Overview
Since the beginning of formalized strategic planning at the College in the early 1990s, one of the institutional goals has been to recruit outstanding personnel and provide professional development opportunities and its corollary, to foster a campus culture of trust and openness-one committed to teamwork and effective communication. The opening statement of the College mission appropriately focuses on teaching and learning:

The mission of Great Basin College is to provide superior, student-centered, post-secondary education in central and northeastern Nevada.

The faculty has led the significant transformations of Great Basin College in the past ten years: the name change, increased number of students, enlarged and improved campuses, and the development of online and compressed interactive video courses, which comprised approximately 19 percent of the total student FTE for 2001-2002. Most of all, the faculty has worked through many of the challenges and satisfactions inherent in expanding the community college mission to include baccalaureate programs, while retaining the community college mission and ethos. Faculty also made major revisions to general education and degree requirements during this period of time. There are still kinks, uncertainties, and fears—but these are significant accomplishments by the faculty.

For the current academic year, Great Basin College has 52 full-time instructional faculty with 47 full-time assigned to the main campus in Elko, three in Winnemucca, and two in Ely. During Fall 2002, 139 adjunct faculty taught courses in all College locations. The total full-time faculty at all sites has increased from 30 to 52 since the last comprehensive evaluation in 1993/1994. Of the 30 employed in 1994 at Northern Nevada Community College, 20 are still teaching full time at Great Basin College.

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