Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-31-2014
Abstract
In this piece, anthropologist John Ziker details the first stage of a study of faculty time allocation based on a self-monitoring survey instrument that uses time allocation reporting, a technique used by anthropologists in the field. The first phase of the study found that respondents—all professors at Boise State—spend a large amount of time in meetings and30 percent of their time doing administrative tasks unrelated to teaching and research. Faculty work well over a 40-hour work week, including putting in time off campus and during the weekends. And they spend a majority of time working alone. —Eds.
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Originally published in The Blue Review, an online journal of popular scholarship published by the Boise State University College of Social Sciences and Public Affairs. Provided under a Creative Commons BY-ND license. Details regarding the use of this work can be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/
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Publication Information
Ziker, John P.. (2014). "The Long, Lonely Job of Homo academicus: Focusing the Research Lens on the Professor's Own Schedule". The Blue Review, .
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