This article reports the findings of a study of faculty status in Texas public community and junior colleges. Eighty-three percent of the public community/junior colleges participated in the study, accounting for 85% of the full-time faculty in such institutions. Among the major findings were: (1) the median level of educational attainment of both full- and part-time faculty was a master's degree; (2) 33% of the full-time faculty had been previously employed in a secondary school while over half of the part-time faculty had been previously employed in business and industry; (3) full-time teaching loads averaged 23 contact hours (15 credit hours), but 91% of the colleges required faculty to be on campus additional hours, typically 14 out-of-class hours; (4) 26% of the faculty carried teaching overloads; (5) in terms of professional growth, nearly two-thirds of the Texas colleges required their faculty to participate in in-service programs, and while only 23% required participation in college credit courses for professional growth, 77% encouraged such participation; (6) nearly all institutions provided salary schedule increments and travel and per diem as incentives for faculty improvement; (7) the three most frequently reported methods of faculty evaluation were student evaluation (89%), self-evaluation (59%), and evaluation by supervisor (95%); and (8) since a previous study in 1973-74, the number of part-time faculty had increased from 56% to 97% of the number of full-time faculty. (JDS)