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