Research-active faculty are encouraged to “buy down” their teaching responsibilities to two courses per academic year. Buydown typically requires payment of 10% of the academic-year salary from ...

At a time when some colleges are freezing faculty hiring and asking professors to teach more, professors at Williams College will soon be able to teach a little less. Starting next fall, faculty ...

The Governor of Ohio, John Kasich, faced with a massive looming budget deficit ($8-billion), has come forth with a budget that is, by staid Ohio standards, rather innovative, calling for selling ...

In my CC system, faculty members can teach a 5-5 or a 4-4 load. If we choose the 4-4 load, we do service work in place of the 5th course. I'm in English, and I'm gratefully taking the 4-4 option, to ...

In my CC system, faculty members can teach a 5-5 or a 4-4 load. If we choose the 4-4 load, we do service work in place of the 5th course. I'm in English, and I'm gratefully taking the 4-4 option, to ...

ASHEVILLE – When a Robbinsville plant needed help eliminating a manufacturing bottleneck, a faculty member and students from Western Carolina University's engineering school went to the plant to look ...

There is no policy on teaching load that applies absolutely throughout the University; hence there are differences among academic divisions and among departments. Within academic divisions and ...

About one-fifth of professors at the University of Texas at Austin carry a majority of the teaching load and generate 18 percent of research funding, suggesting that UT could step up teaching ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Michael Nietzel, former college president, writes on higher education Their “American Higher Education Restoration Act” takes aim ...