Comments on: Figures on American faculty workers https://decasia.org/academic_culture/2010/05/15/figures-on-american-faculty-workers/ critical anthropology of academic culture Tue, 06 Jul 2010 23:40:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.1 By: Free College for Everyone! « Ktismatics https://decasia.org/academic_culture/2010/05/15/figures-on-american-faculty-workers/#comment-1265 Tue, 06 Jul 2010 23:40:38 +0000 http://decasia.org/academic_culture/?p=1424#comment-1265 […] Filed under: Culture,Reflections — ktismatics @ 5:40 pm Yesterday I came across this table showing that the percentage of all US college faculty that are tenured or tenure-track has declined […]

]]> By: eli https://decasia.org/academic_culture/2010/05/15/figures-on-american-faculty-workers/#comment-1264 Mon, 17 May 2010 08:29:45 +0000 http://decasia.org/academic_culture/?p=1424#comment-1264 Yeah, that *is* surprising now that I think of it. I’ll have to look into that a bit, in light of the common impression that intro classes are increasingly taught by grad students…. Perhaps grad students taught freshman comp even in the 70s?

(Incidentally, there actually were a few more years in the original data I had, but I condensed it for presentation here. Happy to send you the spreadsheet if you want.)

]]> By: Max https://decasia.org/academic_culture/2010/05/15/figures-on-american-faculty-workers/#comment-1263 Sun, 16 May 2010 00:51:49 +0000 http://decasia.org/academic_culture/?p=1424#comment-1263 Hmm… the one thing that really surprises me about those stats is the almost completely steady percentage of “grad student employees” (stagnant at 20% from 1975 to 2007). Of course, we’re not seeing a great number of years in the data, but that is nonetheless surprising if the percentage really does hold steady over a 30+ year period. I would have assumed that “grad student employees” would have taken up at least a little of the slack from the “tenured” and “tenure track” reductions. It would seem that those reductions have all gone to either adjuncts, lecturers, or instructors, though.

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