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But times have changed: “When we try to appoint an assistant professor today, it’s more like appointing a senior faculty member,” Dowling says.
Discussions about a faculty retirement plan have been in the works for well over a decade, according to former University Provost Jerry R. Green. But the recent implementation of the package comes at an opportune moment for a University in the throes of financial distress.
Traditionally, the University has not placed enough emphasis on seeking out diversity—in categories like gender and ethnicity—in candidates for faculty positions, according to Lamont. Consequently, she adds, the list of contenders for the professoriate have tended toward homogeny.
In addition to FAS-wide mentoring services, OEB offers programs encouraging a sense of community—programs that Hoekstra contrasts to what, before the mentorship programs, might have felt more like a “glorified post-docs” that prepare their resumes for positions elsewhere.
But even as Smith successfully trims a daunting budget deficit, his approach has struck a nervous chord among faculty members who benefit from the incongruent academic and spending methods of the school. Led by affiliates of some of the traditionally independent FAS centers, they have voiced concerns that an overarching...