Texas A&M University - Faculty Reinvestment Program

09/26/2005

Next month, Dudley R. Herschbach will officially join the Texas A&M University faculty, marking only the third time in the school’s 129-year history that its professorial ranks will boast a Nobel laureate. Herschbach, a 1986 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, is one of approximately 215 new faculty members hired in the first three years of Texas A&M’s faculty reinvestment program, an ambitious program that aims to add 447 new positions to the Texas A&M faculty and hailed by Texas A&M President Robert M. Gates as “unlike anything going on in America today.”

Though only about halfway to completion, the five-year program is already making an impact on the quality of education at Texas A&M, not just in the caliber of instruction offered from such esteemed academic minds but also in the reduction of the student-faculty ratio from 22:1 to 20:1 and the number of classes with more than 50 students dropping from 33 to 25 percent. The positive trends should continue, Gates said.

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