Non-Tenurable Faculty (Corrected and Clarified)
According to the American Association of University Professors
"Between 1998 and 2001, the number of
full-time non-tenure-track positions grew by 35.5 percent.
Since the 1990s, the majority of all
new full-time hires have been off the tenure track.
In contrast, only 3.3 percent of
full-time faculty appointments were off the tenure track in 1969.
Non-tenure-track
positions of all types now account for 65 percent of all faculty appointments
in American higher education."
My sense is journalism schools / departments with dual tenure tracks (professional and academic) will find it increasingly difficult to hire professional faculty for tenurable slots in the future. ELW