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Report Shows the Shift Away from Tenured Faculty in the U.S. Academic Workforce

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Utilizing data from the National Center for Education Statistics on patterns of faculty appointments and graduate student employment, AAUP makes clear that there is an ever-increasing reliance on contingent faculty. Also, the number of graduate student employees increased 44% from fall 2002 to fall 2021.

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Tenured faculty in steady decline while part-time and graduate workers rise, per report

University Business

As the proportion of academic appointments has changed in favor of non-tenured faculty, the number of graduate student employees has skyrocketed in the last 20 years, increasing 44% since the Fall of 2002. In that same period, full-time and part-time faculty rose 19%.

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