In the AAUP Contingent Faculty Index 2006, the American Association of University Professors provides data to document the increasing predominance of non-tenure-track faculty in America’s colleges and universities. This report draws on figures submitted by institutions to the US Department of Education’s IPEDS database for fall 2005, and makes data on individual campuses easily accessible for the first time.
The Index is divided into three sections:
The objective of the report is to provide comparable data at the campus level, enabling faculty, students, administrators, governing board members, and the general public to participate in local discussions about the impact of contingent faculty employment on the quality of higher education.
The American Association of University Professors has formulated an addition to its long-standing Recommended Institutional Regulations on Academic Freedom and Tenure, which set forth rules that derive from AAUP policy statements in language suitable for use by an institution of higher education. The new regulation 13 lays out best practices for renewal or nonrenewal of part-time faculty appointments and delineates the rights that should be afforded to all part-time faculty and to those with specific lengths of service.
For additional resources on contingent faculty in the academic workforce, click here.
(updated 1/3/06)