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  • Instructional staff employment in higher education: 2015 

    Author(s):Schulman, Steven
    Date Issued:2019-07
    Format:born digital; reports
    This report shows instructional staff employment -- tenured faculty, tenure track faculty, part-time non-tenure track faculty, full-time non-tenure track faculty, non-faculty instructors and graduate teaching assistants ...

  • Instructional staff employment in higher education: 2016 

    Author(s):Schulman, Steven
    Date Issued:2019-07
    Format:born digital; reports
    This report shows instructional staff employment -- tenured faculty, tenure track faculty, part-time non-tenure track faculty, full-time non-tenure track faculty, non-faculty instructors and graduate teaching assistants ...

  • Instructional staff employment in higher education: 2013 

    Author(s):Schulman, Steven
    Date Issued:2019-07
    Format:born digital; reports
    This report shows instructional staff employment -- tenured faculty, tenure track faculty, part-time non-tenure track faculty, full-time non-tenure track faculty, non-faculty instructors and graduate teaching assistants ...

  • Instructional staff employment in higher education: 2014 

    Author(s):Schulman, Steven
    Date Issued:2019-07
    Format:born digital; reports
    This report shows instructional staff employment -- tenured faculty, tenure track faculty, part-time non-tenure track faculty, full-time non-tenure track faculty, non-faculty instructors and graduate teaching assistants ...

  • Instructional staff employment in higher education: 2012 

    Author(s):Schulman, Steven
    Date Issued:2019-07
    Format:born digital; reports
    This report shows instructional staff employment -- tenured faculty, tenure track faculty, part-time non-tenure track faculty, full-time non-tenure track faculty, non-faculty instructors and graduate teaching assistants ...

  • Faculty diversity and minoritized student outcomes: an analysis of institutional factors 

    Author(s):Curtis, John W.
    Date Issued:2021-11
    Format:born digital; reports
    This paper describes an attempt to utilize the US Department of Education's IPEDS census data on faculty employment in a comprehensive quantitative analysis of the association between "faculty diversity" and degree outcomes ...

  • Faculty gender equity indicators 2021: data report 

    Author(s):Curtis, John W.
    Date Issued:2021-11
    Format:born digital; reports
    Update and expansion of a 2006 report. A comprehensive tabulation of national data on academic employment by gender from 1995-2019 in the form of four equity indicators: employment status, both by institutional category ...

  • Long-term trend in contingent faculty employment, The: data report 

    Author(s):Curtis, John W.
    Date Issued:2021-11
    Format:born digital; reports
    The national trend in academic employment status from 1975 to 2019. Includes separate tabulations for instructional staff, including graduate student employees, and faculty, broken out by institution type.

  • Affective activism: answering institutional productions of precarity in the corporate university 

    Author(s):Adsit, Janelle; Doe, Sue; Allison, Marisa; Maggio, Paula; Maisto, Maria
    Date Issued:2015
    Format:born digital; articles
    Given the context in which precarity is unevenly distributed in today's corporate university, it is important for women's studies to consider its role in bringing about higher education policy reform. Reporting on the ...

  • Instructional spending per student: patterns and explanations 

    Author(s):Schulman, Steven
    Date Issued:2019
    Format:born digital; articles
    Most students know what they spend on tuition and other costs of attending college, but most do not know how much their colleges spend on their education in return. This paper provides figures on instructional spending per ...

  • Contingent faculty report 

    Author(s):Schulman, Steven
    Date Issued:2015-12
    Format:born digital; reports
    In Fall 2010, the Coalition for the Academic Workforce surveyed non-tenure track faculty members (also called "contingent" faculty or "adjunct" faculty) in colleges and universities across the United States. 28,974 of these ...

  • Trends in contingency in higher education, 2012-2016 

    Author(s):Schulman, Steven
    Date Issued:2019-07
    Format:born digital; reports
    This report shows instructional staff employment -- tenured faculty, tenure track faculty, part-time non-tenure track faculty, full-time non-tenure track faculty, non-faculty instructors and graduate teaching assistants ...

  • Costs and benefits of adjunct justice, The: a critique of Brennan and Magness 

    Author(s):Schulman, Steven
    Date Issued:2017-03-21
    Format:born digital; articles
    In their controversial 2016 paper in this journal, Brennan and Magness argue that fair pay for part-time, adjunct faculty would be unaffordable for most colleges and universities and would harm students as well as many ...

  • Contingency in higher education: evidence and explanation 

    Author(s):Schulman, Steven
    Date Issued:2017
    Format:born digital; articles
    This paper summarizes recent evidence on the trends in contingency in higher education. Contingent faculty employment, defined as the sum of full-time non-tenure track faculty employment and part-time faculty employment, ...

  • Instructional staff employment in higher education: 2017 

    Author(s):Schulman, Steven
    Date Issued:2019-07
    Format:born digital; reports
    This report shows instructional staff employment -- tenured faculty, tenure track faculty, part-time non-tenure track faculty, full-time non-tenure track faculty, non-faculty instructors and graduate teaching assistants ...

  • Trends in faculty diversity, 1995-2019: data report 

    Author(s):Curtis, John W.
    Date Issued:2021-11
    Format:born digital; reports
    A comprehensive tabulation of national data on faculty employment status by racial category, institution type, student enrollment, and the intersection of racial and gender categories.