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Table 231. Percentage distribution of full-time and part-time instructional faculty and staff in degree-granting institutions, by program area, race/ethnicity, and sex: Fall 1992 and fall 1998

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                             |       |                                            Fall 1998
                             |Number,|___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
           Program           |  in   |         |      |                       |                       |                     |                      | American Indian/
            area             | thou- |Number,  | Per- |  White non-Hispanic   |  Black non-Hispanic   |     Hispanic        |Asian/Pacific Islander|  Alaska native
                             | sands | in      | cent |_______________________|_______________________|_____________________|______________________|_____________________
                             | 1992  |thousands|      |   Male    |  Female   |   Male    |  Female   |   Male   |  Female  |   Male    |  Female  |   Male   |  Female
_____________________________|_______|_________|______|___________|___________|___________|___________|__________|__________|___________|__________|__________|__________
              1              |   2   |    3    |  4   |     5     |     6     |     7     |     8     |     9    |    10    |    11     |    12    |    13    |    14
_____________________________|_______|_________|______|___________|___________|___________|___________|__________|__________|___________|__________|__________|__________
                             |                         Full-time instructional faculty and staff
                             |___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Total    ....................|   528 |560 (4.8)|100.0 |54.5  (0.6)|30.6  (0.5)| 2.6  (0.2)| 2.5  (0.2)| 2.0 (0.2)| 1.3 (0.1)|  4.0 (0.2)| 1.8 (0.2)| 0.5 (0.1)| 0.2 (0.0)
                             |_______|_________|______|___________|___________|___________|___________|__________|__________|___________|__________|__________|__________
  Agriculture and            |       |         |      |           |           |           |           |          |          |           |          |          |
    home economics ..........|    11 | 10 (0.4)|100.0 |74.3  (2.9)|16.4  (2.4)| 1.7  (0.7)| 2.3  (1.0)| 1.2 (0.6)| 0.1 (0.1)|  2.2 (0.9)| 0.7 (0.4)| 1.0 (1.0)|   #    #
  Business ..................|    40 | 39 (1.1)|100.0 |54.7  (2.2)|32.0  (2.1)| 3.8  (0.7)| 1.5  (0.3)| 1.0 (0.3)| 0.7 (0.3)|  4.4 (0.7)| 0.8 (0.3)| 1.2 (0.8)| 0.1 (0.1)
