Faculty
noun
A group of teachers in a school, college or university.
The faculty of arts and sciences at the university is very diverse.
Often appears as...
- faculty of arts
- faculty of sciences
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Academic
noun
A natural ability or power that makes it possible to do something.
He has a great faculty for learning new languages.
Often appears as...
- faculty for learning
- mental faculty
noun
A division within a university or college comprising one subject area, or a number of related subject areas.
He's a professor in the faculty of computer science.
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- faculty of engineering
- faculty of law
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Academic
noun
The license or authorization, especially from a church, to perform a religious act.
They had received the faculty to marry couples at the church.
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- obtain a faculty
- issue a faculty
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Religious
noun
A group of teachers in a school, college or university.
The faculty of arts and sciences at the university is very diverse.
Often appears as...
- faculty of arts
- faculty of sciences
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Academic
noun
A natural ability or power that makes it possible to do something.
He has a great faculty for learning new languages.
Often appears as...
- faculty for learning
- mental faculty
noun
A division within a university or college comprising one subject area, or a number of related subject areas.
He's a professor in the faculty of computer science.
Often appears as...
- faculty of engineering
- faculty of law
Usage tips
Academic
noun
The license or authorization, especially from a church, to perform a religious act.
They had received the faculty to marry couples at the church.
Often appears as...
- obtain a faculty
- issue a faculty
Usage tips
Formal
Religious
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Pro Tip 1/3Use in Academia
Primarily used in educational institutions to refer to groups of teaching staff.
She was welcomed by the history faculty at the college.
Pro Tip 2/3Professional Communities
Can indicate a body of professors sharing common administrative or academic functions.
The entire faculty will attend the curriculum conference.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Just Professors
Includes all educators at an academic level, not just senior professors.
The junior faculty participated in the mentoring program.
Pro Tip 1/3Use in Academia
Primarily used in educational institutions to refer to groups of teaching staff.
She was welcomed by the history faculty at the college.
Pro Tip 2/3Professional Communities
Can indicate a body of professors sharing common administrative or academic functions.
The entire faculty will attend the curriculum conference.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Just Professors
Includes all educators at an academic level, not just senior professors.
The junior faculty participated in the mentoring program.
Pro Tip 1/3Use in Academia
Primarily used in educational institutions to refer to groups of teaching staff.
She was welcomed by the history faculty at the college.
Pro Tip 2/3Professional Communities
Can indicate a body of professors sharing common administrative or academic functions.
The entire faculty will attend the curriculum conference.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Just Professors
Includes all educators at an academic level, not just senior professors.
The junior faculty participated in the mentoring program.
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Do we see reality as it...
to be at least in the direction of truth. I mean, if you're like me, math and logic is not easy. We don't get it all right, but at least the selection pressures are not uniformly away from true math and logic. So I think that we'll find that we have to look at each cognitive faculty one at a time and see what evolution does to it.
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school districts who've reordered themselves around the issues that I was raising what I'm keen to say is that I wasn't making this stuff up I gave a talk a while ago at a university in the Midwest somewhere and over lunch with the faculty beforehand some guys said to me you've been at this a long time now
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Why elephants never...
by encoding important experiences into long-term memories. The ability to distinguish this importance makes elephant memory a complex and adaptable faculty beyond rote memorization. It's what allows elephants who survived a drought in their youth to recognize its warning signs in adulthood,
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The great brain debate -...
had observed that the best memorizers in his class had the most prominent eyes and decided that this was due to higher development in the adjacent part of the brain. As a physician, Gall went on to establish the study of phrenology, which held that strong mental faculties corresponded to
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Why our IQ levels are...
like lawyer and doctor and what have you that have made demands on our cognitive faculties. But I've talked about education and employment. Some of the habits of mind that we have developed over the 20th century have paid off in unexpected areas. I'm primarily a moral philosopher.
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Reimagining Dinosaurs...
really opens up a whole new world of what we can do in terms of developing new methods reconstructing really the history of life in amazing detail in a way that just was unthinkable when i was first starting out as a faculty member and certainly when i was a graduate student
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Is the world getting...
by the written, printed and electronic word. Our circle of sympathy has been expanded by history, journalism and the narrative arts. And our puny rational faculties have been multiplied by the norms and institutions of reason, intellectual curiosity, open debate,
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The voices in my head PIPE...
did not endear me to the faculty. In effect, a vicious cycle of fear, avoidance, mistrust and misunderstanding had been established, and this was a battle in which I felt powerless and incapable of establishing any kind of peace or reconciliation.
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Jaguar Hunting at Night...
but all its faculties must be alert the merest of scratches from a fiesty peccary could lead to a debilitating infection so it works carefully it may spy on a group of peccaries for several nights and then use its experience of
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Love, no matter what PIPE...
"Even in purely nonreligious terms, homosexuality represents a misuse of the sexual faculty. It is a pathetic little second-rate substitute for reality -- a pitiable flight from life. As such, it deserves no compassion,
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Do we see reality as it...
to be at least in the direction of truth. I mean, if you're like me, math and logic is not easy. We don't get it all right, but at least the selection pressures are not uniformly away from true math and logic. So I think that we'll find that we have to look at each cognitive faculty one at a time and see what evolution does to it.
