Private and public budgets are busting to keep up with expenses driven by such factors as an ossified system of tenure-driven faculty appointments, outrageous research obligations even in the humanities and social sciences and gilded accommodations for the (ever longer) nesting students.
There is not a two-tiered system of responsibility, one for faculty and another for coaches and athletic directors.
He tried to fight his reassignment and suspension though his union, the Inter Faculty Organization, which represents faculty in the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system.
Some California faculty have also protested plans in the state higher education system to use MOOCs to supplement teaching on campus.
For all its flaws, our criminal justice system is vastly better equipped than university administrators and faculty to protect the rights of accusers and accused alike.
The system will be an unprecedented platform to help students and faculty meet the challenge of our university's motto, 'Why Not Change the World?
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"It's a first-warning system that we have for danger, " says Pamela Dalton, faculty member at Monell Chemical Senses Center, a scientific-research institution.
Reform of the current system is a daunting task, given the power and intransigence of faculty members and others spoiled by massive third-party subsidization of their activities.
The high court identified five factors -- facilities, staff, faculty, extracurricular activities and transportation -- to be used to measure a school system's compliance with the mandate of Brown.
The arrival of the Watson system will enable new leading-edge research at Rensselaer, and afford faculty and students an opportunity to find new uses for Watson and deepen the systems' cognitive capabilities.
ENGADGET: Watson heading to college, honing administrator-pranking algorithms
It is a system that attracts students, both undergraduates and graduate students from all over the world, it's a system that in terms of research, facilities, capital expenditures, the quality of faculty, continues to be by many accounts the best in the world.
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Along with faculty researchers and graduate students, undergraduate students at Rensselaer will have opportunities to work directly with the Watson system.
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Faculty member Carolyn Walcott, who teaches television and radio broadcasting, was the first voice recorded while testing the new system.
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