In December officials at Stony Brook announced a major faculty addition with the appointment of the Emerson String Quartet as its first quartet-in-residence.
To begin with, American universities are undergoing a major faculty turnover, as professors who were hired in the 1960's to meet the massive infusion of new college students have begun retiring.
In addition to reauthorizing job searches that were frozen last year, the University of Chicago has announced a major faculty expansion that will take place over the next 5 years.
Political clashes and disagreements with leaders are a major reason faculty leave [ 30].
To a passionate, but as yet unquantified, segment of N.Y.U., each of those initiatives — and Dr. Sexton's willingness to go forward despite major faculty objections — shows he has placed his own ambition ahead of the best interests of the university.
The mean scores of the four basic principles of sound evaluation (utility, propriety, feasibility and accuracy) show that evaluation systems do not correspond to major faculty responsibilities and are inconsistently addressed during faculty evaluations.
Find out who the program director is, who the major faculty involved in the program are, and who the current residents are.
The Senior Capstone program brings together students from a variety of majors, faculty members and local leaders to help solve community problems.
In summary -- while I still have my major faculties in tact (I hope!), as the years go by, and for those of you currently in less than ideal states of mind, how can we get a handle on this vary scary and serious business?
TFA, which was founded to address a teacher shortage in urban and rural schools, has been a major provider of faculty to charter schools across the country.
For example, instructor resistance is low, and administrator support is not limiting in most cases (although, as noted, lack of administrator support is perceived to be a major barrier for faculty at minority-serving institutions).
