Data Dashboard

In 2023, UMB is comprised of 67% women faculty and staff.

In 2022:

• Two-thirds or 66% of all executives, administration, and managerial leadership, including but not limited to titles such as deans, vice presidents, directors, managers, and chiefs, were women.
• Black/African American women comprised 76% of the executive, administration, and managerial leadership.
• Women held 71% of the professional jobs.  The Professional career point includes, but is not limited to, job titles such as Accountant, Administrator, Analyst, Coordinator, and Specialist (for the complete list, visit UMB’s HR Job Description site). Professional roles can include responsibilities that call for autonomy, discretion, creativity, analytical thinking, and contributions to developing goals, objectives, and evaluations (for a complete definition, visit UMB’s HR Job Description site). 
• Black/African American women held 78% of the professional jobs.

From 2012 to 2022:

• Women in executive/admin/managerial positions increased by 15.5%. 

Over a nine-year span, promotions of women lecturers, instructors, assistant professors, and associate professors consistently outnumbered their male counterparts. 

• Lecture promotions: women 18; men 6
• Instructor promotions: women 172; men 80
• Assistant Professor promotions: women 634; men 501
• Associate Professor promotions: women 528; men 454

In the last decade, UMB has experienced a steady increase in faculty and staff of color (American Indian, Asian, Black/African American, Pacific Islander, or Two or more races), growing from 38.9% in 2013 to 49.6% in 2023.

• Faculty of color increased by 8.6%
• Black/African American faculty increased by 4.4%
• Staff of color increased by 6.4%  

In the August 2022 published study titled Women in Law Schools, 1948-2021, the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law (SOL) “placed historically first nationwide for women's representation among faculty, second for students, and seventeenth for deans.” UMB’s dashboard further supports these findings with data showing women in the SOL constituted 99.9% technical/paraprofessional staff, 69.4% professional staff, and 74.2% executive/administration/managerial staff.

The Technical and Paraprofessional job category includes positions that require specialized knowledge and skills obtainable through either experience or academic work from a two-year technical institution, junior college, or equivalent on-the-job training, and professional or technician supportive role duties, which usually requires less formal training and experience generally required for this job category. At UMB, the technical/paraprofessional career point includes, but is not limited to, job titles such as IT Support Associate, Human Resource Specialist I, Account I, Budget Analyst 1, Medical Assistant, Dental Assistant Specialist, Research Study Coordinator, Licensed Practical Nurse; Laboratory Animal Technician; and Statistical Data Assistant.