Chief Academic Officer Charles Edmo

Chief Academic Officer Charles Edmonds described McFeely College as
“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.”
This was clearly reflected during the researcher’s conversations with all faculty
participants; the primacy of their teaching role and working directly with students was
apparent. Even when discussing the time constraints they felt because of their other
obligations, such as committee service, being department chair, and seeking to maintain a
research agenda, priority was given to working with students.