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<blockquote data-quote="Landifarne" data-source="post: 6758659" data-attributes="member: 6802264">As a high school teacher (physics and chemistry), for every hour I spend actively teaching students I spend one hour prepping, grading, fixing/fabricating equipment, responding to parents and cleaning. That equates to nearly 30 hours of instruction and 30 hours of ancillary work each week. I'm sure collegiate and university professors have a similar ratio.The part-time junior college professors and university lecturers are the ones with really screwed up jobs, as they have zero job security and make very little.At UCLA (which I'm familiar with, having been a student there and have a friend who was a principal researcher there for 20 years), tenured faculty teach for two quarters and have one quarter free of teaching dutiies. Summer comprises another free quarter. They teach two classes (4-5 hours each week, per class), making their jobs 50% teaching/50% research during their teaching quarters. They are also expected to spend 10% of their overall time performing departmental duties (committees, etc.)That all seems very reaosnable for a Tier-1 university, but I was disgusted to find that undergraduate fees accounted for 35% of UCLA's overall revenue stream, while undergraduate instruction only amounted to only 3.7% of its expenditures. Undergratuates were subsidizing everything else.That said, the tenured professors were generally abyssmal instructors, wheres the contract lecturers tended to be quite good.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Landifarne, post: 6758659, member: 6802264"] As a high school teacher (physics and chemistry), for every hour I spend actively teaching students I spend one hour prepping, grading, fixing/fabricating equipment, responding to parents and cleaning. That equates to nearly 30 hours of instruction and 30 hours of ancillary work each week. I'm sure collegiate and university professors have a similar ratio. The part-time junior college professors and university lecturers are the ones with really screwed up jobs, as they have zero job security and make very little. At UCLA (which I'm familiar with, having been a student there and have a friend who was a principal researcher there for 20 years), tenured faculty teach for two quarters and have one quarter free of teaching dutiies. Summer comprises another free quarter. They teach two classes (4-5 hours each week, per class), making their jobs 50% teaching/50% research during their teaching quarters. They are also expected to spend 10% of their overall time performing departmental duties (committees, etc.) That all seems very reaosnable for a Tier-1 university, but I was disgusted to find that undergraduate fees accounted for 35% of UCLA's overall revenue stream, while undergraduate instruction only amounted to only 3.7% of its expenditures. Undergratuates were subsidizing everything else. That said, the tenured professors were generally abyssmal instructors, wheres the contract lecturers tended to be quite good. [/QUOTE]

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