Faculty Quotations

The concept of serendipity often crops up in research. Serendipity is the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things that were not being sought. I believe that all researchers can be serendipitous.

I will not expose the ignorance of the faculty

The time I have already spent at Harvard has been a stimulating experience, and I look forward to developing my relationship and activities with the students, faculty and friends of the Harvard Business School community.

Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.

Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.

Going to school on a campus where the faculty overwhelmingly disagrees with you, and where the student body overwhelmingly disagrees with you, is challenging. If you go in without a firm foundation, it can undermine what you believe.

Reason we call that faculty innate in us of discovering laws and applying them with thought.

In total, I have spent 35 years at Hokkaido University as a staff member - 2 and a half in the Faculty of Science, and the other 32 and a half in the Faculty of Engineering. Other than about two years of study in America and a few months in other places overseas, most of my life has been spent at the Faculty of Engineering.

I'm a psychologist. I was a psychology faculty member, and then I became an administrator of the department, then the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. At the time of the presidential search, I was the dean.

Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.

I became a member of the faculty at Northwestern University in 1965 but did not complete my thesis until two years later at a graduate ceremony at which Carnegie Institute of Technology became Carnegie-Mellon University. At Northwestern, I was mentored by the 'three Bobs:' Robert Eisner, Robert Strotz and Robert Clower.

My father worked in high-energy nuclear physics, and my mother was a mycologist and a geneticist. After both parents completed postdoctoral fellowships in San Diego in 1962, my father took a faculty position in the Physics Department at Yale, and so the family moved to New Haven, Connecticut.

Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths of human experience. It is the power to feel pleasure or suffer pain in all its exquisiteness and intensity.

My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the faculty at Cornell was very supportive.

In 1978, I entered Tohoku University, into the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technology.

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.

Not only does neoliberalism undermine both civic education and public values and confuse education with training, it also treats knowledge as a product, promoting a neoliberal logic that views schools as malls, students as consumers, and faculty as entrepreneurs.

I'd want to bring a flamethrower to faculty meetings. The preciousness of academics and their fragile personalities would not be tolerated in any other business in the known universe.

Harvard Law provided an opportunity to learn from a faculty that had shaped the laws of our country and helped to change the world around us. It also offered an opportunity to study with the brightest students and to test myself against the best.

Another goal is to look to the resources we have and to see how we could do better to plan, in a sense, for the faculty and infrastructure that we will need to study Asia well into the 21st century.

Work hard. I got tenure a year early. Junior faculty members used to say to me: 'Wow, what's your secret?' I said: 'It's pretty simple. Call me any Friday night in my office at 10 o'clock, and I'll tell you.'

It's been a long struggle. But we've made huge progress. I mean, when I started at Berkeley, women weren't allowed to be part of the band. No women were allowed into the male faculty club. I mean, I was there. I remember that! The worlds were so divided. So the change has been huge.

There are various grades of spiritual sight. One grade enables a man to see the ordinarily invisible ether with the myriads of beings that invest that realm. Other and higher variants give him the faculty to see the desire world and even the world of thought while remaining in the physical body.

My father was among the first of his generation to look into writers who've become part of the American lit. canon. When he wrote his master's thesis on William Faulkner in the Forties, he couldn't find anybody on the faculty at Columbia University to oversee it because they didn't read Faulkner.

We are in an international marketplace for talent, and American colleges and universities need to be able to attract students and faculty from around the world if we want to sustain our excellence.

Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.

The history of American higher education over the twentieth century is an extraordinary one, the story of the creation of a powerhouse set of institutions that are the envy of the civilized world. Once they were the province, both among the student and faculty bodies, of children of privilege, generally WASPs.

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.

Like the women in my family, I've found the women in my lab a hard-nosed, ambitious lot who have gone on to be faculty members at top universities. In my own family, it is my father who is prone to bursting into tears.

I've become more and more aware of the promise and struggle to teach the global mind nowadays because I use every chance I get to ask faculty and administrators of management education programs why we don't offer at least one course - not even required, just an elective - on the world's religions.

There is no memory or retentive faculty based on lasting impression. What we designate as memory is but increased responsiveness to repeated stimuli.

In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than are Black men.

Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective.

I left Egypt in 1969 for graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania. I have been on the faculty at Caltech for 37 years and carried dual citizenship for 31. But my commitment to the country of my birth never wavered.

Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

I suspect music is auditory cheesecake, an exquisite confection crafted to tickle the sensitive spots of... our mental faculties.

It must be that a man who shuts himself up between four walls must lose the faculty of associating ideas and words.

Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him.

In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us.

