Report: Reversing the Course of Academic Staffing, FACE

By Craig Smith
December 2, 2008

Today, AFT releases a new report, Reversing Course: The Troubled State of Academic Staffing and a Path Forward, which provides further data on higher education's continuing reliance on underpaid contingent faculty and the parallel decline in the number of full-time tenure-track faculty. The report looks not only at the numbers of contingent faculty now in the workforce, but also at the number of classes and students they are teaching as well as what they earn. This analysis is followed by a new interactive model to help colleges, unions and other faculty organizations, or even states begin to calculate the cost of reversing this trend.

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Florida State University hiring freeze, WCTV (Tallahassee)

October 31, 2008

The Florida State University president, T.K. Wetherell, yesterday announced he would put a hiring freeze into effect for the university.

T.K. Wetherell says that FSU is working with 25 million dollars less than they had last year. He also estimates that number could jump to 70 million dollars in the 2009 school year. With 80 percent of the university's budget in personnel alone, a decision has been made to put a freeze on hiring new employees.

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