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Table 234. Full-time and part-time instructional faculty and staff in degree-granting institutions, by race/ethnicity, sex, and program area: Fall 1992 and fall 1998

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                            | 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\1\ ................|    528| 560(4.79)| 100.0| 54.5 (0.62)| 30.6(0.55)| 2.6(0.17)| 2.5(0.18)| 2.0(0.18)| 1.3(0.13)| 4.0(0.22)| 1.8 (0.16)| 0.5(0.08)|0.2 (0.04)
                            |_______|__________|______|____________|___________|__________|__________|__________|__________|__________|___________|__________|__________
Agriculture and             |       |          |      |            |           |          |          |          |          |          |           |          |
   home economics ..........|     11|  10(0.42)| 100.0| 74.3 (2.89)| 16.4(2.42)| 1.7(0.68)| 2.3(0.99)| 1.2(0.60)| 0.1(0.13)| 2.2(0.88)| 0.7 (0.40)| 1.0(0.96)|  #   (†)
Business ...................|     40|  39(1.12)| 100.0| 54.7 (2.24)| 32.0(2.09)| 3.8(0.71)| 1.5(0.33)| 1.0(0.29)| 0.7(0.28)| 4.4(0.69)| 0.8 (0.27)| 1.2(0.82)|0.1 (0.09)
Communications .............|     10|  10(1.03)| 100.0| 60.8 (5.03)| 26.7(3.80)| 3.5(1.07)| 1.9(0.84)| 0.8(0.34)| 2.3(0.94)| 2.8(1.68)| 1.0 (0.76)|  #   (†) |0.3 (0.28)
Education ..................|     37|  40(1.45)| 100.0| 37.9 (2.59)| 45.9(2.42)| 2.4(0.44)| 6.2(1.41)| 1.4(0.42)| 1.8(0.39)| 0.7(0.27)| 2.9 (0.88)| 0.1(0.12)|0.7 (0.29)
  Teacher education ........|     12|  14(0.64)| 100.0| 33.1 (3.37)| 52.6(3.71)| 2.2(0.64)| 7.7(3.30)| 0.2(0.13)| 1.2(0.48)| 0.3(0.35)| 2.5 (1.00)|  #   (†) |0.3 (0.26)
  Other education ..........|     25|  26(1.27)| 100.0| 40.4 (3.48)| 42.3(3.08)| 2.5(0.58)| 5.4(1.24)| 2.1(0.64)| 2.2(0.53)| 0.9(0.36)| 3.1 (1.23)| 0.2(0.19)|0.9 (0.43)
                            |       |          |      |            |           |          |          |          |          |          |           |          |
Engineering ................|     24|  25(0.94)| 100.0| 69.9 (2.63)|  7.1(1.60)| 2.3(0.56)| 0.1(0.09)| 3.5(1.33)| 0.4(0.24)|14.5(1.86)| 1.6 (0.79)| 0.6(0.35)|   #  (†)
Fine arts ..................|     32|  33(1.37)| 100.0| 60.7 (2.59)| 28.5(2.27)| 4.6(1.02)| 2.1(0.57)| 0.9(0.31)| 0.3(0.11)| 1.9(0.55)| 0.5 (0.22)| 0.5(0.28)|0.1 (0.09)
Health sciences ............|     79|  84(1.97)| 100.0| 42.7 (1.70)| 42.8(1.54)| 1.3(0.29)| 3.1(0.41)| 1.7(0.34)| 1.6(0.41)| 3.8(0.61)| 2.4 (0.38)| 0.4(0.16)|0.4 (0.13)
  First-professional .......|     37|  40(1.56)| 100.0| 60.9 (2.49)| 22.9(2.20)| 1.1(0.26)| 1.7(0.45)| 2.8(0.65)| 0.8(0.20)| 6.2(1.12)| 3.4 (0.69)| 0.2(0.17)|0.1 (0.11)
  Nursing ..................|     22|  20(0.62)| 100.0|  3.5 (0.96)| 83.9(2.12)|  #   (†) | 6.4(1.18)| 0.1(0.06)| 3.6(1.55)| 0.2(0.17)| 1.4 (0.52)|  #   (†) |0.9 (0.43)
  Other health sciences ....|     21|  24(1.03)| 100.0| 45.0 (3.24)| 41.8(2.82)| 2.6(0.90)| 2.6(0.73)| 1.2(0.51)| 1.4(0.49)| 2.7(1.02)| 1.5 (0.51)| 0.9(0.47)|0.3 (0.20)
