About Notre Dame
Faculty
In 2008-09, Notre Dame's instructional faculty numbered 907 full time and 106 part-time. Other faculty, such as administrative, professional specialists, librarians, and research fellows, numbered 387 full-time and 37 part-time. Ninety-three percent of the full-time instructional faculty have terminal degrees, 85 percent of them have doctorates. Ninety-seven percent of the full-time instructional faculty are lay persons. (Faculty to student ratio: 1 to 12.)
Achievements/Honors
Notre Dame faculty members have won 37 fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities in the past nine years, more than for any other university in the nation. In recent years, the University also has the most recipients in the nation of fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies. Faculty have been elected to membership in such prestigious organizations as the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Society of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the American Law Institute.
Research Funding
Research awards to Notre Dame have more than doubled in recent years to more than $80 million in fiscal year 2009. Seventy percent of the funding came from the federal government, for research, facilities and equipment, and educational and service programs. More than 80 percent of the teaching and research faculty in science and engineering participate in sponsored research projects. Research expenditures, both internally and externally funded, have tripled in recent years, from $30.4 million in 1999 to more than $89.5 million in 2009. Awards from industry also have continued to grow, from an average of less than $2 million per year over the last five years to nearly $5 million in 2009.
Scholarly Publications
University:
American Journal of Jurisprudence
www.nd.edu/~ndlaw/ajj
American Midland Naturalist: An International Journal of Ecology, Evolution and Environment
www.nd.edu/~ammidnat/
Journal of College and University Law
www.nd.edu/~jcul
Journal of Philosophical Research
http://www.pdcnet.org/jpr.html
Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic
www.nd.edu/~ndjfl
Notre Dame Philosophical Review
http://ndpr.nd.edu
Notre Dame Review
www.nd.edu/~ndr/review.htm
Religion and Literature
www.nd.edu/~randl
Review of Politics
www.nd.edu/~rop/
Student:
Acroterion
http://architecture.nd.edu/publications/acroterion.shtml
Journal of Legislation
http://law.nd.edu/jleg/authors.html
Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics, and Public Policy
www.nd.edu/~ndjlepp
Notre Dame Law Review
www.nd.edu/~ndlaw/ndlrev
