Academic Diversity Disparity
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I am Chicana. I’m from San Antonio, Texas. A Hispanic city with representation across all socioeconomic levels from the Mayor to the owner of the taquería down the street.
It wasn’t until I left for college that I suddenly, and irreversibly, became a minority.
I was dropped into the Ivy League elite without as much as a calling card.
I am an outsider and I navigated my way into Academia. I had no Latinx role models to look to.
But what if there had been a Latinx role model? Would my career path have been any different? Less trial-and-error and more direct? More social capital and a bigger network?
What I think about more is: who gets left behind when there is little to no representation?
I hope this map will be used to understand and demand more representation. #actionoverwords
Using the Map
The disparity (or difference) between the percentage of students from underrepresented minority groups and the percentage of faculty from underrepresented minority groups varies geographically. Texas, Florida, California (states with large Hispanic/Chicanx/Latinx populations) have the largest disparity between underrepresented minority students and faculty.
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Worst of…
The institutions with the largest disparity between Hispanic / Latinx students and faculty.
|
Institution |
Disparity % |
Student % |
Faculty % |
|
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley |
52 |
88 |
36 |
|
Bakersfield College |
51 |
69 |
18 |
|
California State University-San Bernardino |
51 |
63 |
12 |
|
California State University-Los Angeles |
48 |
65 |
17 |
|
The University of Texas at El Paso |
46 |
80 |
34 |
|
California State University-Dominguez Hills |
46 |
60 |
14 |
|
Florida International University |
43 |
64 |
21 |
|
New Mexico State University-Main Campus |
38 |
56 |
18 |
|
California State University-Fresno |
38 |
51 |
13 |
|
The University of Texas at San Antonio |
38 |
55 |
17 |
|
California State University-Northridge |
36 |
47 |
11 |
|
South Texas College |
36 |
95 |
59 |
|
California State Polytechnic University-Pomona |
35 |
45 |
10 |
|
Texas A & M University-Corpus Christi |
33 |
48 |
15 |
|
California State University-Fullerton |
32 |
41 |
9 |
|
California State University-Long Beach |
32 |
42 |
11 |
|
University of California-Riverside |
31 |
37 |
6 |
|
California State University-San Marcos |
31 |
44 |
13 |
|
Santa Ana College |
30 |
54 |
24 |
|
University of New Mexico-Main Campus |
29 |
43 |
14 |