How Many Black Women Have Tenure On Your Campus?

Summary

The Chronicle of Higher Education published an article investigating the number of black women tenured professors in the U.S. Using data from Fall 2019 IPEDS, they find few tenured women that are black:

At public and private nonprofit four-year colleges in the fall of 2019 — the most recent year for which federal data are available — there were 251,921 tenured associate and full professors. Of those, 5,221, or 2.1 percent, were Black women.

Out of the 425 Tenured Professors at Rice Fall 2019, 3 are black women, or 0.7% of all tenured professors.

How does Rice compare to AAU Peers?

There are a total of 64 AAU Peers (29 private, 35 public). Rice ranks:

• #54 among 64 AAU Peers, tied with Stanford University and University of Oregon (12.7 percentile).
• #24 among 29 AAU Private Peers (14.3 percentile).
• #31 among 35 AAU Public Peers (11.4 percentile).

The number of black women tenured professors ranges from 0-33, or 0% to 3.1% of all tenured professors.

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Data Tables

Percent of Black women tenured faculty members, All AAU Peers

Percent of Black women tenured faculty members, AAU Private

Percent of Black women tenured faculty members, AAU Publics