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Lol at the new WakeWill campaign

WAKE WILL
continue to lose with Ron Wellman
How does he still have a job?

Those 3 lines in a billboard this time next year. Book it.
 
Yeah wakephan agreed with what I said but said it differently, district has been arguing some different points but some are definitely true, and everyone agreed with Milhouse how bad the bracket campaign and colors were.
 
So we all agree that it's a shitty campaign and Wellman needs to get shitcanned?

:hug:

:circlejerk:
 
The term "adjunct" more generally has come to refer to fully-qualified academics with terminal degrees that are employed as contingent teaching labor. They make up something like 60% of the teaching faculty in US colleges and Universities. As far as I know, Wake does not employ any of these types.
Wake has adjunct faculty. I may become one myself.
 
5. Haven't seen anything about this, can you expand?
I heard last week that they are creating some new majors targeting technology, including medicinal chemistry. Those faculty will apparently be housed in new buildings at the Innovation Quarter. Not sure how the logistics will work with that...getting back and forth from main campus. I think it's a great idea and one way Wake is improving quality and image.....and having a footprint in town has to help connect with W-S. There is a lot exciting research going on at the Med School but it's always been separated from the undergrads.

http://www.innovationquarter.com/
 
Wake has adjunct faculty. I may become one myself.

Very interesting. Please tell us more.

However, unless you 1) would be part of the undergraduate teaching faculty and 2) do not have a terminal degree in your field, it's probably not relevant to this conversation.
 
Wake just seems like it's run by a bunch of donks ever since hatch came around
 
What is the average amount people pay to go to Wake? Almost no one pays full tuition, right?
 
I heard last week that they are creating some new majors targeting technology, including medicinal chemistry. Those faculty will apparently be housed in new buildings at the Innovation Quarter. Not sure how the logistics will work with that...getting back and forth from main campus. I think it's a great idea and one way Wake is improving quality and image.....and having a footprint in town has to help connect with W-S. There is a lot exciting research going on at the Med School but it's always been separated from the undergrads.

http://www.innovationquarter.com/

Wake has basically been shuttling students all over town for a few years now. No reason they can't add a stop over there on the route.
 
there was donkishness even back in the 90s. People were commenting about administrative bloat when I was there 94-98. Hearn got a lot of same crap that Hatch does now, except back then we had a winning basketball program so no one was bitching about Wellman.
 
Very interesting. Please tell us more.

However, unless you 1) would be part of the undergraduate teaching faculty and 2) do not have a terminal degree in your field, it's probably not relevant to this conversation.
Very relevant....I can assure you.
 
Wake has basically been shuttling students all over town for a few years now. No reason they can't add a stop over there on the route.
I figured they did at some sort of level because I've run into undergrads when I've been over there, but enough to run entire departments? That's quite a step up logistically.
 
Very relevant....I can assure you.

Your situation sounds like it would be very helpful to the conversation. If you don't want to share the details with the board, would you mind chatting via PM? I won't share the particulars, but if what you say is true and germane then it might indeed signal a change in University identity.
 
Your situation sounds like it would be very helpful to the conversation. If you don't want to share the details with the board, would you mind chatting via PM? I won't share the particulars, but if what you say is true and germane then it might indeed signal a change in University identity.
I have quite a few non-Wake colleagues who are adjuncts at the Med School and I've been asked in the past if I was interested too. I work very closely with researchers over there which is why I was over there last week. I haven't agreed to do it yet but one friend brought up contributing to one of the new majors that are getting set up...if that was something I might consider. Not sure how serious it was....I took it as a fact finding mission on their part. Wake is going to need help. There are certainly a lot of undergrad adjunct faculty listed (see link) and are lots of adjunct faculty in the professional schools. I think success there might be trickling down.

http://static.wfu.edu/files/pdf/faculty/undergraduate.faculty.pdf.
 
I have quite a few non-Wake colleagues who are adjuncts at the Med School and I've been asked in the past if I was interested too. I work very closely with researchers over there which is why I was over there last week. I haven't agreed to do it yet but one friend brought up contributing to one of the new majors that are getting set up...if that was something I might consider. Not sure how serious it was....I took it as a fact finding mission on their part. Wake is going to need help. There are certainly a lot of undergrad adjunct faculty listed (see link) and are lots of adjunct faculty in the professional schools. I think success there might be trickling down.

http://static.wfu.edu/files/pdf/faculty/undergraduate.faculty.pdf.

That link didn't work for me.

I have tried to make it very clear that the point I am making absolutely excludes adjunct faculty in the medical and professional schools. I am only talking about the undergraduate teaching faculty in the college of arts and sciences (which is the statistic to which DistrictDeacon referred).

If I understand the last bit of your post correctly, it sounds like the "new majors" you mention are intended to be undergraduate majors? If those programs hire adjunct faculty it certainly might change the equation. However hiring adjuncts in that case, I'd imagine, would still be a case of "professor of practice" rank -- which is the equivalent for statistical purposes as a terminal degree.

Regardless, none of this is really relevant to the point DistrictDeac made that I contest.
 
Not sure how to link to that document directly. Google "https://static.wfu.edu/files/pdf/faculty/undergraduate.faculty.pdf." A link should pop up that gets you to a listing of faculty. Many are adjunct faculty....so Wake has and uses adjunct undergrad faculty in many departments. I don't care about what minutia you're arguing over, you questioned whether Wake has them or not and they do. There is no "professor of practice" designation at Wake that I have ever heard of and regardless if there is or not, that's normally just done in professional schools, not the undergrad faculty you keep pointing to.

This link says approximately 17% of the teaching faculty are not full time permanent. While that's less than average, they still use them. Not sure why that's viewed as some big change. Been that way for years.

http://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/wake-forest-university/academic-life/faculty-composition/#

The "new majors" are new departments with undergrad and grad school majors. They are moving professors from other traditional majors to anchor them from what I understand. They will need help there which is what I was asked about....so yes, undergrad school and FYI....yes I do research that may get involved.
 
Not sure how to link to that document directly. Google "https://static.wfu.edu/files/pdf/faculty/undergraduate.faculty.pdf." A link should pop up that gets you to a listing of faculty. Many are adjunct faculty....so Wake has and uses adjunct undergrad faculty in many departments. I don't care about what minutia you're arguing over, you questioned whether Wake has them or not and they do. There is no "professor of practice" designation at Wake that I have ever heard of and regardless if there is or not, that's normally just done in professional schools, not the undergrad faculty you keep pointing to.

This link says approximately 17% of the teaching faculty are not full time permanent. While that's less than average, they still use them. Not sure why that's viewed as some big change. Been that way for years.

http://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/wake-forest-university/academic-life/faculty-composition/#

1) We covered all that a couple of pages ago. Yes, 17% is about right, and I've never argued otherwise -- that was DistrictDeacon.

Here's the relevant data. From ten years ago, when I started at Wake (and Wake claimed all their classes were taught by people with terminal degrees):

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http://ir.wfu.edu/files/2005_2006_factbook.pdf


And today:

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http://ir.wfu.edu/files/FB14_15.pdf

Looks like there haven't been appreciable increases in part-time faculty in the last ten years, especially relative to full-time faculty. Someone with better grades in statistics help me out here.

And 2) Here's an example of a "Professor of the Practice" that teaches undergraduate courses for the minor in Counseling: http://college.wfu.edu/counseling/about-us/faculty-and-staff/heidi-robinson/
 
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