With increased enrollments, will we hire more tenure-track and tenured faculty?
The University as a whole has done quite a lot of new faculty hiring in recent years. 43 new tenure-track and tenured faculty members joined us at the beginning of this academic year. Over the past ten years (since the 1999-2000 academic year), 528 new tenure-track and tenured faculty have been hired while 437 have retired (including FERP) or departed for other reasons. As the colleges receive their budgets from the Academic Affairs Division and in turn make allocations to the academic departments, they will continue to evaluate whether it is prudent to hire. This will depend on the specific situation. Some deans and departments may decide they must hire new tenure-track faculty to deal with their workload, while others will cope in the short-term by hiring temporary and part-time faculty and/or by adding more students into each course section.
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