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Expanding our definition...
school districts who've reordered themselves around the issues that I was raising what I'm keen to say is that I wasn't making this stuff up I gave a talk a while ago at a university in the Midwest somewhere and over lunch with the faculty beforehand some guys said to me you've been at this a long time now
Video examples
Why elephants never...
by encoding important experiences into long-term memories. The ability to distinguish this importance makes elephant memory a complex and adaptable faculty beyond rote memorization. It's what allows elephants who survived a drought in their youth to recognize its warning signs in adulthood,
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The great brain debate -...
had observed that the best memorizers in his class had the most prominent eyes and decided that this was due to higher development in the adjacent part of the brain. As a physician, Gall went on to establish the study of phrenology, which held that strong mental faculties corresponded to
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Why our IQ levels are...
like lawyer and doctor and what have you that have made demands on our cognitive faculties. But I've talked about education and employment. Some of the habits of mind that we have developed over the 20th century have paid off in unexpected areas. I'm primarily a moral philosopher.
Video examples
Reimagining Dinosaurs...
really opens up a whole new world of what we can do in terms of developing new methods reconstructing really the history of life in amazing detail in a way that just was unthinkable when i was first starting out as a faculty member and certainly when i was a graduate student
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Is the world getting...
by the written, printed and electronic word. Our circle of sympathy has been expanded by history, journalism and the narrative arts. And our puny rational faculties have been multiplied by the norms and institutions of reason, intellectual curiosity, open debate,
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The voices in my head PIPE...
did not endear me to the faculty. In effect, a vicious cycle of fear, avoidance, mistrust and misunderstanding had been established, and this was a battle in which I felt powerless and incapable of establishing any kind of peace or reconciliation.
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Jaguar Hunting at Night...
but all its faculties must be alert the merest of scratches from a fiesty peccary could lead to a debilitating infection so it works carefully it may spy on a group of peccaries for several nights and then use its experience of
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Love, no matter what PIPE...
"Even in purely nonreligious terms, homosexuality represents a misuse of the sexual faculty. It is a pathetic little second-rate substitute for reality -- a pitiable flight from life. As such, it deserves no compassion,
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Michael N. Castle
American Politician
The teachers were focused on helping these students. The students benefited from hands-on teaching and a faculty who cared about them and their success in life and soon the students began to believe in themselves and the reality that they could make something of their lives.
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Ernestine Rose
American Activist
I suppose you all grant that woman is a human being. If she has a right to life she has a right to earn a support for that life. If a human being, she has a right to have her powers and faculties as a human being developed. If developed, she has a right to exercise them.
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Jann Wenner
American Publisher
It's a daily miracle to see a child grow and develop all the senses and language and speech and faculties, and they're so much fun and they're so delightful and they're so innocent. It just stops your heart every time; I can't get enough of it.
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Ashley Montagu
English Scientist
There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by what he said but by what he did, that there is an intimate relation between curing and caring.
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Oliver E. Williamson
American Economist
The field of 'economics and organization' is still young and needs support. I have been a chaired professor much of my academic life and know that such chairs are important for recruiting and retaining faculty.
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Joseph P. Bradley
American Judge
In teaching, regard must be had to the faculties possessed by the pupil. In childhood, memory; in youth, the understanding; in mature life, the reason is the predominating faculty.
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Yossi Ghinsberg
Israeli Entertainer
Survival is very powerful. All your faculties want to cling to life. We're not tested usually, luckily, but when we are, we become superheroes.
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Quintilian
Roman Educator
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
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George Bancroft
American Historian
If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.
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John Quelch
American Educator
It's impossible for any institution to compete unless you can afford world class faculty.
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Michael N. Castle
American Politician
The teachers were focused on helping these students. The students benefited from hands-on teaching and a faculty who cared about them and their success in life and soon the students began to believe in themselves and the reality that they could make something of their lives.
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Ernestine Rose
American Activist
I suppose you all grant that woman is a human being. If she has a right to life she has a right to earn a support for that life. If a human being, she has a right to have her powers and faculties as a human being developed. If developed, she has a right to exercise them.
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Jann Wenner
American Publisher
It's a daily miracle to see a child grow and develop all the senses and language and speech and faculties, and they're so much fun and they're so delightful and they're so innocent. It just stops your heart every time; I can't get enough of it.
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Ashley Montagu
English Scientist
There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by what he said but by what he did, that there is an intimate relation between curing and caring.
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Oliver E. Williamson
American Economist
The field of 'economics and organization' is still young and needs support. I have been a chaired professor much of my academic life and know that such chairs are important for recruiting and retaining faculty.
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Joseph P. Bradley
American Judge
In teaching, regard must be had to the faculties possessed by the pupil. In childhood, memory; in youth, the understanding; in mature life, the reason is the predominating faculty.
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Yossi Ghinsberg
Israeli Entertainer
Survival is very powerful. All your faculties want to cling to life. We're not tested usually, luckily, but when we are, we become superheroes.
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Quintilian
Roman Educator
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
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George Bancroft
American Historian
If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.
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John Quelch
American Educator
It's impossible for any institution to compete unless you can afford world class faculty.
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