Information on newly hired faculty in New Jersey public colleges for fall 1984 and fall 1985 is presented, including degrees held, academic rank, and teaching fields. Data are provided for the state colleges, community colleges, Rutgers University, the New Jersey Institute of Technology, and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ), as well as for individual state and community colleges. Highlights include: a total of 485 new faculty members were hired in fall 1984, and 482 in fall 1985; the proportion of doctoral degree holders (including Ph.D., Ed.D., M.D., and J.D.) increased from 49.8% to 53.4%; the proportion of terminal degree receivers increased from 64.1% to 67%; for both years, more than half of the new faculty members were hired at the rank of assistant professor or higher (56% in 1984 and 58.7% in 1987); the majority of new faculty in natural sciences held doctorates (66.7% in 1984 and 78.4% in 1985); more than half of new computer science/math faculty had a master's as their highest degree; at community colleges, unlike the senior public sector, the majority of newly hired faculty in each of the teaching fields held master's degrees as their highest degree received. (SW)