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by kd0amg 2962 days ago
As has been pointed out before, statistics like these "for every five open faculty positions, only one is filled" are incredibly misleading.

Also, still trying to dig up the last article I read about this, but didn't that figure lump pretty much all faculty positions together? I could definitely believe there are lots of contingent faculty positions going unfilled, but the numbers probably look quite different for someone who's not interested in part-time positions, teaching-only positions, soft-money positions, etc.