Student & Faculty Demographics
The University community includes faculty, staff, and students representing a wide array of ethnic, cultural, and linguistic backgrounds.
- Faculty Demographics
The University continually strives to increase the number of women and ethnic and racial minorities on the faculty, and over the past 10 years, the representation of these populations on campus has steadily grown.
University faculty
Minority representation among Iowa's tenured and tenure-track faculty is currently 17.1 percent, up from 11.4 percent in 1997. More than 250 faculty members are Asian/Pacific Islander/Native Hawaiian, Hispanic/Latino, African American/Black, or American Indian.In addition, more than 430 of Iowa's 1,485 tenured faculty members are women, an increase of 52 percent since 1997.
Total University workforce
About 8.2 percent of the University's total workforce, including faculty, administrators, and all professional employees, belongs to a racial or ethnic minority group. About 63 percent of all UI employees are women.*Source: Annual Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Workforce Report, November 2007, UI Office of Equal Opportunity and Diversity.
- Student Demograhics
About 9.5 percent of all University of Iowa students are African American, Asian, Latino, or Native American. An additional 7.2 percent are from countries other than the United States.
Enrollment by ethnicity and international status
These figures include undergraduate, graduate, and professional students enrolled at Iowa in the fall of 2007.
Ethnicity |
Fall 2008 Enrollment |
% of Total Enrollment, Fall 2007 |
| African American/Black | 736 |
2.4% |
| American Indian | 145 |
0.5% |
| Asian/Pacific Islander/Native Hawaiian | 1,178 |
3.8% |
| Hispanic/Latino | 863 |
2.8% |
| Total Minority Students | 2,922 |
9.6% |
| International | 2,191 |
7.2% |
| Total Minority and International Students | 5,113 |
16.8% |
Source: UI Registrar Profile of Students, Fall 2008
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