With math majors in such short supply, and companies desperate for their services, an ordinary scholarship does not compete with the possibility of more desirable salaries and opportunities; we have to go further to develop a permanent and professional mathematics teaching staff.
Undesirable desire turned desirable.
If a graduate research position or a postdoc are seen as just one potential option, departments will have to work harder to make those positions seem desirable, via enhanced training, higher salaries, or demonstrated positive career outcomes.
Against the backdrop of drastically-reduced public funding for universities, attracting donations from the wealthy and their corporations -- plus, of course, raising tuition and reducing faculty salaries -- is considered particularly desirable behavior in a modern university administrator.
Findings indicate that health workers commonly leave to obtain better salaries, training opportunities and more desirable working conditions, to access education for children, to find political stability, and because of family ties abroad.
"Although the salary might not be the most desirable, it's a good place to work if you want to know you have a job next year," says Hudgins.
Is someone living in Beverly Hills, Calif., on a salary that should relegate him to a less desirable district?
Other people may claim that hiring more people or increase salaries to the current staff may be more desirable.
Entry level salaries coupled with sky-high rents in the country's most desirable cities often makes finding a place more of a headache than a happy ending.
Guichard-Ashbrook: Despite having challenging immigration regulations, the United States is still perceived to be the most desirable place in terms of valuing the creative, entrepreneurial spirit [and offering] competitive salaries and quality of life.
