Faculty hiring soars
By Michelle Devera
Daily Forty-Niner
New blood is surging
around campus, but itís not of the freshman type.
With faculty retirements
increasing and enrollment rising, 59 new tenure and tenure track professors
were hired for this year, said Gary Reichard, associate vice president
of academic affairs.
Professors hired
with tenure, under the California State University system and California
Faculty Association collective bargaining agreement, have the right to
permanent employment. Tenure track professors, unlike temporary faculty,
can earn tenure.
A majority of the
new faculty was hired for the tenure track, Reichard said.
"Weíre at the beginning
of a period of substantial faculty hiring," Reichard said. "[The group
of new professors] are the largest in this decade."
Irene Wood, Academic
Affairs personnel manager, said many of the retiring professors were likely
hired around the same time, which would account for the new faces.
Most of the new hires
were for vacated faculty positions, Reichard said, with the College of
the Arts and the College of Liberal Arts taking in the most professors
at 19 each.
The College of Health
and Human Services came in second with 12 new hires and the College of
Natural Sciences and Mathematics has six new professors.
The College of Engineering
has added a new teacher to their computer engineering and computer science
department while University Library and Learning Resources added three
new librarians.
More will come, Reichard
said, with the deans requesting more than 70 new professors.
"[We] donít get many
resignations," he said. "The faculty tends to stay." |
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