Community college faculty should not be teaching heavier loads than their colleagues in the 4 year colleges. It's disrespectful, unfair and is destroying morale.
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Christa Baiada
10 years ago
BMCC Associate Professor, English
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Benita Noveno
10 years ago
Lecturer, English Dept, BMCC
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David Towber
10 years ago
The days of speeding up the conveyor belt and uping quotas ended last century! Shame on CUNY
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Stephen Leberstein, New York, NY
10 years ago
Shamefully, CUNY runs on sweated labor.
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Felipe Pimentel
10 years ago
The teaching load at CUNY Community Colleges, CC, (5/4 three credit courses per academic year) is absurd. CUNY expect that CC faculty publish and do serious academic scholarship in addition to teaching.
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Ana Mora
10 years ago
LaGuardia Community College.lecturer
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Arlene Spinner
10 years ago
With the amount of added college wide responsibility, and support we need to offer our students as a full time tenured professor at a Laguardia Community College and I find that I am working late into the night and most weekends. The workload disparity between CC and 4-year colleges is unfair. We offer so much to our students yet my own children are cheated out of my time.
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Habiba Boumlik
10 years ago
Associate Professor
LaGuardia Community College
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Jean Mills
10 years ago
Shuffle those funds around, just like they did at Hunter and give us a 3/3 load, please. You know you can do it. Why not be on the right side of history in this?
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Alexander Schlutz
10 years ago
The current 4/3 teaching load makes it impossible for CUNY faculty to adequately and sustainably balance research, teaching, and service. It is detrimental both to faculty members' ability to research and publish and to their ability to support their many students inside and outside the classroom. As a consequence, faculty and students are short-changed alike. If CUNY truly desires to attract and retain the faculty our students deserve and to build the vibrant academic community we all need, a reduction in the faculty teaching load is absolutely essential.
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Erica Burleigh
10 years ago
Assistant Professor,
John Jay College
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James Davis
10 years ago
Professor of English and PSC Chapter Chair, Brooklyn College
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Jesse Schwartz
10 years ago
Assistant Professor of English
LaGuardia Community College
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Samuel Graff
10 years ago
I enjoy teaching but when you have to teach 12 hours some semesters it is very difficult to give each student the attention they deserve both in and out of class. An annualized work load of 18 hours is reasonable. In fact, some CUNY senior colleges manage to find ways to reduce the contractual work load of 21 hours thereby implicitly recognizing that such a load is unworkable.
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Sharon Utakis
10 years ago
Professor & Chapter Chair, Bronx Community College
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Andrew Majeske
10 years ago
It is long past time to rectify the obvious unfairness of this situation. Our professors and our students deserve better.
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Matthew Perry
10 years ago
The current workload makes it impossible to provide all students' the attention that they need and deserve.
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Tim McComrack
10 years ago
We claim we are a world class research institution, yet with a teaching load of 21 hours at John Jay College (higher than any other CUNY senior college), we have no time to do research. And teaching load is related to class size. At John Jay, both our first-year writing and general education courses are above the national average for public colleges and universities. Four full courses in Pathways means 150 students in one semester. Quality teaching and learning is impossible at those numbers.
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Sanjana Nair
10 years ago
Should a 3rd grade teacher have less students and make more money than a tenured CUNY Professor?
Community college faculty should not be teaching heavier loads than their colleagues in the 4 year colleges. It's disrespectful, unfair and is destroying morale.
BMCC Associate Professor, English
Lecturer, English Dept, BMCC
The days of speeding up the conveyor belt and uping quotas ended last century! Shame on CUNY
Shamefully, CUNY runs on sweated labor.
The teaching load at CUNY Community Colleges, CC, (5/4 three credit courses per academic year) is absurd. CUNY expect that CC faculty publish and do serious academic scholarship in addition to teaching.
LaGuardia Community College.lecturer
With the amount of added college wide responsibility, and support we need to offer our students as a full time tenured professor at a Laguardia Community College and I find that I am working late into the night and most weekends. The workload disparity between CC and 4-year colleges is unfair. We offer so much to our students yet my own children are cheated out of my time.
Associate Professor LaGuardia Community College
Shuffle those funds around, just like they did at Hunter and give us a 3/3 load, please. You know you can do it. Why not be on the right side of history in this?
The current 4/3 teaching load makes it impossible for CUNY faculty to adequately and sustainably balance research, teaching, and service. It is detrimental both to faculty members' ability to research and publish and to their ability to support their many students inside and outside the classroom. As a consequence, faculty and students are short-changed alike. If CUNY truly desires to attract and retain the faculty our students deserve and to build the vibrant academic community we all need, a reduction in the faculty teaching load is absolutely essential.
Assistant Professor, John Jay College
Professor of English and PSC Chapter Chair, Brooklyn College
Assistant Professor of English LaGuardia Community College
I enjoy teaching but when you have to teach 12 hours some semesters it is very difficult to give each student the attention they deserve both in and out of class. An annualized work load of 18 hours is reasonable. In fact, some CUNY senior colleges manage to find ways to reduce the contractual work load of 21 hours thereby implicitly recognizing that such a load is unworkable.
Professor & Chapter Chair, Bronx Community College
It is long past time to rectify the obvious unfairness of this situation. Our professors and our students deserve better.
The current workload makes it impossible to provide all students' the attention that they need and deserve.
We claim we are a world class research institution, yet with a teaching load of 21 hours at John Jay College (higher than any other CUNY senior college), we have no time to do research. And teaching load is related to class size. At John Jay, both our first-year writing and general education courses are above the national average for public colleges and universities. Four full courses in Pathways means 150 students in one semester. Quality teaching and learning is impossible at those numbers.
Should a 3rd grade teacher have less students and make more money than a tenured CUNY Professor?