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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