Recently, Michael Bérubé (current president of the Modern Language Association) announced the launch of the MLA’s Academic Workforce Data Center and Survey. The data center, he writes, “will present US Department of Education (DOE) data on the academic workforce in a convenient format that allows users to compare institutions for numbers of faculty members employed full- and part-time and in tenured, tenure-track, and non-tenure-track positions. The MLA database will cover 4,246 degree-granting two- and four-year colleges and universities in the United States.” You can search the workforce data center for information about your own institution’s employment statistics, comparing the percentages of tenured & tenure-track faculty to full- & and part-time non-tenure track faculty (and tracking how those percentages may have changed between 1995 and 2009).
Bérubé points out that during…
