Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Tracking the Invisible Faculty

The sweeping shift toward non-tenure track academic labor has been one of the most worried-over and undocumented trends in American higher education. For instance, 50% ofYale's faculty are outside the tenure system. Drawing on data collected by the Department of Education, the AAUP has compiled the numbers of tenured, tenure-track, part-time, and full-time non-tenure track faculty members employed at 2,617 American colleges and universities. Read the report.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education

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