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Issue date: 11/8/07 Section: News
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Associate Professor of German Roman Graf presented a report from the Educational Affairs Committee (EAC) that suggested new faculty workload guidelines be written.
"We want to propose teaching load guidelines in the spring," he said. "We encourage people to express concerns with teaching load changes. The faculty will not get to vote on the final recommendations."
Graf added that, under the proposed changes, professors might spend less time both in and out of class with students.
"Under new guidelines faculty may find relief in the number of students, contact hours or preparations they must do each year," he said.
President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz said the problems professors currently face with class size did not exist when the current guidelines were written.
"Forty-five students in a class did not exist before 1992-93 when the current guidelines were implemented," he said. "Since then, the number of students in a class has mushroomed."
The discussion then turned to a timetable for the new changes to go into effect, but Graf hesitated to give a time when faculty would see the new guidelines.
Liebowitz suggested that resource use varied by department but emphasized that certain departments used more resources than they should.
"If you're looking at which departments are usurping resources, I think it's something that EAC has not looked at and I wish they would," he said.
Some wondered how the College decided what type of faculty members to hire.
"The pool for term candidates is significantly weaker than for a tenure position," Charles A. Dana Professor of Political Science Murray Dry said. "What's the rationale for hiring for term positions as supposed to tenure positions?"
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