Monitoring Change in Journalism and Mass Communication Faculties
1989-2001
By
Lee B. Becker, Jisu Huh, Tudor Vlad and Nancy R. Mace
Abstract
From 1989 to 2001, the number of full-time faculty members at U.S. universities teaching journalism and mass communication increased 27.3%, to 5,252 (Chart 1). The number of part-time faculty increased during this same time period by 48.7%, to 4,502! The growth in faculty is outpacing the growth in programs and in students. During this 12-year period, the total number of programs increased 15.9%, from 395 to 458, and total enrollment in these programs increased 17.3%, to 182,182 students.
In 1989, the “average” faculty had 10.5 full-time members, while in 2001 that figure had increased by one faculty member to 11.5.The average faculty had 7.7 faculty members in 1989 and 9.8 part-time faculty in 2001.
In 1989, just fewer than three in 10 of the full-time journalism and mass communication faculty
members were women. In 2001, the ratio was just fewer than four in 10 (Chart 2). Growth in the
percentage of faculty who are woman has been relatively steady. From 1989 to 1992, the growth was
three percentage points. In each of the three-year gaps of 1992 to 1995 and 1995 to 1998, the gain was
two percentage points. In the most recent three-year period–1998 to 2001–the growth was of 3
percentage points. Roughly 2,040 women were full-time journalism and mass communication faculty
members in 2001, Compared with 1,180 in 1989. Overall, that is a growth of 72.9%! (The number of fulltime
male faculty members increased by 31.0%).
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