There was talk in the CTSA website committee of getting all CTSA faculty onboard with the Faculty Profile System, but…it is truly terrible. I would much rather we had an attractive and functional system within CTSA that fed information back to the FPS.
We currently have an Emeritus Faculty page, and it seems we could fit those folks on the Faculty page, and/or have a useful means of filtering the list so a visitor could look for emeritus faculty, visiting artists, Shakespeare specialists
Compare our faculty directory with some others:
https://tisch.nyu.edu/drama/faculty.html
https://arts.columbia.edu/theatre/faculty
Tara Suggests:
The faculty page: I actually do not like the USC example at all. The headshot format makes it really hard to actually find information and skim to see who is on the faculty. I go to faculty pages of different universities probably once a week. I want to quickly see who is working in what area, and often what rank they are. I think our current page is not at all visually appealing, but does allow a reader to quickly move through the list and find the thing they are looking for.
I do get the appeal of the much larger (and way better) photos that many schools have. Perhaps it is a matter of creating area sections? UC Berkeley’s is perhaps a good middle ground?
I agree that pages featuring the Grad Students could definitely be under the “People” tab, but should also be links accessible through each Grad Program page, as is the case currently for PhD, MD, and SM. I’ll note that UCLA does a beautiful job with their student pages. Our PhD students have remarked how envious they are about these, and I agree, it presents them as professionals, and makes it more likely that scholars in the field reach out to them for opportunities.
https://tdps.berkeley.edu/people/faculty