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Wednesday, January 13, 1982
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By Lori Stewcrt
Reductions in the NU budget may cut time and money
professors have for research and publishing, several Fngl
isli professors said recently.
Frederick Link, I-nglish Department chairman, said
putting more students in classes would be an easy way
to solve budget problems. Fewer teachers would then
have to teach more students.
However, teachers would also need more preparation
and grading time. Fvcn the addition of only two students
to a writting class could mean up to 25,000 extra words
a professor would have to read and grade, Link said.
If professors have less tiiuc available to do research,
research productivity or teaching quality could suffer,
he said .
The overall class load for I-nglish professors six
courses a year - has remained fairly constant over the past
few semesters, Link said.
Temporary teachers have been hired with emergency
funds allocated by the administration, he said. Hut those
funds may not always be available.
"To the extent that the teaching load of permanent
faculty is significantly increased by budget cuts or what
ever, productivity may suffer," Link said.
Teaching stressed
The Fnglish Depaitment is primarily a service one, and
the faculty members place more emphasis on teaching
than on research. Link said. The faculty members have
thus "accepted the burden"1 of teaching six courses a year
in order to keep classes small, he said.
Lirge classes are not suited to Fnglish courses, especial
ly writing ones, Link said. And the classrooms in
Andrews Hall, where Fnglish classes are held, are too small
to accommodate large classes.
Hut research still is important. Professors generally
publish results of their research in literary and scholarly
magazines, giving national exposure to the university.
because a university's reputation is based largely on its
graduate programs and the research being done by its fac
ulty, publishing research helps the university giin prest
ige, Link said.
Publishing is a condition of tenure, and "people pub
lish because they enjoy doing research and want to share
their discoveries," he said.
F.xpectations of how much research a professor can do
must be adjusted realistically to a department's budget,
Link said.
"Fverybody who does research will do more with more
time and money, "he said.
"Hut people who really care about research will do the
best they can with what they have. It will just take lon
ger," Link said.
Stephen Hehrendt, assistant Fnglish professor, said re
search is important because it helps keep professors'
minds fresh and "charged up."
Professors who present papers at conventions and
whose articles are published in journals also help give the
school a good image, he said.
Hut the conflict between the faculty's obligations to
provide classes for students and to do research is a pro
blem, he said.
Large classes
Fmcrgency class limits, which allow for two or three
more students than original limits did, will probably be
come permanent, he said. liach additional student re
quires a professor to devote more time to the class.
"It may only be a couple of hours at a shot, but that's
time you can't do something else," said Hehrendt, who
docs research on Hritish Romantic poets.
The university administration is trying to support
research, he said. Hut research is traditionally seen as
being dispensable when it becomes necessary to cut
corners, Hehrendt said.
James McShanc, professor of Fnglish, said doing res
earch is a way of "keeping the mind alive."
If a professor is not continuously learning, what he
teaches becomes stale, he said.
Less personal contact
McShanc, who does research in traditional literature
and 17th century poetry, said he was concerned that if
course loads increase, time available for both research and
for personal contact with students will decrease.
John Robinson, professor of Fnglish, said he also was
concerned that as professors teach more students, they
will have less time for research.
A professor who does research is usually more inlci
csted in his subject and a more exciting teacher, according
to Robinson.
Having a course load of four classes a year, like the pro
fessors at many Hig-Tcn universities do. would be desira
ble, he said.
Robinson, who does research on Fnglish drama, said
having more time for research would be a "a very positive
step."
(ierry Meiscls, interim dean of the College of Arts and
Sciences, said the administration understands the impor
tance of research and other creative activity to the Univer
sity's reputation and to the quality of teaching.
Meisels said he did not know whether budget cuts will
reduce the amount of time a professor will have to do
research, but said it may be a possiblity.
Where the cuts will come from has not been decided
yet, he said, and will depend on the recommendations of
each particular department.
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