The report examines university department-level policies regarding faculty hiring, promotions, and benefits. After an introduction, four sections provide information on: (1) faculty composition in departments of instruction (number of faculty per department, percentage of departments with faculty of various types, joint appointments, and teaching assistants); (2) selection and advancement of instructional faculty (the primary decision-making authority, and factors in the selection and advancement of instructional faculty); (3) the assessment of teaching performance; and (4) opportunities for professional development. Some of the highlights are: the average department in four-year and above schools had 18 faculty members, and in two-year schools, the average department had 21; at four-year schools, 73% of departments normally made their own decisions in hiring a given individual for a full-time teaching position (but only 41% did this in two-year schools); and student evaluations were used to evaluate teaching performance of full- and part-time faculty in almost all departments of both two-and four-year schools. Three appendices provide: technical notes (overview, sampling strategy, weight calculations, data collection, data processing, and accuracy of estimates); standard error tables; and the survey questionnaire. (SM)