\doc\web\99\13\asfac.txt Chronicle of Higher Education September 3, 1999 Survey finds more older scholars and more women, but ethnic diversification is at a standstill By DENISE K. MAGNER the proportion of professors who are white has increased slightly -- from 90.4 per cent to 91.7 per cent -- while the proportion who are black declined from 4 per cent in 1989 to 2.6 per cent last year. Faculty hired in past 2 years vs young pop white 87.9 68.3 black 3.7 12.0 asian 4.0 4.0 hispanic 3.1 15.0 AmIndian 2.1 0.7 From: "Patricia Hausman" To: Subject: Asians in the professoriat Date sent: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 22:17:25 -0400 > Arthur. > > These numbers don't seem quite right to me, > only 10% more Asians than blacks hired as > professors -- don't Asians outnumber blacks > in receipt of PhDs by a lot more than 10%, > and tend to earn them in areas where it is > hardest to recruit (sciences/technology). > > OTOH is it possible that Asians prefer > private industry to academia? > > Do these numbers sound reasonable to you? > > Best, > Patti > That does not surpise me, Asians do prefer making money to being professional academics, and not all professors are in engineering. Asians are also under-represented as teachers, and generally aren't worth much for affirmative action points. From my education page, Asians in college faculty are also under-represented, a 4% national hiring would be about par with population. http://www.leconsulting.com/arthurhu/index/aeduc.htm Index ranked by Asian: Over as students, but under as PHD, teachers an or superintendents where Asians are represented worse than Blacks. Asians are weakest precisely where Blacks place most importance in hiring 


                            AmIndiaAsian  Black  CaucasiFilipinHispani
University of California Fre -1.12   3.25  -1.44   1.00   1.85  -2.36
University of California EligPool    2.46  -3.41   1.00   1.26  -3.93
University of California BDe -1.51   2.32  -2.65   1.00   1.05  -3.54
California State Univ FreshC -1.04   2.13  -1.24   1.00   1.65  -2.16
California State University EligPoo  1.88  -2.82   1.00  -1.06  -2.97
Univ of California Transfers -9.11   1.78  -2.37   1.00  -1.04  -2.54
Calif State BDegree           1.21   1.60  -1.64   1.00  -1.04  -2.67
Calif State Transfers         1.42   1.34  -1.51   1.00  -1.09  -2.37
1986 High School Graduating  -1.16   1.19   1.06   1.00   1.03  -1.21
Calf State Enter Master       1.07   1.07  -2.35   1.00  -3.00  -4.32
Univ of Calif Enter Master   -1.50   1.03  -2.73   1.00  -3.44  -4.76
----------- Asians at or below parity -------------
1987 Entering UC Doc         -2.19  -1.04  -5.14   1.00  -7.20  -6.12
Univ of California Fac       -5.64  -1.06  -5.87   1.00         -4.88
Calif State Fac              -2.28  -1.35  -3.82   1.00         -3.98
Calif State Master Degree    -2.15  -1.62  -2.40   1.00  -5.63  -5.46
Univ of Calif Master Degree  -1.55  -1.80  -4.24   1.00  -4.07  -6.05
Calif State Univ Top Staff   -1.76  -1.93  -1.10   1.00         -4.85
Calif Community College Fac  -1.87  -2.48  -2.02   1.00        -10.84
Univ of Calf Top Staff       -2.27  -2.58  -1.78   1.00         -8.24
1987 Pub Teachers                   -2.76  -1.65   1.00         -4.71
1987 Pub Principals                 -4.15  -1.15   1.00         -3.70
California Community College  1.77 -10.43   1.08   1.00   1.04  -1.46
1987 Graduating UC Doc       -2.81 -12.13  -4.06   1.00 -14.77  -8.37
1987 Superintendents               -17.93  -7.79   1.00        -12.06






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> Chronicle of Higher Education
> >>From the issue dated September 3, 1999 Survey finds more older scholars
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> more women, but ethnic diversification is at a standstill By DENISE K.
> MAGNER " ..... The institute's report said the movement to hire a more
> ethnically diverse faculty is at a "standstill," noting that the racial
> makeup of the professoriate has changed little since the survey was first
> conducted. In fact, the proportion of professors who are white has increased
> slightly -- from 90.4 per cent to 91.7 per cent -- while the proportion who
> are black declined from 4 per cent in 1989 to 2.6 per cent last year. The
> record improves only slightly when faculty members hired in the past two
> years are considered as a separate group: 87.9 per cent are white, 4 per
> cent Asian or Asian-American, 3.7 per cent black, 3.1 per cent Hispanic, 2.1
> per cent American Indian, and the ethnicity of the remainder is
> unidentified. (The total exceeds 100 per cent because some people checked
> more than one category.) The problem, Ms. Sax said, is that "there hasn't
> been much of an increase in minority doctoral recipients over the same
> period -- they're still only 12 per cent of Ph.D.'s." When it comes to the
> presence of women on the faculty, the survey results are a "mixed bag," said
> Ms. Sax. The study found that women accounted for 36.2 per cent of the
> full-time faculty members in 1998, up from 28.8 per cent in 1989. "Women, in
> fact, have become more highly represented at nearly all types of
> institutions," the report said, "and are significantly more likely than men
> to be among 'recent hires.'" Among female professors, 49 per cent have been
> hired in the past seven years, compared with 33 per cent of the men. Still,
> the report said, women are far less likely to be tenured than men, and more
> likely to hold positions at a lower academic rank -- assistant professor or
> lecturer. While 25 per cent of female faculty members are instructors or
> lecturers, only 13 per cent of the men are."
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