Chart: Non-tenure-track faculty and GSEs make up nearly three-quarters of the academic workforce: Shares of the academic workforce, by faculty status, Fall 2005 and Fall 2015

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Non-tenure-track faculty and GSEs make up nearly three-quarters of the academic workforce: Shares of the academic workforce, by faculty status, Fall 2005 and Fall 2015

Position	Fall 2005 share	Fall 2015 share
Tenured/tenure-track faculty	29.5%	26.8%
Tenured faculty	20.6%	19.1%
Tenure-track faculty	8.9%	7.6%
Non-tenure-track faculty	49.6%	52.1%
Graduate student employees (GSEs)	20.9%	21.1%

Source: Authors’ analysis of National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) data, retrieved December 22, 2017, using the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS)

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