  Communications ............|    10 | 10 (1.0)|100.0 |60.8  (5.0)|26.7  (3.8)| 3.5  (1.1)| 1.9  (0.8)| 0.8 (0.3)| 2.3 (0.9)|  2.8 (1.7)| 1.0 (0.8)|   #    # | 0.3 (0.3)
  Education .................|    37 | 40 (1.4)|100.0 |37.9  (2.6)|45.9  (2.4)| 2.4  (0.4)| 6.2  (1.4)| 1.4 (0.4)| 1.8 (0.4)|  0.7 (0.3)| 2.9 (0.9)| 0.1 (0.1)| 0.7 (0.3)
    Teacher education .......|    12 | 14 (0.6)|100.0 |33.1  (3.4)|52.6  (3.7)| 2.2  (0.6)| 7.7  (3.3)| 0.2 (0.1)| 1.2 (0.5)|  0.3 (0.4)| 2.5 (1.0)|   #    # | 0.3 (0.3)
    Other education .........|    25 | 26 (1.3)|100.0 |40.4  (3.5)|42.3  (3.1)| 2.5  (0.6)| 5.4  (1.2)| 2.1 (0.6)| 2.2 (0.5)|  0.9 (0.4)| 3.1 (1.2)| 0.2 (0.2)| 0.9 (0.4)
                             |       |         |      |           |           |           |           |          |          |           |          |          |
  Engineering ...............|    24 | 25 (0.9)|100.0 |69.9  (2.6)| 7.1  (1.6)| 2.3  (0.6)| 0.1  (0.1)| 3.5 (1.3)| 0.4 (0.2)| 14.5 (1.9)| 1.6 (0.8)| 0.6 (0.4)|   #    #
  Fine arts .................|    32 | 33 (1.4)|100.0 |60.7  (2.6)|28.5  (2.3)| 4.6  (1.0)| 2.1  (0.6)| 0.9 (0.3)| 0.3 (0.1)|  1.9 (0.5)| 0.5 (0.2)| 0.5 (0.3)| 0.1 (0.1)
  Health sciences ...........|    79 | 84 (2.0)|100.0 |42.7  (1.7)|42.8  (1.5)| 1.3  (0.3)| 3.1  (0.4)| 1.7 (0.3)| 1.6 (0.4)|  3.8 (0.6)| 2.4 (0.4)| 0.4 (0.2)| 0.4 (0.1)
    First-professional ......|    37 | 40 (1.6)|100.0 |60.9  (2.5)|22.9  (2.2)| 1.1  (0.3)| 1.7  (0.4)| 2.8 (0.7)| 0.8 (0.2)|  6.2 (1.1)| 3.4 (0.7)| 0.2 (0.2)| 0.1 (0.1)
    Nursing .................|    22 | 20 (0.6)|100.0 | 3.5  (1.0)|83.9  (2.1)| 0.0   0.0 | 6.4  (1.2)| 0.1 (0.1)| 3.6 (1.6)|  0.2 (0.2)| 1.4 (0.5)|   #    # | 0.9 (0.4)
    Other health sciences ...|    21 | 24 (1.0)|100.0 |45.0  (3.2)|41.8  (2.8)| 2.6  (0.9)| 2.6  (0.7)| 1.2 (0.5)| 1.4 (0.5)|  2.7 (1.0)| 1.5 (0.5)| 0.9 (0.5)| 0.3 (0.2)
                             |       |         |      |           |           |           |           |          |          |           |          |          |
  Humanities ................|    74 | 81 (1.8)|100.0 |47.9  (1.7)|36.0  (1.5)| 2.4  (0.7)| 2.1  (0.5)| 3.7 (0.7)| 2.8 (0.5)|  1.7 (0.5)| 3.0 (0.7)| 0.2 (0.1)| 0.1 (0.1)
    English and literature ..|    37 | 40 (1.2)|100.0 |42.7  (2.4)|45.8  (2.3)| 1.1  (0.3)| 2.8  (0.6)| 2.3 (0.8)| 2.1 (0.8)|  0.9 (0.3)| 2.1 (0.7)| 0.1 (0.1)| 0.1 (0.1)
    Foreign languages .......|    14 | 15 (0.8)|100.0 |32.1  (3.5)|35.7  (3.5)| 0.8  (0.4)| 0.7  (0.4)| 9.3 (2.1)| 8.3 (1.8)|  4.1 (2.2)| 8.2 (2.8)| 0.4 (0.4)| 0.4 (0.4)
    History .................|    15 | 14 (0.6)|100.0 |59.0  (3.7)|26.2  (3.0)| 3.6  (1.1)| 3.5  (2.2)| 3.4 (2.1)| 1.3 (0.6)|  0.9 (0.5)| 1.5 (1.2)| 0.7 (0.5)|   #    #
    Philosophy ..............|     8 | 12 (0.8)|100.0 |72.1  (4.7)|15.1  (2.9)| 7.0  (4.2)| 0.4  (0.3)| 2.0 (1.0)| 0.0  0.0 |  2.3 (2.0)| 1.0 (0.5)|   #    # |   #    #
