You have eight new positions!

Here are the people who are going to fill them.

Our department was informed today that we will have eight new faculty members next year.  However, this was achieved by passing on to us some (fairly closely related) faculty members from another department which is shuffling off its mortal coil, a victim of state funds withdrawn, and for historical reasons, not fundable from increases in student fees.

It's clear that this is the best solution for the institution, and we're all going to do what we can to make the newcomers welcome.  But at the same time, it's going to cause stress and strain, and all sorts of forseeable administrative snafus.  Since we can forsee them, perhaps we can also forestall them.

Yours, knowing that this is one of the reasons I don't want to be an administrator,
N.