We've been talking about the economy's effect on the academy for the last several years. (You may recall, for instance, that I wrote some about the crash's effect on faculty scholarship back in May 2009.) Along those lines, I think you may find this brief article, "Faculty Retention Plummets as Faculty Salaries Stay Frozen," from the July/August Carolina Alumni Review of some interest. It's a refreshingly honest, if sobering, assessment of what's happening here in Chapel Hill. (I now see that there's a longer version of the article on the UNC alumni website.)
There are a bunch of things of interest in that short article -- including the numbers of faculty lost and the ways the University categorizes raids (people we don't begin to try to keep, those whose offers we try to match, and those for whom we do not have the money to try to retain). Then there's the policy of -- apparently -- requiring a written offer from another school. In some ways this is a good idea (it means that the threat of loss is real and thus saves scarce resources for the most serious threats to leave); but maybe it is also a bad idea, for it strikes me that once someone's gone that far towards looking to leave, that person may really leave.
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Posted by: Ailish Alda | July 27, 2010 at 09:05 AM