                             |       |         |      |           |           |           |           |          |          |           |          |          |
  Law .......................|     9 |  8 (0.6)|100.0 |60.2  (5.3)|29.8  (5.4)| 1.9  (0.8)| 3.0  (1.6)| 1.1 (0.4)| 0.2 (0.2)|  0.3 (0.4)| 2.1 (1.1)| 1.3 (0.9)|   #    #
                             |       |         |      |           |           |           |           |          |          |           |          |          |
  Natural sciences ..........|   102 |111 (2.1)|100.0 |63.7  (1.3)|21.9  (1.1)| 2.1  (0.3)| 1.0  (0.2)| 2.2 (0.4)| 0.7 (0.3)|  6.9 (0.6)| 1.2 (0.2)| 0.2 (0.0)| 0.1 (0.1)
    Biological sciences .....|    34 | 40 (1.3)|100.0 |60.3  (2.3)|26.2  (2.0)| 2.0  (0.5)| 1.0  (0.3)| 1.6 (0.4)| 0.3 (0.2)|  6.4 (1.1)| 1.6 (0.4)| 0.3 (0.2)| 0.1 (0.1)
    Physical sciences .......|    28 | 27 (0.8)|100.0 |76.9  (2.1)|11.0  (1.5)| 1.8  (0.6)| 0.6  (0.5)| 1.3 (0.4)| 1.2 (1.0)|  5.7 (1.0)| 1.2 (0.4)| 0.2 (0.2)| 0.1 (0.1)
    Mathematics .............|    25 | 26 (1.0)|100.0 |59.3  (2.8)|21.4  (1.9)| 3.3  (0.8)| 1.1  (0.5)| 3.7 (1.6)| 1.1 (0.4)|  9.2 (1.6)| 1.0 (0.4)|   #    # |   #    #
    Computer sciences .......|    14 | 17 (0.9)|100.0 |57.2  (3.6)|29.4  (3.4)| 1.1  (0.4)| 1.3  (0.5)| 2.7 (0.9)| 0.4 (0.2)|  6.6 (1.2)| 0.7 (0.4)| 0.6 (0.4)|   #    #
                             |       |         |      |           |           |           |           |          |          |           |          |          |
  Social sciences ...........|    58 | 58 (1.3)|100.0 |58.0  (1.8)|26.0  (1.5)| 3.1  (0.5)| 3.6  (0.7)| 1.8 (0.3)| 1.2 (0.4)|  3.7 (0.7)| 1.3 (0.4)| 1.0 (0.3)| 0.3 (0.2)
    Economics ...............|    10 |  9 (0.6)|100.0 |67.6  (4.4)|16.2  (3.1)| 2.5  (0.9)| 0.0   0.0 | 1.1 (0.6)| 0.3 (0.2)| 10.7 (3.6)| 0.5 (0.4)| 0.4 (0.4)| 0.6 (0.6)
    Political science .......|     9 |  8 (0.5)|100.0 |69.7  (4.1)|17.5  (3.0)| 3.5  (1.3)| 2.9  (2.0)| 3.2 (1.3)| 1.1 (0.8)|  1.3 (0.9)| 0.8 (0.6)|   #    # |   #    #
    Psychology ..............|    18 | 20 (0.7)|100.0 |54.8  (3.1)|31.7  (2.9)| 2.3  (0.7)| 3.4  (1.1)| 1.5 (0.5)| 1.6 (0.6)|  2.0 (0.6)| 1.0 (0.4)| 1.7 (0.7)| 0.2 (0.2)
    Sociology ...............|    10 |  9 (0.4)|100.0 |55.0  (4.2)|31.1  (4.0)| 2.5  (0.9)| 3.9  (1.4)| 1.6 (0.7)| 0.4 (0.4)|  2.2 (0.9)| 2.7 (1.9)| 0.5 (0.5)|   #    #
    Other social sciences ...|    12 | 13 (0.6)|100.0 |51.6  (3.7)|25.5  (2.9)| 5.0  (1.3)| 6.4  (2.2)| 2.0 (0.7)| 1.7 (1.2)|  4.1 (1.4)| 1.8 (0.8)| 1.2 (0.7)| 0.8 (0.4)
                             |       |         |      |           |           |           |           |          |          |           |          |          |
