Faculty vs. Staff
In an educational institute like other institutes people are hired at different positions. As we known that an institute comprises of dozens of employees, many of them are designated as white collar worker and other are in the blue collar jobs. They together make the working of the institute efficient by doing the assigned task fluently. For instance, the manager in the bank supervises the subordinates in the office, whereas security guard is there to provide security so that no untoward incident takes place over there. When we talk about the educational institute, it comprises of both the academic and non-academic workforce. The academic staff of the educational institute is known as the faculty, whereas the staff refers to the non-academic workforce of the Institute. They both collaborate with each other in an educational institute and build the required atmosphere for the learners.
Key Differences
The teaching staff of the educational institute is called the faculty, whereas the non-teaching workforce of the educational institute is called the staff.
The faculty in an institute is hired at different positions, depending on the education and experiences. Contrary to this, the staff is hired after assessing their workability.
The faculty is there to teach and educate the learners. On the other hand, the staff is not involved in any of the teaching tasks directly.
Teachers, professors, lecturers, and researchers are the major examples of the faculty in an educational institute, whereas clerk, security guard, and sweeper are some of the prominent examples of the staff.
Aimie Carlson
Mar 22, 2017
Comparison Chart
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The teaching staff of the educational institute is called the faculty.
The non-teaching workforce of the educational institute is called the staff.
Task
The faculty is there to teach and educate the learners.
The staff is not involved in any of the teaching tasks directly.
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Hiring
The faculty in an institute is hired at different positions, depending on the education and experiences.
The staff is hired after assessing their workability.
Example
Teachers, professors, lecturers, and researchers are the major examples of the faculty in an educational institute.
Clerk, security guard, and sweeper are some of the prominent examples of the staff.
Samantha Walker
Mar 22, 2017
Faculty and Staff Definitions
Faculty
An inherent power or ability
The faculty of speech.
Staff
A stick or cane carried as an aid in walking or climbing.
Faculty
A talent or natural ability for something
Has a wonderful faculty for storytelling.
Staff
A stout stick used as a weapon; a cudgel.
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Faculty
(used with a sing. or pl. verb) The teachers and instructors of a school or college, or of one of its divisions, especially those considered permanent, full-time employees.
Staff
A pole on which a flag is displayed; a flagstaff.
Faculty
One of the divisions of a college or university
The faculty of law.
Staff
A rod or baton carried as a symbol of authority.
Faculty
All of the members of a learned profession
The medical faculty.
Staff
Pl. staffs A rule or similar graduated stick used for testing or measuring, as in surveying.
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Faculty
Authorization granted by authority; conferred power.
Staff
A group of assistants to a manager, executive, or other person in authority.
Faculty
(Archaic) An occupation; a trade.
Staff
A group of military officers assigned to assist a commanding officer in an executive or advisory capacity.
Faculty
The academic staff at schools, colleges, universities or not-for-profit research institutes, as opposed to the students or support staff.
Staff
The personnel who carry out a specific enterprise
The nursing staff of a hospital.
Faculty
A division of a university.
She transferred from the Faculty of Science to the Faculty of Medicine.
Staff
Something that serves as a staple or support.
Faculty
(Often in the plural): an ability, power, or skill.
He lived until he reached the age of 90 with most of his faculties intact.
Staff
(Music) A set of horizontal lines and intermediate spaces used in notation to represent a sequence of pitches, in modern notation normally consisting of five lines and four spaces. Also called stave.
Faculty
An authority, power, or privilege conferred by a higher authority.
Staff
A building material of plaster and fiber used as an exterior wall covering of temporary buildings, as at expositions.
Faculty
(Church of England) A licence to make alterations to a church.
Staff
To provide with a staff of workers or assistants.
Faculty
The members of a profession.
Staff
To serve on the staff of (an organization).
Faculty
Ability to act or perform, whether inborn or cultivated; capacity for any natural function; especially, an original mental power or capacity for any of the well-known classes of mental activity; psychical or soul capacity; capacity for any of the leading kinds of soul activity, as knowledge, feeling, volition; intellectual endowment or gift; power; as, faculties of the mind or the soul.
But know that in the soulAre many lesser faculties that serveReason as chief.
What a piece of work is a man ! how noble in reason ! how infinite in faculty !
Staff
A long, straight, thick wooden rod or stick, especially one used to assist in walking.
Faculty
Special mental endowment; characteristic knack.
He had a ready faculty, indeed, of escaping from any topic that agitated his too sensitive and nervous temperament.
Staff
A series of horizontal lines on which musical notes are written; a stave.
Faculty
Power; prerogative or attribute of office.
This DuncanHath borne his faculties so meek.
Staff
The employees of a business.
The company employed 10 new members of staff this month.
The company has taken on 1600 more highly-paid staff.
Faculty
Privilege or permission, granted by favor or indulgence, to do a particular thing; authority; license; dispensation.
The pope . . . granted him a faculty to set him free from his promise.
It had not only faculty to inspect all bishops' dioceses, but to change what laws and statutes they should think fit to alter among the colleges.
Staff
(uncountable) A mixture of plaster and fibre used as a temporary exterior wall covering.W
Faculty
A body of a men to whom any specific right or privilege is granted; formerly, the graduates in any of the four departments of a university or college (Philosophy, Law, Medicine, or Theology), to whom was granted the right of teaching (profitendi or docendi) in the department in which they had studied; at present, the members of a profession itself; as, the medical faculty; the legal faculty, etc.
