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Download full textHolub, Tamara – 2003
This Digest discusses issues related to full-time, nontenure track, contract college faculty, sometimes called contingent faculty. Recent data from several sources show that the opportunities for tenure are declining, while the numbers of nontenure positions are increasing. Part of the increase in full-time nontenure faculty is due to the decrease…
Descriptors: Faculty Workload, Full Time Faculty, Higher Education, Nontenured Faculty
Leatherman, Courtney – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1999
Increasing use of non-tenure-track, full-time college professors, which some thought a temporary solution to institutional budgeting, has become common policy, according to a study of existing data for 88 four-year institutions. While administrators find flexibility and savings in the practice, faculty accuse institutions of exploiting Ph.D.s and…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, College Faculty, Costs, Employment Practices
