ABSTRACT
The proportion of African-American instructors has nearly doubled, the proportion of Asian-American instructors has increased by nearly as much, and the proportion of American Indian and Hispanic/Latino faculty has increased even more dramatically. However, it must be noted that the small number of faculty of color in the Humanities makes longitudinal comparisons intriguing, but unreliable. The percentage of White/Caucasian faculty has declined by just 10.9 percent for Humanities faculty since 1975. A higher proportion of Humanities instructors than non-Humanities instructors had experience teaching at the four-year level. This difference was consistent with the presence of non-Liberal Faculty within the non-Humanities subgroup: Non-Liberal Arts instructors were less likely to have taught at a four-year college or university. To ensure consistency within comparisons, disciplines were included in or exclude from the category “Humanities” by the use of the same classification scheme employed by A. M. Cohen and F. B. Brawer, 1977.
