Who’s Teaching at American Colleges? Increasingly, Instructors Off the Tenure Track

by E Wayne Ross on May 12, 2009

The Chronicle: Who’s Teaching at American Colleges? Increasingly, Instructors Off the Tenure Track

At community colleges, four out of five instructors worked outside the tenure track in 2007. At public research institutions, graduate students made up 41 percent of the instructional staff that year. And at all institutions, the proportion of instructors working part time continued to grow.