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3 ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT OF HUMANISTS
Pages 29-38

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... Academic Rank The majority of humanities doctorates employed in the academic sector, both overall and within each field, held faculty positions6 in 1991 (see Table 16~. The distribution among the faculty ranks varied considerably across fields: the percentage of full professors ranged from a high of 50.1 percent in "other history" to a low of 22.3 percent in art history; over 31 percent of the doctorates in art history and modern languages and literature were associate professors compared with 20.2 percent of those in "other history"; and approximately 23 percent of doctorates in art history and "other humanities" were assistant professors compared with only 12.3 percent of those in "other history.
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... 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% 45.2% 26-2%'27~1% 1 21.7% 1'~ . 14.3% 1 25% ~ss Rem FuB Professor Assistant Professor Associate Professor ~ Male ~ Female 17.2% 7.~% ~ Over Faculty 7.2% ~ Other/No Report speech/theater (66.7 and 66.3 percent, respectively)
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... . There was some variation in the distribution of work activities across fields: 15.2 percent of the speech/theater doctorates were primarily engaged in management and administration, compared with approximately 6 percent of those in classical languages and literature and art history; between 10 and ~ ~ percent of doctorates in philosophy and "other humanities" were primarily engaged in research and development, compared with only I.0 percent of the music doctorates.
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... More (No.) None 1-2 3-5 Than 5 Mean Total Field of Doctorate American History Other History Art History 60,000 31.2 21.7 22.7 24.4 4.2 3,800 20.4 20.1 25.4 34.1 6.1 9,200 26.3 19.5 24.7 29.4 5.0 1,900 15.4 32.2 29.0 23.4 4.0 Music 5,000 61.0 16.4 10.5 12.1 2.1 Speech/Theater 3,100 43.3 20.1 18.1 18.5 3.6 Philosophy 4,900 26.6 22.7 23.6 27.1 4.2 English and Amer Lang/Lit 17,000 33.2 24.9 21.8 20.1 3.8 Classical Lang/Lit 1,300 29.7 20.5 28.1 21.8 3.5 Modern Lang/Lit 9,900 26.8 20.3 24.8 28.1 4.6 Other Humanities 3,900 21.5 19.9 27.6 30.9 4.9 Tenure StatusT Tenured 37,300 28.7 21.0 23.4 26.9 4.6 Not Tenured 20,700 35.3 22.7 21.7 20.2 3.6 Tenure Track 9,600 21.0 23.4 29.6 26.0 4.3 Nontenure Track 4,200 40.3 24.8 20.4 14.5 3.3 Tenure Not Applicable 6,900 52.3 20.4 11.6 15.7 2.7 *
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