June 3, 2005

More Faculty Jobs Go to Part-Timers

New faculty jobs in higher education went disproportionately to adjuncts, according to data for 2003 that were recently released by the U.S. Education Department's statistics arm, and a disproportionate share of the hiring was done by the for-profit sector.

A comparison of the new statistics with data for 2002 and 2001 shows that degree-granting colleges employed some 60,000 more faculty members in 2003 than in 2001. But the increase for full-timers was only 2 percent, while the rise

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