A Comment About
Anti-American, Foreign Donors Are Paying Off Our Profs. Shouldn’t We Address This?
March 25, 2011 - 12:31 pm
New Class Traitor
2011-03-29 16:25:31
I don’t know about profs. of “studies” programs, but the science and engineering profs I know all work WAY in excess of 40 hours/week (I’d say 60-ish is the norm). Typically, half to 2/3 of that time is spent on research/running their research group/mentoring graduate students/… while the rest is spent on undergraduate teaching, preparation for same, exam preparation, student office hours,…
Having adjuncts do the actual undergraduate teaching is much rarer than in the humanities. TAs are typically used for student lab sessions, grading homework, and the like – rarely for frontal instruction.
The few teaching-only science lecturers I know have unenviable statuses similar to those of adjuncts in the humanities.
