NP academic job boom

[Doug Millison]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/07/03/MN20123.DTL

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State Faces Shortage Of College Professors
34,000 jobs need to be filled over next decade

The face of California's public colleges and universities will change 
dramatically in the next decade as a projected enrollment boom 
coincides with a graying professorate.

The result is that more than 34,000 new professors will have to be 
recruited in the first major hiring program since the 1970s. At 
stake, educators say, is nothing less than the quality of the state's 
higher education system for a generation to come.

But with the risk, they say, comes an extraordinary chance to remake 
the institutions as stronger and more diverse.

"This is an incredible opportunity. It is also scary because we have 
to do it right,'' said Larry Coleman, a physics professor at the 
University of California at Davis and president of UC's Academic 
Senate.  "You are talking about hiring essentially the faculty of the 
UC for the next century. The group that we will be hiring in the next 
decade will be with us until 2050.''

Experts predict a similar hiring surge in Florida, Texas and Arizona, 
where there is also rapid enrollment growth.  [snip]
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