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The number of professors who left the UA for other universities hit in 2007 was the lowest it’s been in a decade, according to the UA’s latest report on faculty retention and loss.

Recent salary increases and continued efforts by the University of Arizona’s central administration and college deans to improve faculty salaries were key to stabilizing the number of professors seriously considering job offers elsewhere, according to the report.

Not only did the UA retain 53 percent of the professors who received offers from other institutions, the total number of retention cases were the lowest since the provost’s office began detailed tracking of faculty recruitment, retention and loss 10 years ago.

“The total number on retention can hide a lot of factors, but it’s good that the number is lower,” said UA President Robert Shelton. “We’ve made a lot of new great hires that aren’t reflected in that.”

Between July 1, 2006 to June 30, 2007, 83 UA professors received outside offers averaging 36 percent more than their current UA salaries. The UA retained 44 of those professors, with salary counter offers that averaged 16 percent raises for professors. Contrast that with the UA’s worst numbers on “brain drain,” when the university kept just 36 percent of the 116 professors who received outside offers in 1999.

“I’d rather be 0 for 1 than 70 for 100,” Shelton said. “The more people you have to fight to retain, the smaller your resources are per person.”