{"id":3844,"date":"2008-03-12T09:52:08","date_gmt":"2008-03-12T17:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2008\/03\/the-shrinking-professoriate\/"},"modified":"2008-03-12T09:52:08","modified_gmt":"2008-03-12T17:52:08","slug":"the-shrinking-professoriate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2008\/03\/the-shrinking-professoriate\/","title":{"rendered":"The Shrinking Professoriate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inside Higher Ed: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2008\/03\/12\/jobs\">The Shrinking Professoriate<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every other year, data released by the Education Department\u2019s National Center for Education Statistics provide a snapshot of the growth of part-time positions in the professoriate. This year \u2014 an off-year for that data \u2014 the federal statistics provide evidence for another shift, in which the majority of full-time professional employees in higher education are in administrative rather than faculty jobs.<\/p>\n<p>In the fall of 2004, 50.6 of professional full-time employees in higher education (excluding medical schools) were faculty members. In the fall of 2006, for which data were released Tuesday, 48.6 percent of professional, full-time jobs in higher education were held by faculty members.<\/p>\n<p>Faculty jobs remain the majority among full-time positions at two-year colleges and in public higher education, but because there are far more full-time jobs at four-year institutions than at two-year institutions, the balance has tilted away from professorial positions. (Adding part-time positions would of course also swell the faculty ranks across sectors, but this data set focuses on full-time positions.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inside Higher Ed: The Shrinking Professoriate Every other year, data released by the Education Department\u2019s National Center for Education Statistics provide a snapshot of the growth of part-time positions in the professoriate. This year \u2014 an off-year for that data &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2008\/03\/the-shrinking-professoriate\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[211],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}