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The Survey of Higher Education Faculty: Trends in the Awarding of Tenure
Primary Research Group, Jan 2010, Pages: 71
The Survey of Higher Education Faculty: Trends in the Awarding of Tenure presents data on how higher education faculty in the United States and Canada view the process of attaining tenure. The report presents data on the percentage of faculty who have tenure, or are on a tenure or non-tenure track. For faculty without tenure it gives their view on their expectations of achieving tenure, and their estimate on the change in the ease or difficulty in achieving tenure over the past five years. In addition, it reports results on what faculty view as the primary criteria for tenure at their institutions, and the length of time typically required for tenure review.
The report presents the results of a survey of more than 550 higher education faculty in the United States and Canada. Data is presented in the aggregate and for 12 criteria including academic field, size of college, type of college, academic title and other factors.
Just a few of the report's many finding are that:
- About 47% of faculty in the sample have tenure. This figure is roughly the same in the United States and Canada and between public and private institutions. With respect to institution class, faculty at research universities were the most likely to have tenure -- just over 54% had tenure.
- Nearly 59.2% of faculty in medicine or biology had tenure, the highest among all academic fields queried; less than 38% of faculty in arts and the performing arts had tenure, the lowest figure in the sample.
- No faculty members under the age of 30 felt that their prospects for tenure were not very good. This contrasts strongly with all other age groups; the percentage of faculty who felt their prospects for tenure are not very good increased with age from about 18% in the 31-39 age group to over 51% in the over-60 age group.
- Just over 57% of faculty members under age 30 reported that the awarding of tenure has become more difficult, whereas only roughly 30% to 40% of faculty in all other age groups reported the same.
- Faculty in finance/business/accounting and economics felt that teaching skills accounted for more than half of the tenure decision, the highest among all fields.
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