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As of 2025, about what share of faculty teaching at U.S. colleges are in non-tenure-track positions?

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over one-third

About what share of U.S. adjunct professors hold a doctoral degree?

Many adjuncts are highly credentialed but work part-time or on a course-by-course basis.

Source: Wikipedia (2025) en.wikipedia.org

1909

In what year did New Jersey pass one of the first laws granting tenure protections to K-12 teachers?

Tenure protections for schoolteachers actually predate widespread tenure systems at universities.

Source: Wikipedia (2025) en.wikipedia.org

1988

In what year did the United Kingdom abolish traditional academic tenure through the Education Reform Act?

The change meant British universities could restructure or make redundant even long-serving academic staff.

Source: Wikipedia (2025) en.wikipedia.org

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