Reactions to Recruitment/Retention Data from above presentations

From WolfWikis

• Received by email from Prof Michael K. Stoskopf, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACZ

•What reactions do you have to the data presented regarding faculty/staff recruitment and retention issues?

Not surprised particularly, but concerned that the issues be addressed on sufficiently large enough scope to develop meaningful strategies. With regard to recruitment I have found the attitude and satisfaction of the sitting faculty to their institution and their productivity and collegiality to be the key issue, but in retention I have found the fulfillment of spousal expectations and happiness to have been the largest factor followed then by the faculty member’s own perception of support and ability to follow their own career objectives.

• What do you perceive to be the most important workforce (faculty and staff) issues facing NC State in the next five years?

There are many of course, but key ones include insufficient staff support for faculty and failure to conserve and wisely use the valuable resource of faculty talent for faculty level efforts.

• What additional information about current employment at NC State would be helpful to define key areas for concern or improvement?

Considerable data is available but all summary data seems to be skewed by inappropriate lumping of categories. For example – many administrators no longer function as faculty (a practice which should be eliminated as all administrators should be faculty and fulfill meaningful faculty roles in some way to stay connected with the key issues of the institution) and the vast majority of clerical staff are available only to administrators but are usually counted in faculty/ staff ratios etc.