Faculty Quotes

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. - Phillip Gay

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. - Annie Besant

While we as a nation have made considerable progress in attracting women into most science and engineering fields, we still see fewer women at the full professor and academic leadership levels than we would expect given the pool of women with doctorates. After investing in creating this pool of highly trained talent, we should see a high rate of return -- productive, creative and respected teachers and researchers attracting more students into fields that might have seemed closed to them given the traditional profile of science and engineering faculty. - Alice Hogan

While the overall picture remains unfortunate, there are bright pockets of hope. In schools where the faculty is trained and ready to show support for students facing this kind of harassment, you find students are much less likely to suffer the adverse effects such harassment can have. - Eliza Byard

When they exceed the number of faculty, that sort of sends up a warning flag of what's happening here. These are not the people who are making minimum salaries. I'm not happy about it. - Bob Brady

When I was chairman of the [philosophy] department, one of the reasons some faculty applied to Loyola was precisely because of the opportunity to teach at the Rome Center. - Kenneth Thompson

When I compared the two schools, here the faculty had a much stronger emphasis on environmental education. I'm very glad I picked here. - Yu Wang

What we're envisioning now is developing a set of services that students, faculty and staff are asking for and that we can deliver efficiently. Bell Tower will serve as a blueprint for how to develop an infrastructure at Duke to support growth in emerging digital data, audio and video applications in new and existing buildings on campus. - Kevin Miller