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Re:Death of an adjunct professor by tedunangst on Wednesday September 18, 2013 @05:19PM (#6408219)
"Percentage of teaching hours" or "percentage of teaching budget" seem like more useful statistics than "percentage of names on payroll".
Re:Death of an adjunct professor by lambda on Wednesday September 18, 2013 @06:20PM (#6408552)
Take a look at this report, which breaks down categories of professors by school, and you'll find that there are many schools for which contingent professors (non-tenure track) and grad students make up 100% of the teaching positions: http://www.aaup.org/sites/default/files/files/AAUPContingent...

Now, sure, they're mostly small community colleges or for-profit universities, but that is a significant chunk of the higher education system in the US.