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FYI -- gw I noted the rise of the use of adjuncts in LIS a decade ago at http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/alisegraphics/chart19a.html (ALISE Non-Members by Category 2000) I had no idea this trend was so widespread in higher education in general at this point in time, twelve years later. This is news. My original study at http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/alisegraphics/alise2000.html was based on an ALISE directory that presented all faculty, staff, and administrators at an LIS school whether the individuals were members or not, or the schools were members or not. It was a snapshot of the academic LIS discipline at large. This style of a directory no longer exists, and I have been unable to find comparable information through the ALISE or ALA/COA data sets. The current ALISE web site indicates the availability of a 2010 directory for members only, and only includes faculty. It isn't that interest in the structure of LIS faculty doesn't exist. It is just that the data comparable to a decade ago simply isn't available AFAICT. Just some observations. No comment requested or required. --gw <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Gretchen Whitney, PhD, Retired School of Information Sciences University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN 37996 USA [log in to unmask] http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/ jESSE:http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/jesse.html SIGMETRICS:http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2012 01:15:56 -0400 From: susanm <[log in to unmask]> To: ALISEadjunct <[log in to unmask]> Subject: [ALISEadjunct] Fw: The Delphi Project ----- Forwarded Message ----- >From: Howard Smead <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2012 1:15 PM >Subject: The Delphi Project > >Here's a link to the Delphi Project, an important new report that >addresses in part the adjunct issue. Here's the first graph of the >Forward: > >The nature of the American academic workforce has fundamentally shifted >over the past several decades. Whereas full-time tenured and tenure-track >faculty were once the norm, the professoriate is now comprised of mostly >non-tenure-track faculty. In 1969, tenured and tenure track positions >made up approximately 78.3% of the faculty and non-tenure-track positions >comprised about 21.7% (Schuster & Finkelstein, 2006). Forty years later, >in 2009 these proportions had nearly flipped; tenured and tenure-track >faculty had declined to 33.5% and 66.5% of faculty were ineligible for >tenure (AFT Higher Education Data Center, 2009). Full-time >nontenure-track faculty account for 18.8% of the professoriate and >part-time or contingent faculty make up nearly half, or 47.7%. Contingent >faculty comprise a larger share at some institutions; among community >colleges they are often 70-80% of the faculty. > >http://www.uscrossier.org/pullias/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Delphi-Project_Report-on-Working-Meeting_Web-Version-2.pdf > > >Howard Smead >Editor, H-Adjunct > > >