March 4, 2005

Professors at UMass Say, Hire More Faculty Members

By JOHN GRAVOIS

When the faculty union at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst took a survey of its members' bargaining priorities last spring, leaders of the union expected the standard set of issues -- salaries, pensions, benefits -- to float to the top.

They were surprised, then, when an overwhelming majority of members set their sights on a much broader goal: increasing the number of tenure-track professors. Underscoring that concern, the second-ranking priority was ensuring that

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