A Times article highlights the rise of non-tenured labor, fleshing out a few more issues than the AAUP report I linked to earlier. The American Federation of Teachers‘ proposal for legislation in eleven states–to increase numbers of classes taught by tenured or tenure track faculty to 75%–seems unlikely since that demographic comprises only 30% of the faculty in the U.S. To be continued…
**Addendum: Scatterplot blog has a nice discussion about this sort of thing as well…