What happens when a faculty member who has a 100% teaching appointment gets a sponsored research project requiring a 20% time commitment but receives no reduction in teaching load?
Actually, if the sponsored research project is funded, the teaching appointment will have to be reduced to 80% (to accommodate the 20% appointment on the sponsored project), and the department head agrees to this reduction by signing the proposal approval form. The real point of the question presumably is not merely whether the department head will reduce the stated percentage on the appointment form but whether he or she will also reduce the number of classes taught or other workload. This is a matter to be negotiated with the department head at the time the proposal is submitted. Faculty members sometimes begin participating in sponsored research without reductions in the number of assigned classes. The additional load may seem unfair at first view, but one should remember that appointments in academic departments are intended to include some time for scholarship and research. Moreover, the department may assume in some cases that, with increasing experience, the faculty member will
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- What happens when a faculty member who has a 100% teaching appointment gets a sponsored research project requiring a 20% time commitment but receives no reduction in teaching load?
- Won’t this hurt research productivity because faculty will have to spend a lot more time teaching?
- What happens to any remaining balance on a research project?
