The significant increase in the number of full-time faculty at The New School, along with an emphasis on operating as one university with cross-fertilization between academic units and collaboration among the faculty and the deans/directors, has presented the opportunity to create clear and consistent policies governing full-time faculty employment in the form of a new Full-Time Faculty Handbook. Along with substantial revisions and additions to the 1995 version of the Handbook, the current Handbook contains several new policies.