Hiring and tenure decisions are normally made within academic faculties, and achievements that go beyond the boundaries of an individual discipline are often poorly understood and therefore underappreciated, or even discouraged.
But the same survey found that the least popular articles were about faculty awards and achievements, donors, and faculty appointments and retirements.
Principals must be empowered to use everything they know about their faculty — including student achievement data — to determine which teachers they will retain, promote or, when necessary, let go.
Meanwhile, the gap in faculty, teaching and research achievements between universities in the western part of China and those in the east coastal cities is enlarging.
This paper describes achievements of faculty in federal funding, publication, and other areas following their participation in the Visiting Professorship (VP) Program.
In 2002 she was honored as California's Carnegie Professor of the Year, a national award that recognizes faculty members for their achievement as undergraduate professors.
The story of black excellence in the United States in all forms of professional, civic and social progress bears an indelible Bison imprint, and its traditions of student activism, alumni achievement and faculty brilliance are as rich today as they've been throughout history.
With typical modesty, Dr. Rosenbluth made little fuss about his achievements on his faculty profile at San Diego.
Rockefeller's Judith Rodin, who spent 10 years as the president of the University of Pennsylvania, told me she believes that in this respect philanthropies are "less mature" than universities, which for decades have tracked the performance of their endowments, the academic qualifications of their incoming students and the achievements of their faculty.
The overriding organizational goal is to garner additional prestige through the research and scholarly achievements of the faculty," he writes.
