . . 1361
Business . . . 241
Music . . . 176
Education . . . 155
Health, Physical Education & Recreation . . . 162
Library . . . 83
Informatics and Computing. . .82
Public & Environmental Affairs . . . 85
Law . . . 60
Optometry . . . 53
Journalism . . . 31
Library & Information Science. . . 16
Other Academic Programs . . . 23
Medical and Health Sciences . . . 31
Research & University Graduate School . . . 101
Academic Support Offices . . . 61

Total . . . 2,721



Awards received and publications 2010

  • • 2 faculty elected as American Academy of Arts & Sciences Fellows, 4 faculty elected as American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows,  and 2 faculty elected as members of the National Academy of Science
  • • Produced 185 books published by presses such as the University of California Press, Harvard University Press, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press and MIT Press
  • • Published 2,185 articles in journals such as Nature, Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Jour­nal of Finance, Management Science, Psychological Science, and American Journal of Sociology



For further facts about faculty at IU Bloomington, see Bloomington Fast Facts.
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