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Rise in Part-Time Faculty
By Hans Johnson
Four-year colleges stepped up their hiring of part-time faculty members, who accounted for just over two-thirds of the nearly thirty-six thousand new appointments in 1997, according to data for the years 1995-97 released in January by the U.S. Department of Education. The survey of two-year institutions yielded a similar result, with just under a third of new hires occupying full-time positions. In all, two-thirds of faculty at four-year institutions had full-time appointments, while just over one-third of two-year faculty worked full time. Both figures represented decreases--of 1.6 percent for four-year faculty and 0.6 percent for two-year professors--in the proportion of full-time faculty reported in corresponding data released in 1995.
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