This article explores the importance of giving academics the space to be creative in developing new teaching materials in the context of a government drive to increase the quality of the student experience, and what this means for "academic staff development". Academics who have engaged with a UK Centre for Excellence in Teaching and…

The Rostrum is a quarterly publication of the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges. The following articles are included in this issue: (1) The Need for full Time faculty (again) by Jane Patton; (2) Reading May Be the Key to Unlocking Basic Skills Success by Janet Fulks; (3) Diversity Institute on the Right Track by Beth Smith; (4)…

This monograph provides a portrait of non-tenure-track faculty, describes studies of their experiences, and proposes plans of action. Much of the research, particularly early on, tried to provide a picture and description of this faculty that have been largely invisible for years. Therefore, "Portrait of Non-Tenure-Track Faculty" focuses on the…

Professors create their careers through three forms of work: research, teaching, and service. Teaching and research are well defined in most professors' careers and in higher education at large. However, faculty service is nebulous. In this article, the authors define service as faculty members' contributions to (a) the governance, management, and…

A telephone survey was conducted to determine the number of lecture hours per week assigned by public two-year colleges as a normal full-time faculty workload. Telephone calls were made to the Academic Collective Bargaining Information Service, to the state administrators for two-year colleges, and to the chief academic offices of individual…

This report addresses some questions about the role of college faculty in distance education in the fall term of 1998 using data from the 1999 National Study of Postsecondary Faculty (NSOPF:99) for 960 institutions and 28,704 faculty members. In NSOPF:99, instructional faculty and staff at two- and four-year institutions were asked questions about…

Reviews legal and policy issues surrounding faculty workload and compensation. Regarding workload, addresses American Association of University Professors (AAUP) policy, how faculty workload is defined, research on faculty workload, state laws, case law, and "hot" issues (such as distance education, the increase in contingent labor, and…

This report presents findings from the Paperwork Substudy of the Study of Personnel Needs in Special Education (SPeNSE), which explores issues of teacher quality. In the Paperwork Substudy, researchers surveyed a subsample of special education teachers (n=972) who completed the original SPeNSE interview to collect more detailed information about…

This report responds to a request from the Maryland legislature for information on the instructional workload of faculty in the University System of Maryland (USM), especially at the University of Baltimore, the University of Maryland (Baltimore County), and the University of Maryland (College Park). Following an introduction, the report…

The City University of New York (CUNY) measures teaching workload according to credit hours taught by faculty. This information, as well as other personnel and faculty workload data, are recorded in CUNY's central administration's computerized City University Personnel System (CUPS). Each campus is required to submit electronically data on faculty…

Discusses the advantages and disadvantages of, and alternatives to, the dual principalship, in which one principal runs two schools. Notes the heavy strain experienced by dual principals and the ways they ease the workload, lists qualifications for dual principals, and offers four tips to help make a dual principalship work. (RW)

Recounts experiences of the first year of teaching in a rural public university, after graduate study in Philadelphia. States that course loads are heavy because departments are small, and the English department teaches literature but also service courses. Finds the greatest difficulty to be in teaching students who just do not read. (PA)

Describes a method for evaluating faculty workload (measured by time spent in teaching, research, and service) by using process control charts with supplementary run rules that can identify potential overload or underload. (SK)

In the nurse practitioner-managed primary health care clinic at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, flexible faculty workloads have been established to facilitate faculty practice at the clinic. (Author/JOW)

Studied how information about faculty workload, salary, and benefits can be used to improve academic quality through a questionnaire completed by 67% of the 182 faculty members surveyed. A major finding was that most of the faculty did not believe they were fairly compensated, and half sought additional professional income. (SLD)