Cue the trombone for the “womp, womp, woooomp” findings of another study that indicates continuing underrepresentation of women, Blacks and Hispanics on college and university faculties across the nation.
An analysis of IPEDS data just published in the South Texas College of Law Houston Hispanic Journal of Law and Policy broke down faculty by gender, race and ethnicity, tenure status and institution type. Examining change from 2013 to 2017, it indicated that schools with the least gender and ethnoracial diversity among tenured faculty were institutions that grant degrees up to the doctoral level.
Colleges and universities granting up to master’s or bachelor’s levels also lagged in diversity, according to the study, “Considering the Ethnoracial and Gender Diversity of Faculty in United States College and University Intellectual Communities.”
“It’s really disconcerting,” said co-author Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig, who begins this month as dean of the College of Education and professor of educational policy studies and evaluation at the University of Kentucky.
Among key findings:
· At schools awarding doctoral degrees, 4.6 percent of tenured faculty were Latino and 4.05 percent were Black, increases from 2013 to 2017 of just .65 percent and .1 percent, respectively.
· Gains for the two groups were similarly miniscule at schools awarding master’s degrees, with Latino tenured faculty inching up .64 percent to 5 percent and Black tenured faculty increasing .07 percent to 5.6 percent.
