Faculty Quotations | Page 2

It is a difficult decision for a lot of faculty members to retire.

I thought (Collier County) would be the easiest place in the country to get students and faculty to come.

I thoroughly enjoyed being an advocate for the faculty as far as shared governance was concerned.

I think the faculty will discuss it in their classes. It's a teaching moment, a learning moment. People will refer to this for a period of years, but time always makes things fade after it goes out of context, I think people will choose something else.

I think that most of the faculty and the staff won't hold that against them, ... and I don't think they hold it against them if they make $12,000 more.

I think what makes it unique is the emphasis that is given by the program to the idea of the students as scholars. A lot of our curriculum is driven by student interest and by the interactions that students have with the faculty and staff.

I think as an educational institution, at some point during a student's journey, it becomes important to understand the origins of our country, ... To provide that opportunity is to encourage all students, staff and faculty to take advantage of this experience. It is my hope that after this week, many of us will have both a greater understanding and appreciation of what the Constitution means to us.

I thank the faculty and administration and students for their support over the years. We have super teachers who are quality people to work with.

It is not credible that any one should possess so little understanding as to desire the faith and yet be destitute of the most necessary faculty to enable him to receive it.

I think that what it says is from an external point of view, from a national stage, we're being recognized for excellence in what we're doing. When I first came on board with the CU College of Music in fall of 1999, one of the things I had hoped to see was some recognition at some point from these national awards. And for us to have had the 13 in five years has exceeded my expectations, but I think clearly represents the great work the students and faculty are doing.

It is a very great encouragement to the students as well as the faculty

It is a special opportunity for the community, students and faculty to speak with Mexicans.

Our goal is to give our faculty an opportunity to keep up with trends in post-secondary education -- be aware of how we can better prepare our students for life after high school.

Our accounting faculty has done a terrific job building an innovative and practical curriculum.

pitted students with religious views contrary to Islam against fellow students, faculty and members of the administration who either ascribe to Muslim views or sympathize with those who do.

Our own faculty has gotten sensitized to the issue that there's a bunch of people that just don't get it.

Our main objective is to provide an environment where faculty and staff of color can come here and do very well and have a desire to stay.

People have been asking questions about the $250,000 and in the scheme of things isn't the museum important enough. But question isn't about the amount of money but where it's coming from. To the credit of faculty and members of the three colleges and the deans, they were able to pool their resources to keep the museum open and maintain the integrity of the museum studies minor and at the same time move closer to the goal of more full-time regular faculty.

Steve and Robert have been really great about stepping up to cover a bunch of courses, ... And Melissa is a temporary faculty member, primarily filling in for Susan. I think everyone, including the students, has tried to roll with it.

Some of the concerns of the nursing students are difficult to see how the merger would create new synergy. Between faculty and increase opportunity for interdisciplinary teaching and research. This would hurt our resources. Our programs are so dissimilar and grants and gift funding are very specific.

Many faculty members are very supportive and they allow their students to attend some of the activities held during class periods.

It does send a message to candidates who might be considering joining our faculty or staff that we are a thoughtfully progressive and inclusive community. In that sense, it has a very positive benefit for the university.

It has become more apparent to us over the past seven months, as each new embarrassment is plastered across newspapers, that individuals within the university appear to have a greater interest in doing what is in the best interest of the Office of the President, rather than what is in the best interests of its students, its faculty or California's taxpayers.

I think having three teachers in the faculty room at the same time, talking about third-grade issues, and first-grade issues in the same discussion, on a daily basis, I believe is a good thing.

I think the students will adjust to it very quickly. Faculty members that have been here won't get used to it until we retire, but we'll just have to keep our heads screwed on straight.

The annual country study program, called the 'Year of ...,' has attracted regional and national attention. Over the last 20 years, the number of international faculty and students has soared, as have the numbers of our faculty and students who have had international experiences. Similarly, the campus community has become much more diverse in its racial and cultural representation.

Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellows represent the best new professors in computing disciplines today. The intellectual curiosity and capacity that each fellow has demonstrated is inspirational, and we will watch their careers develop with interest.

Will was a very easy-going guy who took time to mentor new faculty members, including me. I'll remember him for his wry wit and sense of humor.

will suggest that the great aim of our education is to bring out of the child who comes into our hands every faculty that he brings with him, and then to try to win that child to turn all his abilities, his powers, his capacities, to the helping and serving of the community which is a part.

We're all seeing the same thing - our students, our staff and our faculty are asking that we provide quality facilities. They matter. They affect the decision to come, the decision to stay and the quality of the work while you're here.

We realized on Friday, since we were having a faculty meeting on Monday, that we'd better have a faculty.

We hope this talk will help students and faculty gain a much more realistic understanding of the humanitarianism crisis in the world and what is needed to address the issues,

We're calling it the 2 cents campaign. We are asking students and the faculty to bring in 2-cents each day through the month of September.

