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Brill, Deidre; Herzenberg, Stephen – Keystone Research Center, 2010
Over the last generation, the instructional staffing system in U.S. higher education has experienced a significant reduction in the proportion of jobs for full-time tenured and tenure-track faculty members and a dramatic growth in "contingent" instructors--full-time non tenure track, part-time/adjunct faculty and graduate employees.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Employment Patterns, College Faculty, Tenure
Hubbard, Bette Ann; Smith, Craig – American Federation of Teachers, 2003
One of the highest priorities of American Federation of Teachers (AFT) Higher Education over the past several years has been the shift away from a corps of full-time, tenure-track faculty to a contingent instructional workforce in American colleges and universities. This document focuses on one aspect of that shift: full-time faculty who are not…
Descriptors: Unions, Tenure, Nontenured Faculty, Job Security