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Download full textLee, John – NEA Higher Education Research Center Update, 2001
Data from the National Study of Postsecondary Faculty (NSOPF:99) show that fewer than one-third of all faculty members were tenured in 1998-1999. Some observers anticipate a trend toward a two-tiered system with a shrinking number of tenured faculty members in one group and a mix of part-time and nontenured full-time faculty members in the other.…
Descriptors: Academic Rank (Professional), College Faculty, Higher Education, National Surveys
Grenzke, Janet – Update, 1998
This publication presents 14 graphs providing data from interviews with 800 part-time college faculty 396 union members and 404 non-members. Results for union members and non-members are reported separately in each graph. The graphs illustrate the following major findings: (1) over two-thirds of part-time faculty hold other jobs; (2) almost half…
Descriptors: Adjunct Faculty, Higher Education, Part Time Faculty, Quality of Working Life
