A faculty is a grouping of academic departments that are grouped together for teaching, research and administrative purposes. For example Faculty of Science, Faculty of Law, etc. Sometimes they are also called Schools, e.g. School of Health Studies etc.
Universities are divided into academic divisions, where teaching and research are conducted. Each division is called a Faculty. Although some universities refer to them as Divisions.
A person appointed to a position defined by the Board of Governors Personnel Classification system as in the faculty pay plan. Categories include Professor, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, and Instructor, as well as non-instructional staff such as Counselor/Advisors, and Librarians.
1. A division or branch of learning within a college or university, for example, the “Faculty of Arts” 2. The teachers that instruct in a particular division.
The teachers, professors and instructors who teach at schools.
Persons identified by the institution as such and typically those whose initial assignments are made for the purpose of conducting instruction, research or public service as a principal activity (or activities). They may hold academic rank titles of professor, associate professor, assistant professor, instructor, lecturer or the equivalent of any of those academic ranks. Faculty may also include the chancellor/president, provost, vice provosts, deans, directors or the equivalent, as well as associate deans, assistant deans and executive officers of academic departments (chairpersons, heads or the equivalent) if their principal activity is instruction combined with research and/or public service. The designation as "faculty" is separate from the activities to which they may be currently assigned. For example, a newly appointed president of an institution may also be appointed as a faculty member. Graduate, instruction, and research assistants are not included in this category.
This is a large academic organisational unit of the University. UNSW has eight faculties: Arts and Social Sciences; Commerce and Economics; Engineering; Law; Medicine; Science; and the College of Fine Arts. Faculties may be comprised of several schools or departments.
A grouping of award and non-award courses for administrative purposes. Faculties in 1994 were: Name Abbreviation Changed name 1994 Business Commerce and Economics Design Education Engineering and Surveying Eng. and Surv. Humanities and Social Sciences Hum. and Soc. Sc. Law Medicine and Pharmacy Nursing Science and Technology Science and Tech. Visual and Performing Arts Vis. and Perf. Arts
The faculties are the teaching and research staff of a Business School.
The university is divided into a number of faculties, each of which deals with a general area of study. Most faculties are also sub-divided into smaller departments.
Individual subjects within universities are grouped into faculties or schools, e.g. English would be part of the Faculty of Arts along with subjects such as modern languages.
Faculty are the teachers at Austin Peay State University, and may be either full-time or part-time. Faculty are ranked according to their degrees earned, qualifications, time spent teaching, and position. The ranks are Instructor, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and full Professor, the most prestigious. Adjuncts, while part-time instructors, are not less qualified than full-time professors as they must meet the SACS minimum requirements in order to teach. Most adjuncts have both the necessary academic credentials and work experience in their field.
The organisation of several schools into an academic area responsible for the administration of courses.
an organizational academic unit made up of similar teaching departments and headed by a Dean. SFU has six Faculties: Applied Sciences, Arts and Social Sciences, Business Administration, Education, Health Sciences and Science. “Faculty†may also refer to teaching staff of the University.
Refers to academic personnel/teaching staff.
The teachers at a post-secondary institution. Also a grouping of departments and programs in a similar area (e.g., Faculty of Arts).
There are seven faculties (Arts, Asian Studies, Economics and Commerce, Engineering and Information Technology, Law, Medicine, and Science) at the ANU. Each faculty is concerned with the instruction of students for the degrees of bachelor and master, for intermediate awards, and with research and the supervision of candidates for doctoral degrees.
instructional staff at the University who share their expertise with students, with the community and with each other by offering academic programs, providing professional service and creating new knowledge through research efforts.
Persons whose specific assignments customarily are made for the purpose of conducting instruction, research, or public service as a principal activity (or activities), and who hold academic rank titles of professor, associate professor, assistant professor, instructor, lecturer, or the equivalent of any of these academic ranks.
the body of teachers and administrators at a school; "the dean addressed the letter to the entire staff of the university"
a coherent academic unit of one or more academic elements, headed by a Dean and containing Schools or Departments each with its own Head
a division of a university (e
a group of dedicated teachers
an academic unit dedicated to teaching, research and scholarship in a range of related disciplines
an organizational structure which includes an academic and administrative body which governs a collection of Schools
Appropriately credentialed individuals responsible for the delivery of course content and academic research and service.
is a major administrative and teaching unit of the University responsible for programs and courses relating to common fields of study or academic disciplines (e.g. Faculty of Humanities, Faculty of Engineering).
UBC Vancouver has 12 faculties: Agricultural Sciences, Applied Science, Arts, Commerce and Business Administration, Dentistry, Education, Forestry, Graduate Studies, Law, Medicine, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Science.
Anyone affiliated with the University by employment for the purpose of teaching and/or research.
