Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Underrepresented Groups in the Professoriate (Academics)


In chapter 2 of my forthcoming book, I marshall statistics from the Higher Education Research Institute (HERI), Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), and other sources to sketch out the composition of the U.S. professoriate. Professors, I argue, are in many respects illustrative of the broader gap between knowledge economy professionals and the publics they ostensibly serve. Many other “knowledge” fields, such as journalism, law, consulting, tech, and finance, are similarly parochial, to the detriment of aligned institutions and American society more broadly. 

Here is a chart from the text, comparing the demographics of U.S. full-time faculty with the broader adult population (see here for additional information) that would allow us to see more clearly which groups are the most over or underrepresented relative to their baselines in the broader society (and allow us to better normalize comparisons across different categories):

comparing professors to the general public


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