How Heavy Is That Teaching Load, Really?

George Leef

In today’s Pope Center piece,  Jay Schalin looks at the recent statement by the UNC system that appears to overstate the amount of teaching that professors actually do. He concludes that profs do considerably less and recommends that, as higher education (and much else in America) enters a period of austerity, colleges and universities will need to increase faculty teaching to lower costs.

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