Re: teaching loads and quality

["Michael N. Monce" <mnmon@CONNCOLL.EDU>]

On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, kforinas wrote:

> Through a deal with the trustees the administration here has been
> authorized to hire more full time positions but they have to be
> lectureship positions, not tenure track. Rick (or anyone else), I was
> wondering, if such a position was forced on you, what would you do, how
> would you put such a person to use? They will be expected to do some
> committee work but no research. I've thought of perhaps having this
> person coordinate the labs (and teach most of them). What would be an
> appropriate load of lab courses (one meeting at 3 contact hrs a week or
> 2 credit hrs)?


        If you don't mind me jumping in here...We have lecturers in use
across all our science departments.  They are regarded as full time
faculty and teach a full load as well as serve on committees.  They do not
have to pursue any scholarship.  If you are just instituting such
positions make sure they also have a promotion system for these people. In
our case, they can be promoted to senior lecturer status after 7 years
with an appropriate pay increase.  These are very valuable faculty
members, and care must be taken that their positions are not abused by the
administration as source of cheap labor.

                        Mike Monce
                        Connecticut College