What Colleges and Universities Want in New Faculty
by Kathrynn A. Adams

Note
1This work was supported by the Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) program, which is jointly sponsored by the Association of American Colleges and Universities and the Council of Graduate Schools, and has been funded since 1993 with a series of grants by The Pew Charitable Trusts, the National Science Foundation, and The Atlantic Philanthropies. PFF resulted from the recognition by these professional groups of the need to revise graduate training to better prepare graduate students for the expectations they will face in faculty positions. The project currently involves a total of 294 schools, including research universities, liberal arts colleges, comprehensive universities, historically black institutions, community colleges, and single gender schools working in clusters with doctoral granting institutions. Many of the recommendations proposed in this document have been piloted and adopted by the schools involved in PFF.