Excerpt: "For all groups combined, the pool of applications by U.S. citizens for admission in fall 1996 declined 32% from the fall 1994 figure. Group I Public departments reported a decline of 43%, while Group I Private reported a decline of 20%.Applications by noncitizens declined 29% from fall 1994 to fall 1996, with Group III reporting the largest decline, 38%. "
Excerpt: "...an 8% decline in real 9-month teaching and research salaries for new Ph.D.s has accompanied the increase in Ph.D. supply between 1989 and 1996. Moreover, a more subtle change is occurring. There is a hidden downward trend in total compensation for new Ph.D.s that is occurring as the types of jobs held by new Ph.D.s change. New Ph.D.s in academia are increasingly employed as temporary rather than tenure-track employees. Between 1990 and 1995 the number of full-time non-tenure-eligible faculty in traditional math departments (Groups I-III) increased by 37%. At the same time the number of tenure-track faculty fell by 27%. Temporary faculty now comprise 56% of all nontenured faculty in traditional math departments "
Excerpt: "[The data set] shows a steady decline in the number of tenure-track faculty within Groups I-III between fall 1990 and fall 1996. The cumulative decline in tenure-track positions over the six years was 300, a 27% decline. During this same time there was an increase in the number of non-tenure-track faculty that largely offset the decline in tenure-track faculty. These trends will come as no surprise to those who have followed the difficult job market in recent years."
Excerpt: "The preliminary unemployment rate among the 1,158 new doctoral recipients from the 1996-1997 academic year has dropped to 6.8 percent, a significant change from the prior year's adjusted figure of 10.1 percent. This fraction is the lowest since the fall 1990 rate of 5.7 percent...The number of nonacademic positions in the U.S. taken by new doctoral re cipients increased from 29.9 percent to 36.1 percent of those employed in the U.S.
The 467 U.S. academic positions this year include a total of 211 in U.S. doctoral degree- granting departments (Groups I-V). This number is 9.8 percent lower than last year's adjusted count (234 positions in Groups I-V). The number of new doctoral recipients employed by master's and bachelor's degree-granting colleges and universities (Groups M and B) increased by 7 (4.4 percent) from the number reported last year. While the number of new doctoral recipients hired by research institutes decreased (by 23.1 percent), the number of new doctoral recipients hired by government increased (by 14.3 percent) and hiring by business and industry increased markedly (by 28.9 percent) from last year. Employment of the new doctoral recipients by business and industry constitutes 31.7 percent of all U.S. employment of these new doctoral recipients. Last year, 25.9 percent were hired by business and industry."
Excerpt: "The reason for writing this piece is our belief that our profession is in desperate trouble - immediate and present danger. The absolute numbers and the trends are clear. If something is not done soon, we will see mathematics department faculties decimated and an already dismal job market completely collapse. Simply put, we are losing our students.....whatever the reasons, one fact stands out - in the ten-year interval from 1985-95 we have lost 30 percent of our enrollment in advanced mathematics - 30 percent! "
Excerpt: "Our number of new doctorates jumped this year compared to the previous year. This year we had 1,226 compared to the 1,070s last year. That's actually the highest number (by about 15), since we've been gathering this data through the AMS.We had an increase in the number of U.S. citizen new Ph.D.'s, which is about 21 percent over the previous year. The actual number was 567. The number of non-U.S. citizen Ph.D.s was close to the record high that we had a couple of years ago.
Another fact that emerges from our data is that there are almost no African American, Mexican American, Puerto Rican, and other Hispanics among the recent Ph.D.s in the mathematics fields."
Excerpt: "Another highlight was that among [1990-91 doctoral recipients] who held non-tenure-eligible positions in their first position after receiving their degree, 17 percent were unemployed and seeking employment for fall 1993. This is for those whose first position after they got their Ph.D. was in academia, but the position was non-tenure-eligible. It thus includes people in post-doc or post-doc-like positions. Seventeen percent of those who responded to the survey said they were unemployed or seeking employment. "