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By The Numbers: African-American Female Faculty
Compiled by Latrice Bonner
Of all engineering faculty in tenured and tenure-track positions nationwide, African-American women represent just 0.52 percent. The 338 U.S. four-year degree-granting engineering schools surveyed by ASEE reported an aggregate total of 27,178 tenured and tenure-track faculty members as of the fall of 2017. Of these institutions, 81 collectively reported a total of 142 tenured and tenure-track African-American women in academic engineering career fields. Among female faculty, including non-tenure-track as well as tenured and tenure-track, the proportion of African-Americans had climbed from 2.1 percent in 2001 to 3.1 percent in 2017, but remained well below the proportions of white, Asian, and Hispanic women. The three institutions with the highest number of tenured and tenure-track African-American female faculty were the University of Florida, with seven, Morgan State University, with six, and Howard University, with five. Morgan State and Howard are historically black universities. Twenty-five institutions had full professors who were African-American women.
Latrice Bonner is a Ph.D. candidate in higher education and student affairs in the joint doctoral program at Claremont Graduate University and San Diego State University.
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