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The article identifies problems with the ways in which various U.S. colleges and universities quantify and evaluate faculty workload. While these measurement systems often focus on number of classes taught, grant money, and student evaluation scores, the author notes that many professors engage in field work, the supervising of graduate student dissertations, and research when not teaching. U.S. lawmakers' interest in faculty productivity is explained while their methods for measuring it are criticized. Emphasis is given to the measurement of productivity at the University of Texas.

The article provides insights on ways to eliminate the privilege payoff or inequitable workloads in universities and colleges in the U.S. Topics discussed include the tendency of some white professors to leave the mentoring and developmental nurturing to minority, female and non-tenured teachers, importance of creating dashboards to provide transparency on service, teaching and research duties, and the benefit of offering professional-development webinars to discuss plans to address inequities.

The article deals with the job-related challenges being faced by associate professors in the U.S. who face excess service load. It discusses Paula Rabinowitz' review essay "The Associate-Professor Trap." It also describes the differences between the job of an associate professor after tenure and that of a tenure-track assistant professor, as well as ways to avoid the associate-professor trap.

The article explores various efforts by education groups in America to pressure accreditors to consider the conditions faced by adjunct, or part-time, professors at two-year and four-year colleges as part of the accreditation process. Particular focus is given to the leadership role taken by University of Southern California associate professor Adrianna Kezar in such efforts and her work with the Delphi Project on the Changing Faculty and Student Success research project. Statistics related to the percentage of college classes taught by adjunct and tenure track professors are examined and issues related to higher educational quality are explored.

The article discusses teaching workloads for college professors in the U.S. and examines how university budget shortfalls have forced college administrations to require professors to spend more time teaching courses rather than engaging in research or special projects. Particular focus is paid to topics including the course scheduling responsibilities of college department deans, an effort to standardize teaching loads at the Pennsylvania State University by president Graham Spanier, and a lawsuit filed by professor Christopher P. Neck against Arizona State University regarding his teaching contract. Comments from University of Nevada at Las Vegas dean Paul Jarley, George Mason University professor Amit Dutta, and Penn State department head Robert C. Marshall are also included.

The article discusses associate professors in the U.S., focusing on their overall happiness and attitudes related to their positions. The article cites a study conducted by the Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education at Harvard University which provides statistics related to the job satisfaction of associate professors in areas such as leadership, collaboration, and workload. The article explores the tenure track process for college teachers, notes that few personal and professional services are offered to mid-career professors, and provides comments from various associate professors including Judith C. Amburgey-Peters, Karen L. Kelsky, and Margaret Soltan.

The article presents a profile of Cleveland State University in Cleveland, Ohio and examines the efforts of university president Ronald M. Berkman to outline a plan for growth which focuses on the economic needs of the region and emphasizes undergraduate education. It examines how reduced U.S. federal and state funding for higher education has impacted the research agenda of the school's faculty and discusses changes to the expectations that are placed on the professors in terms of their class workload and research responsibilities. Other topics include undergraduate graduation rate at the school and comments from provost Geoffrey Mearns and vice president for research and graduate studies George E. Walker.

The article discusses higher education in Egypt and examines ways in which democratic reforms in the country could lead to stronger relationships between U.S. and Egyptian universities. It overviews the experiences of American professor Jerry W. Leach in his efforts to coordinate and develop relationships with Egyptian public universities and provides his comments regarding the academic restrictions imposed on universities by the Egyptian secret police, or mukhabarat. It also profiles the Fulbright scholarship commission in Egypt headed by Bruce A. Lohof, discusses ways in which U.S. universities could help with the lack of Arab journalist training that exists in Egypt, and provides comments from think tank director Jon B. Alterman on the working conditions of Egyptian college teachers.

