Faculty Turnover at American Colleges and Universities: Analyses of AAUP Data

This paper uses institutional level data collected by the American Association of University Professors as part of their annual survey of faculty members\u27 compensation to analyze faculty turnover. Analyses of aggregate data over almost a twenty-year period highlight how remarkably stable faculty retention rates have been nationwide and how little they vary across broad categories of institutions. Analyses of variations in faculty retention rates across individual institutions stress the role that faculty compensation levels play. Higher levels of compensation appear to increase retention rates for assistant and associate professors (but not for full professors) and the magnitude of this effect grows larger as one moves from institutions with graduate programs, to four-year undergraduate institutions, to two-year institutions

Faculty Turnover at American Colleges and Universities: Analysis of AAUP Data

This paper uses institutional level data collected by the American Association of University Professors as part of their annual survey of faculty members' compensation to analyze faculty turnover. Analyses of aggregate data over almost a twenty-year period highlight how remarkably stable faculty retention rates have been nationwide and how little they vary across broad categories of institutions. Analyses of variations in faculty retention rates across individual institutions stress the role that faculty compensation levels play. Higher levels of compensation appear to increase retention rates for assistant and associate professors (but not for full professors) and the magnitude of this effect grows larger as one moves from institutions with graduate programs, to four-year undergraduate institutions, to two-year institutions.

On Understanding the Rise in Non-Tenure Track Appointments

This short paper discusses some aspects of the recent increase in the number of full-time non¿tenure track faculty appointments. It considers alternative explanations for the growth and concludes that the predominant cause seems to be that institutions have elected to offer non¿tenure track appointments, not that they are forced to by inadequate finances or projections of declines in student enrollment. This tentative conclusion rests on some statistics which imply that tenure track appointments tend to be offered more frequently in fields where there is also more upward pressure on salaries and where new faculty appointments may have a wider choice of alternatives

The Economics of Community College Labor Markets: A Primer

This chapter provides some basic economic tools to help describe how labor markets work to enable employers and community college students to reach each other to secure productive jobs

New directions for community colleges

Publ. comme no 146, summer 2009 de la revue New directions for community collegesIndexBibliogr. à la fin des texte