Adjunct Faculty: Conflicting Trends? More Part-Time Teachers vs. Delayed Retirements 1995-20??

Adjunct Faculty - Roles, Support

"...we see clearly the greatest decline in the full-time tenure-track faculty and the most significant growth in the part-time faculty." [1995-2007] -  "One Faculty Serving All Students;  An Issue Brief," by the Coalition on the Academic Workforce, February, 2010  


 "almost a quarter of faculty members ages 50 to 70 who were saving for retirement expected to retire later than they had planned, with an average delay of three years."  Economy Slows Colleges' Ability to Hire and (Maybe) Retirements, Too By Kathryn Masterson July 25, 2010 - The Chronicle of Higher Education:


"Less Than 1/3 Higher Ed Teachers Full-Time Tenure-Track in 2007...
almost three-fifths of the teaching corps in higher education taught part-time in 2007—58.5% in all institutions (55.9% in four-year institutions)... full-time tenured and tenure-track faculty members made up only 25.1% (27.5% in four-year institutions). 
Thus close to 75% of the instructional workforce was made up of non-tenure-track faculty members and graduate employees in 2007...
Furthermore, looking at the changes in these categories since 1995, we see clearly the greatest decline in the full-time tenure-track faculty and the most significant growth in the part-time faculty. 
Excluding graduate student TAs, in 2007 less than one-third of all faculty members—31.1%—were professors in full-time tenured or tenure-track positions, compared with 42.3% in 1995 ... In four-year institutions the figure is 36.7%, compared with 51.3% in 1995"

- Excerpts from "One Faculty Serving All Students;  An Issue Brief," by the Coalition on the Academic Workforce, February, 2010  



"Human Pyramid, etching, one of a series, 253 x 206 mm Date 1540s" By Juste de Juste
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