At lunch with my fellow members of Faculty Council today, I noted that four (out of six) of us were hired the same year. I had already been at the college for a year as an adjunct, but I signed my tenure-track contract the same year as three other Council members, and we were among an unprecedented group of new faculty--17 in one year!--hired during the thaw after a long hiring freeze.
Several of those 17 have moved on, but enough of us remain to be a force on campus. One has served as registrar. One has served as director of the Honors Program, and several have served as department chairs. We've chaired various campus committees, and now we make up two-thirds of Faculty Council.
Either 2001 was a really good year for hiring or else we're just gluttons for punishment.
3 comments:
Oooo... you all are to academics what John Elway, Dan Marino and Jim Kelly (part of the 1983 recruiting class) were to the NFL. Very impressive! :)
Love the new colors!
And yes, we also talk about our "class" of hires---it was one of the bigger years (another was 9 years later---in between those times, the desert). Funny who quickly we become the "elders";-)
I am thankful to the hires of that year. : )
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