The faculty of Brooklyn College teach, mentor, and advise, and very often they become students' best career counselors. In and out of the classroom, students at Brooklyn College get to know, and to work side by side with, leading academics, scientists, writers, and performers.
A survey in 2006 found that 65% of our students were satisfied with their advisements at Brooklyn College. We recognize that our attentiveness to this aspect of the academic program is one way to bond students to an institution, so we are committed to improving our level of student counseling; the strategic plan calls for the development of a coordinated and comprehensive approach, involving both professional advisers and faculty.
Faculty is therefore one of our most important resources. In the fall 2006 semester, there were 534 full-time and 722 part-time faculty members at Brooklyn College. They include: Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Edwin Burrows; Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Cunningham; National Book Award-winning author Gloria Naylor; ASCAP Award-winning composer Tania León; Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Paul Moses; MacArthur Foundation fellow documentary filmmaker Stanley Nelson; Computer theorist Rohit Parikh; Audiologist Shlomo Silman; and Obie Award-winning playwright Mac Wellman.
