New data shows increasing Latinx presence in the CSU

Forty-eight page report with 34 tables of data released by the CSU's faculty union in February

Reporters and editors,

The California Faculty Association released their 2020 demographic count in February. It was one of the stories I wanted to share early on, but COVID-19 was too big at the time (and almost still is.)

The CSU system became marginally more diverse over the past two years.

Latinx faculty and student numbers are growing in the system, and white numbers are decreasing. It’s hard to tell exactly if this is more representative of California demographics due to the US Census’ listing of both “white alone” and “white alone, not Hispanic or Latinx.”

But looking at “white alone, not Hispanic or Latinx,” in the census, there is an overrepresentation of white faculty by 21 percent and an underrepresentation of Latinx faculty by 28 percent relative to Californian demographics. There is a 15 percent overrepresentation of Asian American students, and a 14 percent underrepresentation of white students.

And, across the CSU system, women are increasing in percentage of professors, going from 41 percent in 2017 to 42 percent in 2019.

A lot of the data is relevant to your individual campus. At Cal Poly, for example, we grew our female faculty by 19 and male faculty by 20 over those two years, but we still have the lowest female faculty percentage in the system, at 41 percent of total faculty by headcount.

You can look at the data yourself. I created a shared spreadsheet to analyze the data. The first sheet is CSU data, the second is data for Cal Poly SLO, and the rest are templates for your individual campuses which you can fill out or add to. The 2019 report is here, and the 2017 report is here. The report asks to send any questions to CFA Research Specialist Vincent Cevasco at 916-441-4848 or vcevasco@calfac.org

—Aidan