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4 Our Faculty
The College currently has a 9.6-to-1 student-faculty ratio, based on 175 full-time and 69 part-time faculty members. By gender identity, 51% of full-time faculty members are women and 49% are men. Using federal race/ethnicity categories, our Fall 2025 full-time faculty is 22% U.S. BIPOC (10% Asian, 6% Hispanic, and 6% Black/African American), 71% White, and 7% non-U.S. citizens (of any race). Together, U.S. and international BIPOC faculty constitute over 27% of full-time faculty members. In terms of academic training, 95% of full-time faculty members hold a PhD or other terminal degree (such as an MFA). Of the 175 full-time faculty, 120 (69%) are tenured, 23 (13%) are untenured and on the tenure track, 15 (9%) are continuing faculty members not on the tenure track (e.g., teaching professors), and 17 (10%) are visiting faculty members not on the tenure track. Women account for about 49%, 52%, and 67% of tenured, untenured, and continuing non-tenuretrack faculty members, respectively. By division, Fall 2025 full-time faculty are 33% in social sciences departments, 29% in humanities, 25% in natural sciences and mathematics, and 13% in the visual and performing arts.
(Excerpt from the 2025-26 Connecticut College Academic Fact Sheet compiled by Compiled by the Office of Institutional Research and Planning; please view the full 25-26 and previous Academic Fact Sheets here).
2025 – 26 Faculty Awardees; Clockwise from top left: Maria Rosa, Associate Professor of Biology, the Nancy Batson Nisbet Rash Award for Excellence in Research; Julia A. Flagg, Associate Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies, Director of Environmental Studies Program, The John S. King Award for Excellence in Teaching; Priya Kohli, Professor of Statistics, Chairs of the Mathematics and Statistics Department, The Helen B. Regan Faculty Award for Excellence in Leadership; Brett Evans, Assistant Professor of Classics, Faculty Fellow Walter Commons for Global Study and Engagement, The Helen Mulvey Faculty Award for Fostering Student Achievement
Nancy Batson Nisbet Rash Faculty Award for Excellence in Research; Lyndsay Crawford, Associate Professor of Philosophy, John S. King Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching; Chad Jones, Professor Botany and Environmental Studies, Helen B. Regan Faculty Award for Excellence in Leadership; Sadia Priyanka, Assistant Professor of Economics, Helen Mulvey Faculty Award for Fostering Student Achievement.
2023 – 24 Faculty Awardees;Clockwise from top left: Maria Cruz-Saco, Joanne Toor Cummings ’50 Professor of Economics, Nancy Batson Nisbet Rash Faculty Award for Excellence in Research; Mónika López-Anuarbe, Associate Professor of Economics, John S. King Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching; Rashelle Litchmore, Assistant Professor of Human Development, Helen Mulvey Faculty Award for Fostering Student Achievement; Derek Turner, Class of ’43 Professor of Philosophy, Helen B. Regan Faculty Award for Excellence in Leadership.
2022-23 Faculty Awardees; Clockwise from top left: Ayako Takamori, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages, Helen Mulvey Faculty Award; Nina Martin, Associate Professor of Film Studies, John S. King Memorial Teaching Award; Sufia Uddin, Professor of Anthropology and Religious Studies, Helen B. Regan Faculty Leadership Award; Jeff Moher, Associate Professor of Psychology, Nancy Batson Nisbet Rash Research Award.