More on the increase in temp jobs in academia....



WSJ, March 29, page B5: in the section "The Informed Reader" (which brings news items from other sources and cites the source) has an entry entitled:
"Adjunct jobs, female faculty and the pursuit of tenure." It cites The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 30, as the source. It says that adjunct jobs at universities and colleges account for 63% of all faculty jobs in 2003 compared to 43% in 1975, and cites the AAUP as the source.
(The article mentions that women end up more often than men in these adjunct positions, but the AAUP study indicated that a large fraction of the women only wanted part time work because they wanted more time for family life).

From past news sources I've noticed that the reduction in tenure-track
faculty was running about one percent per year over at least the last 1-2 decades.

WSJ is subscription-based, but there are some free access. You might try http://wsj.com/InformedReader and see if you can get in. Some of the stuff in the printed version is interesting.
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