Update on CAS Lecturers for 2009-2010

In any given year, increasing or decreasing student demand and changing curriculum as well as the need to fill instructional gaps created by the sabbaticals, parental leaves, junior leaves, and administrative assignments of tenure-track faculty have an impact on the number of full-time and part-time lecturers hired by the College of Arts and Sciences.
This year, responding to these normal shifts and under pressure to increase our student faculty ratio to 17:1 and cut our budget, we reduced the number of full time lecturer positions slightly and chose instead to make more significant reductions in the number of part-time lecturers for the coming year.
At this point in time, this is where the college stands:
· Overall, the College of Arts and Science will have 10 fewer full-time lecturer positions and 17 fewer part-time positions in FY 10.
· Most of the reduction in full-time lecturers (9 out of 13) is the result of normal turnover resulting from tenure track faculty returning to the teaching ranks of the college.
· We are currently making offers to 61 full-time lecturers next year and 40 part-time lecturers.
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