<p>“Perhaps I missed something, but I suspect that many (probably most) of these 100 newly hired Michigan profs are not going to be current faculty members, but rather, newly minted PhD’s or post-docs who are entering the academic job market for the first time.”</p>
<p>That’s correct Sakky. But universities that can hire these days will have first dibs at some of the best young minds in the nation.</p>