New Life for Faculty and Their Institutions.
Recent financial stringencies in colleges and universities are generating pressures for more efficient use of available faculty resources. At the same time faculty almost universally experience persistent feelings of entrapment in the repetitive activities comprising the faculty role over the course of a career. This paper proposes the creation of formal organizational entities oriented toward public service. These units would simultaneously meet institutional needs for reallocation of resources and individual needs for the identification and utilization of latent talents and interests.