Many professors enjoy teaching, but hold their class load down to a level that lets them do their research. Others dislike teaching and let their graduate assistants and such teach as many classes as possible. IMHO, iit is better to accommodate the preferences of the faculty.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Wayne Bickerdike [[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2020 8:14 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: New Jersey Pleas for COBOL Coders for Mainframes Amid Coronavirus Pandemic Seems pretty usual for tenured professors to farm out teaching to locums and do "research". As for what they do on a sabbatical, research... On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 9:07 AM Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote: > My point is you seemed to be surprised by something that a faculty brat > should not have found unusual. > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf > of Phil Smith III <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2020 12:37 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: New Jersey Pleas for COBOL Coders for Mainframes Amid > Coronavirus Pandemic > > Seymour J Metz wrote: > > >It's not unusual for a tenured professor to take a sabbatical and teach > elsewhere. > > > > Um.no kidding. What's your point? > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Wayne V. Bickerdike ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
