Six are at schools of social work, five at schools of government and international affairs. Jewish deans are disproportionately often found in certain types of graduate schools. When the City University of New York is discounted, the ratio in public institutions is not much higher than in private ones 20 Jews among 963 deans or 2.1 percent. In publicly controlled institutions, with 989 deans, there are 31 Jewish deans. There are 731 deans in the privately controlled institutions with 14 Jewish deans. In the other 769 institutions, with 1, 627 deans, there are only 16 Jewish deans. There are 18 more Jewish deans in five institutions with 67 deans. There are 11 Jews among the 26 deans in the City University of New York. The report found that distribution of the Jewish deanships was “quite uneven.” Almost two-thirds of the 45 Jewish deanships are concentrated in a few schools. Five of these were found to have Jewish presidents: Bennington College, Brandeis University, which is Jewish-sponsored Chicago Medical School, Lincoln University and Sarah Lawrence College. The study covered 397 private institutions. The purported bias was explained on the premise that the presidency involves positions where the public “face” of the institution was concerned and that if Jews were chosen presidents, they might be handicapped by prejudice on the part of those with whom they must deal. In the other 769 institutions, there are only 16 Jewish deans, fewer than one percent. The study found that of 1, 720 deans in the 775 colleges and universities, 45 or 2.6 percent, are Jews and 29 of these are in six institutions. Martin Myerson, who will take office as president of the Buffalo Campus of the State University of New York later this year. But, up to a month ago, not one appointment had been given to a Jewish educator. The study found that since 1949, there has been an estimated 1, 000 vacancies in the presidencies of publicly-supported universities and senior colleges. Abram, based on a six-month study which concluded that “there does not seem to be any alternative to the conclusion that bias is at work.”
The findings were made public at the annual meeting of the A.J.
The American Jewish Committee reported yesterday the results of a study showing that fewer than one percent of the presidents of America’s 775 non-sectarian senior colleges and universities, public and private, were Jewish even though Jews make up between 10 and 12 percent of the student bodies and faculties of those institutions.
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