Dr. Barton on the Role of Faculty and StaffYou know, thinking about faculty and staff at small Christian colleges and universities is a very interesting topic. Successful schools with entrepreneurial leaders tend to create an atmosphere where faculty and staff are fully engaged in the entire mission of the university. There aren't silos where, "I'm a faculty and all I do is teach," or, "I'm staff and all I do is take care of the lawn or cook in the kitchen." What I mean by that is you've got an entire team of staff: faculty, staff, administration, and they're all involved in recruiting friends for the organization. They're all involved in recruiting students and getting students involved and wanting to become involved in the university. And they use their influence to help raise resources for the university, and so rather than the academics being responsible for the academics and the development office raising the money, everyone's involved in all of those processes. And when you create that kind of synergy, you create unity for a university, and that spurs growth and success.
