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Download full textHopkins, David S. P. – 1972
The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how certain personnel practices influence the ability of a university to achieve and maintain a desirable faculty rank distribution and new appointment rate when the faculty size is fixed. A mathematical model is formulated that relates faculty size, promotion rates, and tenure and nontenure lifetimes to…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Faculty Promotion, Faculty Recruitment, Higher Education
Peer reviewedHopkins, David S. P. – Higher Education, 1974
A model of faculty flow was used to predict the effects of new operating policies on the age and rank composition of a large group of university faculty. Specific policies analyzed with this model include changing promotion rates for nontenure faculty and implementing an early retirement program for tenure faculty. (Editor/PG)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Faculty, Faculty Promotion, Higher Education
