| Description: | [NKN Seminar] Dr. Darleen Opfer (Director, RAND Education, USA) -- Attracting, Recruiting and Retaining Quality Faculty in Higher Education |
| Date: | Wednesday, Jul 24, 2013 |
| Time: | 2:30 p.m. - 4 p.m. |
| Venue: | Ramanujan Virtual Classroom |
| Details: | The Twelfth Plan has identified faculty issues as a key concern in the country’s higher education sector. The success of Universities and Colleges depends on the quality of their faculty. But as the labor market for highly skilled employees becomes tight and global opportunities increase, recruiting and retaining highly qualified faculty becomes more difficult. Drawing on international literature and her own research on recruitment and retention in the U.S. and Europe, Dr. Opfer’s presentation will first outline a conceptual framework for thinking about recruitment and retention as a continuum of action. Underpinning this continuum is an understanding of the labor market for faculty as being nested within, and continuously influenced by, a larger labor market that is simultaneously both local and global. The majority of the presentation will then focus on discussing the mechanisms available to University leaders to recruit and retain high quality faculty. In discussing the mechanisms available, she will share examples of policies and practices that have been shown to improve recruitment and retention outcomes. |
| Calendar: | Seminar Calendar (entered by ghossain) |