Diversity: Statistics
Where does the Division and UC San Diego stand in regard to underrepresented minority recruitment, enrollment, and faculty hiring? Take a look at our about our Divisional Distribution Statistics (PDF) for 2011. Here are a few other current statistics:
Student Statistics
- The number of underrepresented minorities among California public high school graduates is increasing every year, from 35% in 1991 to a projected 51% in 2012.
- Of the 23,143 UCSD undergraduate students in Fall 2009, 92 were American Indian, 368 were African American, 2,344 were Chicano/Chicana, and 667 were Latino/Latina. Check out the undergraduate ethnicity fact sheet (PDF).
- UCSD's 6‐year retention rate of students is 85%. However, the 6‐year retention rate for underrepresented students is significantly lower: African Americans 70%, Chicano 60%, and Latino 79%. The only exception is the graduation rate of American Indians, which is 86%. See more data (PDF).
- As of 2010, among the 5,274 undergraduate Biology majors: 88 are African American; 506 are Latino/Chicano; 8 are American Indian; 1,109 are Caucasian; 239 are East Indian/Pakistani; and 2,935 are Asian, 1,241 of whom are of Chinese or Chinese‐American ancestry.
Faculty Statistics
- African American faculty members in the UC system: 2% in 1990 and in 2010.
- Chicano/Latino faculty: 3.7% in 1990 and 5% in 2010.
- Asian faculty: 8.9% in 1993 and 14.5% in 2010.
- Women faculty: 17.1% in 1990 and 29% in 2010.
- UC San Diego, UC Davis and UC Berkeley have the lowest percentage of underrepresented minority faculty at 6.8%, while UC Merced (20%) and UC Santa Cruz (13%) have the highest.
- Since 2001–02, the Division or Biological Sciences hired 45 new faculty members. Of those, 4 were from underrepresented minority groups and 18 were women.
- In 2009, the Division had 78 faculty members: 58 men and 20 women, or 25.6% women, compared with 16.3% for Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 0.6% for Engineering, and 1.2% for Physical Sciences.
Diversity
If you have an idea about new initiatives or how to improve on existing ones, please e-mail us at diversity@biology.ucsd.edu.
One of the co-chairs of the Divisional Diversity Committee will respond to you within a week.