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In Faculty Hiring, Temporary Less Often Means Part-Time

February 04, 2015 / Phil Lesch

The Chronicle of Higher Education
February 4th, 2015

Colleges have become increasingly dependent on full-time non-tenure-track instructors in recent years, a trend that, at most types of higher-education institutions, has helped cause the ranks of part-time faculty members to ebb after decades of rapid growth, according to a new synthesis of federal data.

Doctoral institutions, the study found, are the only ones at which overall growth in the number of part-time faculty members has continued unabated alongside a similar rise in positions for full-timers off the tenure track. One result is that the share of doctoral institutions’ faculty members employed on a contingent basis rose by nearly five percentage points over the period covered by the study, 2005 to 2013.

Although the share of doctoral universities’ faculties who are tenured or on the tenure track remains larger than at other colleges, the gap between them and other types of institutions has narrowed.

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