Tenure Rates of Black Faculty

According to a new report from the U.S. Department of Education, in 2005, 12,660 of the 35,458 black full-time faculty in higher education were tenured. Thus, 35.7 percent of all full-time black faculty members held tenure.

For whites, 238,211 of all 527,900 full-time faculty members held tenure. This is a tenure rate of 45.1 percent.

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