an ability, natural or acquired, for a particular kind of action: a faculty for making friends easily.
one of the powers of the mind, as memory, reason, or speech: Though very sick, he is in full possession of all his faculties.
an inherent capability of the body: the faculties of sight and hearing.
exceptional ability or aptitude: a president with a faculty for management.
Education.
the entire teaching and administrative force of a university, college, or school.
one of the departments of learning, as theology, medicine, or law, in a university.
the teaching body, sometimes with the students, in any of these departments.
the members of a learned profession: the medical faculty.
a power or privilege conferred by the state, a superior, etc.: The police were given the faculty to search the building.
Ecclesiastical. a dispensation, license, or authorization.
Origin of faculty
1350–1400; Middle English faculte<Anglo-French, Middle French <Latin facultāt- (stem of facultās) ability, power, equivalent to facil(is) easy (see facile) + -tāt--ty2; cf. facility
The University of Illinois is requiring all faculty, staff and students to participate in screening testing twice a week, using a rapid saliva-based test.
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Under the terms of the deal, University of Arizona will create a non-profit entity called University of Arizona Global Campus that will maintain its own accreditation, faculty, and academic programs.
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The reporting prompted the university to end the use of confidentiality clauses when professors are fired and change policy to prevent faculty and administrators from arguing that academic freedom shields them in sexual misconduct cases.
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She completed her training at the University of Washington and joined the faculty in 1982, eventually being promoted to research professor.
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Others, including the University of North Carolina system, are developing worst-case scenario plans, where drops in enrollment could lead to employee furloughs, faculty cuts and suspended athletic programs.
The (Deferred) Class of 2020|Sandya Kola|August 9, 2020|Ozy
All students and faculty in the UT community should support the cause of fairness in admissions.
The University of Texas’s Machiavellian War on Its Regent|David Davis|October 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Is it the faculty of reason, or perhaps, the faculty for discourse?
The Bioethicist Turned Butcher|Elizabeth Picciuto|September 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Second, the Charles Koch Foundation would at least partially control which faculty members Florida State University hired.
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The chairperson at Doe's disciplinary was faculty member Dennis Conway.
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Calvin faculty have shaped Christian discourse in important ways since its founding in 1876.
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Love is capable of seeing clearer and deeper than any other faculty.
The Heart of Nature|Francis Younghusband
One faculty, standing unmoved in the storm of emotions which had overwhelmed him, perceived this.
The House of Mystery|William Henry Irwin
He expatiated with great profoundness and fertility of ideas, on the uses to which a faculty like this might be employed.
Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist|Charles Brockden Brown
This Blitheman perceiving that he had a natural geny to the faculty, spared neither time nor labor to advance it to the utmost.
Dealings With The Dead|A Sexton of the Old School
To neglect a faculty is by no means synonymous with developing it.
The Curse of Education|Harold E. Gorst
British Dictionary definitions for faculty
faculty
/ (ˈfækəltɪ) /
nounplural-ties
one of the inherent powers of the mind or body, such as reason, memory, sight, or hearing
any ability or power, whether acquired or inherent
a conferred power or right
a department within a university or college devoted to a particular branch of knowledge
the staff of such a department
mainlyUS and Canadianall the teaching staff at a university, college, school, etc
all members of a learned profession
archaicoccupation
Word Origin for faculty
C14 (in the sense: department of learning): from Latin facultās capability; related to Latin facilis easy