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IIT Delhi enticing alumini from the west for vacant faculty positions

by faadooengineers.com on Dec 2, 2011

BATTLING an acute faculty shortage, the IIT - Delhi is trying to play the depressed job markets in the US and Europe to its advantage.

Currently, 300 out of the total sanctioned strength of 750 faculty positions are lying vacant at IIT - Delhi. Faced with the challenge of filling up these posts with quality candidates, the institute is reaching out to its alumni settled abroad in the hope that the decline in research funding and job insecurity there will inspire the former students to join IIT - Delhi as faculty.

Within two months of assuming charge as the institute’s director, Professor Raghunath Shevgaonkar has already met alumni members currently teaching at some of the top universities in the US such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Carnegie Melon University.

“These days it’s quite tough to get research funding in the US. It’s also tough to get a tenure job at a university.

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