We have spent hundreds of people hours up to this point and without even involving the teacher committees. It has been an expensive endeavor in terms of staff and faculty time.

We had heard a rumor Thursday that students might leave classes to protest. We had a faculty meeting (Thursday) to let the teachers know. We wanted them to talk to the students and see if they could keep them in class.

We have a lot of reports from part-time faculty who tell us that they are very concerned that if they say something controversial, or if they are too hard on the students, they won't be rehired.

We have a lot of really good faculty and really good students. Our talented faculty has attracted top students from all over, including Connecticut.

We have an advisory board of 12 faculty members from across the disciplines. Each proposal was reviewed by three people and given a score. Based on the score, some were automatically accepted and some were put up for review and further discussion. It was comparable to a standard agency's review process.

The problem is not general education itself. Everyone agrees on that. But the curriculum is given to the individual schools. The faculty has worked diligently to make their degrees the best they can be ... but when you try to back up and make things uniform, something has got to give.

We haven't done a faculty show in a couple years so it gave the professors some time to get some new works together.

To be competitive with the Ivy League schools, the coastal schools, we absolutely need chairs and professorships. It recognizes our very best faculty and provides them with unrestricted resources to try new ideas, things they wouldn't otherwise be able to get money for. It supports undergraduate student researchers and gets them in labs. These are things that are critical, and our competitors have chairs and professorships, and we need to as well to keep people here.

We are delighted that more students are discovering that FMU is a great place to continue their education. The credit belongs to the faculty and staff for the quality of education offered at this institution.

We have lost a lot of our best and brightest faculty members.

We serve students who can't come to the campus and take 18 hours of courses. But we do everything to ensure that our online courses match the quality in the classroom. They are taught by the same faculty with a lower teacher to student ratio.

Web-based multimodal and speech technologies are a welcome solution to the information overload we all face today, representing a fundamental change in the software capabilities of mobile devices. In fact, without them the Web would be practically useless on mobile phones. Wake Forest is a leader in delivering personalized information to students and faculty virtually no matter where they are.

Voluntary binding arbitration, if accepted, would end the strike immediately. Both parties would agree on an arbitrator who would, after a serious evaluation of the positions of both parties, provide an informed resolution to the dispute that has kept students out of their classes since March 7 . This process would be trusted by both faculty and management and would bring the best results for all parties.

This work is an excellent example of how K-State scientists work across disciplines to build effective teams, ... Had it not been for these faculty members reaching out to each other to share their individual observations relative to research and teaching, this exciting discovery might well have gone unnoticed.

The PROMISE Bill had an amendment that could be very important to the classified staff as well as faculty in higher education.

Faculty Meetings are held whenever the need to show off is combined with the imperative of accomplishing nothing.

We are moving forward every year and the faculty and staff are some of the most caring people I've ever met, ... This is a university that knows its students by name and not by number and that shows in our staff.

Man is God by his faculty for thought.

The exercise covered the principal decision-making and communications issues that would face us in a pandemic. The drill emphasized the need for all of us to continue working together to determine and answer some fundamental questions before we are actually faced with them. These included: At what point would we send students and nonessential staff home? How would we care for remaining faculty and staff, and those students who couldn't evacuate? What decisions could be made by Harvard versus state or local officials? Who would make which crucial decisions and how would those decisions be communicated?

If faculty would relax their emphasis on grades, this might serve not to lower standards but to encourage an orientation toward learning.

I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.

Genius--the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.

Vulnerability is not a weakness but a faculty for understanding.

We have a lot of different points of view on the University of Texas at Austin campus. And we certainly support our faculty in saying what they think.

We placed few restrictions on people. Faculty had freedom to conduct their research and had few IT policies to think about.

We originally wanted the concert to be outside; thus there would be no limitations and everyone could go, including parents, faculty and staff. However, Ben Folds' special technical requirements didn't make it financially possible.

With a curriculum like Brown's that stresses student-faculty interaction, we needed a lot more faculty than we had,

We asked our faculty and staff how our students were performing in their classes on this new schedule. We asked them to compare it to the fall, when students were going Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. The numbers were overwhelming. They said the students performed better.

We have been in direct contact with the Department of Management Services and have been assured that there is no evidence of a potential breach affecting university faculty or staff.

We would have as many as 10 to 15 permanent faculty available at University Park next fall. Several of them would be new faculty rather than existing faculty members.

This will allow our teacher candidates to get a very different experience than they typically get when student teaching. Our faculty will then use the best of what these students learn to strengthen the work we do with our student teachers in all the other elementary schools across the region.

We're not holding anyone hostage. The faculty and the students are both being held hostage by a management that refuses to negotiate.

The program isn't growing in leaps and bounds, but it is a pretty stable growth. It takes a faculty member a lot of time to convert a class curriculum into an online format fit for teaching.

This will help us gain credibility with the business community, this is going to draw new faculty members and this is going to draw more students. There is no question about it.

