US universities should restore faculty positions to the tenure track and hire fewer adjuncts, says the American Association of University Professors in Washington DC. In its 6 September report 'Tenure and Teaching-Intensive Appointments', the association asserts that contingent faculty members and students all suffer because of the shift to non-tenure-track positions. Marc Bousquet, the report committee's co-chair, says that non-tenured research-faculty members have limited academic freedom, work under the direction of another faculty member and, as a result, lose independence and can be pressured to accept another investigator's conclusions. As of 2007, some 70% of US faculty members were non-tenured, says the report.