Full-time tenure-track and tenured faculty members may request an unbalanced teaching load to maximize their research and scholarship or to facilitate department course offerings. With an unbalanced ...

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 ...

How many courses should professors teach? It’s an important topic, not just for faculty recruitment and retention, but for student learning and experience. So it’s a shame that we’ve been thinking ...

Carthage College’s full-time faculty members have overwhelmingly censured their president, John R. Swallow, and their provost/executive vice president for operations, David Timmerman, for increasing ...

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 ...

Management expert William G. Ouchi wants to let educators in on a secret: The key to improving student achievement is lightening teaching loads. Mr. Ouchi lays out that message in a new book, The ...

Abstract Recent increases in equine science programming at U.S. land-grant universities have heightened demand for instructional support, especially in lower-level, labor-intensive or specialty ...

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 ...

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 ...

The University of Wisconsin System had braced for a state budget cut. Instead, UW institutions are poised to get more money than they have in recent years — but the cash comes with some strings. One ...