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title: "Program Info : Faculty"
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Section 5: Faculty is concerned with Nursing Faculty only. This section will be asking questions regarding both Full-Time, and Part-Time. The data provided in this section should only reflect the requested counts as of a single day: **October 13, 2025**. Response types will vary based upon the data requested.

Responses in this section will primarily be comprised of whole numbers.

 

Nursing Faculty, as defined by ACEN:

*Nurses who teach and evaluate nursing students, are academically qualified, and have experience in the content areas in which they teach.*

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***The ACEN does not consider the nurse administrator a faculty member, regardless of the teaching responsibilities or classification by the governing organization.***

 

## Full-Time Faculty

*Persons who teach and/or evaluate nursing students, have a full-time employment status as the governing organization, and whose current primary workload responsibilities are teaching and/or evaluating students in a nursing program.*

 

Enter the unduplicated head count of total number of nursing faculty for all ACEN-accredited nursing programs /options (both exclusive and shared faculty) as of 10/13/2025.

 

Then, of that number, enter how many were responsible for teaching primarily (as per the definition above) in the program type listed. 

 

### Full-Time Faculty Credentials

For the following six (6) questions, enter the number of full-time faculty members who held the corresponding degrees as their highest credential.

  

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***If you have no faculty members with a certain degree as their highest earned credential, enter zero (0). Do not leave any answer blank.***

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### Overload

Finally, were there any full-time faculty that were on overload? Mark “Yes” or “No”; if “Yes,” select the reason those faculty were on overload from the subsequent question.

  

### Full-time Vacancies

Answer “Yes” or “No” as to whether or not there are, as of 10/13/2025 any full-time faculty vacancies. If yes, enter the number of full-time faculty vacancies the Nursing Program CURRENTLY has. 

Then, answer “Yes” or “No” regarding whether or not the program(s) is currently trying to fill all current vacancies.


## Part-Time Faculty

*Persons who teach and/or evaluate nursing students, have an appointment that is less than a full-time status at the governing organization, and whose current primary workload responsibility are teaching and/or evaluating students in a nursing program.*

 

Enter the unduplicated head count of total number of part-time nursing faculty for all nursing programs/options


Then, of that number, enter how many were responsible for teaching primarily in the program type.

 

### Part-Time Faculty Credentials

For the following six (6) questions, enter the number of part-time exclusive and shared faculty members who held the corresponding degrees as their highest credential.

  

***** Note: *****

***If you have no faculty members with a certain degree as their highest earned credential, enter zero (0). Do not leave any fields blank.***