New Report/Data: American Association of University Professors (AAUP) Releases Faculty Compensation Report

From the American Association of University Professors (AAUP):

The Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession, 2015–16: Higher Education at a Crossroads, released today, explores the economic value of tenure and looks at how the increasing reliance on faculty in part-time positions has destabilized the faculty by creating an exploitative, two-tiered system that erodes student retention and graduation rates.
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The report notes that although inflation-adjusted full-time continuing faculty salaries increased by 2.7 percent between 2014-2015 and 2015-2016, this improvement occurred against the backdrop of a four decade decline in full-time tenured positions (down 26 percent) and full-time tenure-track positions (down 50 percent).
[Our emphasis] This year, for the first time, the data collection includes part-time faculty and graduate teaching assistants, who together represent the majority of the academic workforce.

Direct to Complete News Release/Summary
Direct to Full Text Report and Additional Data Resources (via AAUP)

• Introduction/Background

All Files PDF

• Higher Education at a Crossroads: The Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession, 2015-16

• List of Tables and Figures

• Facilitating Institutional Improvement through Enhanced Benchmarking

• Online-Only Feature: Innovative Faculty Research

• Explanation of Statistical Data

• Survey Report Tables 

• Appendices to the Report (contain salary listings for individual institutions)

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