Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Faculty Load

  • Create better incentives for teaching larger classes
  • Evaluate load disparity taking into consideration out-of-class responsibilities or lack thereof
  • Increase teaching workload of all faculty
  • Institute “load banking” (where faculty teach overload for future paid leave) on a “one-for-one” basis
  • Have only part-time faculty or consultants teach continuing education courses
  • When classes are cancelled, have faculty “owe” that class in the future
  • Limit funds available for substitutes
  • Do not allow substitute instructors for the first day of absence
  • Eliminate substitutes and have faculty cover for each other
  • Limit release time
  • Introduce a self-funded faculty sabbatical program
  • Substantially curtail sabbatical replacements
  • Defer sabbaticals for one semester or more

“Reeling and writhing of course, to begin with,” the Mock Turtle replied, “and the different branches of arithmetic—ambition, distraction, uglification, and derision.”
- Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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