5.3: Faculty Sample

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During the same timeframe as the student focus groups, the PIL Team conducted and recorded telephone interviews with a voluntary sample of faculty at the same schools. The interview script included the same five open-ended questions that were used to collect qualitative data from the student focus groups.

As Table 4 indicates (see the end of this section), the faculty interview sample were 30 years or older than students. Two-fifths of the faculty sample were older than 50-years-old at the eight colleges in the institutional sample (Table 4). Faculty had taught at the institution where they now worked for 1-6 years (32%), 7-10 years (11%), 11-15 years (19%), or more than 15 years (38%). The sample had almost as many female (49%) faculty members as male (51%) members.

Table 4: Description of Faculty Interview Sample
Disciplinary expertise	Count	Percent
Arts & Humanities	10	27.03%
Business Administration	2	5.41%
Computer Science	2	5.41%
Education	3	8.11%
General Education	1	2.70%
Interdisciplinary	1	2.70%
Life or Physical Sciences	6	16.22%
Mathematics	1	2.70%
Social or Behavioral Sciences	11	29.73%
Total	37	100.00%
Years at institution
1-6 years	12	32.43%
7-10 years	4	10.81%
11-15 years	7	18.92%
More than 15 years	14	37.84%
Total	37	100.00%
Gender
Female	18	48.65%
Male	19	51.35%
Total	37	100.00%
Race/Ethnicity
White/Caucasian	31	83.78%
Asian	2	5.41%
Multiple (more than one selected)	3	8.11%
Prefer not to answer	1	2.70%
Total	103	100.00%

Of 19 men interviewed, 14 (73.7%) identified as White, and of 18 women interviewed, 17 (94.4%) identified as White; these racial/ethnic and gender distributions were much higher than the national average for U.S. colleges and universities. The most common academic fields that faculty taught in were social and behavioral studies (30%) and arts and humanities (27%) while far fewer were teaching mathematics (3%) or interdisciplinary studies (3%).

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