Analyzing Faculty Workload
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: December 7, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 102
ISBN-13: 9780787999889
Subjects: Colleges of further education; Colleges of higher education; Administration - General; Education / Administration; Education / Teaching
First sentence: In 1991, then-governor Wilder admonished Virginia's public college and university presidents that teaching must be their top priority.
Description: The question being asked with increasing regularity is, just what do faculty members do? Studies of faculty workload have been commissioned in state after state. Taken together, the studies indicate that college faculty members are working harder than ever but are probably teaching less and are almost certainly having less contact with students, particularly undergraduates. This volume of New Directions for Institutional Research explores how the public discourse about faculty work might be improved and suggests how colleges and universities might document that work in a fashion that not only more faithfully describes what faculty do but also allows for reports that are more comprehensive and useful.