  Occupationally specific    |       |         |      |           |           |           |           |          |          |           |          |          |
    programs ................|    15 | 16 (0.8)|100.0 |72.6  (3.2)|12.9  (2.3)| 3.5  (0.9)| 2.5  (1.0)| 2.7 (1.7)| 0.1 (0.1)|  3.0 (1.4)| 0.5 (0.4)| 2.4 (0.9)| 0.0  0.0
  All other programs ........|    28 | 44 (1.2)|100.0 |49.0  (2.2)|36.6  (2.1)| 3.8  (0.7)| 3.2  (0.6)| 1.6 (0.7)| 1.1 (0.3)|  2.1 (0.4)| 2.1 (0.6)| 0.0 (0.0)| 0.4 (0.2)
                             |=======|=========|======|===========|===========|===========|===========|==========|==========|===========|==========|==========|==========
                             |                         Part-time instructional faculty and staff
                             |___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Total    ....................|   377 |416 (5.9)|100.0 |45.9  (1.0)|41.7  (1.0)| 2.4  (0.3)| 2.1  (0.2)| 2.1 (0.3)| 1.7 (0.2)|  1.5 (0.2)| 1.7 (0.4)| 0.3 (0.1)| 0.6 (0.2)
                             |_______|_________|______|___________|___________|___________|___________|__________|__________|___________|__________|__________|__________
  Agriculture and            |       |         |      |           |           |           |           |          |          |           |          |          |
    home economics ..........|     3 |  3 (0.2)|100.0 |31.5  (7.8)|56.8  (9.5)| 0.0   0.0 | 1.3  (1.3)| 3.1 (3.1)| 0.8 (0.8)|    #    # | 6.7 (6.4)|   #    # |   #    #
  Business ..................|    35 | 32 (1.8)|100.0 |57.8  (4.0)|33.3  (4.2)| 2.4  (0.8)| 3.0  (1.0)| 0.8 (0.3)| 0.6 (0.2)|  0.9 (0.4)| 1.3 (0.5)|   #    # |   #    #
  Communications ............|    10 | 10 (1.0)|100.0 |43.6  (6.9)|50.2  (7.1)| 1.7  (0.9)| 1.0  (0.6)| 1.4 (1.2)| 0.6 (0.6)|  1.1 (0.8)| 0.4 (0.4)|   #    # |   #    #
  Education .................|    31 | 34 (1.6)|100.0 |25.4  (2.5)|63.8  (3.0)| 1.9  (0.8)| 3.1  (0.8)| 0.6 (0.3)| 2.8 (1.0)|    #    # | 0.5 (0.3)| 0.2 (0.2)| 1.7 (1.3)
    Teacher education .......|    12 | 13 (1.0)|100.0 |20.2  (3.4)|65.0  (5.0)| 2.4  (1.5)| 4.4  (1.9)| 1.1 (0.7)| 2.6 (1.2)|    #    # |   #    # | 0.6 (0.6)| 3.7 (3.1)
    Other education .........|    18 | 20 (1.2)|100.0 |28.7  (3.4)|63.0  (3.8)| 1.7  (0.9)| 2.2  (0.6)| 0.3 (0.2)| 3.0 (1.4)|    #    # | 0.8 (0.5)|   #    # | 0.3 (0.4)
                             |       |         |      |           |           |           |           |          |          |           |          |          |
  Engineering ...............|    12 |  9 (0.8)|100.0 |72.6  (6.0)| 2.3  (1.4)| 4.2  (2.4)| 0.7  (0.5)|11.2 (5.7)|   #    # |  6.9 (1.8)| 1.2 (0.7)| 0.9 (0.9)|   #    #
