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\title{Faculty Resistance to Reform: Challenges to changing postdoc benefits at
University of Maryland}



\author[1]{Gary S. McDowell}%
\affil[1]{Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology, Department of Biology, Tufts University, 200 Boston Avenue, Medford, MA 02155, USA}%


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  \date{April 23, 2026}


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On Wednesday, April 8, 2015, the blog post ``Eroding Benefits for UMD
postdocs?'' caused quite a stir (Benderley, 2015). Such a stir, in fact,
that the post was soon taken down, and revised (you can read both the
original and revised posts at the link above). The blog pointed to an
article in The Diamondback (Dunn, 2015), discussing changes to benefits
for postdocs at the University of Maryland, College Park. The articles
caused something of a storm over social media (Collins, 2015), not least
because of a fair amount of confusion generated over what is actually
happening. However, what is really noteworthy is a letter, signed by 131
tenured and tenure-track professors in life sciences at UMD, principally
Iqbal Hamza and Norma Andrews, and supported by Jonathan Dinman, Chair
of the Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics Department, which opposes the
administration's proposed changes because they will ``raise the cost of
support of postdocs, adversely affecting research productivity and
competitiveness at the University of Maryland.'' After receiving
clarification on the matter from Mark Arnold, Director of Faculty
Initiatives at the Office of Faculty Affairs at UMD College Park, I'm
going to try to explain what the changes actually are, and provide some
commentary on the faculty letter.%
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