                            |       |          |      |            |           |          |          |          |          |          |           |          |
Humanities .................|     74|  81(1.78)| 100.0| 47.9 (1.66)| 36.0(1.51)| 2.4(0.70)| 2.1(0.49)| 3.7(0.69)| 2.8(0.54)| 1.7(0.54)| 3.0 (0.68)| 0.2(0.12)|0.1 (0.09)
  English and literature ...|     37|  40(1.21)| 100.0| 42.7 (2.35)| 45.8(2.26)| 1.1(0.30)| 2.8(0.64)| 2.3(0.83)| 2.1(0.82)| 0.9(0.31)| 2.1 (0.68)| 0.1(0.12)|0.1 (0.09)
  Foreign languages ........|     14|  15(0.82)| 100.0| 32.1 (3.51)| 35.7(3.54)| 0.8(0.37)| 0.7(0.36)| 9.3(2.11)| 8.3(1.79)| 4.1(2.18)| 8.2 (2.84)| 0.4(0.35)|0.4 (0.42)
  History ..................|     15|  14(0.58)| 100.0| 59.0 (3.69)| 26.2(2.98)| 3.6(1.12)| 3.5(2.17)| 3.4(2.08)| 1.3(0.59)| 0.9(0.47)| 1.5 (1.19)| 0.7(0.49)| #    (†)
  Philosophy ...............|      8|  12(0.79)| 100.0| 72.1 (4.72)| 15.1(2.92)| 7.0(4.21)| 0.4(0.29)| 2.0(0.95)|  #   (†) | 2.3(2.04)| 1.0 (0.51)|  #   (†) | #    (†)
                            |       |          |      |            |           |          |          |          |          |          |           |          |
Law ........................|      9|   8(0.58)| 100.0| 60.2 (5.29)| 29.8(5.44)| 1.9(0.75)| 3.0(1.64)| 1.1(0.45)| 0.2(0.20)| 0.3(0.35)| 2.1 (1.12)| 1.3(0.94)| #    (†)
                            |       |          |      |            |           |          |          |          |          |          |           |          |
Natural sciences ...........|    102| 111(2.06)| 100.0| 63.7 (1.30)| 21.9(1.10)| 2.1(0.31)| 1.0(0.21)| 2.2(0.45)| 0.7(0.28)| 6.9(0.63)| 1.2 (0.19)| 0.2(0.01)|0.1 (0.05)
  Biological sciences ......|     34|  40(1.34)| 100.0| 60.3 (2.30)| 26.2(2.03)| 2.0(0.50)| 1.0(0.30)| 1.6(0.42)| 0.3(0.16)| 6.4(1.11)| 1.6 (0.35)| 0.3(0.17)|0.1 (0.10)
  Physical sciences ........|     28|  27(0.76)| 100.0| 76.9 (2.11)| 11.0(1.53)| 1.8(0.60)| 0.6(0.48)| 1.3(0.42)| 1.2(1.04)| 5.7(0.97)| 1.2 (0.35)| 0.2(0.19)|0.1 (0.13)
  Mathematics ..............|     25|  26(1.05)| 100.0| 59.3 (2.76)| 21.4(1.94)| 3.3(0.84)| 1.1(0.46)| 3.7(1.61)| 1.1(0.43)| 9.2(1.57)| 1.0 (0.37)|  #   (†) | #    (†)
  Computer sciences ........|     14|  17(0.86)| 100.0| 57.2 (3.55)| 29.4(3.39)| 1.1(0.37)| 1.3(0.53)| 2.7(0.90)| 0.4(0.17)| 6.6(1.16)| 0.7 (0.39)| 0.6(0.39)| #    (†)
                            |       |          |      |            |           |          |          |          |          |          |           |          |
Social sciences ............|     58|  58(1.34)| 100.0| 58.0 (1.76)| 26.0(1.49)| 3.1(0.46)| 3.6(0.71)| 1.8(0.32)| 1.2(0.37)| 3.7(0.71)| 1.3 (0.38)| 1.0(0.29)|0.3 (0.15)
  Economics ................|     10|   9(0.55)| 100.0| 67.6 (4.40)| 16.2(3.12)| 2.5(0.91)| 0.0 0.00 | 1.1(0.64)| 0.3(0.24)|10.7(3.55)| 0.5 (0.39)| 0.4(0.45)|0.6 (0.56)
  Political science ........|      9|   8(0.50)| 100.0| 69.7 (4.13)| 17.5(3.00)| 3.5(1.30)| 2.9(1.98)| 3.2(1.27)| 1.1(0.80)| 1.3(0.93)| 0.8 (0.58)|  #   (†) | #    (†)
  Psychology ...............|     18|  20(0.74)| 100.0| 54.8 (3.08)| 31.7(2.85)| 2.3(0.67)| 3.4(1.08)| 1.5(0.50)| 1.6(0.61)| 2.0(0.61)| 1.0 (0.42)| 1.7(0.65)|0.2 (0.18)