In this article the author presents a description of his beliefs regarding the economic conditions and job responsibilities of adjunct professors at U.S. colleges. He explores the time involved in the creation of the syllabus and learning activities that are necessary for course design, examines the limited economic benefits of teaching a single course as a graduate student, and criticizes the corporatization of U.S. universities and their treatment of adjunct faculty. He also chronicles his experience of teaching literature and composition as an adjunct professor and presents suggestions for adjunct teachers on how to function handle stress while employed as part-time college teachers.

The article discusses the differing demands on researchers at both teaching-centered colleges and research institutions. Although faculty at the former have more teaching responsibilities, their time to devote to research is seen as roughly comparable to that of faculty at large universities, because the latter have to prepare grant proposals, manage laboratories, and oversee graduate students and postdoctoral researchers. Furthermore, the teaching that researchers from smaller schools must do is seen as better preparing them for presenting and interacting at academic conferences and the like.

The article presents the author's thoughts on academic careers in U.S. higher education and the influence of publishing on a professor's success. The author recommends that graduating students who are considering an academic career take a year off and work as an editorial assistant before continuing on to graduate school. She notes that this will help students understand professors' time and effort spent on teaching versus publishing. She comments on the information gained and the connections made from working within the publishing field. In conclusion she notes that time spent working for a publisher will make life as an academic more manageable.

The article discusses how some officials at universities and colleges in the U.S. are encouraging their professors to take a more active role in raising money for their institutions. According to the article professors often resist requests for help from an institutions fund-raising office, because they believe it is not part of their job description. The article asserts that while professors are reluctant to participate in fund-raising activities, many school officials believe that professors are the best suited candidates to raise money, because they are the closest university employees to the students and they have a better understanding of how students will benefit from charitable gifts.

The article discusses relations between U.S. university and college administrators and faculty, proposing a program to have administrators and faculty switch roles. Topics include faculty interactions with students, the need for administrators to engage in retention of faculty, and the workloads of faculty and administrators.

The author discusses potential ethical problems with the use of the plagiarism-detection service TurnItIn by college teachers. Topics include the relation of the service to academic-integrity policies, a lawsuit against TurnItIn parent company iParadigms LLC in relation to fair use of student assignments, and the role of the service in lessening professors' workloads.

The article discusses the report "The Carnegie Unit: A Century-Old Standard in a Changing Education Landscape" by the organization Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching on the Carnegie Unit in U.S. higher education. Topics include the meaning of credit hours for faculty workloads, the use of the credit hour for the work of registrars and bursars, and the use of the Carnegie Unit for federal student aid calculation.

Reports on the results of a survey conducted by the researchers at the Higher Education Research Institute of the University of California at Los Angeles. Findings in the report,'The American College Teacher'; Statistics about the United State's college professors and their views about the goals and stresses of academic life; Aging of the faculty; Others.

The article presents a survey involving the number of cases of job sharing in universities and colleges in the U.S. The author mentioned that job sharing was fostered by affirmative-action requirements. There were also concern over the details of job sharing such teaching load, division of college responsibilities, and how teachers qualify fringe benefits.

The author discusses his decision to reduce his teaching work at a U.S. university, arguing that pay for faculty is insufficient given the long hours and amount of work required of college teachers. Topics addressed include the author's experience as a full-time instructor in journalism and history courses, demands on college professors to produce research and perform administrative duties, and pay disparity between the private sector and public universities and colleges.

The article discusses the challenges single U.S. college professors face in starting and maintaining romantic relationships due to their workload. Topics discussed include the challenges faced by single gay college professors, the challenges faced by single women college professors, and the experiences of professors including Abbe Depretis of Temple University, Brian Clardy of Murray State University, and Tikia K. Hamilton of Princeton University.

The author looks at her experiences working as an adjunct professor in U.S. higher education. The article discusses the workload, pay, and treatment of part-time instructors and presents information on volunteer work for adjuncts. The author also presents responses from readers on their own personal experiences as adjunct teachers.

