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08/25/08 PHD comic: 'How Professors spend their time'

 
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Aug26-08, 07:30 AM   #1
 
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08/25/08 PHD comic: 'How Professors spend their time'


Piled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham
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title: "How Professors spend their time" - originally published 8/25/2008 For the latest news in PHD Comics, CLICK HERE!



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Aug30-08, 08:22 PM   #2
 
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Way too true...almost anyway. Departments expect you to only spend about 5% of your time on service though...of course, if you're spending 70 hours a week on research, which they consider to be 70% of your time, and since they count it all by percent effort, that would mean about 25 hours a week on teaching and 5 hours a week sitting on committees.

One university I worked at actually required faculty to fill out time sheets. They didn't like me when I asked why there were no weekends on the time sheets. They don't want us to actually admit we work more than 40 hours a week.
Sep2-08, 04:30 AM   #3
 
Reading this comic I actually started wondering how these number come to be and wanted to read the survey cited in the comic. Couldn't find it, though. Anyone having a link to where I can get it (free or paid or whatever)?
Sep12-08, 02:23 AM   #4
 
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08/25/08 PHD comic: 'How Professors spend their time'


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Reading this comic I actually started wondering how these number come to be and wanted to read the survey cited in the comic. Couldn't find it, though. Anyone having a link to where I can get it (free or paid or whatever)?
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Sep13-08, 12:53 AM   #5
 
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I think Jochen was asking for the "Higher Education Institute Survey."

Maybe he/she could try asking the author of the comic where he got it.
Sep13-08, 05:02 AM   #6
 
Exactly. As usual I was just too stupid to find the place where I could contact Jorge. Thanks.
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