Blacks now make up 3.4 percent of all full-time faculty at the nation's hig
hest-ranked universities. This is a gain of only 0.3 percentage points from
the last JBHE survey conducted four years ago.
Nationwide, among the highest-rated schools, black academics hold the large
st percentage of the total foil-time faculty at Columbia University Bringin
g up the rear are Carnegie Mellon and CalTech.