A comprehensive national survey found that the UW-Madison and other top research universities had extremely small numbers of under-represented minority faculty members in 2007.
Under-represented faculty were defined as blacks, Hispanics and American Indians, who made up 28.7 percent of the United States in 2006 and are gaining an increasing number of Ph.D. degrees. Asians, who made up an estimated 4 percent of the population, are not categorized as under-represented.
Like the other top 100 research universities studied, the University of Wisconsin-Madison had very few black or Hispanic faculty, and just one American Indian faculty member was listed among UW faculty in the 15 science and engineering disciplines studied.