The partnership between Missouri State University and IBM creates tremendous opportunities for both students and faculty alike. I applaud IBM's effort and commitment to advancing the study of technology in schools. I would encourage others to follow in their example of providing support to students who will be called upon to compete in an increasingly technology-driven, global workplace.

The PPL faculty have also missed Professor Arthur's presence and participation in the department.

We had students who were depressed and frankly angry. They thought the door would always be open. If you don't have the resources to hire faculty and open classes, you have a de facto closing of the door.

We are encouraging personal meetings and small group discussions between faculty and the textbook representatives at every opportunity.

Faculty teams are working together to ensure that courses available at Tri-County provide similar experiences to our courses at Clemson, so that students can transition from one institution to another and make progress toward their degree.

Faculty senate will host a luncheon to recognize the winner. The winner also receives an all expense paid trip to a professional development conference as well as a plaque.

Faculty met, and after the usual business, some conversation was had about certain students being addicted to drinking, and it was reported that a citizen of the village had informed a member of the Faculty that there was a good deal of drinking this term among the students.

Faculty members tend to focus on those issues just like people of all races tend to do.

You cannot change a school until the community and faculty are ready to change. The teachers in the country's highest 25 performing schools are not working harder than the teachers in Wyoming. They are just doing it differently.

Urging by deans, provosts, board members, faculty will drive these numbers up.

We've heard reports of students meeting with their instructors on the subway as their teachers dash off to other jobs. How can we claim to provide a quality education when faculty members often have neither an office nor a desk?

We will be seeking the academic perspective throughout this process, and in fact have begun so already with the formation of a faculty advisory committee.

We have a disconnect between what the faculty think of as shared governance and what the administration thinks of as shared governance.

We have a desperate need to update the antiquated facility. We have outstanding faculty researchers there ... this will give them state-of-the-art technology to do their work.

This was the working relationship that President Summers had with the Harvard faculty and the Harvard Corporation, the trustees. The advocacy by presidents from other institutions wouldn't really have had an impact on that.

We were there within six to seven minutes after we got the call. The students and faculty were already evacuated. We immediately called for mutual aid.

We have a big advantage now in that people are more likely to come to a new place where they are one of the founding faculty members and have a lot of say in what gets done, ... But when you get to the point where we have 100 faculty and we're just another UC at the bottom of the barrel, there's less to distinguish ourselves.

The publishers' response has been to work with educators to produce new...tools that faculty use to tailor their materials for their students,

We don't think that the merger is a very well thought out plan. We don't feel that they have included the students or faculty members of either college in the decision-making process.

We're very excited about this opportunity to have our faculty and students engaged with their counterparts in China. We continue to have a growing number of our students who are interested in the international exchange.

We are very happy to be ranked with some of the best schools in the country. It speaks well of our students and faculty and the values we have.

We have external experts that will start in the fall meeting with deans, faculty and students, and from those meetings, they'll make reports that will include some observations and recommendations to try to get a more diverse faculty here.

As the facilities were getting older, it became clear that if we are going to recruit top faculty and researchers, we're going to need to make a better system.

As it happens, although I was at MIT on the faculty full-time for 18 years and then at Harvard for another 16, so I've always been in full-time academia, I always found it was both beneficial for my research and beneficial for the other work to be involved in the practicing community.

At other institutions, faculty has no choice. They just move everything from print to digital. Our faculty will determine exactly which materials students see.

Constantly trimming down the university employees, whether it is faculty or administration... I don't see how you can say that that is directly going to increase productivity when you load everyone else up with more work.

Each institution maintains its separate identity, but the partnership in terms of space and library and just the cross-pollination of student life and faculty life has been a very positive thing.

Essentially, we've been neighbors for thirty years but there really hasn't been a very direct connection with Sweetwater. So the mayor sees the economic advantages of creating an environment such as a college town, because it would bring students and faculty a lot of activity that would be very positive towards them.

During the 'Think Tank' we ask questions that rise from the course of the week. We talk about how Sam could be more diverse; we actually come up with different programs based on the different issues that student and faculty come up with during the think tank.

I've been on the faculty for 30 years and in administration for 20 of those, and I don't remember a time when it was worse than it is now.

The win also reflects well on the faculty, department and university. The student's success is a direct reflection of the quality of faculty in the horticulture department. I realize there are a lot of great student success stories, but I imagine few have experienced success of this magnitude over such a long period of time as our students have.

The students and faculty of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities are motivated survivors and self-achievers. We look forward to providing them with effective tools and supportive services that assist them in maximizing their health as they work to transform their communities.

The thought was to have people who have made an extraordinary contribution in scholarship, public service and judging, because Oscar did, ... Yale Law School stands for excellence in scholarship and teaching, a close knit faculty and staff, public service, and close ties to the profession of law. Oscar's magnificent gift will help us achieve this.