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12showcase our faculty to the Hampton Roads business, governmentand military communities. I couldn’t agree more!The only cloud on the horizon regarding growth in this importantnon-credit area is the state of the economy, which has adisproportionate negative impact on corporate training budgets.Goal Five - Maintain or increase high quality of classroominstruction.Adjunct faculty are great teachers, but we also know we need asolid core of academically and professionally qualified full-timefaculty who actively participate in the life of the college on a dayto-daybasis, in order to achieve excellence in instruction. Thecollege currently has 70 full time tenure-track faculty and 20Instructors. We work to hire our faculty from other top schoolsand try to get the right people on the bus. SHOW RIGHTPEOPLE ON THE BUS SLIDE Advice from Good to Great is tokeep looking if you don’t think you have the best candidates. Wehave always done that in this college. We don’t mind a failedsearch because we know a hiring decision can stay with you forthirty years.We have received a few additional full-time positions in the pastfive years, and each one is cherished. In AY 2007/08 we gailed anadditional full-time tenure track faculty member through theVirginia Modeling and Simulation Center, although the position ishoused in our Department of Information Technology andDecision Sciences. We were delighted that we received fundingfor two additional faculty members in the budget for this year. Weare proceeding to hire one of these faculty members for AY2009/10. While we know that the state economy means there arelikely additional budget cuts coming, we’re hopeful that theimpact on our academic resources will be minimized.