Since the foundation of EA as a field of study, some publications have identified the
features of its professoriate (e.g. Hayes, 1966). A national survey conducted in the early
1970s by Campbell and Newell (1973) found 1,333 persons who could legitimately be
called professors of EA, most of them white, middle-class males (there were only 23
Afro-American persons among them). Additionally, Walker (1984), the founder of the
Journal of Educational Administration, retrospectively and grudgingly indicated that: