Bookmark your department faculty list, for example. You have already many ways to locate information and more being developed all the time. Some of our pages are now framed. Many of our clients and some of our own computers across campus are not strong enough to use frames. Most tools use by visually-impaired people have difficulty with frames.
Frames are inherently less foolproof.
The Webmaster has decided to use frames in later versions of the pages as our population of clients upgrades its machines. Until then the more inclusive thing to do is to use static navigation bars. Thanks for the criticism, though. We like to know you really care. Start with the College that contains that department.