What are the trends in higher education staffing?
Colleges and universities in the United States have increasingly turned away from filling full-time tenured jobs. In 1960, 75 percent of college faculty members had full-time tenured positions or were on a tenure track. Today, fewer than 30 percent of the instructional workforce in colleges and universities hold full-time tenured or tenure-track jobs. At the same time, hundreds of thousands of nontenure-track faculty members, especially part-time/adjunct faculty, have been hired and then denied such fundamentals as proportionate salaries, decent benefits and paid office hours.
