Faculty and Staff - what's the difference?

Having been an employee of the State Universities Civil Service system in Illinois, the term is all too familiar to me. At the University of Illinios in the late 1970's, early 1980's, the staff, which are those who are not tenured professors, represented more than 90% of the work force, and earned less than 60% of wages and salaries paid.

Faculty and staff refers to the combination of employees who are tenured professors, and those who are not.

In the public schools, "faculty" usually means teachers while "staff" would include teacher's aids, cafeteria workers, custodians and secretaries.

Back in the '60's I taught in a private school where the terms were "academic faculty" and "non-academic faculty".

faculty & staff
I would think that faculty is referring to the actual educators and the staff would be the office workers, janitors etc. The faculty would be expected to attend a "faculty meeting" where as the staff would not, therefore seperating the two for simplicity.......