Global Journal of Education, Finance and Management (GJEFM)

Exogenous Events Impact on Faculty Composition in Higher Education

Carrillo, Michael A., Kraft, Arthur, Kraft, John

10 July 2026 · Vol. 2, Issue 7, pp. 208-213

DOI: 10.65150/EP-gjefm/V2E7/2026-01

Abstract

In the 1970’s, higher education faculty were male, full-time, tenured, and U.S. educated. The past 30 years have seen a significant replacement of full-time tenured faculty with non-tenured faculty, leading to a shrinking pool of tenured faculty. During this time non-tenured lectures were hired to teach, and post-doctoral students were employed to support research. These substitutions assisted with the cost-cutting measures. Recent exogenous events related to restricting entrance visas for international students and H-proposed changes in 1B visas for temporary workers threaten to accelerate the changing faculty composition.  A portfolio faculty model ensures the continued relevance and competitiveness of higher education in the face of declining international student numbers, declining federal funding, and pressure to place students in a difficult labor market.

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Carrillo, Michael A., Kraft, Arthur, Kraft, & John (2026). Exogenous Events Impact on Faculty Composition in Higher Education. Global Journal of Education, Finance and Management, 2(7), 208-213. https://doi.org/10.65150/EP-gjefm/V2E7/2026-01

@article{Carrillo2026,
  title   = {Exogenous Events Impact on Faculty Composition in Higher Education},
  author  = {Carrillo and Michael A. and Kraft and Arthur and Kraft and John},
  journal = {Global Journal of Education, Finance and Management},
  year    = {2026},
  volume  = {2},
  number  = {7},
  pages   = {208-213},
  doi     = {10.65150/EP-gjefm/V2E7/2026-01},
  url     = {https://doi.org/10.65150/EP-gjefm/V2E7/2026-01}
}

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