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Standard 5.0: Overview Standard 5.1 Qualified Faculty Standard 5.2 Modeling Best Professional Practices in Teaching Standard 5.3 Modeling Best Professional Practices in Scholarship Standard 5.4 Modeling Best Professional Practices in Service Standard 5.5 Collaboration Standard 5.6 Unit Evaluation of Professional Education Faculty Performance Standard 5.7 Unit Facilitation of Professional Development Exhibits and Displays for Standard 5 Overview of Standard 5 The elements of "Teaching Excellence, Active Scholarship, and Social Responsibility" comprise the unit's expectations for faculty as well as for candidates. The unit makes concerted efforts to recruit, retain and support faculty who are qualified and who model the three characteristics, at the same time establishing through the faculty governance process more rigorous criteria for unit tenure and promotion. In the 2005 fall semester, the unit joined the university in campus-wide conversations to define university expectations on faculty workload, productivity and rewards. These examples since the last accreditation review highlight the College's commitment and progress in recruiting and developing highly qualified faculty members: Full time faculty increased 73.1%, from 41 to 71. Tenured and tenure track faculty increased 60.7%, from 28 to 45. Faculty productivity in scholarship, service and collaboration doubled in most areas and tripled in some. Recognition of faculty expertise and service increased by 80%, as represented by awards received from across the university and from the profession. The following sections expand on the figures cited above to demonstrate more fully the extent to which faculty teaching, scholarship and service are embedded throughout the unit's activities.

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