  Sociology ................|     10|   9(0.40)| 100.0| 55.0 (4.16)| 31.1(3.95)| 2.5(0.88)| 3.9(1.36)| 1.6(0.67)| 0.4(0.40)| 2.2(0.91)| 2.7 (1.92)| 0.5(0.52)| #    (†)
  Other social sciences ....|     12|  13(0.62)| 100.0| 51.6 (3.74)| 25.5(2.89)| 5.0(1.34)| 6.4(2.22)| 2.0(0.72)| 1.7(1.24)| 4.1(1.40)| 1.8 (0.83)| 1.2(0.67)|0.8 (0.44)
                            |       |          |      |            |           |          |          |          |          |          |           |          |
Occupationally specific     |       |          |      |            |           |          |          |          |          |          |           |          |
   programs ................|     15|  16(0.76)| 100.0| 72.6 (3.22)| 12.9(2.27)| 3.5(0.93)| 2.5(0.95)| 2.7(1.66)| 0.1(0.08)| 3.0(1.40)| 0.5 (0.35)| 2.4(0.94)|0.0 (0.00)
All other programs .........|     28|  44(1.24)| 100.0| 49.0 (2.17)| 36.6(2.10)| 3.8(0.68)| 3.2(0.58)| 1.6(0.69)| 1.1(0.31)| 2.1(0.43)| 2.1 (0.62)| 0.0(0.03)|0.4 (0.23)
                            |       |          |      |            |           |          |          |          |          |          |           |          |
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Part-time instructional     |       |          |      |            |           |          |          |          |          |          |           |          |
   faculty and staff        |       |          |      |            |           |          |          |          |          |          |           |          |
                            |       |          |      |            |           |          |          |          |          |          |           |          |
   Total\1\ ................|    377| 416(5.95)| 100.0| 45.9 (1.02)| 41.7(1.00)| 2.4(0.27)| 2.1(0.22)| 2.1(0.28)| 1.7(0.20)| 1.5(0.19)| 1.7 (0.35)| 0.3(0.08)|0.6 (0.20)
                            |_______|__________|______|____________|___________|__________|__________|__________|__________|__________|___________|__________|__________
Agriculture and             |       |          |      |            |           |          |          |          |          |          |           |          |
   home economics ..........|      3|   3(0.16)| 100.0| 31.5 (7.81)| 56.8(9.48)|  #   (†) | 1.3(1.31)| 3.1(3.06)| 0.8(0.82)|  #   (†) | 6.7 (6.36)|  #   (†) | #    (†)
Business ...................|     35|  32(1.79)| 100.0| 57.8 (4.00)| 33.3(4.20)| 2.4(0.82)| 3.0(0.95)| 0.8(0.33)| 0.6(0.22)| 0.9(0.41)| 1.3 (0.49)|  #   (†) | #    (†)
Communications .............|     10|  10(1.02)| 100.0| 43.6 (6.90)| 50.2(7.13)| 1.7(0.90)| 1.0(0.60)| 1.4(1.20)| 0.6(0.62)| 1.1(0.80)| 0.4 (0.43)|  #   (†) | #    (†)
Education ..................|     31|  34(1.59)| 100.0| 25.4 (2.46)| 63.8(3.04)| 1.9(0.79)| 3.1(0.84)| 0.6(0.27)| 2.8(0.96)|  #   (†) | 0.5 (0.33)| 0.2(0.23)|1.7 (1.25)
  Teacher education ........|     12|  13(1.00)| 100.0| 20.2 (3.42)| 65.0(4.97)| 2.4(1.54)| 4.4(1.93)| 1.1(0.66)| 2.6(1.21)|  #   (†) |  #    (†) | 0.6(0.58)|3.7 (3.14)
