According to statistics from the 2000 academic year, Latino faculty comprise only 1.8 percent of total faculty members, with the percentages of African American and Asian faculty members at 2.9 percent and 7.3 percent of the total respectively.
Out of 959 full professors on staff, only 12 are of Latino descent, making up 1.3 percent of the total number. 2.0 percent are African American, and 4.1 percent are Asian.
When broken down by rank, the numbers for both assistant and associate professors are slightly higher - 2.2 percent are Latino, 3.6 percent are African American and 9.8 percent are of Asian descent.
"My opinion is that the numbers are terrible," said Sabrina Harvey, spokeswoman for the Latino Coalition. "The University definitely needs to increase and intensify whatever recruitment process they currently have for minority professors."
