Faculty

Faculty refers to the academic staff at a university or college, or a division of a university.

Faculty may also refer to:

  • Faculty (academic staff), the academic staff of a university (North American usage)
  • Faculty (division), a division within a university (usage outside of North America)
  • Faculty (instrument), an instrument or warrant in canon law, especially a judicial or quasi-judicial warrant from an ecclesiastical court or tribunal
  • The Faculty, a horror/sci-fi movie by Robert Rodriguez
  • The senses of sight, hearing, touch, etc. ("perceptive faculties")
  • The aspects of intelligence ("cognitive faculties")
  • Indriya, "spiritual faculties" in Buddhism
  • The rights of a priest to celebrate or perform various Liturgical functions
  • Faculty of Advocates, lawyers before the courts of Scotland
  • Faculty of Actuaries, the professional body representing actuaries in Scotland

Famous quotes containing the word faculty:

    The dramatic art would appear to be rather a feminine art; it contains in itself all the artifices which belong to the province of woman: the desire to please, facility to express emotions and hide defects, and the faculty of assimilation which is the real essence of woman.
    Sarah Bernhardt (1845–1923)

    There is an inner world; and a spiritual faculty of discerning it with absolute clearness, nay, with the most minute and brilliant distinctness. But it is part of our earthly lot that it is the outer world, in which we are encased, which is the lever that brings that spiritual faculty into play.
    —E.T.A.W. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus Wilhelm)

    Truth is his inspirer, and earnestness the polisher of his sentences. He could afford to lose his Sharp’s rifles, while he retained his faculty of speech,—a Sharp’s rifle of infinitely surer and longer range.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)