faculty: Williams College Faculty

Description Usage Format Source

Description

A tibble containing information for the 2016-2017 members of the Williams College faculty using information extracted from the course catalog. Created by running create_faculty().

Usage

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Format

A tibble with 428 rows and 17 variables.

year

catalog start year from which information is extracted

first.name

first name of faculty member

last.name

last name of faculty member

title

title of faculty member

department

department of faculty member

rank

rank of faculty member: one of "Instructor", "Fellow", "Lecturer", "Visiting Professor", "Artist-in-Residence", "Assistant Professor", "Associate Professor", "Professor". "Librarian" is a rank sometimes used in previous years.

status

teaching status of faculty member: one of "Tenure-track", "Tenured", "Athletic" or "Visiting". "Part-time" has been used in previous years.

leave

faculty member's leave status. One of "Academic Year", "First Semester", "None", or "Second Semester". "Calendar Year" has been used in previous years.

birth.year

estimated year of birth, based on the assumption that the first degree was awarded at age 22.

first.degree

first degree held by faculty. This is generally a bachelors degree

first.degree.year

year the first degree was conferred

first.degree.school

school that conferred first degree

last.degree

last degree held by faculty; This is generally the highest degree held by the faculty.

last.degree.year

year the last degree was conferred

last.degree.school

school that conferred last degree

gender

character, based on first.name, using the gender package.

race

character, based on last.name, mainly using the wru package. Values are "Asian", "Black", "Hispanic", "White"

Source

https://catalog.williams.edu/archive/


davidkane9/williams documentation built on May 15, 2019, 1:14 a.m.