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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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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 | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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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)
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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)
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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)| # (†) | # (†)
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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)| # (†)
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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)| # (†)
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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)
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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 | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)| # (†)
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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)
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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)| # (†)
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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)
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†Not applicable. 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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