I elaborated that faculty already have more-than-full-time jobs teaching
Even though I had a high school teacher for a mother, I didn't fully appreciate this until I taught full-time myself. Sure we "get summers off," but you know what I'm doing with mine? Professional development (learning differential calculus w/ my old roommate jethereal), cleaning and maintaining the lab (lab techs should be doing this but we don't have enough), fighting IT for computers that aren't 8+ year-old hand-me-downs, picking a new textbook, revising course syllabi yet again, learning how to teach w/ WebCT, and possibly working on a NASA grant (if they ever tell me whether I got it or not, but last year they funded around 2/3 of applicants and our grants officer told me mine was really good). That's "relaxation" for me.
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Date: 2007-06-06 02:35 am (UTC)Even though I had a high school teacher for a mother, I didn't fully appreciate this until I taught full-time myself. Sure we "get summers off," but you know what I'm doing with mine? Professional development (learning differential calculus w/ my old roommate