Inside Higher Ed: The Academic Work Force, 2007
It’s hard to predict what’s ahead in terms of the economics of higher education — whether a long-term downturn will force colleges and universities to prune their expenditures, their academic and extracurricular offerings, and/or their staffs.
But one thing is for certain: The base from which colleges will be making staffing decisions, if they are forthcoming, has continued its steady expansion, with the number of faculty members and professional staff rising faster than other sorts of campus employees, a new report from the U.S. Education Department shows.
The annual study, “Employees in Postsecondary Institutions, Fall 2007, and Salaries of Full-Time Instructional Faculty, 2007-08,” comes from the Institute for Education Sciences’ National Center for Education Statistics, and it is the primary source of information about the size, scope and shape of the academic work force.
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