We're looking for an upscale crowd who knows beers. The target market is your parents and grad students. It's a sleek, elegant place where faculty can come.

We want everyone to be aware of the breadth of research pertaining to the pork industry being done here at Iowa State. Faculty from the colleges of Agriculture, Engineering, Human Sciences and Veterinary Medicine are involved in doing research, and they work with our Extension folks on getting those results out to clients who need and want that information.

Whatever my powers--feminine or the contrary--God had given them, and I felt resolute to be ashamed of no faculty of his bestowal.

A tainted society has invented psychiatry to defend itself against the investigations of certain superior intellects whose faculties of divination would be troublesome.

Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced

I would never accept the recommendation of the theological faculty.

We are going to have to restructure some of our faculty and possibly bring in some additional staff to help build the new program.

We did not have much of a break. The teachers, faculty and I all worked to get our offices and classrooms set up before the students returned. I think the community will be proud of our new facility.

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.

There are faculty members there I know I will keep in touch with for the rest of my life. They have taught me extremely valuable skills, and the best thing is I was able to utilize resources available to me for high school and my brief undergraduate career. There is a real push for high school ... to become more of a jumping board. With LCC I got my general education out of the way. Even if I flip majors, I am ahead of the game. And all of my credits are transferable to a four-year university.

We're an institution that never has really embraced its history. We hope that everyone, whether it's students, faculty or alumni, will come away from this with a sense that this is an institution with a pretty profound history.

We set the admission goal for new students at 340. Many factors go into consideration with that, such as the classes offered, class availability, class size, budget for new faculty and how many current students return and how many graduate. The number shouldn't be less than 340 but not higher than 355.

Faith ... that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.

This project provides a unique opportunity for the students and faculty at Georgia Tech to gain experience with a compelling new platform for next-generation wireless applications.

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

Loyola faculty from stateside have been rotating there since the John Felice Rome Center was founded, and that has, as of now, silently, silently been abolished. That's a change that should have gone to faculty council, it should have gone to faculty affairs, it should have gone to academic affairs.... There's even a Rome Center advisory committee, which was never told.

Let us use the evolution controversy to intensify our efforts to provide a world-class education to our students and to support the faculty who engage in the important research and teaching missions of our schools and universities,

Legislators have a chance to walk around, look at the displays and talk to student and faculty members.

Learn.com is dedicated to strengthening America's global competitiveness by improving the quality of education both in the classroom and online regardless of the size of the institution. We believe that providing cutting- edge tools to promote lifelong learning through the proper academic channels can help build strong, educated communities. We believe that facilitating these institutions' ability to extend programs to e-learning based delivery will allow them to leverage already overtaxed assets including faculty and facilities.

Many of the members of the faculty who oppose him have never fully appreciated the degree that he is someone who is very open to criticism, to reconsidering his positions, to frank discussion.

SDSU has for the last quarter of a century sort of bridled at the basic mission statement of the CSU and has extended beyond the teaching of undergraduates. We expect more from our faculty than that.

She was dearly loved by faculty and her fellow students. She will be greatly missed by all of us that knew her.

She was forced to make decisions before the money was actually there. Sometimes you have to hire faculty a full year prior to their start date.

Sincere regret may be a faculty for paying attention to the future, for sensing a new tide where we missed a previous one, for experiencing timelessness with a grandchild where we neglected a boy of our own.

Much of education is out of touch with the value of practical experience compared to academic experience when it comes to technical trainer positions. When I spoke to ASE about this, I used our newsletter as an example. It had seven ads in it for automotive faculty and six out of the seven required at least a bachelor's degree. In reality, when it comes to automotive degrees, an associate's degree is pretty much the routine degree that technicians would secure.

Of course, MIT was notable not just for its faculty but also for its students. And, facing such extremely bright kids as a rookie teacher was something like being thrown to the wolves.

No one ever visited him. Eventually we would go to the faculty club every Friday. It's just taking the opportunity to connect with guys who seem distant because their accomplishments are superhuman.

More than 1,200 students participated in the production of this compact disc. Administration and faculty are also represented. Our goal is to directly benefit our fellow students in New Orleans as their school is rebuilt and they return to a happier and more prosperous life.

Now, students and faculty can all learn about this great writer firsthand,

News and Public Affairs is always available to assist our faculty with educating the public on the value of the work we do here. In addition to actively promoting clinical and basic science breakthroughs, we are also constantly collecting data regarding our interactions with the news media.

One thing about the Midtown area was at one time it was faculty houses and as they moved away; larger, older homes not suitable for single-family use became available and no one had a good handle on the number of units going in.

