{"id":1424,"date":"2010-05-15T11:08:04","date_gmt":"2010-05-15T10:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/?p=1424"},"modified":"2010-05-15T11:08:04","modified_gmt":"2010-05-15T10:08:04","slug":"figures-on-american-faculty-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/2010\/05\/15\/figures-on-american-faculty-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Figures on American faculty workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Curtis of the AAUP Research Office was kind enough to provide me with their current compilation of government figures on instructional staff in the U.S.<\/p>\n<div class=\"datatable\">\n<table style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>1975<\/td>\n<td>1995<\/td>\n<td>2007<\/td>\n<td>% Change 1975-2007<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Full-time Tenured<\/td>\n<td>29%<br \/>227,381<\/td>\n<td>24.8% <br \/>284,870<\/td>\n<td>17.2% <br \/>290,581<\/td>\n<td>27.8%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Full-Time Tenure Track<\/td>\n<td>16.1%<br \/>126,300<\/td>\n<td>9.6%<br \/>110,311<\/td>\n<td>8.0%<br \/>134,826<\/td>\n<td>6.8%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Full-Time Non-Tenure<\/td>\n<td>10.3%<br \/>80,883<\/td>\n<td>13.6%<br \/>155,641<\/td>\n<td>14.9%<br \/>251,361<\/td>\n<td>210.8%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Part-Time Faculty<\/td>\n<td>24.0%<br \/>188,000<\/td>\n<td>33.2%<br \/>380,884<\/td>\n<td>40.5%<br \/>684,668<\/td>\n<td>264.2%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Grad Student Employees<\/td>\n<td>20.5%<br \/>160,806<\/td>\n<td>18.8%<br \/>215,909<\/td>\n<td>19.5%<br \/>328,979<\/td>\n<td>104.6%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"font-weight: bold;\">\n<td>Total<\/td>\n<td>99.9%<br \/>783,370<\/td>\n<td>100.0%<br \/>1,147,615<\/td>\n<td>100.1%<br \/>1,690,415<\/td>\n<td>115.8%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"font-style: italic;\">\n<td>of which contingent staff:<\/td>\n<td>54.9%<br \/>429,689<\/td>\n<td>65.6%<br \/>752,434<\/td>\n<td>74.8%<br \/>1,265,008<\/td>\n<td>194.4%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>(This data comes from the IPEDS Fall Staff Survey. The AAUP notes as follows: &#8220;Figures for 2005 and 2007 may not be exactly comparable with previous years, due to a change in the type of institutions included in totals. Grad student figure in 1975 column is for 1976. Percentages may not add to 100 due to rounding.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>There are three important things to learn here. (1) The current fraction of contingent instructional labor in U.S. higher education is just about <strong>75%<\/strong> by these figures. (2) Contingents (i.e. everyone who&#8217;s not tenured or tenure-track) have grown enormously since 1975, but it&#8217;s important to note that <strong>even in 1975 they were already more than half the academic teaching workforce<\/strong>. As I wrote in my earlier post, even the golden age wasn&#8217;t that golden. (3) Interestingly enough, while the tenured faculty has grown noticeably over the last 35 years, the tenure-track faculty (assistant professors) have barely grown at all, even in absolute terms. In other words, as people on the existing tenure track have gotten tenure (or alternatively failed to get tenure and hence gotten fired), they haven&#8217;t been replaced by new tenure track slots.<\/p>\n<p>In sum, nothing too surprising here, but it&#8217;s useful to have the figures handy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Curtis of the AAUP Research Office was kind enough to provide me with their current compilation of government figures on instructional staff in the U.S. 1975 1995 2007 % Change 1975-2007 Full-time Tenured 29%227,381 24.8% 284,870 17.2% 290,581 27.8% Full-Time Tenure Track 16.1%126,300 9.6%110,311 8.0%134,826 6.8% Full-Time Non-Tenure 10.3%80,883 13.6%155,641 14.9%251,361 210.8% Part-Time Faculty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[485],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}