As a director of Entrepreneurial studies in Boston, I have found, like
my Israeli colleague, that hiring experience practitioners as faculty
members provides invaluable richness to our entrepreneurial
education efforts. We have employed the title "Clinical Professor"
when recruiting successful practitioners for a multi-year but non-tenure
track, full time faculty appointment. However, our focus is less on the
practitioner as scholar than on the practitioner as
a catalyst for imparting a more world-relelvnt approach to our
educational and program development efforts. Academic research and
publication are not part of our criteria for review for this position.
It would perhaps be more fair to describe our faculty position as an
practitioner change agent to provide faculty a reality check on their
teaching, research and program development efforts.
Robert DeFillippi
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