Whites made up more than three-quarters of instructional staff with faculty status in the fall of 2016, and they represented more than 80 percent of full professors. Among blacks, women held more instructional faculty posts than men over all, but not at the rank of full professor. Among Asians, men outnumbered women at the professorial ranks but not as instructors or lecturers or among faculty members with no academic rank. American Indians, Hispanics, Native Hawaiians or Pacific Islanders, and people of two or more races had nearly equal representation of men and women on the instructional staff over all.
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Professor
| All | 182,683 | 611 | 17,583 | 6,869 | 6,226 | 191 | 145,823 | 1,021 | 2,507 | 1,852 |
| Percentage | 100.0% | 0.3% | 9.9% | 3.9% | 3.5% | 0.1% | 81.8% | 0.6% | 1.4% | 1.0% |
| Men | 123,816 | 376 | 13,160 | 4,053 | 3,965 | 131 | 98,321 | 649 | 1,726 | 1,435 |
| Percentage of all professors | 67.8% | 0.2% | 7.4% | 2.3% | 2.2% | 0.1% | 55.1% | 0.4% | 0.9% | 0.8% |
| Women | 58,867 | 235 | 4,423 | 2,816 | 2,261 | 60 | 47,502 | 372 | 781 | 417 |
| Percentage of all professors | 32.2% | 0.1% | 2.5% | 1.6% | 1.3% | 0.0% | 26.6% | 0.2% | 0.4% | 0.2% |
Associate professor
| All | 157,628 | 598 | 17,492 | 9,083 | 7,102 | 217 | 115,559 | 1,232 | 3,149 | 3,196 |
| Percentage | 100.0% | 0.4% | 11.6% | 6.0% | 4.7% | 0.1% | 76.4% | 0.8% | 2.0% | 2.0% |
| Men | 86,474 | 288 | 10,504 | 4,310 | 3,865 | 111 | 62,943 | 611 | 1,830 | 2,012 |
| Percentage of all associate professors | 54.9% | 0.2% | 6.9% | 2.8% | 2.6% | 0.1% | 41.6% | 0.4% | 1.2% | 1.3% |
| Women | 71,154 | 310 | 6,988 | 4,773 | 3,237 | 106 | 52,616 | 621 | 1,319 | 1,184 |
| Percentage of all associate professors | 45.1% | 0.2% | 4.6% | 3.2% | 2.1% | 0.1% | 34.8% | 0.4% | 0.8% | 0.8% |
Assistant professor
| All | 176,085 | 624 | 19,968 | 11,139 | 8,131 | 299 | 115,331 | 1,889 | 6,561 | 12,143 |
| Percentage | 100.0% | 0.4% | 12.7% | 7.1% | 5.2% | 0.2% | 73.3% | 1.2% | 3.7% | 6.9% |
| Men | 85,687 | 275 | 10,482 | 4,208 | 3,957 | 148 | 54,837 | 810 | 3,404 | 7,566 |
| Percentage of all assistant professors | 48.7% | 0.2% | 6.7% | 2.7% | 2.5% | 0.1% | 34.8% | 0.5% | 1.9% | 4.3% |
| Women | 90,398 | 349 | 9,486 | 6,931 | 4,174 | 151 | 60,494 | 1,079 | 3,157 | 4,577 |
| Percentage of all assistant professors | 51.3% | 0.2% | 6.0% | 4.4% | 2.7% | 0.1% | 38.4% | 0.7% | 1.8% | 2.6% |
Instructor
| All | 100,723 | 867 | 5,628 | 7,217 | 7,281 | 215 | 73,137 | 1,104 | 3,575 | 1,699 |
| Percentage | 100.0% | 0.9% | 5.9% | 7.6% | 7.6% | 0.2% | 76.6% | 1.2% | 3.5% | 1.7% |
| Men | 43,791 | 430 | 2,440 | 2,590 | 3,268 | 99 | 32,009 | 454 | 1,586 | 915 |
