The hiring equity metric assesses whether there is equity in hiring between racial/ethnic groups for full time, tenure-track positions at a given institution. Unfortunately, when we looked closely, we found that Black and Latino faculty are disproportionately hired for non-tenure-track roles and are vastly underrepresented among tenured and tenure-track faculty.
Slightly more than one-third of institutions received an A grade for equitable hiring of Black faculty members. Of these, 67, or 13%, had hired all new Black faculty with tenure or on the tenure track. Nearly 1 in 4 institutions received an F grade, and 35 of them hired all new Black faculty without tenure or on the tenure track, and 50 institutions did not hire any new Black faculty in 2020.
Similarly, 46% of institutions received an A grade for their Latino faculty hiring equity score. Of these schools, 80, or 15% had hired all new Latino faculty with tenure or on the tenure track. While 25% of the institutions in our sample received an F, based on the number of new Latino faculty hires, 48 of them (9%) received an F because none of their new Latino faculty hires were hired onto the tenure track. Seventy-six (76) institutions, or 15%, did not have any new Latino faculty hires.
