The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) is a nonprofit membership association of faculty and other academic professionals. This dataset released by the AAUP shows trends in instructional staff employees between 1975 and 2011. Values given are percentages of full-time tenured, full-time tenure-track, full-time non-tenure-track, and part-time faculty as well as graduate student employees for each year in the dataset. Values may not add up to 100% for a given year due to rounding errors.

instructors

Format

A tibble with 11 rows and 6 variables:

year

Year

full_time_tenured

Percentage of Full-Time Tenured Faculty

full_time_tenure_track

Percentage of Full-Time Tenure-Track Faculty

full_time_non_tenure_track

Percentage of Full-Time Non-Tenure-Track Faculty

part_time

Percentage of Part-Time Faculty

grad_student

Percentage of Graduate Student Employees

Examples

instructors
#> # A tibble: 11 × 6
#>     year full_time_tenured full_time_tenure_track full_time_non_tenure_track
#>    <dbl>             <dbl>                  <dbl>                      <dbl>
#>  1  1975              29                     16.1                       10.3
#>  2  1989              27.6                   11.4                       14.1
#>  3  1993              25                     10.2                       13.6
#>  4  1995              24.8                    9.6                       13.6
#>  5  1999              21.8                    8.9                       15.2
#>  6  2001              20.3                    9.2                       15.5
#>  7  2003              19.3                    8.8                       15  
#>  8  2005              17.8                    8.2                       14.8
#>  9  2007              17.2                    8                         14.9
#> 10  2009              16.8                    7.6                       15.1
#> 11  2011              16.7                    7.4                       15.4
#> # ℹ 2 more variables: part_time <dbl>, grad_student <dbl>