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On the Shortage of Computer Science Faculty


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As computing has become increasingly central to our society and understanding it has also become increasingly important to a well-rounded education, our dire shortage of faculty has created what can only be described as a crisis for students interested in Computer Science, lotterying us out of required introductory and upper-level classes. Without more tenure-track hiring, the enrollment situation will only get worse. The lack of faculty leaves glaring gaps in our curricular offerings—as we lack experts in crucial areas of CS—and effectively destroys the department's ability to be part of a balanced liberal arts education for non-majors.

On the other end, it is becoming increasingly difficult to draw people with CS Ph.D.s into a career in academia given the other options available to them. It is not only the sheer numbers of students our department can serve that must increase, but also our ability to engage with the breadth of Computer Science as a discipline. We lack permanent faculty in domains of CS paramount to the future of the world.

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