Recruiting and Retaining Faculty
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HideCarleton College faculty member, Dr. Clint Cowan leads a discussion on a field trip to Baraboo, WI.
Faculty drive the education and research that propel the modern geoscience department. Ensuring that your department attracts and keeps energetic and productive faculty members is important in maintaining a vibrant department culture.
Resources
A Flourishing Faculty Environment
This page provides some highlights from a talk given by John Geissmann of the University of New Mexico about what that department has done to create an environment in which faculty members can thrive.
Creating a Family Friendly Department: Chairs and Deans Toolkit
This document, prepared by a committee at the University of California, details the benefits to academic institutions of having family-friendly policies, best practices in developing a family-friendly department, legal issues surrounding family-friendly accommodations, several case examples, and a resource list.
References and Additional Reading
- AAUP Faculty Salary Survey: This page from the Chronicle of Higher Learning is a searchable collection of five years of average faculty salaries arranged by academic rank at more than 1,400 colleges, universities, and multi-campus systems.
- American Association of University Professors Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession.
- Gaye and Cullen, 1995 . Empowering the Faculty: Mentoring Redirected and Renewed. ASHE Higher Education Report Series.
