Postsecondary
Faculty and Staff

In fall 2021, there were 712,180 full-time faculty. Of that number, 69.4 percent were White, 10.7 percent were Asian, 13.4 percent were from all other racial and ethnic groups, and 3.1 percent were of unknown racial and ethnic backgrounds.^[1] International faculty accounted for 3.3 percent.

Similarly, the majority of the over 645,000 part-time faculty were White (68.9 percent). However, a larger share of part-time faculty (9.3 percent) than that of full-time faculty (6.1 percent) were Black or African American. In contrast, smaller shares of part-time faculty (5.3 percent) than that of full-time faculty (10.7 percent) were Asian; the same was true of international faculty (0.9 percent part-time versus 3.3 percent full-time).