The University of New England is divided into four faculties by academic interest - Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Economics, Business and Law, Faculty of Education, Health and Professional Studies and the Faculty of The Sciences.
a category defined by the Florida Community College System that includes persons whose assignments are for the purpose of conducting instruction. This would include personnel who hold academic-rank titles of professor.
This word is used to indicate the teaching staff of a university as well as an academic subdivision of a university which is normally a larger unit than a department. For example, a faculty of science might include the departments of physics, chemistry and biology.
A Faculty is the generic term used to differentiate each domain taught at the University. For example, the Faculty of Science is the overall term used to describe the organisation surrounding all Science qualifications at the University, the Faculty of Law covers all law qualifications and so on.
A division of the university teaching a specific area of study. Faculties are often subdivided into Departments and Schools. At Birkbeck, we have four Faculties: Arts, Continuing Education, Science and Social Sciences.
The professors, teachers and lecturers of a school. Grade: 1) Refers to degrees of accomplishment in school, usually denoted by the use of the letters A, B, C, D, and F, where A indicates the highest level and F indicates failing. 2) used to indicate a particular year or level in primary and secondary schools. Grades range from 1st grade to 12th grade (approximately ages 6 to 18)
Branches of the university that oversee academic departments/centres. Every student is associated with a Faculty.
An administrative sub-division of the University responsible for the primary organisation of teaching and research in a particular subject (e.g. English) or group of related subjects (e.g. Clinical Medicine). In the scientific subjects, the work of a Faculty is normally organised into Departments; this sub-division is less common in the arts faculties. Each Faculty has an elected Faculty Board which is responsible to the General Board for the provision of adequate teaching, and facilities for research. Reports on academic matters mainly originate from the appropriate Faculty Boards.
Faculty refers to "faculties and equivalent bodies" as defined by Senate, including Schools.
the term to either denote a university's teaching staff or an academic subdivision normally larger than a university department, such as the faculty of science that includes the departments of physics, chemistry and biology.
In the US, the word "faculty" refers to a school's professors, lecturers, and instructors, not a division or department of the university.
The faculty consists of all people who teach classes at a particular college or university.
Part of the University's organisational structure. Each school or department is part of one of four Faculties.
The faculty is composed of all persons who teach classes for colleges
The College no longer has a faculty structure (a faculty is normally a group of departments representing an area of knowledge, eg, arts, social sciences, etc).
A person appointed to a position defined by the Board of Regents Personnel Classification system as faculty; categories include Professor, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, and Instructor. The collective bargaining agreement currently in force includes in the faculty population all Developmental Research School (university lab school) personnel, all University Librarian classifications, staff physicists, and the President.
The members of the teaching staff and occasionally the administrative staff of the University. The faculty is responsible for designing the plans of study offered by the University.
In British parlance, faculty tends to refer to a university department. In American parlance, which tends to be the lingua franca of international business programmes, faculty refers to the instructors (professors, lecturers and so on) in a programme, department, or university.
Monash has 10 faculties, each representing a particular area of study These include: Arts Art and Design Business and Economics Education Engineering Information Technology Law Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences Pharmacy Science A faculty is made up of schools and departments each focusing on a special area of study within the discipline
The University is divided into divisions. The principal academic divisions in which teaching and research are conducted are called faculties. There are five faculties in the University.
A group of departments, usually reflecting broadly similar areas of academic interest, such as business or science. Led by a Dean and run on a practical, day-to-day basis by a faculty manager.
a formal academic body responsible for the administration of courses, with membership largely comprised of the teaching staff of schools assigned to the faculty and student representatives from the courses for which it is responsible.
professors, instructors, and sometimes researchers, i.e., academic personnel; also as used in the name "Faculty of Arts and Sciences," a division of the university.
A formal subdivision within the University whose mission is the administration of programs and courses relating (usually) to common fields of study and academic disciplines.
RMIT has phased out administrative units previously called a ‘Faculty’. See ‘School’.
Any one of the University of Ottawa's ten main academic administration units (Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Social Sciences, Faculty of Engineering, etc.).
Staff physicians with academic appointment at a medical school. Titles vary by appointment (i.e. Assistant Professor, Professor, Clinical Researcher)
Headed by a dean, a faculty is a formal part of the University's academic governance structure, responsible for all matters concerning the courses that it supervises.
is a group of similar or subject-related departments of the University.
Branches of a learning at a college or university, for example, the faculty of law
(1) Professors are known as faculty members. (2) Departments (such as English, History, Theatre) are grouped into divisions called Faculties. Dalhousie faculties include: Architecture, Arts and Social Sciences, Computer Science, Dentistry, Engineering, Graduate Studies, Health Professions, Law, Management, Medicine, Science.
9-MONTH FACULTY APPOINTMENT: Academic personnel who are employed by the university to serve any 9-month period of time (three periods of three months each). The three periods do not have to be consecutive but must be completed within the four quarters comprising a complete academic year. Note: Current practice considers the 9 month appointment to run from September 16 through June 15. 12-MONTH FACULTY APPOINTMENT: Academic personnel who are employed by the university to serve an 11-month period of time. They are paid salary over twelve months for their 11 months of service. Note: Current practice considers the appointment to run from July 1 through June 30.
a) The academic teaching staff of a university and b) A grouping of related academic departments administered by a Dean
Members of college staff who teach.
