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According to Psychology Department Chair Daniel L. Schacter, the department has had to recruit additional lecturers thesis advisors from the Medical School in order to meet undergraduate demand...
...positions are targeted for us, and where do we put these people?" Schacter asks. "If you don't have anywhere to put them, you can't initiate the search. We had a net increase of one professor several years ago, but we've made limited use of it because of space constraints...
...These appointments have replaced our departing faculty, so they have not increased our overall staffing numbers," Schacter writes. "The faculty are very much concerned with being stretched too thin [and are] eager for us to proceed with appointments in the near future...
...There is pressure for more courses, and we are eager to offer them, but we need additional faculty to do so. And to add new faculty, we need additional space," Schacter writes...
...Right now, lack of space is clearly a deterrent to hiring new faculty," Schacter writes. "The University administration is in the early stages of a long-term space planning process. We are involved in ongoing discussions, and are hopeful that relief will come sooner than later...