This paper presents an empirical analysis of the supply-and-demand dynamics in the library and information science (LIS) academic market in China. This analysis is based on a broad concept of academic market and large-scale labor-market data. The authors find a shift in faculty positions, in which traditional positions in universities and research…

Presents data from the American Dental Education Association's 2001-02 survey of vacant budgeted faculty positions and examines challenges likely to exacerbate faculty shortages in the immediate future. (EV)

A manpower planning model is used to examine the likely effects of slower university growth in the career prospects of staff in British universities. An approach is suggested in which senior levels would be allowed to vary over time to prevent staff promotion prospects from declining, and the cost of such a policy is estimated. (Author/LBH)

Discusses the problems of the future shortage of engineering faculty and the substantial decline in the number of PhD students. The external and the internal factors of these problems are also discussed. (HM)

Dental school deans surveyed expressed greater need for clinical than basic sciences faculty, especially those with independent research skills and trained in two clinical or one clinical and one basic science field, since these faculty are in short supply. (MSE)

Finding employment as an academic is becoming increasingly challenging for several reasons, including the tightening employment market and increases in the qualifications demanded of jobseekers and the pool of academically trained job seekers. A two-round Delphi study was therefore conducted to identify recruitment channels in the hidden labor…

Based on the assumption that during the next quarter century the academic labor market will be chronically depressed, a project was undertaken to create models for projecting college faculty demographics. In this report the statistical models and the results of their application are explained in detail, including extensive statistical tables.…

This study examines the status of and outlook for nuclear engineering (NE) in the United States. The study resulted from a concern about the downward trends in student enrollments in NE, in both graduate and undergraduate programs. Concerns have also been expressed about the declining number of U.S. university NE departments and programs, the…