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Full-Time Instructional Faculty Members, by Gender, Rank, and Race or Ethnicity, Fall 2016

Almanac 2018
August 19, 2018

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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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

Rank and genderTotalAmerican Indian or Alaska NativeAsianBlackHispanicNative Hawaiian or Pacific IslanderWhite2 or more races Race unknown Nonresident aliens
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

Rank and genderTotalAmerican Indian or Alaska NativeAsianBlackHispanicNative Hawaiian or Pacific IslanderWhite2 or more races Race unknown Nonresident aliens
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

Rank and genderTotalAmerican Indian or Alaska NativeAsianBlackHispanicNative Hawaiian or Pacific IslanderWhite2 or more races Race unknown Nonresident aliens
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

Rank and genderTotalAmerican Indian or Alaska NativeAsianBlackHispanicNative Hawaiian or Pacific IslanderWhite2 or more races Race unknown Nonresident aliens
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

Rank and genderTotalAmerican Indian or Alaska NativeAsianBlackHispanicNative Hawaiian or Pacific IslanderWhite2 or more races Race unknown Nonresident aliens
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

Rank and genderTotalAmerican Indian or Alaska NativeAsianBlackHispanicNative Hawaiian or Pacific IslanderWhite2 or more races Race unknown Nonresident aliens
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

Rank and genderTotalAmerican Indian or Alaska NativeAsianBlackHispanicNative Hawaiian or Pacific IslanderWhite2 or more races Race unknown Nonresident aliens
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

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