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No I said it was a bad idea. I immediately deleted mine too when I got it. Horrendous attempt to generate money all around.
then why were you arguing with me
No I said it was a bad idea. I immediately deleted mine too when I got it. Horrendous attempt to generate money all around.
Wake has adjunct faculty. I may become one myself.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.
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.5. Haven't seen anything about this, can you expand?
Wake has adjunct faculty. I may become one myself.
Wake has adjunct faculty. I may become one myself.
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 just seems like it's run by a bunch of donks ever since hatch came around
Very relevant....I can assure you.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.
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.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.
Very relevant....I can assure you.
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.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.
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/#
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):
http://ir.wfu.edu/files/2005_2006_factbook.pdf
And today:
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.