CETL Archives
Faculty Forum Archive - Fall 2002
"Creating, Building, and Maintaining Faculty Trust"
----An Inquiry and Discussion Session----
Date: Friday, September 20, 2002
Time: 12:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Location: Atwood - N. Glacier Room
Presenter: Bruce Hyde (Theatre/Film Studies & Communication
Studies Departments)
A note from the Facilitator: Bruce has addressed this issue in his Honors Dialogue class in this past. He claims no answers to the questions raised below about the matter but is always interested in participating in an INQUIRY. He will facilitate an inquiry in to the question of trust and the process of achieving it in a group. We Forum Participants get to identify "answers" to the questions; or may learn, as the poet Rilke has advised, to live--and love--the questions themselves.
Faculty Trust: a very important term in academia.
We all "work together" in groups, in institutions, in varying capacities
in society. We are colleagues, we're peers, we're associates. Whom
do we trust? Why do we (or don't we) trust the people with whom we
work or come in to contact? Is it instinct? Is it environment? Is
it culture? Is trust important in higher education, and if so, why?
Whom should we trust? How do we learn to trust? Are there people
who do not deserve or earn our trust? Just a few questions to consider.
Join other SCSU faculty to discuss:
- The issue of employee trust
- The many facets of trust
- Guidelines for improving trust
- "Trust" relationships in academia-- promotion/tenure, mentoring, advising, faculty-student academic relationships, and other power structures.
