Proctor tells Next Wave Canada that she hears many complaints from
junior faculty members about the heavy teaching load (the university requires assistant professors to teach 5 courses per academic year), large class sizes, and extensive administrative duties early in their careers.
Not exact matches
So, as one
junior faculty member argued in a comment posted on the UTFA Web site, these areas are ripe for discussion even before holding a larger conversation
about lengthening the process.
As a
junior faculty member, he says, he published little and didn't worry
about advancing his career.
«This has been a gnawing problem for too long, and something should be done,» particularly
about the stagnant numbers of
junior women
faculty members.
In one department, for example, they discovered that although both male and female
junior faculty members had roughly 185 square meters of lab space, senior male
faculty members had
about 280 square meters, whereas their female counterparts had the same amount as their
juniors, according to unpublished charts assembled by the committee.
Scavenger hunts
about the
faculty or a Web page of pictures of staff
members from their
junior high days can bring people together as a team.