Tenure is often described as being on the decline. Here are numbers that reflect that. Our tables show the conditions under which faculty members and adjuncts work, what they understand their roles to be, and where students will still find many tenured and tenure-track professors.
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NewsTenure and Other Variations
Non-tenure-track faculty members may be doing much more of the instruction, but colleges are still holding onto their tenure systems. -
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Tenure Status of Faculty Members
More than 40 percent of faculty members at all four-year and two-year colleges worked part time in the fall of 2017. -
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Contract Lengths of Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Members
Seventy percent of non-tenure-track faculty members at two-year public institutions had less-than-annual contracts. -
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Percentages of Faculty Members Who Were Non-Tenure-Track, 2008 and 2018
The representation of non-tenure-track full-time faculty members at public doctoral institutions rose by more than 18 percentage points. -
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Colleges With the Fewest and Most Students per Tenured or Tenure-Track Professor
At certain small liberal-arts colleges, students were very likely to encounter and be taught by tenured or tenure-track professors. -
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Characteristics of Adjunct Faculty Members
Adjuncts in 2018 were likely to be over age 40, to have a master’s as their highest degree, and to teach one or two courses at a single institution. -
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Faculty Members’ Perceptions of Their Roles in Undergraduate Education
STEM faculty members were more likely than those not in STEM to regard preparing students for graduate school and employment as part of their role. -
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Average Pay per Standard Course Section
Part-time faculty members earned the highest average amount for a standard three-credit course at religiously affiliated doctoral institutions.
