Reliance on nontenured faculty harms teaching environment, education quality - Austin Pink, Daily Bruin

For 14 Nobel laureates, three Pulitzer Prize winners and a Fields Medalist, UCLA is home. For 2,000 nontenured faculty, however, it’s merely temporary housing. The number of nontenure academic faculty at UCLA, including adjunct faculty, lecturers, clinical professors and in-residence faculty, has increased by 46 percent since 2009, according to UCLA Academic Planning and Budget. Meanwhile, the number of tenured ladder rank and equivalent faculty has decreased by almost 2 percent. Historically, shrinking budgets have caused increasing reliance on nontenured faculty. http://dailybruin.com/2018/04/01/austin-pink-reliance-on-nontenured-faculty-harms-teaching-environment-education-quality/