How sad that magazines don’t rank schools on their number of top scholars or what percentage of courses are taught by tenured faculty.

The Dartmouth Review reports.

Just How Diverse Are We?

An alert reader pointed me to a piece from late last year in Mother Jones about diversity in college faculties as measured by race and gender. In racial diversity, the College seemingly does not do well compared to the other Ivies, and, um, everyone:

Note: The “Other” category “includes individuals who are Native American, Pacific Islander, multiracial, or declined to report their race.” The “declined to report their race” section might be a joker in the deck: it can skew a school’s rank in an important way.

Stanford, which lies in the penultimate position at the bottom of the histogram, seems to have fewer Black and Hispanic faculty members as a percentage than the College, but the Farm earns a better ranking (if having less Whites can be deemed “better) by virtue of having a high number of Asian and Foreign professors on its faculty.

As for gender diversity, we have more women on the faculty than all of the other Ivies except Yale and Columbia: