How Does CSULB-Philosophy Compare with Other Philosophy Departments?

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Year	Tenure-Track faculty hire		SUMMARY: TENURE-TRACK HIRING
1958	Gerald Strickler
1959	George Massey		Years:1958-2007
1961	James Maue		31 tenure-track hires
	Virginia Ringer		7 female tenure-track hires	22.58%
1963	William Bonis
1965	William Johnson		Years:1986-2007
1966	Francisco Peccorini		18 tenure-track hires
	Edward Quest		5 female tenure-track hires	27.78%
1967	Shane Andre
	William McGowan		Years: 1995-2007
1969	Cheryl Clark		14 tenure-track hires
	Daniel Guerriere		4 female tenure-track hires	28.57%
1971	Al Spangler
1972-1985	NO TENURE-TRACK HIRING		Dept. of Philosophy: Fall 2007-Spring 2008
1986	Paul Tang
1988	Roger Wertheimer		Patrick Dieveney
1990	Steven Davis		William Johnson
	Julie Van Camp		Marcy Lascano
1995	Dawson Schultz		Jason Raibley
1997	Larry Nolan		Max Rosenkrantz
1999	Sara Goering		Julie Van Camp
2000	Charles Wallis		Charles Wallis
2001	Thomas Schmidt		Nellie Wieland
2002	Jeffrey Moriarty		Wayne Wright
	Ravi Sharma
2003	Max Rosenkrantz
2004	Victoria Costa
2005	Wayne Wright		Females: 3/9	33.33%
2006	Marcy Lascano
2007	Patrick Dieveney
	Jason Raibley
	Nellie Wieland

NOTE: Year is September of that year, the beginning of the academic year
Student Enrollment: CSULB-October 2006: 61.2% female

How Does CSULB-Philosophy Compare with Other Philosophy Departments?

  6/10/2007

NOTE: The information here on individual departments is a "snapshot" of departments as of the most recent date noted here, using the data on each department's own web site.
Some of those web sites apparently are more up-to-date than others, but in the interests of consistency and fairness, it was determined to base this site entirely on that self-reported data. 
This site is updated two or three times a year; all data and links are checked at the same time, given the comparative listing of departments.
Information about inaccuracies is welcome at any time and will be addressed the next time the site is updated.

