UO Donors Fund Excellence Awards For Faculty Members
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"The Fund for Faculty Excellence is designed to support
the University of Oregon's strategic commitment to improve
its overall academic quality and reputation by recruiting,
supporting, recognizing, and retaining world-class faculty
members," Brady said. "This fund is designed to provide
salary adjustments and other support to faculty members
deemed vulnerable to recruitment by other top institutions.
It will enable us to be proactive in our retention efforts."
The award recipients will receive salary supplements and
research support ranging from $6,000 to $15,000 a year.
The faculty members receiving the awards are "on the cutting
edge of research in their disciplines and emerging areas
of interdisciplinary research in fields such as nanoscience,
environmental sustainability, and conflict resolution,"
she said. "Their national and international reputations
draw the best students who are seeking opportunities to
study and work with outstanding teachers and mentors."
Fourteen of the twenty recipients are from the College
of Arts and Sciences, four are from the School of Architecture
and Allied Arts, and one each is from the School of Law
and the School of Music and Dance.
Recipients say the awards will definitely help keep top
faculty members from defecting for higher salaries. "Competitive
salaries are a really important aspect of how we retain
people," says Jim Hutchison, an international pioneer
in nanoscience and green chemistry. "It could be particularly
critical for minority faculty members," says Carlos Aguirre,
an award-winning teacher and scholar of modern Latin America.
"In the last few years, we have seen a number of very
valuable people leaving the university, partly for higher
salaries."
