What I Do With My Time
The Chronicle of Higher Education is running a story about faculty productivity, questioning the idea that professors aren't earning their salaries by contributing substantially to their students' education. It's accompanied by the schedules of a few faculty at UTexas. I've looked over those schedules, and was struck: none of them even begin to resemble mine. Most don't start til 8 am, and often end by 4 or 5. Most are on two or three committees at most. And most have few grants and few research assistants. So I figured, why not lay it all out there? Here are my statistics-- you go right ahead and calculate my "value-added." What the university's numbers show ('10-11 academic year): Total course sections taught: 2 (the other 2 were 'bought out' with a William T Grant Scholars award) Total class enrollment: 12 graduate students Research grants: $1.6 million Annual salary: $72,000 (9 months) What the numbers don't show: (1) Independent ...