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Personnel dilemma

Nature volume 458, pages 372–373 (2009)Cite this article

The hiring of US science faculty members has slowed considerably. Karen Kaplan tracks the administrators who are trying to keep programmes intact.

For now, recruitment efforts are rapidly decelerating virtually across the board, as institutions struggle to expand — or, in some cases, simply maintain — their science faculties (see 'Business as usual' and 'House-bound'). It has prompted some university chancellors and provosts to nervously wonder just how long the recession's effects will last and whether their universities' core mission may start to decay.

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