Ontario college students are frustrated and furious this evening that their post-secondary education is being disrupted by a province-wide faculty strike.

One of the most important benefits of having a pharmacy at the health center is financial. With a pharmacy, we can buy in bulk and dispense medications at usually a much lower cost, saving our students, faculty and staff money and still make a small profit for the university.

One of the priorities of ?Campaign Arizona' was endowed support of faculty and staff, not only to retain the great faculty that you already have but also to recruit more from other institutions or private industry.

If they don't come back, it is not the same school. It's a different Queen of Peace High School. It's the whole leadership. This woman is inspiring. This woman is a wonderful leader. Almost the entire faculty supports her.

If they are in a different building a faculty member could check their email. So it is very helpful.

I don't know any faculty who require pictures on Angel, but many faculty encourage students to do so, ... I'm one. It's important for me to get to know my students, and having their pictures helps a great deal.

I am especially thrilled to be working closely with an incredibly creative and passionate group of scientists, artists, designers and engineers who constitute the faculty and students of the lab. I see this exceptional community working together over the next decade to overcome some of the world's most pressing societal problems -- from providing improved health care to an aging population, to devising inexpensive digital tools for developing economies, to changing the way children learn.

I believe the community and regional biotechnology organizations and interests outside our universities might be aided by having a person familiar with university research activities and the mindset of university faculty members regarding the transfer of their intellectual work product into new technologies and economic development. That is a perspective I can offer, given my familiarity with both academic and corporate arenas.

Certainly, over the last several weeks, this has clearly been a top down mandate with very little faculty feedback or faculty involvement.

center is a one-of-a-kind facility that will allow faculty, students and the medical community to teach and conduct research using the highest-quality fitness testing and exercise prescription technology. With the purchase of the equipment and technology, faculty and students will be able to produce research that will enhance health and fitness services in schools and communities throughout northeast South Dakota.

Basically, it was developed as an all-school project. We have faculty from nearly all fields as well as staff and students.

I find the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty

I did not bother the police with the matter because after a process of elimination, I believe it is a fellow faculty member.

Given limits on the size of departments, and as we try to have some diversity in terms of research specialties, it means that having one person depart can leave a real gap, ... If we lose those three people, yes, there will be a shortfall, but it's not like there's no one here for majors to work with. But when you find a professor's work inspiring and then suddenly that person's going, it's not really satisfying to be told there are plenty of faculty left.

If a student or anyone ever came into a classroom and it was disruptive, it's always the faculty person's right to ask that person to leave and if they wouldn't leave to call the police and ask the police to remove the person.

Fortunately for the department, however, Professor Arthur has attended some events as he's been able. He still participates in a faculty reading group, has attended some talks and meetings and continues to keep up with his e-mails.

He is a quiet leader and an outstanding student. What impresses me the most is that all of the faculty have nothing but good things to say about him, and that shows his character.

We try to encourage faculty to remain faculty. We are providing an environment for more productive faculty members to take their research into commercialization.

We're proud that any student can walk and play 18 holes of golf for $5 during the week and $8 during the weekend. Faculty and staff will have discounted rates as well. It's a great thing for the university as a whole. Students will have to provide their own equipment. In the future we hope to offer rental sets, but at the moment we don't have any.

We're opposed to any employer's policy of discrimination based on sexuality. This is based on our reading of the Vermont Constitution and the U.S. Constitution as well. We honor the military and those that serve in it. Many of our students and faculty are veterans. But one does not preclude the other,

Having people on the HEPC that understand and can answer questions that deal with faculty and classified employees helps everyone.

Her generous gift and enduring spirit allows us to further our commitment to our students, faculty and community.

He was pretty much responsible for hiring the faculty early on in that department. His confident leadership helped to develop the School of Planning into the excellent program that it is today.

He certainly has accomplished that. The faculty has been transformed into a much larger and world-class faculty under Doug Breeden.

He just loves universities and is enthusiastic about what we do with our students and our faculty, ... He beams every time a student wins an award or a faculty member has a significant publication or research grant or teaching award. In my way of thinking, he represents the best in American higher education.

He is old school. He's not a friend to the students, he's an authority figure. He is type of faculty member that students come to when they have problems. If they need a swift kick, he'd do that.

JSU helps fuel the local economy by supplying an outstanding concentration of brainpower and experience in its faculty and staff, a significant payroll, and a strong base of student customers whose spending and labor ripple positively through our communities.

I think it's beginning to sink in. More and more faculty are reporting plagiarism.

It implies that I, personally, am not terribly good at what I do, but it needs to be said. Across the system, you can't have a great group of faculty if you're the last pick.