Faculty have the freedom to be creative . Individuals can become institutional owners by designing and teaching a course. The roundtable reported that faculty are given broad latitude to exercise their creativity in developing new ways to ignite students' passion for learning. Faculty sponsor student organizations . Participants remarked that sponsorship expresses a commitment to students and to the institution.
Faculty choose faculty .
Because faculty are responsible for hiring new faculty, they play a pivotal role in shaping the institutional character. Participants observed that Ph.D. programs train faculty to be closely involved with their respective discipline or profession. Service and commitment to a particular academic institution has been reduced to a secondary consideration. What other areas of the University are doing, and I don't know how to relate to the larger University mission. Others believed it is not necessary to develop a new program but to get people out of their silos and involved in the University.