The push to get the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Board of Trustees to grant tenure to Nikole Hannah-Jones has shined a spotlight on a particular group of scholars: Black female professors with tenure.
Their numbers are few. At public and private nonprofit four-year colleges in the fall of 2019 — the most recent year for which federal data are available — there were 251,921 tenured associate and full professors. Of those, 5,221, or 2.1 percent, were Black women.
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