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Article: News and Views: JBHE's Report Card on the Progress of Black Faculty at the Nation's Leading Liberal Arts Colleges
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- The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
- Article date:
- April 30, 2000
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News and Views: JBHE's Report Card on the Progress of Black Faculty at the Nation's Leading Liberal Arts Colleges
In the last issue of JBHE we reported the results of our survey of black faculty at the nation's highest-ranked universities.(*) We found that of the 43,374 full-time faculty at these schools, there were 1,488 black faculty making up 3.4 percent of the total full-time faculty at these universities. Black faculty ranged from a high of 7.2 percent at Columbia University to 0.6 percent at the California Institute of Technology. In another measure of the penetration of blacks into faculty ranks at U.S. colleges and universities, on page 61 of this issue of JBHE we report that the ...