this is awesome (is it locked?): Colleges are calling off the deals that allowed many professors time out from teaching
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amanda jones (aka amanda)
Oct 19 '11, 13:25
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When Christopher P. Neck took a faculty job at Arizona State University two years ago, he says his department head promised he could teach just one course a semester. It would be a large class on management principles that met once a week and enrolled as many as 500 students.
But last year, with a new department chairman in place and budget cuts a consistent threat, Mr. Neck says Arizona State told him the deal was off. Not only did his new department head want him to teach two sections instead of one large course, creating more options for students and making it easier for the university to find classroom space, he also wanted Mr. Neck to teach a third class on management for nonbusiness majors. So Mr. Neck, an associate professor of management, went from teaching just once a week to teaching five days a week.
"They hired me to be a place kicker," he says, "and now they want me to be a linebacker."
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But in e-mail messages that Mr. Neck gave to The Chronicle, one administrator told Mr. Neck that the university now has an "increased eye on efficiency." The business dean put it even more bluntly: "The world has changed, in case you haven't noticed."
maybe college will become more affordable if professors teach.
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