Faculty includes all employees who are in instructional or research positions. Brown’s Office of Institutional Research categorizes those who both teach and perform research as instructional. Matching the growth in the student body, the total faculty count has grown by 58% since 2004. That increase was especially concentrated among the number of research-only faculty, which has nearly doubled since 2004. In December 2024, Brown announced plans to hold faculty headcount growth to 1% amid financial struggles.