University/College -- Philosophy Faculty ranking of top 50 doctoral programs:  Philosophical Gourmet [x]: 2006-2008 [x]: 2004-2006 [x]: 2002-2004 * = one of top ten terminal MA programs: Philosophical Gourmet # = unranked doctoral program C= ranked Canadian doctoral program	% of women on tenured/tenure-track faculty* *Excluding visiting faculty, temporary faculty, adjuncts, lecturers
Wellesley College	67%     (6/9)
University of Massachusetts, Boston	55%     (6/11)
Pennsylvania State University #	50%     (6/12)
University of Georgia #	50%     (6/12)
CSU Fullerton	45%     (5/11)
CSU Los Angeles*	45%     (5/11)
Dartmouth College	45%     (5/11)
University of Dayton	43%     (6/14)
Williams College	43%     (3/7)
DePaul University #	41%     (9/22)
University of Utah #	41%     (7/17)
Smith College	40%     (4/10)
University of Oregon #	40%     (4/10)
University of Pennsylvania [25] [32] [27]	40%     (6/15)
Oregon State University	38%     (5/13)
San Francisco State University	36%     (4/11)
Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville	36%     (5/14)
University of North Carolina-Charlotte	36%     (4/11)
University of North Florida	36%     (4/11)
Temple University #	35%     (6/17)
University of Washington [32] [34] [35]	35%     (7/20)
Yale University [16] [25] [16]	35%     (7/20)
CSU Fresno	33%     (4/12)
CSU Long Beach	33%     (3/9)
CSU Sacramento	33%     (3/9)
Michigan State University #	33%     (7/21)
New School University #	33%     (4/12)
Northwestern University [46] [41] [53]	33%     (4/12)
SUNY Albany #	33%     (3/9)
SUNY Binghamton #	33%     (4/12)
University of Rhode Island	33%     (3/9)
Vassar College	33%     (3/9)
University of Toronto (C)	32%    (18/56)
Villanova University #	32%     (6/19)
Georgia State University *	31%     (4/13)
University of Oklahoma #	31%     (4/13)
Columbia University [7] [6] [10]	30%     (7/23)
Northern Illinois University *	30%     (3/10)
University of Houston *	30%     (3/10)
Humboldt State University	29%     (2/7)
Swarthmore College	29%     (2/7)
University of Illinois, Chicago [36] [34] [35]	29%     (5/17)
University of Massachusetts, Amherst [30] [27] [24]	29%     (4/14)
University of Memphis #	29%     (5/17)
University of Nebraska #	29%     (4/14)
Vanderbilt University #	29%     (6/21)
Virginia Tech *	29%     (4/14)
Harvard University [8] [6] [7]	28%     (5/18)
Stanford University [6] [6] [6]	28%     (7/25)
Brown University [16] [21] [16]	27%     (4/15)
University of Alabama	27%     (3/11)
University of San Diego	27%     (4/15)
Loyola University-Chicago #	26%     (7/27)
University of Arizona [8] [16] [13]	26%     (5/19)
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities [32] [34] [44]	26%     (5/19)
Cal Poly Pomona	25%     (2/8)
CSU San Bernardino	25%     (2/8)
CUNY-Graduate Center [25] [18] [23]	25%     (10/40)
Emory University #	25%     (4/16)
San Jose State University	25%     (3/12)
Texas Tech University *	25%     (2/8)
Tufts University*	25%     (3/12)
University of Iowa #	25%     (2/8)
University of Kansas #	25%     (3/12)
University of New Hampshire	25%     (3/12)
University of New Mexico #	25%     (3/12)
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee *	25%     (3/12)
Indiana University, Bloomington [25] [29] [27]	24%     (4/17)
University of British Columbia (C)	24%     (4/17)
College of Charleston	23%     (3/13)
Duquesne University #	23%     (3/13)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology [8] [6] [7]	23%     (3/13)
SUNY Stony Brook #	23%     (5/22)
University of Hawaii-Manoa #	23%     (3/13)
Washington University, St. Louis # [38] [39]	23%     (5/22)
Brandeis University	22%     (2/9)
Fordham University #	22%     (6/27)
George Washington University	22%     (2/9)
Santa Clara University	22%     (2/9)
UC Santa Cruz #	22%     (2/9)
University of Connecticut [40] [47] [48]	22%     (4/18)
University of Missouri-St. Louis *	22%     (2/9)
University of Montana	22%     (2/9)
University of Alberta (C)	21%     (3/14)
UC San Diego [20] [18] [20]	21%     (4/19)
Florida State University # [44]	20%     (3/15)
Johns Hopkins University [36] [41] [35]	20%     (2/10)
Ohio University	20%     (2/10)
Rice University [39] [41] [50]	20%     (2/10)
San Diego State University	20%     (2/10)
UC Irvine [20] [17] [20]	20%     (4/20)
University of Colorado, Boulder [28] [38] [32]	20%     (4/20)
University of South Florida #	20%     (3/15)
Carnegie-Mellon University [36] [34] [39]	19%     (3/16)
Duke University [28] [29] [27]	19%     (3/16)
Purdue University #	19%     (4/21)
University of Delaware	19%     (3/16)
University of  South Carolina #	19%     (3/16)
University of Virginia [42] [38] [39]	19%     (3/16)
Indiana University-Indianapolis	18%     (2/11)
New York University [1] [1] [1]	18%     (3/17)
UC Berkeley [13] [15] [12]	18%     (3/17)
UCLA [8] [6] [7]	18%     (3/17)
University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana [42] # [50]	18%     (3/17)
University of Missouri-Columbia # [53]	18%     (3/17)
Arizona State University [46] [47] [44]	17%     (3/18)
Baylor University #	17%     (2/12)
Catholic University of America #	17%     (3/18)
Georgetown University [42] [41] [39]	17%     (5/30)
Ohio State University [22] [21] [26]	17%     (4/23)
UC Riverside [32] [29] [31]	17%     (3/18)
University of Miami [46] # [32]	17%     (2/12)
University of Pittsburgh [5] [4] [5]	17%     (3/18)
University of Rochester [46] [47] [44]	17%     (2/12)
University of Tennessee-Knoxville #	17%     (2/12)
Cornell University [16] [11] [16]	16%     (3/19)
University of Chicago [16] [18] [20]	16%     (3/19)
Bowling Green State University #	15%     (2/13)
Marquette University #	15%     (4/26)
Princeton University [1] [3] [3]	15%     (3/20)
Rutgers University [1] [2] [2]	15%     (4/27)
Saint Louis University #	15%     (3/20)
University of Maryland, College Park [30] [25] [27]	15%     (3/20)
University of Southern California [46] [23] [16]	15%     (3/20)
University of Wisconsin, Madison [24] [23] [24]	15%     (3/20)
CSU Northridge	14%     (2/14)
Howard University	14%     (1/7)
Syracuse University [32] [32] [32]	14%     (3/22)
Texas A&M University #	14%     (3/21)
University of Kentucky #	14%     (2/14)
University of Notre Dame [14] [11] [13]	14%     (6/42)
Boston College #	13%     (3/23)
University of Arkansas #	13%     (1/8)
Rochester Institute of Technology	11%     (1/9)
Tulane University #	11%     (1/9)
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [12] [11] [10]	11%     (2/19)
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo	9%     (1/11)
UC Santa Barbara [40] [41] [39]	9%     (1/11)
Wayne State University #	9%     (1/11)
Auburn University	8%     (1/13)
University of Cincinnati #	8%     (1/12)
Boston University [42] [47] [50]	8%     (2/25)
CSU Chico	7%     (1/14)
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale #	7%     (1/14)
UC Davis [24] [27] [35]	7%     (1/14)
SUNY Buffalo #	6%     (1/18)
University of Florida # [41] [48]	6%     (1/17)
University of Texas, Austin [14] [11] [13]	6%     (2/32)
University of Michigan [4] [4] [3]	5%     (1/22)
University of Dallas #	0%     (0/8)
Western Michigan University	0%     (0/8)

The above data exclude departments with fewer than seven (7) tenured/tenure-track faculty members.
Calculations were based on the information on each Department's own faculty listing on the Web, as linked above, as of the last date shown below.

Women in the National Labor Pool in Philosophy

  

Year	% of Ph.D.s in Philosophy in the United States awarded to women: 1991-96 Data compiled by National Academy of Sciences (most recent year: 1996) Complete data available from the American Philosophical Association
1996	29.3%
1995	24.2%
1994	27.5%
1993	26.6%
1992	26.1%
1991	27.4%
1991-96	26.9%

 

Years	% of Ph.D.s in Philosophy in the United States awarded to women: 1949-94 Data compiled by the National Center for Education Statistics of the U.S. Department of Education (most recent year: 1994) Complete data available from the American Philosophical Association
1949-94	18%
1959-94	19%
1985-94	24%

Originally posted: March 18, 2003; Last upated: June 10, 2007