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Download full textKezar, Adrianna; Maxey, Daniel – Pullias Center for Higher Education, 2012
The nature of the American academic workforce has fundamentally shifted over the past several decades. Whereas full-time tenured and tenure-track faculty were once the norm, the professoriate is now comprised of mostly non-tenure-track faculty. In 1969, tenured and tenure-track positions made up approximately 78.3% of the faculty and…
Descriptors: Tenure, Unions, Part Time Faculty, Public Colleges
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
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Direct linkKezar, Adrianna; Sam, Cecile – ASHE Higher Education Report, 2010
This monograph provides a portrait of non-tenure-track faculty, describes studies of their experiences, and proposes plans of action. Much of the research, particularly early on, tried to provide a picture and description of this faculty that have been largely invisible for years. Therefore, "Portrait of Non-Tenure-Track Faculty" focuses on the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Tenure, Unions, Nontenured Faculty
American Federation of Teachers, 2004
A growing component of the instructional workforce in higher education, graduate teaching and research assistants are frequently viewed by university administrators and trustees as students rather than employees, according to this American Federation of Teachers (AFT) report. As the number of new full-time faculty hired decreases, an increased…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Employment Practices, Employees, Unions
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). Social Affairs Div. – 1964
Representatives of employers' and workers' organizations from 16 member countries met to analyze the problems of facilitating adjustment to geographical and occupational changes, to discuss their experience, and to study the type of overall program needed in this field. The report contains (1) an introduction to the Seminar by Solomon Barkin, (2)…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Economic Progress, Employees, Employers
Sloan, Frank A.; And Others – 1978
As the second phase of a four-year research project on the geographic distribution of professional nurses, a study investigated what incentive or incentives motivate nurses in their choice of employment location. Data was analyzed from four sources: a survey of hospital directors of nursing, a survey of registered nurses, 1960 and 1970 U.S. Census…
Descriptors: Age, Employment Opportunities, Employment Patterns, Family (Sociological Unit)
