General News on Faculty Issues

• Give Us a Chance from The Chronicle of Higher Education --this is a must read for students and faculty. It descrides what one institution is facing in terms of hiring difficulties at an institution much like ours and drives home the importance of offering a good compensation package if we want to be able to attract good faculty. (here is a short excerpt)
• Faculty Salaries 2003 from The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription needed)
• Statement on Temporary Faculty from American Association of Unversity Professors
• Annual Report on the Economic Status of Faculty from American Association of Unversity Professors

A short excerpt from Give Us a Chance in The Chronicle of Higher Education

Oh, yeah, we have one other impediment besides geography and culture: Our teaching load is 12 credit hours a semester (i.e. four courses a term), and we do expect some research and service on top of that.

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Still, we have trouble filling tenure-track positions across the university, including in my field, journalism and mass communications.