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Klainot-Hess, Elizabeth – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Over the last several decades we have seen a fundamental transformation of higher education. Fifty years ago, 75% of faculty were in highly paid and secure tenure-track jobs, but today 75% are in non-tenure-track, or contingent positions. University administrators argue that this shift, and the low wages that accompany these positions, are…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Adjunct Faculty
Hanousek-Monge, Rebekah Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Across the United States, colleges and universities are adding a significant number of adjuncts and non-tenure track instructors to fill their respective classroom voids as subsequently, fewer opportunities for tenure-track status professors are being made available. While there is an economic value in hiring non-tenure track faculty, many…
Descriptors: Tenure, College Faculty, Adjunct Faculty, Job Satisfaction
Heulett, Steven Talmadge – ProQuest LLC, 2013
A number of studies have documented a trend of higher grades awarded by postsecondary institutions in both the United States and Canada over the last two decades. Grade inflation in higher education is a potentially costly problem for a variety of reasons, but little empirical research about the causes of grade inflation has been conducted. This…
Descriptors: Grading, Community Colleges, Grade Inflation, College Faculty
Moorehead, Daniel L. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The growing use of part-time, non-tenure track faculty in higher education has become a nationwide phenomenon. The college-teaching part-time instructor is one who is working for low pay, has little job security, and has few benefits. College part-time instructors' employment is in a contingent state. They do not have the job protection provided…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Higher Education, College Faculty, Adjunct Faculty