The college I went to expected faculty to be serious about their research and it was an exciting and dynamic place to be and to learn. From my point of view as a faculty member I’m a artist and I teach. If I am not regularly retuning to the studio, that place of “not knowing”, that place of creating original visual communication on a regular basis andputting it up for all to see and judge then I don’t reserve the privilege nor am I up to the responsibility of teaching at a college. Art, as are many disciplines, is a practice.
I know how I would have answered as a parent whose children graduated from SUNY-Geneseo and SUNY-New Paltz. And its the same answer I would have given as a faculty member at SUNY-Oneonta.
Steve.