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"Consequences: An Increasingly Contingent Faculty" by John W. Curtis and Monica F. Jacobe
http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/pubsres/research/conind2006.htm
For some time, observers of higher education have noted a dramatic shift in the employment of college and university faculty in the United States. Where formerly most faculty were employed full time and held appointments that either provided the academic freedom and economic security of tenure or would lead to consideration for that status, the most rapid growth in recent years has been in two categories of contingent faculty appointments: part-time positions generally limited to a single course for a single academic term, and full-time fixed-term positions, most often for one to three years of employment that do not lead to consideration for tenure. In this same period, the use of graduate student instructors has further decreased the number of students being taught by traditional tenure-line faculty, although national data on actual teaching loads are not available.
Taken together,these changes in the nature of faculty employment and faculty work have created a predominantly contingent faculty across the academy. In fall 2003, according to data tabulated by the US Department of Education, individuals employed in these two faculty categories accounted for 65 percent of all faculty at degree-granting colleges and universities in the United States...
http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/pubsres/research/conind2006.htm
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Dr. Nicholas Ruiz III Editor, Kritikos http://intertheory.org