Trivia Tidbit of the Day: Part 930 -- Productivity & Higher Education. (Willisms.com)

__**Room For Improvement At The University of Texas at Austin**__-

An interesting new study out today highlights the vast disparities in teaching
and research at UT:

> Looking only at the UT Austin campus, if the 80 percent of the faculty with
the lowest teaching loads were to teach just half as much as the 20 percent
with the highest loads, and if the savings were dedicated to tuition
reduction, tuition could be cut by more than half (or, alternatively, state
appropriations could be reduced even more?by as much as 75 percent). Moreover,
other data suggest a strategy of reemphasizing the importance of the
undergraduate teaching function can be done without importantly reducing
outside research funding or productivity.

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> * 20 percent of UT Austin faculty are teaching 57 percent of student credit
hours. They also generate 18 percent of the campus?s research funding. This
suggests that these faculty are not jeopardizing their status as researchers
by assuming such a high level of teaching responsibility.

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> * Conversely, the least productive 20 percent of faculty teach only 2
percent of all student credit hours and generate a disproportionately smaller
percentage of external research funding than do ...

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