Quick Facts: Faculty

Artists, Designers, and Scholars as Teachers

SAIC’s faculty members are artists, designers, scholars, influencers, and innovators. They are mentors and educators, but equally, peers and collaborators. Our faculty offer real-world insight because they are experienced practitioners who have been in your position before.

They know what it’s like to re-evaluate their work and explore the idea of being an artist, a designer, and a scholar. And they are passionate about informing the process from conception to execution through unabashed discourse and critique.

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2021–22 SAIC Degree Program Faculty

161 Full-time Faculty

608 Part-time Faculty

769 total Faculty in Fall and Spring semesters

Faculty Breakdown by Position

161 Full-time Faculty

57 Professors

71 Associate Professors

28 Assistant Professors

5 Full-time Visiting Artists

224 Total Adjunct (ranked) Part-time Faculty

43 Professors, Adjunct

79 Associate Professors, Adjunct

102 Assistant Professors, Adjunct

384 Lecturers, Senior Lecturers, Professors Emeriti

Faculty Race/Ethnicity

0.4% American Indian/Indigenous or Alaska Native

8.8% Asian

4% Black or African American:

6.1% Hispanic/Latinx

0.0% Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander

3.5% Multiracial

73.7% White