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The faculty of Arts and Sciences at Boston University includes 535 tenured or tenure-track faculty as well as hundreds of research faculty and part-time or full-time instructors. The expertise of the faculty is both broad and deep, characteristic of a comprehensive research institution.Yet faculty remain thoroughly committed to teaching both undergraduate and graduate students. Students taking a course in the College of Arts and Sciences or in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences can be certain that the instructor is an expert in the subject matter and is genuinely dedicated to their enlightenment in the current and historical knowledge and methods of the liberal arts and sciences.

Faculty Accolades

Members of the Arts and Sciences faculty are exceptionally distinguished scholars and teachers. See our Faculty Accolades page for a listing of significant international, national, and discipline-based awards, appointments, and elected memberships.

Endowed College Teaching Awards

Generous alumni and friends of Arts and Sciences have endowed three awards to honor excellence in undergraduate teaching at the College.

Longtime Arts and Sciences supporters Gerald Gitner (CAS’66), Richard Neu (CAS’61) and his family, and Frank Wisneski and his wife, Lynne, parents of Corey (CAS’99), have each endowed an annual award that helps bolster undergraduate teaching excellence at the College.

The Gitner Award for Distinguished Teaching, the Neu Family Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the Frank and Lynne Wisneski Award for Excellence in Teaching are given every year on Class Day to faculty members whose classroom leadership and student mentoring have been judged outstanding by their departments and by Dean Jeffrey Henderson.

 

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