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crl-15794	Bolger, Dorita F.; Smith, Erin T.	Faculty Status and Rank at Liberal Arts Colleges: An Investigation into the Correlation among Faculty Status, Professional Rights and Responsibilities, and Overall Institutional Quality	2006	13	.pdf	application/pdf	8083	246	52	Less than 34 percent of the institutions that responded to the current survey reported that they afford librarians full faculty status and rank, which is exactly the same percentage as reported by Park and Riggs, who employed a very strict definition of faculty status (i.e., faculty status meant that librarians had the same titles and same requirements for tenure and promotion as other faculty on campus).18 However, an additional 19 percent of the colleges surveyed reported that librarians have faculty status, but not rank, which means that almost 53 percent of institutions TA B L E 7 R is k E st im at es F ac ul ty S ta tu s O nl y F ac ul ty S ta tu s an d F ac ul ty R an k R ev ie w P ro ce ss (A ny F or m al P ro ce ss ) Based on the responses of the 125 colleges that participated in the survey, the higher the tier in which an institution is ranked in the U.S. News & World Report annual report on America’s colleges, the less likely that librarians will have faculty status or rank, the less likely they will be required to undergo a formal review process, the less likely they will have access to research funds, and the less likely they will be eligible to serve on campuswide faculty committees.	cache/crl-15794.pdf	txt/crl-15794.txt