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From WolfWikis

Opportunities and Challenges: Recruitment, Retention and Retirement

What's a good mix of age demographics? Young faculty will bring energy, but may need to hire experienced faculty as well. Hiring older faculty could also be good because they don't have to stay for 50 years, and it might be better for more sr fac to run facilities, etc, that jr fac can't really be expected to do. Deans can make a difference (with funding support) in who you are hiring -- if you onlu get $$ to hire at asst level, that's what you do.

More U of Phoenix models coming? UNC online is = UPhoenixn in size. Worry that hands on sciences, etc can't really be done well online. It's good to be in the lab. Need good staff & depends on good pay & health benefits. Good location has its limits. NC not well-served in benefits area. Even small things like having to pay for parking & gym, little things add up. Respect afforded to faculty 30 yrs ago in these things was higher. SAS etc don't pay for parking. Dual career problems -- more coordination but it has inherent challenges. How do you hire strategically AND accommodate partners? Partner more with other employers in Triangle.

What do you need? Math as a discipline probably won't change much...the market for statisticians is pulled by industry, students opt out of PHDs and go to biz after Masters. Vet medicine much is becoming corporatized, and fewer people interested in food animial medicine. Companion animal (+females interest) vet med, but otherwise challenged to get students interested in the disciplines. Stat enrollment is up, even in pure stat, plus hot pockets like biostat. Faculty ratios need to be small to to the intensive training of grad students,,,increasing pressure on younger faculty to train grad students. Stat recruitment of foreign national students but also US students.

What will it mean if markets don't allow faculty to retire when they would have liked? Will they be bitter, disengaged?

Does interning students in industry mean losing them to that industry instead of academe?

Startup packages, competitive salaries, grad student support...what else would work to recruit. Maybe train fewer, and train the best. Challenged to increase BOTH quantity and quality.

Food animal med scholars program is good, but it invests in the future,,,it guarantees admission to best students.

Bring industry, govt, and academe together to help consider these issues.