| Percentage of all instructors | 43.5% | 0.5% | 2.6% | 2.7% | 3.4% | 0.1% | 33.5% | 0.5% | 1.6% | 0.9% |
| Women | 56,932 | 437 | 3,188 | 4,627 | 4,013 | 116 | 41,128 | 650 | 1,989 | 784 |
| Percentage of all instructors | 56.5% | 0.5% | 3.3% | 4.8% | 4.2% | 0.1% | 43.1% | 0.7% | 2.0% | 0.8% |
Lecturer
| All | 42,146 | 153 | 2,781 | 2,012 | 2,485 | 46 | 31,167 | 454 | 1,386 | 1,662 |
| Percentage | 100.0% | 0.4% | 7.1% | 5.1% | 6.4% | 0.1% | 79.7% | 1.2% | 3.3% | 3.9% |
| Men | 18,914 | 62 | 1,107 | 873 | 1,051 | 18 | 14,112 | 188 | 677 | 826 |
| Percentage of all lecturers | 44.9% | 0.2% | 2.8% | 2.2% | 2.7% | 0.0% | 36.1% | 0.5% | 1.6% | 2.0% |
| Women | 23,232 | 91 | 1,674 | 1,139 | 1,434 | 28 | 17,055 | 266 | 709 | 836 |
| Percentage of all lecturers | 55.1% | 0.2% | 4.3% | 2.9% | 3.7% | 0.1% | 43.6% | 0.7% | 1.7% | 2.0% |
No academic rank
| All | 48,080 | 316 | 1,879 | 4,049 | 1,943 | 73 | 36,718 | 479 | 1,093 | 1,530 |
| Percentage | 100.0% | 0.7% | 4.1% | 8.9% | 4.3% | 0.2% | 80.8% | 1.1% | 2.3% | 3.2% |
| Men | 21,686 | 146 | 885 | 1,457 | 901 | 36 | 16,534 | 201 | 546 | 980 |
| Percentage of other | 45.1% | 0.3% | 1.9% | 3.2% | 2.0% | 0.1% | 36.4% | 0.4% | 1.1% | 2.0% |
| Women | 26,394 | 170 | 994 | 2,592 | 1,042 | 37 | 20,184 | 278 | 547 | 550 |
| Percentage of other | 54.9% | 0.4% | 2.2% | 5.7% | 2.3% | 0.1% | 44.4% | 0.6% | 1.1% | 1.1% |
Total
| All | 707,345 | 3,169 | 65,331 | 40,369 | 33,168 | 1,041 | 517,735 | 6,179 | 18,271 | 22,082 |
| Percentage | 100.0% | 0.5% | 9.8% | 6.1% | 5.0% | 0.2% | 77.6% | 0.9% | 2.6% | 3.1% |
| Men | 380,368 | 1,577 | 38,578 | 17,491 | 17,007 | 543 | 278,756 | 2,913 | 9,769 | 13,734 |
| Percentage of total | 53.8% | 0.2% | 5.8% | 2.6% | 2.5% | 0.1% | 41.8% | 0.4% | 1.4% | 1.9% |
| Women | 326,977 | 1,592 | 26,753 | 22,878 | 16,161 | 498 | 238,979 | 3,266 | 8,502 | 8,348 |
| Percentage of total | 46.2% | 0.2% | 4.0% | 3.4% | 2.4% | 0.1% | 35.8% | 0.5% | 1.2% | 1.2% |
Note: Only full-time instructional staff members with faculty status are included in the table. Faculty members who primarily do research or public service are excluded, as are graduate and instruction assistants. People of unknown race or ethnicity and nonresident aliens were excluded from the total figures before percentages of minorities and individual racial/ethnic groups were calculated. Percentages in the “race unknown” and “nonresident aliens” columns are based on unadjusted total figures. Figures for racial categories exclude people of Hispanic ethnicity, who are shown separately and may be of any race. Questions or comments on the Almanac should be sent to the Almanac editor.
Source: Chronicle analysis of U.S. Department of Education data