The article focuses on the management of state universities and colleges in the United States as of April 24, 1972. The article looks at the results of a government audit of California state universities by Governor Ronald Regan. The audit focused on the management of academic departments, educational costs, and minimum teaching requirements for faculty. The article describes conflict between auditors and university faculty over potential increases in teaching requirements.

The article, part 2 of a series about careers in community colleges, focuses the typical demands of being a teacher and researcher based in a U.S. community college. The author looks at the teaching workload at a two-year community college, the expectation to participate in professional-development activities, as well as the possibility of achieving tenure. Also discussed are the career prospects of being hired at a research university after teaching at a community college.

The article presents a discussion of ways in which college teachers and administrators in the U.S. faced criticism regarding their salaries, workload, and the quality of higher education during the 2010-2011 academic year. It presents comments from former University of Arizona president Robert N. Shelton regarding his decision to resign, overviews plans by California Governor Jerry Brown to reduce college president pay in the state, and discusses the book "Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses" by Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa.

The article present selected quotes from the journal's online blog, discussing topics such as the rhetoric of the 2008 U.S. Presidential election, college professor workloads, and institutional hypocrisy with the "Minnesota Review."

This article examines efforts by the American Federation of Teachers to address the academic staffing crisis in American universities and colleges. The group is mounting a legislative and lobbying effort called the Faculty and College Excellence campaign. In 2007 only 30 percent of professors in America work full time, on the tenure track or with tenure. The union is asking legislators in each state to commit money to establish a different staffing ratio of three full-time, tenure track professors for every part-time professor. The union is also asking state lawmakers to appropriate money to raise the pay of part-timers until it is equal, course for course, to that of full-timers.

Reports on a panel of female scholars at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association, which discussed issues facing women faculty and their many responsibilities at home and on the job. How these responsibilities slow down professional advancement; Suggestion that colleges should allow for more time to accomplish tasks and receive tenure.

Reports on the United States Supreme Court ruling that an Ohio law barring collective bargaining on the issue of faculty workload is constitutional. Lawsuit initiated by the American Association of University Professors; Rejection of the October 1998 ruling of the Ohio Supreme Court that stated that the law violated both federal and state Constitutions; Ohio's court to have final ruling on whether the law violates the state Constitution; Other information.

Presents a chart showing the workloads of university faculty in the United States in 1989 and 1990.

Refers to the efforts of many American states to consider laws for regulating faculty workload. Law to increase teaching time; Reactions of professors. INSET: Higher-education trends and indicators..

Reports on the impact of the financial crisis in higher education on faculty workloads in the United States.

The article offers news briefs related to college teachers in the U.S. Representative Pete Turnham during a budget hearing has asked college administrators on the work schedules of professors as well as their teaching incentives. Representative Carl Parker, chairman of the Senate Education Committee has introduced a bill that would reward funds to universities and colleges that assign tenured faculty members to freshmen and sophomore-level courses.

The article reports developments related to higher education in the U.S. A University of Michigan administrator has been charged by police with shooting a colleague to death in a dispute over a job performance evaluation. The Warner Cable Corp. and the American Broadcasting Co. have reached an out-of-court agreement permitting cable television broadcasts of five Ohio State University football games. The 31 senior public colleges and universities in Texas have been directed to submit annual reports on faculty workload.

Several brief news items are presented on events occurring on U.S. college and university campuses. The faculty of Stanford University has approved new disciplinary guidelines for tenured and nontenured professors. The Los Angeles Community College established stricter work rules for its faculty. A student exchange program between Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville and the University of Missouri-St. Louis is being planned.

The article reports that the American Association of University Professors has warned state legislatures and other "external agencies" not to establish workload requirements for college and university teachers. The association said that mandated workloads often ignore the complicated professional criteria by which appropriate academic judgment are made.

The article reports on the recommendations made by state auditors concerning the University of California. Faculty members should devote an average of nine hours a week to their teaching duties. Major research libraries should be maintained only at the Berkeley and Los Angeles units. The state subsidy for the University of California Press should be eliminated.