ABSTRACT
ALTHOUGH U.S. COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES are enrolling far more minority students than ever before, they are failing to diversify their faculty. During the 1990s and into the early part of this new century, the percentage of underrepresented minority faculty in the academic workplace has not budged. African-American, Puerto Rican-American, Mexican-American, and Native American faculty remain clustered in minority-serving institutions and two-year colleges. At most U.S. campuses, where European-American students and, in particular, European-American faculty predominate, minority faculty are rare (taking up barely five percent of the total in the faculty ranks), and they are astonishingly rarer still at the tenured-and full-professor ranks. The only progress to be found is in the increasing number of AsianAmerican professors (now five percent of the total), especially in science fields.
