From our perspective, this nurtures a productive faculty.
The mother goddesses, sacred feminine figures with names like Isis, Kali, Ishtar, Atargatis, Coatlicue, Gaia, and Artemis, were associated with benevolent, creative, fecund, nurturing, life-giving faculties.
He has also charged that the president's views were nurtured in "the Harvard faculty lounge" although Mr. Romney has two degrees from Harvard to Mr. Obama's one.
As Mr. Polisi, himself the president of Juilliard since 1984, lays it out, Schuman thought that the Juilliard of the 1940s was an insular place run by a faculty concerned merely with nurturing virtuosos.
"He was the most nurturing professor, the professor on the faculty that the undergraduates were a little more worried about than everybody else, a little bit harder to please," Mr. Kealey said.
This time the school has even created its own trademark -- Technogenesis -- which it defines as a process by which students, faculty and industry jointly nurture new technologies from concept to the marketplace.
The job of faculty governance is to nurture and build the academic program, support academic freedom, and offer the wise counsel that comes with their implied role of the "keeper of the flame" of institutional history and traditions.
Over the decades Mr. Blackford had nurtured relationships with the members of the faculty, many of whom frequently wrote for the magazine.
Within shared governance, the most important role faculty play is to safeguard, nurture and promote the academic program.
