What We Know about Contingent Faculty 1. The Number of New PhDs Remains Relatively High

2. The Number of Advertised Jobs, Depressed

3. Number of Faculty in Humanities Has Plateaued

4. And Humanities PhDs Are Unusually Concentrated in Postsecondary Teaching

6. And Mixed Job Satisfaction of Humanities Faculty, by Employment Type, 2004

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5. However, Share of Humanities Faculty Members Employed Part-Time or Off the Tenure Track Generally Unchanged from 2007 to 2012

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