  Fine arts .................|    33 | 38 (1.5)|100.0 |43.7  (3.0)|48.6  (3.1)| 2.5  (0.8)| 0.3  (0.2)| 1.5 (1.2)| 1.5 (0.6)|  0.2 (0.2)| 0.8 (0.3)| 0.5 (0.3)| 0.2 (0.2)
  Health sciences ...........|    45 | 49 (2.2)|100.0 |37.4  (3.3)|52.9  (3.2)| 0.5  (0.2)| 2.3  (0.6)| 1.1 (0.4)| 0.8 (0.2)|  2.3 (0.8)| 1.4 (0.5)| 0.1 (0.1)| 1.2 (0.8)
    First-professional ......|    18 | 15 (1.3)|100.0 |53.4  (5.7)|36.4  (5.3)|   #     # | 1.1  (0.5)| 2.1 (1.2)| 0.6 (0.4)|  4.5 (2.4)| 1.9 (1.2)|   #    # |   #    #
    Nursing .................|    10 | 12 (0.8)|100.0 | 3.5  (1.7)|84.9  (3.8)| 0.3  (0.3)| 4.1  (1.5)| 0.3 (0.3)| 1.4 (0.7)|    #    # | 1.8 (0.9)|   #    # | 3.7 (3.1)
    Other health sciences ...|    17 | 21 (1.7)|100.0 |44.6  (5.4)|47.0  (5.0)| 0.9  (0.4)| 2.1  (1.0)| 0.8 (0.3)| 0.6 (0.3)|  2.0 (0.9)| 0.9 (0.5)| 0.3 (0.3)| 0.8 (0.8)
                             |       |         |      |           |           |           |           |          |          |           |          |          |
  Humanities ................|    60 | 74 (2.1)|100.0 |39.1  (2.2)|47.6  (2.2)| 1.3  (0.4)| 1.4  (0.4)| 2.4 (0.7)| 3.4 (0.7)|  1.0 (0.3)| 2.7 (0.8)| 0.6 (0.3)| 0.7 (0.4)
    English and literature ..|    37 | 43 (1.4)|100.0 |31.1  (2.6)|58.5  (2.8)| 0.9  (0.4)| 1.9  (0.6)| 1.0 (0.4)| 2.1 (1.1)|  1.0 (0.5)| 2.4 (0.7)|   #    # | 1.1 (0.7)
    Foreign languages .......|    11 | 12 (1.2)|100.0 |18.8  (6.1)|52.0  (6.3)| 0.5  (0.5)|   #     # | 7.9 (3.6)|12.5 (2.6)|  0.9 (0.7)| 7.5 (3.8)|   #    # |   #    #
    History .................|     8 | 11 (0.7)|100.0 |66.3  (4.9)|21.8  (4.1)| 3.8  (1.8)| 2.0  (1.7)| 2.6 (1.1)| 1.3 (0.8)|    #    # | 0.0  0.0 | 2.1 (1.2)|   #    #
    Philosophy ..............|     4 |  9 (0.6)|100.0 |72.8  (5.0)|18.6  (4.4)| 0.8  (0.8)|   #     # | 1.6 (1.0)|   #    # |  2.4 (1.3)| 0.5 (0.5)| 2.6 (1.5)| 0.7 (0.5)
                             |       |         |      |           |           |           |           |          |          |           |          |          |
  Law .......................|    14 | 11 (0.8)|100.0 |67.2  (5.2)|19.9  (3.9)| 2.7  (1.6)| 0.3  (0.3)| 2.9 (1.4)| 2.2 (2.0)|  2.9 (2.5)| 1.2 (0.8)| 0.7 (0.7)|   #    #
                             |       |         |      |           |           |           |           |          |          |           |          |          |
  Natural sciences ..........|    60 | 65 (2.2)|100.0 |54.4  (2.5)|32.4  (2.3)| 3.9  (0.9)| 2.0  (0.5)| 1.4 (0.3)| 1.1 (0.3)|  2.9 (0.7)| 1.4 (0.4)| 0.2 (0.2)| 0.3 (0.3)
    Biological sciences .....|    12 | 11 (0.9)|100.0 |54.6  (6.0)|36.7  (5.8)| 2.2  (1.1)| 1.0  (0.8)| 0.2 (0.2)| 0.7 (0.7)|  1.2 (0.8)| 2.7 (1.3)| 0.7 (0.7)|   #    #
    Physical sciences .......|    11 | 11 (0.8)|100.0 |71.9  (4.4)|19.4  (3.7)| 1.3  (0.8)| 1.3  (0.8)| 0.8 (0.4)| 0.7 (0.7)|  4.3 (2.4)| 0.4 (0.4)|   #    # |   #    #
