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To Keep Your Talented Faculty Members, Invest in Them

Retention depends not just on their professional but their personal development and satisfaction.

Jena Martin (right), a professor of law at West Virginia U., listens as her colleague Amy Cyphert speaks at a meeting of their weekly writing group. Martin started the group after learning about how such support systems can help scholars meet their professional goals.
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