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Staffing Shifts in Mathematical Sciences Departments, 1990–2000, Volume 50, Number 6

A 1997 Notices article [6] showed that between 1990 and 1996 there was a 27% decline in the number of tenure-eligible (TE) positions in the nation’s doctoral mathematics departments and a roughly 30% decline in the number of TE positions in the nation’s master’s and bachelor’s departments combined.1 Data from the AMS-ASA-IMS-MAA annual surveys and data from [4] show that these declines were not offset by an increase in the number of tenured faculty members. The 1997 article noted that in doctoral departments there was substantial growth in a group that has since come to be called “other full-time” (OFT) faculty, i.e., faculty who are full-time but who are not tenured and not tenureeligible. (The OFT category includes, for example, visiting faculty, postdoctoral appointees, and instructors who are not in the tenure stream.) By contrast, the 1997 article noted that in master’s and bachelor’s departments combined there was essentially no change in the number of OFT faculty positions between fall 1990 and fall 1996. Finally, contrary to popular wisdom, [6] found essentially no increase in the use of part-time faculty by mathematics departments between 1990 and 1996. (Indeed, figures from [4] suggest that there was a substantial decline in the number of part-time faculty between 1990 and 1995. See Table 8 below.) In this article we use data from CBMS2000 [5],2 a recently completed survey of undergraduate mathematical sciences in the nation’s bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral departments, to show that between fall 1995 and fall 2000 all types of mathematical sciences departments substantially expanded their use of OFT faculty and greatly expanded their use of part-time faculty members at the same time that most types of departments further decreased their number of permanent (i.e., tenured and tenure-eligible) faculty members.