"The tendency has always been to add junior faculty in good times and then cut them when times got bad," he added.

Many graduate students see themselves as akin to junior faculty, but with significantly lower pay.

These chairs will show junior faculty and others that it is possible and that we really care about good teaching and will reward it.

He is actively involved in developing junior faculty in entrepreneurship and strategic management.

Yale Heyman Prize for junior faculty.

Grants are typically for one to two years, and are targeted to young investigators, including junior faculty and residents-in-training.

But the situation looks very different to me and my colleagues, junior faculty and recent Ph.D.'s in a traditional humanities discipline, classics.

For one thing, unlike most other universities, Harvard grants tenure only to full professors, not junior faculty, which puts the universities at a disadvantage in across-the-board comparisons.

In addition to teaching, Dr. Melnikow supervises residents and research fellows, mentors junior faculty, and provides direct outpatient and obstetric care.

"Of course we welcome them all, but they have made it all but impossible for junior faculty to find affordable housing near campus," Mr. Freedman said.