> Not in faculty salaries, but often in faculty headcount. Lots of colleges and universities have added a lot of faculty while keeping student headcount constan

> Not in faculty salaries, but often in faculty headcount. Lots of colleges and universities have added a lot of faculty while keeping student headcount constant. Do you have a citation for that? The message in the industry is that colleges have been reducing faculty headcounts, and relying on adjuncts to cover class loads, not that there are too many faculty. > tenure should be used very sparingly and should be viewed as part of a competitive compensation package. I don't think you're going to get very far with this argument in most universities, where faculty see themselves as part of the governance of the university. There's quite a bit of collective action between faculty, and I think even if you could get faculty in some departments without tenure, the STEM faculty would not want to create a two tiered system.