Academic Annual Report

opportunities for improvement
The quality of our faculty has a direct impact on the quality of the education our students
receive, so we work to recognize outstanding faculty members and to staff our departments
with highly qualified professors.
Ongoing Opportunity
Establish Distinguished
Professorships and Endowed Chairs
As we look to hire more full-time faculty
according to the goals of our new faculty
model, it becomes increasingly important
for us to retain them by ensuring that we
offer senior professors opportunities for
continuing advancement, career satis-
faction and rewards.
N e w O p p o r t u n i t y
Boost Student Success
with New Faculty Model
The more time and attention DeVry University
faculty members are able to devote to their
students, the more our students will achieve.
While we will remain true to our career-
education mission by continuing to have
qualified practitioners teach at the university,
we need to strike the right balance between
full-time and part-time faculty.
Update
We are proceeding with our plans to create the
short-term, special-appointment positions of
distinguished professor and endowed chair, and
will be convening a third national focus group of
senior professors to supplement the two groups
we have already conducted to help us define the
positions’ responsibilities and rewards. One new
criterion: candidates must demonstrate a commitment
to ongoing scholarly work.
Plan
Over the next three years, we will significantly
increase the number of full-time faculty employed
at DeVry University. We plan to increase the
number of full-time faculty supporting onsite and
online learning by 17 percent in the 2012–2013
academic year, and to employ a larger number
of faculty members who have doctorates in their
fields of teaching. Our goal is to reach 40 percent
of full-time faculty with doctorates by the end of
the 2013 academic year, and 50 percent by the
end of the following year. For graduate programs,
our goal is to have 70 percent of faculty hold
doctorates in their fields. Over time, we expect
these changes to have a positive effect on
student outcomes.
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