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The group of senior staff at Unseen University who at least in theory lead, define its direction, set policy, pay the bills, hire and fire, have eight-course Guild dinners on behalf of the university, deal with the Patrician, and in extreme cases where there simply isn't any alternative or Room 3b isn't available, interact with students.

Power and prestige resides with the Archchancellor and are grudgingly allowed to trickle in small and precisely measured accounts down the hierarchy, stopping short at the Egregious Professor of Cruel and Unusual Geography, who is currently its lowest, least, and most despised, member. (Much to the relief of Ponder Stibbons, who is beginning to realise how promotion happens around these parts).

Also referred to as the University Council.

Faculty Members

• the Archchancellor, currently Mustrum Ridcully
• the Vice-Chancellor, but one hasn't been appointed for a long time
• the Dean
• the Dean of Liberal Studies
• the Bursar
• the Chair of Indefinite Studies
• the Chair of Oblique Frogs
• the Senior Wrangler
• the Lecturer in Recent Runes
• the Librarian
• the Head of Inadvisibly Applied Magic
• the Reader in Invisible Writings
• the Egregious Professor of Cruel and Unusual Geography
• the Health and Safety Officer

It is unclear if the Head of the Department of Post-Mortem Communications qualifies as a Faculty member. However, we see a little more of the way the University heirarchy operates in The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch, when in order to manipulate the Roundworld timeline, wrest control back from the Auditors of Reality and ensure the one possible universe happens where Charles Darwin writes the right book, Ridcully scours the university for every able-bodied wizard who is capable of being sent on a mission.

As over two thousand changes are needed, and most wizards are sent on two or more missions, it is possible to infer that there are between five hundred and a thousand wizards at the University with some sort of arcane speciality and maybe even tenure, most of whom are not seen except at mealtimes.

Typical Wizards in this category might include

• the Prehumous Professor of Morbid Bibliomancy
• the Professor of Revolvings
• the Professor of Extreme Horticulture

Such wizards would not normally be invited to Faculty meetings, but their skills and specialisms may make them occassional ex-officio members.

Then we have to consider the temprarily deceased wizards who are taking a sabbatical for a year or so: as this class of wizard (temporarily) physically exists only as a knitted sock-puppet in a jar in the cupboard (don't ask - it's in Going Postal) then this would preclude their being active members of the Faculty. In this category we have:-

• the Posthumous Professor of Morbid Bibliomancy

along with other dead wizards who would like to take a more active role, but whom Ridcully would not want turning up at a Faculty meeting.

Profesor Flead from the Department of Necromancy would almost cetainly count in this group.