🏢 Not teaching staff 👔 A non-teacher worker

nonfaculty

6.3

A person who works at a school or university and is not a teacher

noun
/nɒnˈfæklti/

: personal no docente

Of these potential participants, 138 elected to participate, including 61 faculty and 77 nonfaculty staff (i.e., administrative, technical, and support personnel) for an overall response rate of 54%.

Examples

For the past twenty years, Stanford University has provided opportunities for faculty and nonfaculty, including students and local residents, to design and teach accredited undergraduate courses through a program called Innovative Academic Courses (IAC).

Academic text (1991)
Nonfaculty staff play a crucial role in maintaining campus operations, ensuring that the educational environment runs smoothly.
At the conference, many nonfaculty members shared their innovative ideas about improving student engagement.
The university hired several nonfaculty individuals to enhance its administrative capabilities and support services.

Synonyms

nonteaching

vsnonfaculty

3.8

A person who works at a school but does not teach

is officially not part of the teaching faculty rather than only lacking teaching tasks

nonacademic

vsnonfaculty

5.0

A person who works at a school or university but does not teach

focuses on not belonging to the teaching faculty rather than excluding research roles

Surface Forms

nonfaculty singular

nonfaculties plural

Morphology

nonfaculty = faculty (transparent) = non + faculty

The word is a straightforward prefixation of 'faculty' with 'non-', meaning not part of the faculty.

Etymology

Nonfaculty comes from the parts non- meaning 'not' and faculty, which means the 'teaching staff' at a school or university. So used as a noun, a nonfaculty is a person who works for a school but is 'not a teacher', for example someone in administration, maintenance, or student services.