Surprises in the Academy (Not!)
by P.D. Lesko News Flash: A Department Education study has found that 62 percent of college faculty with full-time jobs are men. Of the 1.2 million college faculty employed in the United States, 80 percent are white. Shocking news. I know. Especially for the part-time faculty out there, 48 percent of whom are women. Between 2001 and 2003, the number of men employed full-time rose by one percent, and the number of whites teaching in higher education dropped by one percent. The good news? If these trends hold, by 2025, 60 percent of college faculty will be white, around the […]
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