August 13, 1999

Study Finds Surprising Trends in Faculty Hiring

Despite the gloomy talk about the academic job market, a lot more hiring has been happening than many people think.

In the fall of 1992, one-third of the full-time faculty members at all types of institutions were "new entrants" -- people who had been in academe for seven years or less. "It has been commonplace, probably verging on a near consensus, to think of higher education as being gripped by market

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