Overall Rating:
Quality:
Safety:
Costs:
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Average
Faculty Salary
Fair
Quality of education at any specific college strongly depends on people who teach there.
In this report for
Windward Community College we provide you with information about faculty structure, salaries, and class sizes, as well as comparisons to competing and nearby colleges.
Faculty Compensation and Workload
Full-time
Faculty
49
As a rule, properly compensated instructors are better motivated and have more opportunities to concentrate on teaching; therefore, we consider faculty compensation to be an important factor for evaluating education quality.
Monthly faculty salaries at Windward Community College vary approximately from $6,000 to $12,000. The average full-time faculty salary at this college is approximately $109,000 a year - which is 19% lower than Hawaii average faculty compensation.
Women faculty members at this school are paid $8,591 a month on average; that is a bit lower than average men faculty salaries, $9,581 a month.
Faculty Rank
School Average
HI Average
Difference
Professor
$136,512
$172,580
-21%
Associate professor
$112,896
$132,750
-15%
Assistant professor
$97,668
$113,815
-14%
Instructor
$83,892
$91,704
-9%
Annual Faculty Wages
Students to Faculty Ratios

Students to
Faculty Ratio
17 : 1
Medium
Windward Community College has a decent, 17:1 students-to-faculty ratio.
Low ratios usually imply smaller class size, more attention to students, better quality of education, and higher satisfaction both for students and instructors. High ratios are usually a sign of the opposite.
Use the charts above to compare faculty compensation and workload at Windward Community College versus nearby colleges.
Faculty Ranking and Demographics
The full-time faculty at Windward Community College includes 16 professors, 7 associate professors, 14 assistant professors, and 12 instructors - 25 men and 24 women:

Please note that faculty rank (e.g. associate professor, lecturer, instructor) is usually assigned by the college itself.