Title 42 — The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-73

§19154 Collection of data on demographics of faculty

Title 42 › Chapter CHAPTER 163— - RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, COMPETITION, AND INNOVATION › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER V— - BROADENING PARTICIPATION IN SCIENCE › Part Part A— - STEM Opportunities › § 19154

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Director of the National Science Foundation must run a survey about STEM faculty not later than 5 years after August 9, 2022, and at least every five years after that. The survey will cover broad STEM fields at colleges and universities that get Federal research money. When possible, it will collect data by sex, race, socioeconomic factors (like job, education, parental education, and income), location, ethnicity, citizenship, and years since earning a doctoral degree. It will count and give percentages of faculty overall and by rank, tenure and non‑tenure status (including teaching and research), promotion reviews and promotion rates (including tenure), years in rank, departures from tenure-track, hires by rank, and leadership roles. The NSF may work with other federal statistical centers or fund colleges or nonprofits to help do the survey. The NSF must publish summary statistics, including in its regular report, and $4,000,000 is authorized for each of fiscal years 2023, 2024, and 2025 to develop and carry out the first survey.

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Title 42, §19154

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(a)(1)Not later than 5 years after August 9, 2022, and at least every five years thereafter, the Director of the National Science Foundation shall carry out a survey to collect data from award recipients on the demographics of STEM faculty, by broad fields of STEM, at different types of institutions of higher education that receive Federal research funding.

(2)To the extent practicable, the Director of the National Science Foundation shall survey, by sex, race, socioeconomic indicators, which may include employment status, occupation, educational attainment, parental education, and income, geographic location, ethnicity, citizenship status, and years since completion of doctoral degree—

(A)the number and percentage of faculty;

(B)the number and percentage of faculty at each rank;

(C)the number and percentage of faculty who are in nontenure-track positions, including teaching and research;

(D)the number and percentage of faculty who are reviewed for promotion, including tenure, and the percentage of that number who are promoted, including being awarded tenure;

(E)faculty years in rank;

(F)the number and percentage of faculty to leave tenure-track positions;

(G)the number and percentage of faculty hired, by rank; and

(H)the number and percentage of faculty in leadership positions.

(b)The Director of the National Science Foundation, may, in modifying or expanding existing Federal surveys of higher education (as necessary)—

(1)take into account the considerations under subsection (a)(2) by collaborating with statistical centers at other Federal agencies; or

(2)make an award to an institution of higher education or nonprofit organization (or consortia thereof) to take such considerations into account.

(c)The Director of the National Science Foundation shall publish statistical summary data collected under this section, including as part of the National Science Foundation’s report required by section 1885d of this title.

(d)There are authorized to be appropriated to the Director of the National Science Foundation $4,000,000 in each of fiscal years 2023 through 2025 to develop and carry out the initial survey required under subsection (a).

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42 U.S.C. § 19154

Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73