  Other education ..........|     18|  20(1.24)| 100.0| 28.7 (3.36)| 63.0(3.83)| 1.7(0.85)| 2.2(0.61)| 0.3(0.16)| 3.0(1.38)|  #   (†) | 0.8 (0.55)|  #   (†) |0.3 (0.35)
                            |       |          |      |            |           |          |          |          |          |          |           |          |
Engineering ................|     12|   9(0.82)| 100.0| 72.6 (6.03)|  2.3(1.37)| 4.2(2.39)| 0.7(0.49)|11.2(5.71)|  #   (†) | 6.9(1.84)| 1.2 (0.69)| 0.9(0.87)| #    (†)
Fine arts ..................|     33|  38(1.49)| 100.0| 43.7 (3.04)| 48.6(3.09)| 2.5(0.84)| 0.3(0.17)| 1.5(1.17)| 1.5(0.56)| 0.2(0.17)| 0.8 (0.29)| 0.5(0.31)|0.2 (0.16)
Health sciences ............|     45|  49(2.25)| 100.0| 37.4 (3.30)| 52.9(3.18)| 0.5(0.18)| 2.3(0.58)| 1.1(0.41)| 0.8(0.24)| 2.3(0.84)| 1.4 (0.49)| 0.1(0.14)|1.2 (0.83)
  First-professional .......|     18|  15(1.27)| 100.0| 53.4 (5.67)| 36.4(5.27)|  #   (†) | 1.1(0.48)| 2.1(1.18)| 0.6(0.36)| 4.5(2.37)| 1.9 (1.19)|  #   (†) | #    (†)
  Nursing ..................|     10|  12(0.82)| 100.0|  3.5 (1.65)| 84.9(3.79)| 0.3(0.29)| 4.1(1.48)| 0.3(0.28)| 1.4(0.72)|  #   (†) | 1.8 (0.93)|  #   (†) |3.7 (3.08)
  Other health sciences ....|     17|  21(1.67)| 100.0| 44.6 (5.38)| 47.0(5.04)| 0.9(0.38)| 2.1(0.96)| 0.8(0.32)| 0.6(0.26)| 2.0(0.87)| 0.9 (0.47)| 0.3(0.33)|0.8 (0.77)
                            |       |          |      |            |           |          |          |          |          |          |           |          |
Humanities .................|     60|  74(2.10)| 100.0| 39.1 (2.21)| 47.6(2.20)| 1.3(0.36)| 1.4(0.43)| 2.4(0.67)| 3.4(0.74)| 1.0(0.33)| 2.7 (0.75)| 0.6(0.25)|0.7 (0.40)
  English and literature ...|     37|  43(1.44)| 100.0| 31.1 (2.64)| 58.5(2.78)| 0.9(0.40)| 1.9(0.61)| 1.0(0.44)| 2.1(1.08)| 1.0(0.47)| 2.4 (0.72)|  #   (†) |1.1 (0.67)
  Foreign languages ........|     11|  12(1.15)| 100.0| 18.8 (6.11)| 52.0(6.28)| 0.5(0.46)|  #   (†) | 7.9(3.62)|12.5(2.61)| 0.9(0.65)| 7.5 (3.83)|  #   (†) | #    (†)
  History ..................|      8|  11(0.72)| 100.0| 66.3 (4.85)| 21.8(4.05)| 3.8(1.79)| 2.0(1.70)| 2.6(1.11)| 1.3(0.81)|  #   (†) | 0.0  0.00 | 2.1(1.23)| #    (†)
  Philosophy ...............|      4|   9(0.63)| 100.0| 72.8 (4.97)| 18.6(4.42)| 0.8(0.81)|  #   (†) | 1.6(0.98)|  #   (†) | 2.4(1.25)| 0.5 (0.47)| 2.6(1.46)|0.7 (0.52)
                            |       |          |      |            |           |          |          |          |          |          |           |          |
Law ........................|     14|  11(0.80)| 100.0| 67.2 (5.23)| 19.9(3.92)| 2.7(1.60)| 0.3(0.30)| 2.9(1.43)| 2.2(2.04)| 2.9(2.51)| 1.2 (0.75)| 0.7(0.67)| #    (†)
                            |       |          |      |            |           |          |          |          |          |          |           |          |
Natural sciences ...........|     60|  65(2.21)| 100.0| 54.4 (2.47)| 32.4(2.33)| 3.9(0.94)| 2.0(0.51)| 1.4(0.33)| 1.1(0.34)| 2.9(0.66)| 1.4 (0.37)| 0.2(0.16)|0.3 (0.30)
  Biological sciences ......|     12|  11(0.90)| 100.0| 54.6 (5.95)| 36.7(5.77)| 2.2(1.08)| 1.0(0.76)| 0.2(0.22)| 0.7(0.70)| 1.2(0.79)| 2.7 (1.28)| 0.7(0.66)| #    (†)
