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American AcademicAmerican Academic:
The State of the Higher Education Workforce 1997-2007
Using the most recent ten years of federal data, American Academic examines the state of the higher education workforce in the United States. This first issue of the report, which will be an annual publication produced by AFT Higher Education, documents the troubling trend in higher education of relying more and more on contingent faculty who are underpaid and under-supported. The report also shows that within the ranks of full-time faculty, tenure-track positions continue to erode as a growing percentage of full-time faculty are being hired off the tenure-track. The report also examines changes in the non-instructional workforce. Readers can get even more detailed data on the workforce and much more for any institution of higher education in the country at the AFT Higher Education Data Center. | Download the report here.

Reversing CourseThe AFT Aims to Reverse the Course of Academic Staffing
Reversing Course: The Troubled State of Academic Staffing and a Path Forward documents higher education's continuing reliance on underpaid contingent faculty to staff college and university classrooms and the rapidly declining number of full-time faculty with tenure. Now over 50 percent of college and university courses are taught by contingent faculty and instructors, most of whom are part-time and paid indefensibly low wages. The report includes an interactive Excel model that allows users to calculate the cost of incrementally increasing the number of full-time tenured faculty and paying contingent faculty an equitable salary. Download the report | Download the model

Higher Ed Conference

Miami resortWorkshop materials from the 2009 National Higher Education Issues Conference in Miami Beach, FL are available here!

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Higher Ed Data Center

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See how your college stacks up against others around the country: visit the Higher Education Data Center.

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Faculty and College ExellenceFaculty and College Excellence
Join AFT's FACE campaign to ensure that contingent faculty members receive the financial and professional support they need to do their best work and to establish a better balance between the number of full-time tenured faculty and contingent faculty. Keep track of all FACE-related activities and materials at the FACE Web site.

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Free Exchange on Campus
AFT is a founding member of Free Exchange on Campus, a broad coalition of student, faculty and civil rights groups committed to advocating for the rights of students and faculty to hear and express a full range of ideas unencumbered by political or ideological interference. Free Exchange is working to oppose ideological agendas like the so-called "Academic Bill of Rights." You can lend your voice to this important effort by joining Free Exchange on Campus.

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Academic Freedom Forum
Click here for the hyperlinked version of the new AFT On Campus column.
Long a champion of academic freedom, the AFT now offers regular news reports of the battle to preserve this fundamental right.

AFT and Academic Freedom
AFT believes that academic freedom is the fundamental tenet upon which our system of higher education is built. Legislative initiatives such as the so-called "Academic Bill of Rights" are designed to attack that principle. To help faculty, staff and students address these attacks, AFT has created an Opposition Tool Kit that includes background on academic freedom and the academic bill of rights, AFT resolutions, and sample testimony.

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We want to hear from you! Visit www.aft.org/voices—Higher Ed—to respond to the question below, as well as other questions about issues that are important to AFT members.

"Do you think faculty and staff should be more involved in accreditation at your institution?"

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