May 12, 2009

Who's Teaching at American Colleges? Increasingly, Instructors Off the Tenure Track

By Audrey Williams June

At community colleges, four out of five instructors worked outside the tenure track in 2007. At public research institutions, graduate students made up 41 percent of the instructional staff that year. And at all institutions, the proportion of instructors working part time continued to grow.

Those statistics, from a new report from the American Federation of Teachers, underscore a fact by now well established, that tenured and tenure-track professors are an ever-shrinking

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