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Recent discussions of practices in higher education have tended toward muck-raking and self-styled exposure of cynical self-indulgence by faculty and administrators at the expense of students and their families, as usually occurs during periods of economic duress, rather than toward analytical studies designed to foster understanding This article looks briefly at some examples of this tendency and then offers an analytical approach to understanding faculty workloads and the ways of assessing and evaluating faculty work.
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Dennison, G.M. Faculty Workload: An Analytical Approach. Innov High Educ 37, 297–305 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10755-011-9211-y
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