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Table 227. Full-time instructional faculty in degree-granting institutions, by race/ethnicity, residency status, sex, and academic rank: Fall 2003
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                          |        |        |   Minority   |        |        |        |American|         |
                          |        |  White,|______________|  Black,|        |  Asian/| Indian/|    Race/|   Non-
                          |        |    non-|      |   Per-|    non-|        | Pacific|  Alaska|ethnicity|resident
Sex and academic rank     |   Total|Hispanic|Number|cent\1\|Hispanic|Hispanic|Islander|  Native|  unknown|alien\2\
__________________________|________|________|______|_______|________|________|________|________|_________|_________
1                         |       2|       3|     4|      5|       6|       7|       8|       9|       10|       11
__________________________|________|________|______|_______|________|________|________|________|_________|_________
      Total ..............| 631,596| 506,466|97,327|   15.6|  33,137|  20,079|  41,133|   2,978|    6,603|   21,200
                          |________|________|______|_______|________|________|________|________|_________|_________
Professors ...............| 166,415| 144,924|19,481|   11.8|   5,343|   3,429|  10,202|     507|      821|    1,189
Associate professors .....| 132,961| 109,313|20,777|   15.7|   7,204|   3,861|   9,183|     529|      904|    1,967
Assistant professors .....| 153,064| 112,920|28,662|   19.0|   9,464|   5,321|  13,216|     661|    2,017|    9,465
Instructors ..............|  93,023|  73,254|16,660|   18.2|   6,751|   4,780|   4,299|     830|    1,351|    1,758
Lecturers ................|  23,448|  18,473| 3,589|   15.5|   1,199|   1,084|   1,206|     100|      314|    1,072
Other faculty ............|  62,685|  47,582| 8,158|   13.3|   3,176|   1,604|   3,027|     351|    1,196|    5,749
                          |========|========|======|=======|========|========|========|========|=========|=========
Males ....................| 382,808| 307,104|56,951|   15.0|  16,270|  11,245|  27,815|   1,621|    3,825|   14,928
  Professors .............| 127,049| 110,561|14,843|   11.7|   3,427|   2,472|   8,591|     353|      622|    1,023
  Associate professors ...|  82,758|  67,497|13,131|   16.0|   3,863|   2,338|   6,643|     287|      585|    1,545
  Assistant professors ...|  83,564|  60,166|15,576|   18.9|   4,276|   2,812|   8,167|     321|    1,150|    6,672
  Instructors ............|  44,984|  35,474| 7,785|   17.6|   2,809|   2,372|   2,165|     439|      706|    1,019
  Lecturers ..............|  11,175|   8,778| 1,605|   14.6|     570|     466|     525|      44|      169|      623
  Other faculty ..........|  33,278|  24,628| 4,011|   12.3|   1,325|     785|   1,724|     177|      593|    4,046
                          |        |        |      |       |        |        |        |        |         |
Females ..................| 248,788| 199,362|40,376|   16.4|  16,867|   8,834|  13,318|   1,357|    2,778|    6,272
  Professors .............|  39,366|  34,363| 4,638|   11.8|   1,916|     957|   1,611|     154|      199|      166
  Associate professors ...|  50,203|  41,816| 7,646|   15.3|   3,341|   1,523|   2,540|     242|      319|      422
  Assistant professors ...|  69,500|  52,754|13,086|   19.1|   5,188|   2,509|   5,049|     340|      867|    2,793
  Instructors ............|  48,039|  37,780| 8,875|   18.7|   3,942|   2,408|   2,134|     391|      645|      739
  Lecturers ..............|  12,273|   9,695| 1,984|   16.4|     629|     618|     681|      56|      145|      449
  Other faculty ..........|  29,407|  22,954| 4,147|   14.4|   1,851|     819|   1,303|     174|      603|    1,703
__________________________|________|________|______|_______|________|________|________|________|_________|_________
\1\Minority faculty as a percent of total faculty for which race/ethnicity is known.
\2\Race/ethnicity not collected.
NOTE: Totals may differ from figures reported in other tables because of varying survey methodologies.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 2003 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Winter 2003-04. (This table was prepared March 2005.)


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