Nearly Half of Undergraduate Courses Are Taught by Non-Tenure-Track Instructors

by E Wayne Ross on December 3, 2008

The Chronicle: Nearly Half of Undergraduate Courses Are Taught by Non-Tenure-Track Instructors

A new report offers some hard data on how often undergraduates at the nation’s public colleges and universities take courses taught by contingent faculty members, those who are neither tenured nor on the tenure track.

Such faculty members, most of whom work part time, teach…