Faculty lists, like enrollment figures for students, depend on the date the question references. Some rosters do not include certain faculty members, yet the salary schedule does have these members. More than likely, the missing names come from late faculty hirings, as was the case with Virdian Barham and Eleanor Gibbs, but some omissions in the roster must be just oversights. For instance, Ruth Mays is omitted from the 1924-25 roster as were Virginia Broadfoot and Lois Foster, but they are on the salary schedules.

The projected salary schedule dated May, 1924, submitted by Birdwell to the Regents, has twenty-four people including himself. In submitting the list, Birdwell said, "The salaries are the same as being paid now." The salaries ranged from $1,650.00 a year for a "Critic" in the Demonstration School to $4,500.00 for President Birdwell. There were eight faculty members with salaries at $2,600.00. These included Wisely, both C. E. and F. E. Ferguson, Hinds, Mays, Davis, Garner, and Dr. W. L. Ray, the only faculty member to hold a Ph.D. (University of Chicago). J. H. Wisely should have made more since he served the school in multiple capacities, from Professor of Business to Auditor and Controller. Upton made $2,400. Pritchett, Broadfoot, and Gibbs made $2,250.00. Instructors in English and History and Home Economics all made $2,000.00. Coach Shelton also made $2,000.00.

The degrees of the faculty came from all over the nation, but the vast majority were Texas degrees. There was only one Ph.D., as mentioned earlier. Most had masters degrees, with several having completed considerable study beyond the MA. Lois Foster, for instance, had finished all but her dissertation at the University of Texas. Their undergraduate degrees were from UT, SMU, Columbia, Sam Houston, Kansas A & M, Southwest Texas and North Texas State Teachers Colleges, and Peabody. Their graduate degrees came from UT, Texas A & M, Peabody, University of Missouri, Kansas A & M, and Harvard. The artist, Eleanor Gibbs, had very different listings.

The people Birdwell hired for SFA did not come from one place. The main connection for all of these people was the Normal School movement and circuit. If there was another main concentration among the original faculty, it would be the University of Texas; twelve of them had one or more degrees from the University of Texas. (It would be interesting to research further the connection to UT.) There were three from Peabody, and two each from Sam Houston, Southwest Texas, and North Texas State Teachers Colleges. The faculty added in the year 1924-25 came from Columbia (3), UT (3), Baylor (2), SWT (2), and one each from Peabody, SMU, Indiana State, Howard Payne, Agnes Scott, Bowling Green State, and the University of Colorado.