Only five years ago, communitarianism was an obscure school of philosophy discussed in faculty seminars; today, its ideas are splashed across People magazine and on network TV.

I was taking a faculty seminar and another woman in the seminar was selling this house.

To improve the professional skills of the faculty scientific-methodological seminar regularly operates at the University.

Once, after playing host to the department's weekly faculty seminar, he declined to accompany the others for the traditional beer and pizza.

And there are faculty seminars as well.

Then acting as the dean of curriculum, Mr. Burton arranged for a monthly faculty seminar, complete with visits from established rock musicians, to explore the topic.

Among the other elements of the program is a planned two-year faculty seminar, "Celebrity, Politics and the Public Sphere."

He added that he hoped the faculty seminar could help break down an academic culture that tends by its nature to be "discipline-bound and isolating."

Prof. Carol Holder of the English and foreign languages department offers an intensive three-day faculty seminar that teaches faculty members how to teach writing to students.

Katz taught as an adjunct at Yale University, Eugene Lang College, and New York University, and was the convener of a faculty seminar at Princeton University.