Recent hirings do little to relieve crowded departments
While recent faculty hiring expanded and internationalized a number of departments and programs, it did little to lessen the strain on many popular social science departments and several smaller programs. Dartmouth hired 27 new professors, according to a compilation of figures from individual department chairs. But Martin Dimitrov is the only of the 27 new professors who is teaching in the chronically overenrolled government department. "If we don't hire new faculty then we will either have to take caps off overenrolled courses and give multiple choice tests instead of essays, or we would require fewer seminars or narrow the breadth of our courses," government department chair Anne Sa'adah said. "Of course we have only so much office space, so it's not always easy to hire more," Sa'adah added. The psychology and sociology departments also hired only one additional faculty member each. Outside of the large social science departments, chairs of the film and television studies department and the office of speech said they would like to see more faculty members in their programs as well. The film department has recently expanded from being an academic program, similar to Asian and Middle-Eastern studies.