Quality over quantity:
NCSU’s enrollment grew nearly 20 percent in the decade ending in 2010, but university leaders began throttling back and now plan to increase the number of students more slowly – to about 37,000 by 2020. That’s a rise of about 6 percent from the current enrollment of about 34,800.
Most of that growth would come from graduate students and transfers, as the university fine-tunes its enrollment mix to fit long-term goals. Those include student success and having a greater impact on the state’s economy by spinning off more start-up companies and providing more workers with the kind of graduate education that gives them an edge in high-tech industries, Provost Warwick Arden said. ...
Another aspect of the plan is boosting the number of tenure-track faculty. That’s crucial for improving the quality of education and inevitable if NCSU is going to increase the number of graduate students, to boost the quality and amount of research, Arden said.
In the period that enrollment was growing 20 percent, the number of tenure-track faculty increased just 1 percent, and non-tenure track instructors jumped by 23 percent. Given that there may be little in the way of additional money available, the university will have to change its spending priorities to hire more tenure-track faculty, Arden said.
I assume they won't be hiring more lazy tenure-track professors.*
*Note: I slept late this morning, just didn't feel the urgency to get to work. A 24-30 hour work week is really a grind.
