Instructional Faculty and Staff in Higher Education Institutions Who Taught Classes to Undergraduates: Fall 1992. Statistical Analysis Report.

摘要

As college costs have escalated in recent years, concern about the quality of undergraduate education has intensified. Some concerns focus on what is being taught (e.g., Bloom 1987), while others emphasize who is doing the teaching (e.g., Huber 1992). The latter concern, which is the focus of this report, has become prominent because of the widespread perception that undergraduate students are increasingly taught by part-time, junior, or nontenure-track faculty and that senior and experienced professors care little about undergraduate education (Boyer Commission 1998). Despite the considerable attention that both the higher education community and the media have recently paid to this concern, little information at the national level has been obtained regarding who teaches undergraduates in U.S. higher education institutions and what their teaching loads are.