November 13, 1998

Faculty Hiring Binge Revives SUNY's Binghamton Campus

By ALISON SCHNEIDER

Fifty-eight new professors were hired at the State University of New York at Binghamton this year -- the campus's heftiest infusion of new blood in a decade. The transfusion was timely, professors there say; the institution has been hemorrhaging faculty members for years.

The professorial population at Binghamton started dwindling in the early 1990s, when state funds began drying up. Faculty hiring fell to

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