{"id":5043,"date":"2012-03-05T11:50:14","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T17:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=5043"},"modified":"2012-03-05T12:08:21","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T18:08:21","slug":"more-faculty-at-state-colleges-maybe-just-more-adjuncts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/03\/05\/more-faculty-at-state-colleges-maybe-just-more-adjuncts\/","title":{"rendered":"More Faculty at State Colleges? Maybe Just More Adjuncts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5044\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jobyone\/2072717826\/sizes\/m\/in\/photostream\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5044\" title=\"University Professor\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/03\/professor-300x164.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/03\/professor-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/03\/professor.jpg 500w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/03\/professor-150x82.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">JobyOne \/ Flickr<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\n<\/div><p>Faculty growth has outpaced student enrollment at Oklahoma\u2019s public colleges and universities over the last 15 years, <em>The Oklahoman<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/newsok.com\/size-of-oklahoma-government-shrinks-but-is-still-larger-than-neighboring-states\/article\/3654509\/?page=1\">reports<\/a>.<\/p><p>But faculty doesn\u2019t necessarily mean tenured professors, and some of the observed growth could be an increase in adjunct faculty \u2014 untenured, temporary, cheaper instructors.<\/p><p><!--more--><\/p><p>Since the 1996-1997 academic year: Student enrollment is up about 24 percent, while the number of full-time faculty members has increased almost 33 percent, writes the paper\u2019s Silas Allen.<\/p><p>The trend reversed after the recession and the 2007-2008 academic year, after which student enrollment grew by about 10 percent, while the number of full-time equivalent faculty grew less than 7 percent.<\/p><p>It\u2019s easier and faster for colleges and universities to hire adjuncts, which are often used to bolster instruction in popular courses and programs. But tenure-track faculty are considered more valuable to research, long-term program development and in mentoring students.<em><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But making those hires means a major financial commitment from the university at a time of fiscal uncertainty, The Oklahoman reports.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faculty growth has outpaced student enrollment at Oklahoma\u2019s public colleges and universities over the last 15 years, The Oklahoman reports.But faculty doesn\u2019t necessarily mean tenured professors, and some of the observed growth could be an increase in adjunct faculty \u2014 untenured, temporary, cheaper instructors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":5044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[300,15],"tags":[855,317],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5043"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5048,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5043\/revisions\/5048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}