U Illinois faculty departures up 59% over last August - Julie Wurth, News Gazette

Updated numbers on faculty departures from the University of Illinois show 70 resignations over the past 12 months, a 59 percent increase over the previous year. The total number of "retention cases" the campus dealt with — professors who received outside offers and were seeking incentive packages to stay — was up 41 percent in that period, to 151, from 104 and 110 the previous two years, campus officials said Monday. While high, both represent slightly lower percentage increases than the previous 12-month reporting period in May, interim Provost Ed Feser said. http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2016-08-30/ui-faculty-departures-59-over-last-august.html