American Academic: The State of the Higher Education Workforce

As college enrollment increased over the past decade so did higher education’s dependence on “contingent” instructors to lead academia including part-time faculty, full-time non-tenure track faculty and graduate employees. That’s according to a report released by the American Federation of Teachers that analyzes 10-years worth of data on higher education teaching. “American Academic: The State of the Higher Education Workforce”  finds over a ten-year period the proportion of full-time tenured and tenure-track faculty members declined from approximately one-third of the instructional staff to slightly more than one-quarter. 6/2/2009