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Gabriela Cezar, an assistant professor, removes trays containing vials of frozen human embryonic stem cells from long-term storage.

Professor Jeremi Suri facilitates a class discussion during his upper-level history seminar in H.C. White Hall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Competition for the Best Faculty is Intense and Escalating

Help keep bright young faculty at UW-Madison for decades to come.

The University offers the opportunity to learn from the masters who wrote the texts, developed the theories, created the masterpieces and engineered the breakthroughs. A faculty with high expectations pushes students further than thought possible. Likewise, distinguished faculty members are drawn to the intellectual rigor, academic debate, interdisciplinary idea-sharing and international prestige that characterize UW-Madison.

Competition for the best faculty is intense and it is escalating. Because of their outstanding reputations for teaching, research and outreach, UW-Madison faculty regularly receive offers from competing universities and businesses. Over the past five years, the number of outside offers has doubled. Faculty members who left the University in 2005-06 represented more than $19 million in annual research funding.

UW-Madison is consistently one of the top five research universities in the nation. Research funding follows faculty. When a full professor leaves, taking an average of $532,000 in grant funding along, and is replaced by a junior faculty member, it can take as many as seven years to reach full funding potential and to gain the classroom experience that attracts students and resonates with alumni.

UW-Madison faculty drive the economic engine that gives back to the state an enviable return on its investment.