Which is why I like the word pro bono--for the common good. When students have a project they get their teeth into it's very rewarding; other times it's a drag because some are doing it because they see it as a plus mark on their grad school application--a hoop to jump through but they could care less about the hoop.
But all in all, it's rewarding work on the balance side, even if draining; and even if the students never go on in school past their BA they have an insight into the "process" that they could not otherwise have received; and, if they do go on, they are a leg up on those who have not participated in the process, or who only did grunt work but got on a pub author list. However, this year I mentored 9 students; 7 for both semesters. I am so drained. It would be nice to have some compensation (I prefer accumulating units towards reassigned time) and recognition of how hard the work is. All of our honors students must have an official mentoring relationship and they pay tuition for those units. In a private school where the students are paying tuition for those units it seems to me the university is using us in a big way. I provided, over the academic year, 16 students times various amounts of units (not all took 3 units) worth of tuition income for the university. I would love to eventually have it accumulate towards reassigned time--when I can devote myself to research a bit more, with more student research assistants :) Annette Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D. Professor, Psychological Sciences University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> ________________________________ From: Helweg-Larsen, Marie [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 11:14 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE:[tips] Research mentoring compensation Mentoring independent research is what we do – an explicit expectations of our employment. So I wouldn’t say we do it “for free” any more than we do all the other things we do for free: service on committees, publish papers, give talks, attend conferences, teach, write letters of recommendation, etc. etc. It is just part of the job. Marie **************************************************** Marie Helweg-Larsen, Ph.D. Department Chair and Associate Professor of Psychology Kaufman 168, Dickinson College Carlisle, PA 17013, office (717) 245-1562, fax (717) 245-1971 Office hours: Mon & Wed 2-3:30 http://users.dickinson.edu/~helwegm/index.html **************************************************** From: Marc Carter [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 12:22 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE:[tips] Research mentoring compensation We get $100 a semester for independent-study sorts of things -- when times are good. Right now in this belt-tightened world we're in, we do them for free... We do have a course on the books that we generally offer yearly (depending on the crop of students we get) in which students do individual research, but it's for our better students. m -- Marc Carter, PhD Associate Professor and Chair Department of Psychology College of Arts & Sciences Baker University -- ________________________________ From: Annette Taylor [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2010 4:07 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] Research mentoring compensation Does your institution offer compensation for mentoring independent research/study students? If so, how? Most of our faculty carry several students a year pro-bono but we are about used up and want to know what other institutions. I tried to google this but it's not something that generally appears on websites. Annette Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D. 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