Faculty in higher educational institutions sometimes display extraordinary humanitarian behaviours beyond their teaching duties. Do you have such an example? Narratives of up to 2000 words are invited until the New Year Celebrations 2025.
I taught for years at Hamilton College, a small Liberal Arts institution in Upstate NY in the USA. Humanitarian examples abounded with one faculty member developing something termed 'The Access Project' for disadvantaged women on welfare. The object was to give them sufficient education to get off welfare and to increasingly develop and support themselves and their dependents. It was color blind and very successful then funded by the county and state that recognized the economic advantages to all. Another taught creative writing to inmates in the local jail, a project that greatly reduced recidivism. Still others actively supported local and national charitable and educational projects without pay.
Quite simply, nearly all faculty are not principally motivated by the standard yardstick of success in most nations – income. Instead they care greatly about people and ideas.
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