faculty member vs academician

faculty member and academician both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
faculty member	Yes	No	No	No
academician	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, faculty member and academician are synonyms defined as:

faculty member and academician: an educator who works at a college or university

Other synonyms of faculty member include academic.

faculty member (noun)	academician (noun)
an educator who works at a college or university	an educator who works at a college or university
	a scholar who is skilled in academic disputation
	someone elected to honorary membership in an academy