Purpose: Peer-reviewed professional publications were examined for pertinent information
associated with faculty shortages in the dental professions. The review found 6 suggested …

Abstract The American Dental Education Association recently reported that the growing
shortage of qualified faculty in dental hygiene education programs has reached a crisis …

The 1999 publication of the American Association of Dental Schools (AADS) President s
Task Force on Future Dental School Faculty revealed a crisis in the shortages of dental …

The number of vacant budgeted full‐time faculty positions has changed little over the last
three years, standing in 2002–03 at 280. The number of part‐time vacancies, though, has …

The purpose of this study was to obtain information on the availability of full-time teaching
positions, job qualifications, and methods of recruitment in dental hygiene education. A …

The 1999 Report of the AADS President's Task Force on the Future of Dental School
Faculty1 drew attention to the situation dental schools are experiencing in attracting and …

The number of vacant budgeted faculty positions in dental schools has continued to decline,
dropping from 296 in 2003–04 to 275 in 2004–05. The number of lost positions declined to …

Faculty shortages have been in concern in dental academia for the past several years. The
American Dental Education Association has taken the lead in bringing this issue to the …

Purpose: Professional schools rarely prepare prospective academic faculty for the
responsibilities of college and university teaching. Without this training, faculty are often left …

The scarcity of full‐time clinical faculty members in dental schools across the country is a
major crisis confronting dentistry. Dental schools are experiencing critical faculty shortages …