    Mathematics .............|    25 | 24 (1.4)|100.0 |45.9  (4.2)|36.5  (4.0)| 6.6  (2.2)| 2.3  (0.9)| 1.9 (0.6)| 1.8 (0.7)|  2.8 (0.9)| 1.7 (0.7)| 0.3 (0.3)|   #    #
    Computer sciences .......|    13 | 19 (1.2)|100.0 |55.3  (4.6)|31.9  (4.4)| 2.9  (1.2)| 2.7  (1.2)| 1.6 (0.7)| 0.6 (0.4)|  3.1 (1.4)| 0.9 (0.5)|   #    # | 1.0 (1.0)
                             |       |         |      |           |           |           |           |          |          |           |          |          |
  Social sciences ...........|    34 | 41 (2.4)|100.0 |46.2  (3.8)|39.0  (3.5)| 4.2  (1.5)| 3.9  (1.0)| 3.5 (1.4)| 1.4 (0.5)|  0.5 (0.2)| 0.5 (0.2)| 0.7 (0.4)| 0.2 (0.2)
    Economics ...............|     3 |  4 (0.5)|100.0 |73.9  (8.8)|16.9  (6.8)|   #     # | 5.2  (5.1)| 1.3 (1.0)|   #    # |  2.7 (1.7)|   #    # |   #    # |   #    #
    Political science .......|     3 |  4 (0.4)|100.0 |75.8  (6.5)|17.6  (5.8)| 3.4  (1.8)| 0.9  (0.9)| 2.4 (1.3)|   #    # |    #    # |   #    # |   #    # |   #    #
    Psychology ..............|    16 | 18 (2.1)|100.0 |45.4  (7.1)|47.4  (6.8)| 2.6  (1.3)| 1.8  (0.8)| 1.8 (0.8)| 0.8 (0.6)|    #    # | 0.2 (0.2)|   #    # |   #    #
    Sociology ...............|     4 |  6 (0.5)|100.0 |37.8  (7.3)|43.7  (7.2)| 5.4  (3.3)| 3.9  (1.8)| 0.8 (0.6)| 4.6 (2.2)|    #    # | 1.3 (1.0)| 1.1 (1.1)| 1.2 (1.2)
    Other social sciences ...|     8 | 10 (0.9)|100.0 |31.4  (5.5)|37.4  (6.2)| 8.2  (5.4)| 8.4  (3.0)| 9.1 (5.1)| 1.4 (1.2)|  1.0 (0.7)| 0.9 (0.6)| 2.3 (1.3)|   #    #
                             |       |         |      |           |           |           |           |          |          |           |          |          |
  Occupationally specific    |       |         |      |           |           |           |           |          |          |           |          |          |
    programs ................|    16 | 17 (1.1)|100.0 |68.6  (4.2)|11.8  (3.1)| 2.2  (0.8)| 2.2  (1.3)| 2.9 (1.4)| 0.6 (0.6)|  0.9 (0.7)| 8.0 (0.7)|   #    # | 2.7 (2.7)
  All other programs ........|    20 | 35 (1.6)|100.0 |45.0  (3.4)|40.6  (3.3)| 2.4  (0.8)| 3.6  (1.2)| 2.6 (0.8)| 1.9 (0.8)|  1.6 (0.5)| 1.9 (0.6)|   #    # | 0.3 (0.3)
_____________________________|_______|_________|______|___________|___________|___________|___________|__________|__________|___________|__________|__________|__________

# Rounds to zero.

NOTE: Totals may differ from figures reported in other tables because of varying survey methodologies. Standard errors appear in parentheses.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, National Study of Postsecondary Faculty (NSOPF), 1993 and 1999. (This table was prepared September 2001.)


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