Article: News and Views: A JBHE Report Card on the Progress of Black Faculty at the Nation's Leading Universities

News and Views: A JBHE Report Card on the Progress of Black Faculty at the Nation's Leading Universities

JBHE has conducted a survey to determine the number of black faculty at the nation's highest-ranked universities. We found that overall there are 1,488 full-time black faculty at these institutions. Blacks make up 3.4 percent of the 43,374 full-time faculty at these highly rated universities.(*) This figure is significantly less than the nationwide percentage of all black faculty, which stands at 4.9 percent.(**)

Overall, it appears at first glance that there has been good progress in achieving faculty diversity at the nation's highest-ranked universities. The number of full-time black ...

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