The Chairholder is Dr Emilios Solomou, Executive Vice President for Administration of the University of Nicosia and a faculty member teaching in the Departments of Education and European Studies and International Relations.
Teaching evaluations rise, and faculty can focus on research.
The history of American higher education demonstrates that the quality of teaching and research is greatest when faculty are secure in their freedom to inquire, speak, teach and publish.
That turned into a faculty position teaching entrepreneurship and mentoring student projects aimed at forming triple bottom line companies.
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It has a dedicated foreign-language school with international teachers and touts its English-language teaching skills, the foreign studies of many of its faculty members and its alliances with foreign schools.
But some efforts are at risk of stalling at the discussion stage, since teaching business ethics faces roadblocks from faculty and recruiters alike.
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The growth in public money for academic research has speeded the process: federal research grants rose fourfold between 1960 and 1990, but faculty teaching hours fell by half as research took its toll.
For instance, research-intensive universities might benefit most from a hybrid of renewable long-term contracts and fringe benefit trade-offs, whereas it may be most efficient for teaching colleges to utilize a combination of contingent faculty and renewable contracts.
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There seems to be no correlation between student perception of the effectiveness of teaching (as measured by RateMyProfessor.com) and faculty compensation, for example, but professors who teach a lot get paid somewhat more than those that do not.
This, of course, requires shifting still more teaching to graduate students and other adjunct, non-tenured faculty.
Since 2006 I have been on the d.school faculty at Stanford teaching innovation through user centered design and experiencing the current disruption of education from the inside.
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Not only does the curriculum need to include entrepreneurial classes, but also faculty need to be trained in the pedagogies appropriate for teaching creative and predictive approaches for entrepreneurship.
Mr. Cole has been a member of the adjunct faculty at Georgetown University Law Center, teaching courses on public corruption law and legal ethics, and has lectured at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.
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