The Chronicle New Blog: German Universities See Sharp Drop in Number of Professors
New data from Germany’s federal statistics office indicate that the number of professors at German universities declined sharply from 1995 to 2000. The German Association of University Professors and Lecturers analyzed the government figures and found that 663 faculty openings in the fields of linguistics and cultural studies had been left vacant during the 10-year period, representing a decline in the number of professors in those fields of 11.6 percent. Moreover, 1,451 faculty posts had been eliminated outright.
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