In its simplest usage -- those directly responsible to plan and deliver the academic program. "Full-Time" faculty are assigned many regular duties above and beyond hours devoted to individual courses, including responsibilities for program development, curriculum advising, and service on a wide variety of committees and task forces within the College. "Part-Time" faculty are generally assigned to teach only one or two courses in any given semester, with no formal duties outside the scope of those courses.
Within the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Nursing, the individual School Boards may have roles and responsibilities equivalent to faculties elsewhere in the University.
Those who teach on campus. Tenured faculty are teachers who have guaranteed job status. Lecturers and instructors are nontenured faculty.
FACULTY: an organisational and discipline-based administrative structure within a university. The part time studies programme links four faculties.
A group of departments in a college which specialize in a particular subject or group of subjects
a number of University Departments gathered together for administrative purposes. See also: Schools.
is a department or a larger unit of administration.
The teaching staff of a college or university. The term does not refer to a department within the university, as it does in some countries.
The principal academic divisions in universities in which teaching and research are conducted. Faculties may comprise several schools or departments.
Title given to academic organisation units within the University. ECU's five faculties are: Business and Law; Computing, Health and Science; Community Services, Education and Social Sciences, Regional Professional Studies; and Communications and Creative Industries.
The group of people who teach the courses at a college or university. The faculty consists of lecturers, instructors, assistant professors, associate professors, and professors.
instructors of higher education course work; a group term: one college teacher is "a member of the faculty"
Faculty are the teaching staff of the institution. These include the professors, associate and assistant professors, lecturers, and other instructors.
A faculty is a grouping of academic departments that are grouped together for teaching, research and administrative purposes. For example at The University of Manchester we have four Faculties: Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences Faculty of Humanities Faculty of Life Sciences Faculty of Medical & Human Sciences.
a department within the University devoted to a particular area of study.
The members of the teaching staff, and occasionally the administrative staff, of an educational institution. The faculty is responsible for designing the plans of study offered by the institution.
1) Parts of the University that are grouped together based on related disciplines. 2) The professors and instructors who teach University courses.
The body of teaching staff at a school. Faculty may also refer to a department of a university.
Faculties comprise related disciplines grouped for the purposes of administration and academic planning.
All teachers at the college hold faculty positions and ranks (e.g. Assistant Professor).
a) The instructors at a post-secondary institution. b) A group of university departments concerned with one area of knowledge.
The academic organisational unit consisting of academic and administrative staff headed by a Dean, responsible for all matters concerning the programs and subjects it supervises.
This generally refers to the part-time and full-time professors on campus, some of whom also act as faculty advisors. Other GSC administrative faculty on campus include: deans, division chairs, vice presidents, and the president.
Faculties are the large academic organisational units of the University, and are generally comprised of several schools or departments. UNSW has eight faculties: Arts and Social Sciences; Built Environment; Commerce and Economics; Engineering; Law; Medicine; Science; and the College of Fine Arts. University College, ADFA and the Australian Graduate School of Management are also regarded as faculties.
includes all individuals who hold academic or clinical appointments.
One of Math, Engineering, Arts, Applied Health Sciences (AHS), Environmental Studies (ES), and Science.
the people who teach in a school (at any level). Can refer to an individual teacher or to a group of teachers collectively. Does not refer to a department or a college.
the professors, teachers and lecturers of a university/college. The faculty is responsible for designing and disseminating the plans of study offered by the institution.
Each Faculty is responsible for a range of programmes (degrees, diplomas and other qualifications) in which students enrol. Victoria University has six faculties: Architecture & Design, Commerce & Administration, Education, Humanities & Social Sciences, Law, and Science, each of which is headed by a Dean. Toihuarewa, a separate pan-University Faculty equivalent, is the MÄori academic forum. All MÄori academics may elect to become members, and non-MÄori academics teaching courses or undertaking research with a significant MÄori content may be invited to be part of Toihuarewa.
Twofold in meaning: refers to the professors and researchers employed by a university or to the teaching divisions within a university system (e.g. Faculty of Engineering), which are then divided further into departments.
A faculty is a collection of academic departments that are grouped together for teaching, research and administrative purposes. For example, Faculty of Science, Faculty of Humanities, Law and Social Sciences
A faculty is a division within a university. The medieval University of Paris, which served as a model for most of the later medieval universities in Europe, had four faculties: the Faculties of Theology, Law, Medicine, and finally the Faculty of Arts, which every student had to graduate from in order to continue his training in one of the other three, sometimes known as the higher faculties. The privilege to establish these four faculties was usually part of all medieval charters for universities, but not every university could in reality do so.