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Salary Competitiveness:
$10 million
Tufts University President Lawrence
S. Bacow said it best: “Great teaching
reinforces great research, and great
research reinforces great teaching.” At
the Cummings School, this creative cycle
can be advanced by hiring and retaining
leading faculty—those who encourage
curiosity and instill respect for evidence-
based medicine.
FOSTERING AN OUTSTANDING
FACUlTy: $ MIllION
Currently the school can offer salaries
falling in the middle of the salary range
found across 32 other veterinary schools
in the United States and Canada. The
high cost of living in our area, however,
causes housing expenses to exceed
those at our competing universities. For
that reason alone, it is crucial that we
increase our ability to offer salaries as
attractive as possible to qualified faculty.
Greater philanthropic support will allow
us to offer competitive employment
packages to more outstanding faculty.
Strategic Diversity Hiring:
$ million
Veterinary medicine has long been
a profession with a notable lack of
diversity. Funding for special recruitment
programs, incentives, and mentoring will
allow us to thoughtfully and strategically
enhance the diversity of our faculty.
Endowed Professorships:
$ – million each
Endowed professorships help attract
and retain faculty members who set
the standard of quality for the entire
faculty body, as well as adding to the
prestige of the school. The Cummings
School currently has three endowed
professorships; this campaign will
enable us to double that number,
at minimum.
Research Support: $ million
The Cummings School has a well-earned
reputation for pushing the boundaries
of science and medicine through its
excellent research. Private support
helps our faculty investigate a wide
range of questions to advance animal
and human health. This includes work
by our Division of Infectious Diseases
to develop new heat-stable vaccines for
diseases of international concern. In
addition, the Fund for Companion Animal
Health supports clinical studies that
address disease and preventive care
of companion animals. In the absence
of major national funding sources for
companion animal research, we must
ensure that Tufts maintains its own
capability to contribute to this vital area.
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