| Eric Dey
University of Michigan
Moving on: Factors influencing faculty departure plans
FINAL REPORT:
Since an institution's ability to be effective is dependent upon its ability to recruit and retain high quality faculty, the career decisions that individual faculty make are important for colleges and universities. While this has always been true, recent changes in the landscape of American higher education have altered both the context within these decisions are made as well as their consequences. Several factors -- the elimination of mandatory retirement, retrenchment within higher education, and institutional efforts to diversify faculty ranks -- have changed the labor market within academe, especially in science and engineering fields. This study proposes a series of analyses designed to identify the individual and institutional factors that are related to faculty departure plans. Using data from the National 1993 Survey of Postsecondary Faculty (NSOPF-93), Hierarchical Linear Modeling (HLM) will be used along with other statistical techniques to examine 1) faculty plans to leave their employing institutions to take academic posts at other institutions, positions in government and industry, or retirement, and 2) the influence of various factors upon these departure plans.
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