Research-active faculty are encouraged to “buy down” their teaching responsibilities to two courses per academic year. Buydown typically requires payment of 10% of the academic-year salary from ...

In my CC system, faculty members can teach a 5-5 or a 4-4 load. If we choose the 4-4 load, we do service work in place of the 5th course. I'm in English, and I'm gratefully taking the 4-4 option, to ...

At a time when some colleges are freezing faculty hiring and asking professors to teach more, professors at Williams College will soon be able to teach a little less. Starting next fall, faculty ...

Ask faculty members in the country's universities what would motivate them to devote more time to research and you will hear one common answer: decrease present course loads and class sizes. Both ...