Staff
A pole, stick, or wand borne as an ensign of authority; a badge of office.
A constable's staff
Faculty
The body of person to whom are intrusted the government and instruction of a college or university, or of one of its departments; the president, professors, and tutors in a college.
Staff
A pole upon which a flag is supported and displayed.
Faculty
One of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind
Staff
(archaic) The rung of a ladder.
Faculty
The body of teachers and administrators at a school;
The dean addressed the letter to the entire staff of the university
Staff
A series of verses so disposed that, when it is concluded, the same order begins again; a stanza; a stave.
Staff
(engineering) An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch.
Staff
(surgery) The grooved director for the gorget, or knife, used in cutting for stone in the bladder.
Staff
(military) An establishment of officers in various departments attached to an army, to a section of an army, or to the commander of an army. The general's staff consists of those officers about his person who are employed in carrying his commands into execution.
Staff
A form of token once used, in combination with a ticket, for safe train movements between two points on a single line.
Staff
(transitive) To supply (a business, volunteer organization, etc.) with employees or staff members.
Staff
A long piece of wood; a stick; the long handle of an instrument or weapon; a pole or stick, used for many purposes; as, a surveyor's staff; the staff of a spear or pike.
And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the altar to bear it withal.
With forks and staves the felon to pursue.
Staff
A stick carried in the hand for support or defense by a person walking; hence, a support; that which props or upholds.
The boy was the very staff of my age.
He spoke of it [beer] in "The Earnest Cry," and likewise in the "Scotch Drink," as one of the staffs of life which had been struck from the poor man's hand.
Staff
A pole, stick, or wand borne as an ensign of authority; a badge of office; as, a constable's staff.
Methought this staff, mine office badge in court,Was broke in twain.
All his officers brake their staves; but at their return new staves were delivered unto them.
Staff
A pole upon which a flag is supported and displayed.
Staff
The round of a ladder.
I ascended at one [ladder] of six hundred and thirty-nine staves.
Staff
A series of verses so disposed that, when it is concluded, the same order begins again; a stanza; a stave.
Cowley found out that no kind of staff is proper for an heroic poem, as being all too lyrical.
Staff
The five lines and the spaces on which music is written; - formerly called stave.
Staff
An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch.
Staff
The grooved director for the gorget, or knife, used in cutting for stone in the bladder.
Staff
An establishment of officers in various departments attached to an army, to a section of an army, or to the commander of an army. The general's staff consists of those officers about his person who are employed in carrying his commands into execution. See État Major.
Staff
Hence: A body of assistants serving to carry into effect the plans of a superintendent or manager; sometimes used for the entire group of employees of an enterprise, excluding the top management; as, the staff of a newspaper.
Staff
Plaster combined with fibrous and other materials so as to be suitable for sculpture in relief or in the round, or for forming flat plates or boards of considerable size which can be nailed to framework to make the exterior of a larger structure, forming joints which may afterward be repaired and concealed with fresh plaster.
Staff
Personnel who assist their superior in carrying out an assigned task;
The hospital has an excellent nursing staff
The general relied on his staff to make routine decisions
Staff
The body of teachers and administrators at a school;
The dean addressed the letter to the entire staff of the university
Staff
A strong rod or stick with a specialized utilitarian purpose;
He walked with the help of a wooden staff
Staff
Building material consisting of plaster and hair; used to cover external surfaces of temporary structure (as at an exposition) or for decoration
Staff
A rod carried as a symbol
Staff
(music) the system of five horizontal lines on which the musical notes are written
Staff
Provide with staff;
This position is not always staffed
Staff
Serve on the staff of;
The two men staff the reception desk
What is Faculty?
The faculty is the academic staff of the educational institute that can either be School College or University. The academic staff here means the people directly involved in transferring the knowledge to learners. The staff of an educational institute is up with the different task, and have a direct impact on the faculty and their mission to educate the learners, but at the same time they are indirectly involved in the process of educating. The faculty is the pillar of knowledge in an educational institute and they are responsible for educating the learners. The faculty in an institute is hired at different positions, depending on the education and experience. Some of the prominent ranks within the faculty are teachers, lecturers, professors, and researchers. Whenever one talks about the faculty of the Institute, he is talking about the teaching staff. The administrative authorities of the educational institutes like dean, principal, headmaster, and chairs are even included as the faculty of the educational institute. For instance, when one says that the business faculty of Oxford University is better than the science faculty, he /she means the science teaching staff is better than the business teaching staff available at Oxford University.
What is Staff?
When one refers to the staff within an educational institute, he/she is referring towards the non-academic staff of that institute. In other words we can say that the staff is the workforce that is hired in an education institute to deal with the non-teaching tasks within an institute. The staff is not involved in any of the teaching task directly, although they provide the support and administration functions in an educational institute that leads to the sustainability in the atmosphere to spread knowledge. For instance, a sweeper is hired in a college. He is assigned to clean the college furniture, washrooms and classrooms. His work doesn’t directly comply with teaching tasks provided at sight, but his work makes the atmosphere better for the learning. Following it, we can say that the staff is the helping workforce in an educational institute that is directly not involved in teaching tasks but makes the atmosphere favorable for the learners and the faculty.
