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University and college administrators need to be prepared to recruit, hire, and retain a new cohort of faculty in this century. With this as their thesis, Bataille, and Brown provide administrators with data about the faculty of the future, based upon recent research. They also offer practical advice from their experience, and a number of contributors provide commentary on recruiting and retaining new faculty while offering a supportive environment for senior faculty during a period of growth in higher education. Early-career faculty already on campuses are very different in their expectations from the late-career faculty, and increasing reliance on contingent faculty, with a still different orientation, offers an additional challenge to administrators as they explore new ways to hire and retain faculty.