Dive Brief:

• California State University plans to add 700 full-time faculty next year in an attempt to reverse a decline in the number of full-time tenured and tenure-track professors, to 9,800 in 2013 from 10,700 in 2008.
• The university system, with 26 campuses, is under pressure to reduce its reliance on adjuncts and improve the success rate for undergraduates, the Los Angeles Times reports.
• Cal State had a record 760,000 undergrad applications for the fall semester, while enrollment has increased from 362,000 in 1991 to 446,000 in 2013.

Dive Insight:

Will Cal State set a trend for the rest of the country? For the first quarter of 2014, higher education jobs decreased slightly, but job postings for both full- and part-time positions increased. Cal State had 470 full-time professor hires in 2013. For the state's 112 community colleges, the number of hires is also increasing, but for the 10 schools in the University of California system, hiring will be flat. State funding for the Cal State system increased by $125 million last year.