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12/95/
ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED174168 AUTHOR: Galambos, Eva C.
TITLE: Racial Composition of Faculties in Public Colleges
and Universities of the South.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1979
NOTE: 48 p.
AVAILABILITY: Southern Regional Education Board, 130 Sixth
Street, N.W., Atlanta, GA 30313 ($2.50)
ABSTRACT: This report summarizes the distribution of full
time faculty, by race and discipline, in the public four
year and two-year institutions of the 14 states of the
Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) region. The data
were gathered with partial support by a grant from the Ford
Foundation. A basic objective of the project was to develop
baseline data on full-time black faculty, by disciplines,
in
public institutions of higher education within the region.
Such information, in conjunction with data on newly
entering
black faculty (i.e., annual graduate degrees earned by
blacks), constitutes the current supply of black faculty in
the various disciplines. The distribution of faculty by
race
and discipline in the Southern region is illustrative of
the
national picture and, therefore, should be helpful for
program planning and affirmative action implementation. The
information in this report was obtained primarily by
surveying individual public four-year and two-year
institutions in the region. The survey methods are detailed
in an appendix. The institutions for which faculty data are
included account for 94 percent of total four-year
enrollments and 79 percent of total two-year enrollments in
1976-77. Data were obtained on race and discipline of
97,053
four-year and 34,725 two-year full-time faculty members.
The
report covers only faculty with teaching responsibilities
and excludes those in full-time administrative positions.
"Discipline" in this report refers to the subject area in
which faculty teach, not to their field of preparation. The
Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS)
classification of disciplines was used, with certain
adjustments which are described in an appendix. The two
primary variables covered are race and discipline of
faculty. Additionally, tenure, rank, and degree level data
on faculty were obtained from some institutions.
(Author/MSE)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Community-Colleges; Full-Time-Faculty;
Research-Reports; State-Universities; Statistical-Data;
Surveys-; Tables-Data
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Black-Teachers; *College-Faculty; *Higher
Education; *Intellectual-Disciplines; *Public-Education;
*Racial-Distribution; *State-Colleges; *Units-of-Study
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