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Jim Escalante, professor of art, demonstrates a paper making process during his Art 446 Artists' Books class inside the Art Lofts building.

Jim Escalante, professor of art, demonstrates a paper making process during his Art 446 Artists' Books class inside the Art Lofts building.

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.