The University of Wisconsin at Madison has long been considered to be among the nation's top universities. But in recent years it has faced deep budget cuts from the state and a critical governor who led the effort to remove tenure rights from state statute. Only some of those provisions were subsequently placed in university regulations, and many faculty members believe the new system lacks sufficient rights for professors. As the university has faced these controversies, one question has been whether it could hold on to its faculty members. Data released Friday by the university show that Madison held on to 77 percent of those recruited elsewhere in 2015-16. That's about the same as last year and a slightly higher percentage than has been the case over the last five years (most of which predated the changes in tenure and the worst budget cuts). But the number of recruited faculty -- 144 -- is up more than a third from last year.

October 17, 2016 ・ From Inside Higher Ed