Roughly 500 faculty members are evenly divided between civilian professors and military instructors. They also tend to be affiliated with colleges or universities as professors or instructors. All involve intense collaborations among students and professors. The school opened with 50 midshipman students and seven professors. This does not include patents obtained by individual professors or students. Professors and alumni alike protested these radical moves. It consists of all professors of the institute, and administrative and student representatives. The Hawk is fully run by students with help from the professors. The censure was later withdrawn and both the professors and the university formally apologized. Faculties are headed by a dean elected from among the constituent professors. This resulted in establishing a good reputation for the university and its professors. The American Association of University Professors censured Rollins. Twenty-eight per cent of the 716 professors at the university are women. Instructors may be optometrists, ophthalmologists, or professors (Ph.D.). Hundreds attended and the meeting was chaired by one of the law professors.