Among full-time instructional staff over all, tribal colleges had about the same proportion of women in 2015-16 as historically black colleges and universities did — just under half. Tribal colleges, however, had lower female representation than HBCUs did among professors, associate professors, and assistant professors. Tribal colleges — where “instructors” predominated — had relatively few staff members of either sex at the three professorial ranks. At both HBCUs and tribal colleges, women’s average earnings were very close to men’s at the rank with the greatest number of employees.
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Historically black colleges and universities
| Professor | 2,605 | 1,800 | 805 | 30.9% | $68,922 | $69,363 | $68,670 | 99.0% |
| Associate professor | 3,700 | 2,054 | 1,646 | 44.5% | $58,014 | $58,419 | $57,843 | 99.0% |
| Assistant professor | 3,957 | 1,871 | 2,086 | 52.7% | $53,586 | $53,757 | $53,334 | 99.2% |
| Instructor | 1,671 | 678 | 993 | 59.4% | $43,407 | $42,570 | $43,587 | 102.4% |
| Lecturer | 650 | 283 | 367 | 56.5% | $46,413 | $47,088 | $47,556 | 101.0% |
| No academic rank | 960 | 453 | 507 | 52.8% | $45,441 | $47,223 | $43,740 | 92.6% |
| All instructional staff total | 13,543 | 7,139 | 6,404 | 47.3% | $53,442 | $54,765 | $51,939 | 94.8% |
Tribal colleges
| Professor | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0.0% | $60,408 | $60,408 | — | — |
| Associate professor | 24 | 16 | 8 | 33.3% | $67,374 | $67,365 | $54,720 | 81.2% |
| Assistant professor | 36 | 22 | 14 | 38.9% | $56,385 | $57,555 | $55,080 | 95.7% |
| Instructor | 711 | 358 | 353 | 49.6% | $43,416 | $43,029 | $43,848 | 101.9% |
| Lecturer | 8 | 5 | 3 | 37.5% | $42,462 | $43,479 | $40,779 | 93.8% |
| No academic rank | 100 | 58 | 42 | 42.0% | $40,590 | $41,139 | $36,189 | 88.0% |
| All instructional staff total | 882 | 462 | 420 | 47.6% | $43,299 | $43,047 | $43,650 | 101.4% |
Note: Data cover degree-granting historically black and tribal institutions in the United States that are eligible to participate in Title IV financial-aid programs. Salaries are adjusted to a standard nine-month work year, and averages are weighted. Of the 100 historically black institutions represented in the table, 39 are public four-year institutions, 50 are private nonprofit four-year institutions, 10 are public two-year institutions, and one is a private nonprofit two-year institution. The 35 tribal colleges represented in the data were weighted more toward two-year institutions, with eight public four-year institutions, five private nonprofit four-year institutions, 19 public two-year colleges, and three private nonprofit two-year colleges. More-detailed institutional and summary faculty-salary data can be viewed online at data.chronicle.com.
Source: Chronicle analysis of U.S. Department of Education data