In Defence of the Diversity of Faculty Talents
In Defence of the Diversity of Faculty Talents

Summary/Abstract: The article contributes to the current debate on what activities of the professoriate should be mosthighly prized. Different obligations generally fall within one of three categories of faculty activities: research, teaching, or – the most unwelcomed - administrative burdens. But the abovementionedactivities by no means exhaust the list of duties conducted by the members of a contemporaryfaculty. Counselling and advising students or service to the public can be mentioned as additionalones between many others. In this article we analyze the problem of the broad range of facultyactivities and the issue of the contestable measures of their evaluation within the institutionalframework of a university. In our view they address the question of mission ascription to a universityor a department and then of an individual scholarly path-taking.

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