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Percentage of Humanities Faculty Members Employed Part-Time or Off the Tenure Track,* by Discipline, Fall 2012

* "Off the tenure track" includes full- and part-time faculty members. Neither "part-time" nor "off the tenure track" includes graduate instructors.

** A combined department is one that grants degrees in English and also in languages and literatures other than English.

Source: Susan White, Raymond Chu, and Roman Czujko, The 2012–13 Survey of Humanities Departments at Four-Year Institutions, Tables 23, pp. 6–7 (College Park, MD: Statistical Research Center, American Institute of Physics, 2014). Study conducted for the American Academy of Arts Sciences’ Humanities Indicators Project.
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