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Re:Penn to reduce graduate admissions, rescind acceptances a... by analog31 on Sunday February 23, 2025 @01:05PM (#43151473)
Are adjuncts counted as faculty? We were not when I was one. This could just be a classification problem.

I might go even further and suggest that the problem is trying to figure out how a university works by counting job titles.

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Re:Penn to reduce graduate admissions, rescind acceptances a... by MITSardine on Sunday February 23, 2025 @05:16PM (#43153728)
My university only has 6% faculty, but 52% scientific staff overall, not counting graduate students. I do believe this is a classification issue coupled with the appearance and now ubiquity of precarious positions (soft-funded staff, postdocs).
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