| Survival Rates Among Assistant Professors, 1980 – 2003 | |||||
| Year App’td | # | Tenured | Early Departure | Left Without Tenure | Survival Rate |
| 1980 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 20% |
| 1981 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 33% |
| 1982 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 22% |
| 1983 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 20% |
| 1984 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 33% |
| 1985 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 20% |
| 1986 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 11% |
| 1987 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 29% |
| 1988 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 14% |
| 1989 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 38% |
| 1990 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 9% |
| 1991 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 33% |
| 1992 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 25% |
| 1993 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 25% |
| 1994 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 64% |
| 1995 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 50% |
| 1996 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 38% |
| 1997 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 71% |
| 1998 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 33% |
| 1999 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 33% |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0% |
| 2001 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 56% |
| 2002 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 57% |
| 2003 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 29% |
| 174 | 58 | 31 | 85 | 33% | |
| 1980-1990 | 84 | 19 | 19 | 46 | 23% |