replied:
Well the biggest barrier from faculty side is time. Um, they’ve got pretty full
plates, especially if they are active scholars and we want them to be active
scholars. We, as a college, are increasingly embracing a teacher-scholar model
where we want our faculty, first and foremost, to be superb teachers but we also
want them to be active scholars and artists. And when you put those two things
together there’s not a whole lot of time left over. And so one of the, you know,
one of the, part of the push back we’ll get is ‘well, this is very nice, but you want
me to do all this other stuff and I don’t have time.’ My experience, though, is that
if you hire the right kind of faculty, they can figure out how to do it all but again,
that’s kind of a generational thing as opposed to a, you know, you’re best hope is
with the younger faculty who are coming in and are still forming, in their own
minds, what it means to be a good faculty member. It’s much tougher to make
changes with the faculty who’ve been here twenty or thirty years. Especially
faculty who were hired thinking that the only thing they had to do well was teach