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Table 221.Full-time instructional faculty in institutions of higher education, by race/ethnicity, academic rank, and sex: Fall 1993

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                          |         |         |        |        |Asian or |American|  Non-  |  Race/
  Academic rank and sex   |  Total  | White,  | Black, |        | Pacific |Indian/ |resident|ethnicity
                          |         |  non-   |  non-  |Hispanic|Islander |Alaskan | alien  | unknown
                          |         |Hispanic |Hispanic|        |         | Native |        |
--------------------------|---------|---------|--------|--------|---------|--------|--------|---------
            1             |    2    |    3    |   4    |   5    |    6    |   7    |   8    |    9
--------------------------|---------|---------|--------|--------|---------|--------|--------|---------
Men and women, all ranks .| 545,706 | 468,770 | 25,658 | 12,076 |  25,269 |  1,997 | 10,829 |   1,107
  Professors .............| 157,253 | 141,848 |  4,526 |  2,387 |   7,033 |    352 |    942 |     165
  Associate professors ...| 120,696 | 106,017 |  5,326 |  2,291 |   5,471 |    283 |  1,139 |     169
  Assistant professors ...| 129,159 | 105,091 |  7,686 |  3,387 |   7,586 |    431 |  4,602 |     376
  Instructors ............|  67,700 |  56,900 |  4,712 |  2,260 |   2,143 |    610 |    852 |     223
  Lecturers ..............|  13,714 |  11,292 |    839 |    418 |     557 |     56 |    527 |      25
  Other faculty ..........|  57,184 |  47,622 |  2,569 |  1,333 |   2,479 |    265 |  2,767 |     149
                          |=========|=========|========|========|=========|========|========|=========
  Men, all ranks .........| 363,430 | 313,278 | 13,385 |  7,459 |  18,943 |  1,237 |  8,355 |     773
    Professors ...........| 130,574 | 118,308 |  2,982 |  1,776 |   6,245 |    283 |    848 |     132
    Associate professors .|  84,506 |  74,191 |  3,089 |  1,590 |   4,367 |    193 |    942 |     134
    Assistant professors .|  74,822 |  59,709 |  3,801 |  1,951 |   5,277 |    208 |  3,628 |     248
    Instructors ..........|  34,343 |  28,768 |  2,094 |  1,214 |   1,136 |    394 |    582 |     155
    Lecturers ............|   6,689 |   5,503 |    377 |    190 |     254 |     29 |    321 |      15
    Other faculty ........|  32,496 |  26,799 |  1,042 |    738 |   1,664 |    130 |  2,034 |      89
                          |=========|=========|========|========|=========|========|========|=========
   Women, all ranks ......| 182,276 | 155,492 | 12,273 |  4,617 |   6,326 |    760 |  2,474 |     334
    Professors ...........|  26,679 |  23,540 |  1,544 |    611 |     788 |     69 |     94 |      33
    Associate professors .|  36,190 |  31,826 |  2,237 |    701 |   1,104 |     90 |    197 |      35
    Assistant professors .|  54,337 |  45,382 |  3,885 |  1,436 |   2,309 |    223 |    974 |     128
    Instructors ..........|  33,357 |  28,132 |  2,618 |  1,046 |   1,007 |    216 |    270 |      68
    Lecturers ............|   7,025 |   5,789 |    462 |    228 |     303 |     27 |    206 |      10
    Other faculty ........|  24,688 |  20,823 |  1,527 |    595 |     815 |    135 |    733 |      60
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NOTE.--Data exclude faculty employed by system offices. 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, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), "Staff" survey. (This table was prepared June 1996.)


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