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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Okay I'm a tenured prof at an R1 school. Not engineering. I do understand you have a lot of funding pressure to support PhD students.

I'm not sure I believe you are really a professor and if you are, it sounds like you have severely, severely not cracked the code of teaching. 20 hours a week of prep for one class? 20 hours is my total prep time for the YEAR for one class, and that includes updating all my materials, revising assignments, posting everything online, etc.

With all that funding it should also be easy to hire a TA to do the grading (I'm surprised your department/school doesn't do this automatically). If you're spending more than 5 hours per week in total on teaching (outside the classroom) as a tenure-track or tenured professor, that's shocking to me.[/quote]

I have tried to hire help. That is what is breaking me. HR is so broken at my school that I have been trying to hire a casual assistant since a July and it is still “processing”. I get a strict TA quota assigned by the school land no way to hire more. Definitely cannot use federal research money for that also. (Your tax dollars, not my slush fund, by law.). I agree none of it makes sense, but o feel like this has been the battle of my job.

Lovely for you that you can prep that little. My teaching assignments change every year. Not my choice but because the school is constantly redesigning the programs so my classes get eliminated and we are assigned to teach new things to cover new hot topics everyone wants now. Or the USNWR standards change and the school hustles to keep up. [/quote]

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