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The film's plot follows a group of high school students who discover their teachers are being taken over by alien parasites. Original Screenplay

: Full drafts of the screenplay by Kevin Williamson (originally titled The Feelers ) are available through online archives like Daily Script Archive.org Transcript

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Tenure and promotion (typical model)

• Tenure-track period: Years spent (commonly 5–7) building a record in teaching, research, and service.
• Tenure review: A formal evaluation determining long-term employment security; successful candidates gain tenure and often promotion to associate professor.
• Promotion to full professor: Based on continued excellence, leadership in the field, and significant scholarly contributions.

The Premise: Suspicion Is Spreading

Set in the fictional, rain-soaked Herrington High School in Ohio, the film opens with a sense of institutional decay. Students abuse drugs, teachers are burnt out, and Principal Drake (Bebe Neuwirth) rules with an iron fist. The story follows a group of misfits who have nothing in common—except their suspicion that something is very wrong with the faculty.

The central characters are a walking 1990s teen archetype lineup: The film's plot follows a group of high

• Casey Connor (Elijah Wood): The shy, nerdy photographer.
• Delilah Profitt (Jordana Brewster): The ambitious, cynical journalist.
• Stokely Mitchell (Clea DuVall): The gothic outsider obsessed with alien invasion lore.
• Zeke Tyler (Josh Hartnett): The rebellious drug dealer who is inexplicably good at science.
• Marybeth Hutchinson (Laura Harris): The sweet, naive new girl.
• Stan Rosado (Shawn Hatosy): The injured quarterback.

When the school’s football coach (Robert Patrick) begins acting more aggressively than usual, and the impossibly beautiful English teacher Miss Burke (Famke Janssen) seduces a student with unnatural intensity, the group realizes they are facing an extraterrestrial parasite. The alien, which resembles a small aquatic creature, enters a host’s body through water and takes over their mind, turning them into a hive-mind collective. Worse, the parasite is spreading through the school’s water supply.

Diversity, equity, and inclusion

Modern institutions emphasize recruiting diverse faculty and creating inclusive climates. Efforts include bias-aware hiring practices, mentorship programs, and policies to support work–life balance. Tenure and promotion (typical model)

Beyond the Chalkboard: Deconstructing "The Faculty" as Horror’s Sharpest Satire

When horror fans talk about the titans of the 1990s, the conversation usually starts with Scream (1996). Wes Craven’s meta-slasher didn’t just revive the genre; it dissected it. But lurking just two years later, riding the same wave of teen angst and meta-awareness, is a film that deserves equal billing: The Faculty.

Directed by Robert Rodriguez (from a script by Kevin Williamson, the very architect of Scream), The Faculty arrived in theaters on Christmas Day, 1998. On the surface, it is a simple high school thriller about alien parasites taking over a teachers’ lounge. But to dismiss it as just another teen horror flick is to miss the point entirely. Two decades later, The Faculty stands as a brilliant, razor-sharp satire of institutional paranoia, teenage tribalism, and the universal fear that the adults are not just out of touch—they are literally not human.