{"id":8252,"date":"2010-10-26T09:22:12","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T17:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=8252"},"modified":"2010-10-26T09:22:12","modified_gmt":"2010-10-26T17:22:12","slug":"faculty-makeover-at-u-of-scranton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2010\/10\/faculty-makeover-at-u-of-scranton\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty makeover at U of Scranton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chronicle: Fitting In: <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/Fitting-In-U-of-Scranton\/125054\/?sid=at&#038;utm_source=at&#038;utm_medium=en\">U. of Scranton Revamps One-Third of Its Faculty<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A wave of early retirements and the creation of new positions for fast-growing programs had, in large part, given Scranton the chance to revamp a major proportion of its faculty.<\/p>\n<p>But hiring what turned out to be 82 professors in a five-year period\u2014about one-third of the institution&#8217;s tenured or tenure-track faculty\u2014was not without its own risks. It had the potential to trigger generational conflict, compromise the university&#8217;s Jesuit identity, and water down its commitment to undergraduate teaching. Faculty members right out of graduate school &#8220;might be more passionate about their research agenda rather than teaching,&#8221; says Father Pilarz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chronicle: Fitting In: U. of Scranton Revamps One-Third of Its Faculty A wave of early retirements and the creation of new positions for fast-growing programs had, in large part, given Scranton the chance to revamp a major proportion of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2010\/10\/faculty-makeover-at-u-of-scranton\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[211],"tags":[1288922,4703,98194],"class_list":["post-8252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","tag-faculty","tag-hiring","tag-u-of-scranton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8253,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8252\/revisions\/8253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}