About the ETSU Faculty
ETSU professors provide a caring environment for learning. Our faculty members, over 550 full-time educators, make teaching their top priority. In our undergraduate courses, ETSU has an average class size of about 28, so professors know their students by name.
Our faculty conduct valuable research, investigating, for example, better ways to help hearing- and speech-impaired children, to photograph for posterity life in small-town Appalachia, or to reach for the stars by using data from spacecraft to understand infrared light given off by Mira variable stars. In fact, in 1999-2000, funding for ETSU Research and Sponsored Programs activity exceeded $27 million, a figure that has nearly doubled during the last four-year period.
Our faculty are scholars who are well qualified for their teaching, research, and creative activities at ETSU. Just so you know… approximately 42% of our faculty on the main campus are female (23% at the Quillen College of Medicine), most are US citizens (98.2% on the main campus and 92.7% at Quillen), and the average age of faculty is 49 years.
You might also be interested to know that our faculty is nicely balanced among the "ranks," so that you are just as likely to have a senior professor or a professor freshly out of their own graduate career. With advantages in both situations, you'll experience all of them!
Around campus, visitors might meet Dr. Anthony DeLucia, research scientist with ETSU's James H. Quillen College of Medicine, preparing to take a break from investigating air pollution or ways to curb tobacco use so he can chair a meeting as new president-elect of the American Lung Association.
Others might run into Michael Smith, professor in the art department, as he escorts photography students on a visit to New York, where he was awarded a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship for 2001.
Others may notice Dr. Beverly Smith of our department of physics and astronomy as she investigates pulsating Mira stars and the unusual clouds of dust they emit.
Those interested in bird-watching may encounter Dr. Fred Alsop speaking about his comprehensive book on the birds of North America, recently published under the aegis of the Smithsonian Institution. You must catch him quickly though, because he is taking students to Utah this summer to study western birds.
Faculty members at East Tennessee State University are dedicated to teaching, whether they are in the classroom, working on service-learning projects, in the laboratory doing research, or in front of the camera (ETSU presents more interactive television courses than any other college or university in Tennessee). The efforts of the faculty are fruitful, too, for 95 percent of ETSU graduating students report that their time at the university resulted in a greater ability to think for themselves and support their opinions - quite a tribute to the quality of instruction, in our opinion.
Faculty Listings by Department
Faculty Handbook, Part-Time Adjunct Faculty Senate
Research and Sponsored Programs
Other Resources for Faculty and Staff
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