TY  - JOUR
AU  - Ehrenberg,Ronald G.
AU  - Zhang,Liang
TI  - Do Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty Matter?
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 10695
PY  - 2004
Y2  - August 2004
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w10695
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w10695.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Cornell Higher Education Research Institute
271 Ives Hall East
Ithaca, NY  14853-3901
Tel: 607/255-3026
Fax: 607 255 4496
E-Mail: rge2@cornell.edu

Liang Zhang
AB  - During the last two decades, there has been a significant growth in the share of faculty members at American colleges and universities that are employed in part-time or in full-time non tenure-track positions. Our study is the first to address whether the increased usage of such faculty adversely affects undergraduate students' graduation rates. Using institutional level panel data from the College Board and other sources, our econometric analyses suggest that the increased usage of these faculty types does adversely affect graduation rates of students at 4-year colleges, with the largest impact on students being felt at the public masters-level institutions.
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