December 3, 2008

Nearly Half of Undergraduate Courses Are Taught by Non-Tenure-Track Instructors

By Audrey Williams June

A new report offers some hard data on how often undergraduates at the nation's public colleges and universities take courses taught by contingent faculty members, those who are neither tenured nor on the tenure track.

Such faculty members, most of whom work part time, teach nearly 49 percent of the more than 1.5 million undergraduate courses offered at public community colleges and four-year comprehensive and research institutions each term, according to the report, "Reversing

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