INSTITUTIONAL PROFILE

FACULTY

The UWRF fulltime faculty number 222 with the following statistics by gender and rank: men 61%; women 39%; professor 49%; associate professor 21%; assistant professor 24%; other 6% UW-River Falls is a comprehensive university with an explicit teaching mission.

Faculty take great pride in their interactions with students as teachers, academic advisers, mentors, and advisers to student clubs and organizations. The University annually recognizes a Distinguished Teacher and Outstanding Academic Advisor, while each college recognizes its own outstanding faculty. Faculty research, scholarly, and creative activity frequently involve students as co-investigators.

For three years the campus has celebrated the research, scholarly, and creative activity of faculty and staff at an annual recognition event hosted by the Chalmer-Davee Library staff. In 2006, 114 individual faculty were recognized for their achievements.

The campus provides support for faculty development, travel, and research, scholarly, and creative activity, while the UW System provides a variety of opportunities such as the Wisconsin Teaching Fellow and Wisconsin Teaching Scholar, the University of Wisconsin Extension Applied Research Grants, department chairs seminars, annual Faculty College , Women in Science workshops, and the annual UW System Women's Studies Conference. Faculty members are active grant writers, securing an average of $2.5 million dollars in extramural funds to support program and research initiatives.