  Physical sciences ........|     11|  11(0.78)| 100.0| 71.9 (4.39)| 19.4(3.70)| 1.3(0.80)| 1.3(0.81)| 0.8(0.39)| 0.7(0.72)| 4.3(2.37)| 0.4 (0.40)|  #   (†) | #    (†)
  Mathematics ..............|     25|  24(1.42)| 100.0| 45.9 (4.20)| 36.5(4.03)| 6.6(2.18)| 2.3(0.85)| 1.9(0.64)| 1.8(0.72)| 2.8(0.92)| 1.7 (0.65)| 0.3(0.31)| #    (†)
  Computer sciences ........|     13|  19(1.21)| 100.0| 55.3 (4.61)| 31.9(4.44)| 2.9(1.17)| 2.7(1.19)| 1.6(0.74)| 0.6(0.43)| 3.1(1.35)| 0.9 (0.52)|  #   (†) |1.0 (1.01)
                            |       |          |      |            |           |          |          |          |          |          |           |          |
Social sciences ............|     34|  41(2.40)| 100.0| 46.2 (3.80)| 39.0(3.50)| 4.2(1.54)| 3.9(0.97)| 3.5(1.36)| 1.4(0.50)| 0.5(0.22)| 0.5 (0.22)| 0.7(0.36)|0.2 (0.17)
  Economics ................|      3|   4(0.53)| 100.0| 73.9 (8.78)| 16.9(6.78)|  #   (†) | 5.2(5.11)| 1.3(0.95)|  #   (†) | 2.7(1.66)|  #    (†) |  #   (†) | #    (†)
  Political science ........|      3|   4(0.44)| 100.0| 75.8 (6.46)| 17.6(5.80)| 3.4(1.85)| 0.9(0.89)| 2.4(1.28)|  #   (†) |  #   (†) |  #    (†) |  #   (†) | #    (†)
  Psychology ...............|     16|  18(2.06)| 100.0| 45.4 (7.12)| 47.4(6.77)| 2.6(1.30)| 1.8(0.80)| 1.8(0.82)| 0.8(0.57)|  #   (†) | 0.2 (0.20)|  #   (†) | #    (†)
  Sociology ................|      4|   6(0.52)| 100.0| 37.8 (7.28)| 43.7(7.21)| 5.4(3.29)| 3.9(1.78)| 0.8(0.57)| 4.6(2.16)|  #   (†) | 1.3 (0.99)| 1.1(1.12)|1.2 (1.20)
  Other social sciences ....|      8|  10(0.90)| 100.0| 31.4 (5.52)| 37.4(6.19)| 8.2(5.37)| 8.4(2.98)| 9.1(5.15)| 1.4(1.20)| 1.0(0.72)| 0.9 (0.57)| 2.3(1.31)| #    (†)
                            |       |          |      |            |           |          |          |          |          |          |           |          |
Occupationally specific     |       |          |      |            |           |          |          |          |          |          |           |          |
   programs ................|     16|  17(1.08)| 100.0| 68.6 (4.23)| 11.8(3.09)| 2.2(0.78)| 2.2(1.27)| 2.9(1.38)| 0.6(0.63)| 0.9(0.65)| 8.0 (0.68)|  #   (†) |2.7 (2.65)
All other programs .........|     20|  35(1.62)| 100.0| 45.0 (3.39)| 40.6(3.30)| 2.4(0.75)| 3.6(1.15)| 2.6(0.76)| 1.9(0.76)| 1.6(0.51)| 1.9 (0.64)|  #   (†) |0.3 (0.25)
____________________________|_______|__________|______|____________|___________|__________|__________|__________|__________|__________|___________|__________|__________

†Not applicable.
#Rounds to zero.

NOTE: Totals may differ from figures reported in other tables because of varying survey methodologies. Standard errors appear in parentheses. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding and nonresponse to program area question.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 1993 National Study of Postsecondary Faculty (NSOPF:93) and 1999 National Study of Postsecondary Faculty (NSOPF:99). (This table was prepared September 2001.)

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