High-Seat Teaching Assignment
Workforce Census
An ongoing census — started September 2025 — examining who teaches in Kennesaw State University’s 12 largest classrooms and what that reveals about how instructional labor is distributed.
Key Statistics
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What the Data Shows
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Instructional faculty teach the majority of large sections
Across all three terms, lecturers, instructors, clinical faculty, and other non-tenure-track positions are assigned to teach most of the course sections in KSU’s 12 largest classrooms. These are the faculty who meet the most students face-to-face in the university’s highest-capacity spaces.
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Large classrooms concentrate introductory, high-enrollment courses
The sections filling these rooms are overwhelmingly introductory courses — BIOL 1107, CHEM 1211, MATH 1113, and similar gateway classes. These courses shape the early academic experience for thousands of students each term.
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Staffing patterns are consistent across terms
The Research-to-Instructional split remains stable from Fall 2025 through Fall 2026, suggesting these staffing patterns are structural, not incidental to any particular semester.
Project Overview
The High-Seat Teaching Assignment Workforce Census (HSTAWC) is an ongoing, open data-journalism project begun in September 2025. It catalogs every course section scheduled in KSU’s 12 largest classrooms — rooms with 100 or more seats. The census currently spans three academic terms (Fall 2025, Spring 2026, and Fall 2026) and will continue to grow as new terms are collected.
For each section, the census records the course, instructor, faculty rank, department, college, and enrollment. Faculty are classified as either Research (tenure-track: Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor) or Instructional (all other ranks, including Staff).
All data is compiled from publicly available sources. The project does not evaluate teaching quality — it asks a structural question: who is assigned to teach in the university’s largest physical spaces?
How the Data Was Collected
Data was compiled in a two-step pipeline using publicly available sources:
1. Course data — compiled from KSU Simple Syllabus and KSU Institutional Research, filtered to the 12 target rooms with 100+ seats.
2. Faculty metadata — cross-referenced with Open Georgia personnel records to add rank, department, and college.
Fall 2025 and Spring 2026 enrollment numbers are final. Fall 2026 enrollment is preliminary — registration was still underway at time of collection.
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Explore the Data
The interactive story includes a searchable data explorer with all 195 sections across three terms.
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