Table 2.

Profile of faculty and students from public secular, private secular, and religious institutions who participated in the study

	Faculty		Students
			Public secular		Private secular		Religious		Grand total
	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%a
Total	244	27.5a	161	18.1a	298	33.6a	185	20.8a	888	100a
Females	90	36.9b	96	59.6b	185	62.1b	111	60.0b	482	54.3a
Males	154	63.1b	65	40.4b	113	37.9b	74	40.0b	406	45.7a
PhD degree	220	90.2b	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	220	24.8a
Doctorate degree	7	2.9b	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	7	0.8a
Masters degree	17	6.9b	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	17	1.9a
Freshman	NA	NA	49	30.4b	79	26.5b	44	23.8b	172	19.4a
Sophomore	NA	NA	46	28.6b	67	22.5b	42	22.7b	155	17.4a
Junior	NA	NA	28	17.4b	70	23.5b	50	27.0b	148	16.7a
Senior	NA	NA	38	23.6b	82	27.5b	49	26.5b	169	19.0a
New England	104	42.6b, c	146	90.7b, g	223	74.8b, k	124	67.0b, o	597	67.2a
East Coast	43	17.6b, d	6	3.7b, h	57	19.1b, l	38	20.5b, p	144	16.2a
Other states	67	27.5b, e	4	2.5b, i	10	3.4b, m	16	8.7b, q	97	10.9a
Foreign countries	30	12.3b, f	5	3.1b, j	8	2.7b, n	7	3.8b, r	50	5.7a

^aPercentages in respect to grand total number of participants or “responders” to the survey (n = 888), which is a fraction of the number of faculty (n = 992) plus students (public = 7,982; private = 3,806; and religious = 3,910) contacted via email and asked to take part in the study

^bPercentages in respect to total number of participants per group of faculty or college students from public secular, private secular or religious institutions

^cNew England faculty natives correspond to MA, 13.7%; CT, 6.8%; VT, 6.8%; ME, 5.9%; NH, 4.9%; and RI, 4.5%

^dEast Coast faculty natives correspond to NY, 9.6%; PA, 4.4%; NJ, 2.4%; and MD and VA, ≈1.2%

^eOther states faculty natives correspond to CA, 7.3%; MI, 3.6%; CO and TX, 2.5%; IL, 2.0%; OH, 1.6%; and 17 other states plus Puerto Rico, 10.5%

^fForeign countries faculty correspond to 15 nationalities (Europe and UK, 7.6%; Canada, 2.4%; and Australia, China, Libya, and Brazil, 2.3%)

^gNew England students at public secular institution were natives from MA, 86.9%; RI, 2.8%; and CT, <1%

^hEast Coast students at public secular institution were natives from NY, 2.7%; NJ and VA, <1%

ⁱOther states students at public secular institution were natives from four states AZ, FL, MI, and TX, 2.5%

^jForeign countries students at public secular institution correspond to four nationalities (Cape Verde, Cameroon, Philippines, and Brazil, 3.1%)

^kNew England students at private secular institution were natives from MA, 29.1%; CT, 19.4%; RI, 15.5%; NH, 6.6%; VT, 2.8; ME, 1.4%

ⁱEast Coast students at private secular institution were natives from NY, 9.7%; NJ, 5.1%; PA, 2.2%; MD, 1.1%; VA, <1%

^mOther states students at private secular institution were natives from nine states CA, CO, GA, IL, IN, KT, MI, TN, and WA, 3.4%

ⁿForeign countries students at private secular institution correspond to eight nationalities (France, Ghana, India, Korea, Lebanon, Peru, Romania, and UK, 2.7%)

^oNew England students at religious institution were natives from MA, 37.2%; CT, 11.2%; RI, 14.1%; NH, 2.0%; ME, 1.5%; VT, <1%

^pEast Coast students at religious institution were natives from NY, 10.2%; NJ, 6.8%; PA, 2.5%; DE and VA, 1.0%

^qOther states students at religious institution were natives from 11 states CA, FL, IL, IN, MN, MO, OH, OR, SC, TN, and TX, 8.7%

^rForeign countries students at religious institution correspond to seven nationalities (Bosnia, Canada, Ghana, Korea, Latvia, Portugal, and Zimbabwe, 3.8%)