Bestowing no degrees, it always has had a superb faculty of well-known specialists, especially in philosophy, literature, and the sciences.
Yes, we received a world-class education from a superb faculty — but we also were encouraged to think for ourselves, to appreciate our talent but stretch our imagination as artists, to enjoy the diversity of the student body and to reach out beyond the college into the world around us.
In this graduation season, parents and employers should take note of a recent poll that concludes students who have had superb faculty mentoring and experiential education will be most engaged in life and at work.
And so, I think, is the related axiom that a medical school can only produce superb doctors if it has a stellar research faculty.
(Smith Juilliard Baroquee (Monday) Part of the Juilliard School's faculty recital series, this concert features some of the performance program's superb teachers: the violinist Monica Huggett, the flutist Sandra Miller, the gambist Sarah Cunningham and the harpsichordist Kenneth Weiss.
As students know, faculty members who excel in research may be ineffective in the classroom, while some superb teachers may have done little research.
