Resources on Recruiting and Retaining Faculty

What we know from the literature about retention:

• Faculty stay where morale is high (Johnsrud, 1996)
• Where they feel mentored (Plata, 1996)
• Where they experience a sense of community (Johnsrud & Rosser, 2002)
• Have autonomy (Tack & Patitu, 1992)
• Intellectual challenge (Magner, 1999)
• Where institutional support is clear and pervasive (Mellow, van Slyck & Eynon, 2003)
• Where they make a decent living (Kerlin & Dunlap, 1993)
• Where the definition of scholarship is sufficiently broad to encompass their teaching and scholarship (Antonio, 2002)
• Where they feel they have a voice and chance to be part of the leadership (Turner, 2000)

Piercy, Giddings, Allen, Dixon, Meszaros & Joest, 2005