Looking for Black Faculty at the Nation’s 50 Flagship State Universities

According to JBHE research, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Maryland, Ohio State University, the University of Michigan, Pennsylvania State University, the University of Georgia, and the University of Florida are the only flagship state universities that have more than 100 black faculty members.

At the other extreme, in 2007 the University of South Dakota and the University of Maine had only three black faculty members. The University of Idaho, the University of New Hampshire, the University of Montana, the University of Wyoming, and the University of North Dakota had fewer than 10 black faculty members.  In 2007, five blacks were teaching at the University of Montana. In the year 2001, there were no black faculty at the university.

The University of North Carolina has the highest percentage of black faculty among the flagship state institutions at 5.9 percent. The only other flagship state universities where blacks make up at least 5 percent of the total full-time faculty are the University of Georgia, the University of Michigan, the University of Maryland, and the University of Mississippi.

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