National Center for Education Statistics

Staff at Title IV institutions and administrative offices, by race/ethnicity, gender, and primary function/occupational activity: United States, fall 2005
Gender and primary function/ occupational activity	Total	White, non- Hispanic	Black, non- Hispanic	Hispanic	Asian/ Pacific Islander	American Indian/ Alaska Native	Race/ ethnicity unknown	Nonresident alien
Total	3,428,811	2,427,394	335,818	190,495	179,392	20,341	122,803	152,568
Professional staff	2,496,068	1,816,953	174,465	101,382	142,859	12,669	103,948	143,792
Faculty1	1,314,506	1,005,335	79,193	48,779	71,595	6,502	67,965	35,137
Executive/administrative/ managerial	201,571	163,172	18,992	9,007	5,668	1,158	2,685	889
Other professional (support/service)	662,845	485,057	63,875	32,547	41,915	3,779	14,690	20,982
Graduate assistants	317,146	163,389	12,405	11,049	23,681	1,230	18,608	86,784
Nonprofessional staff	932,743	610,441	161,353	89,113	36,533	7,672	18,855	8,776
Technical and paraprofessionals	196,211	132,357	26,934	15,554	11,576	1,719	4,827	3,244
Clerical and secretarial	446,360	303,118	70,202	40,858	16,828	3,198	8,785	3,371
Skilled crafts	61,789	47,995	6,541	4,583	1,075	647	791	157
Service/maintenance	228,383	126,971	57,676	28,118	7,054	2,108	4,452	2,004
Men	1,600,273	1,136,770	127,034	81,819	90,598	8,674	61,665	93,713
Professional staff	1,254,558	913,759	68,454	46,403	76,357	5,731	54,026	89,828
Faculty1	725,007	556,818	35,570	25,537	44,051	3,297	36,654	23,080
Executive/administrative/ managerial	97,337	80,762	7,538	3,911	2,706	538	1,338	544
Other professional (support/ service)	264,683	194,513	20,680	12,144	17,109	1,355	6,555	12,327
Graduate assistants	167,531	81,666	4,666	4,811	12,491	541	9,479	53,877
Nonprofessional staff	345,715	223,011	58,580	35,416	14,241	2,943	7,639	3,885
Technical and paraprofessionals	80,695	56,564	8,810	6,358	4,933	610	2,091	1,329
Clerical and secretarial	64,339	38,466	10,290	7,601	3,995	443	2,175	1,369
Skilled crafts	57,725	45,093	5,950	4,328	984	564	674	132
Service/maintenance	142,956	82,888	33,530	17,129	4,329	1,326	2,699	1,055
Women	1,828,538	1,290,624	208,784	108,676	88,794	11,667	61,138	58,855
Professional staff	1,241,510	903,194	106,011	54,979	66,502	6,938	49,922	53,964
Faculty1	589,499	448,517	43,623	23,242	27,544	3,205	31,311	12,057
Executive/administrative/ managerial	104,234	82,410	11,454	5,096	2,962	620	1,347	345
Other professional (support/ service)	398,162	290,544	43,195	20,403	24,806	2,424	8,135	8,655
Graduate assistants	149,615	81,723	7,739	6,238	11,190	689	9,129	32,907
Nonprofessional staff	587,028	387,430	102,773	53,697	22,292	4,729	11,216	4,891
Technical and paraprofessionals	115,516	75,793	18,124	9,196	6,643	1,109	2,736	1,915
Clerical and secretarial	382,021	264,652	59,912	33,257	12,833	2,755	6,610	2,002
Skilled crafts	4,064	2,902	591	255	91	83	117	25
Service/maintenance	85,427	44,083	24,146	10,989	2,725	782	1,753	949

¹ Faculty include persons whose primary responsibility is instruction, research, and/or public service.

NOTE: Race/ethnicity (including race/ethnicity unknown) applies to U.S. citizens, resident aliens, and other eligible noncitizens. Nonresident aliens are not designated by race or ethnicity. Data are for institutions with 15 or more full-time staff. Thirteen institutions that were required to complete this section of the Human Resources (HR) component could not respond to HR at all due to natural disaster; their data were not imputed, and they are not represented in this table.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Winter 2005-06, Human Resources component, Fall Staff section.