JCE Online Journal of Chemical Education
 | Subscriptions  | Software Orders  | Support  | Contributors  | Advertisers  | 

JCE Print
   Current Issue
 Previous Issues
 Supplements
 Search JCE Index

JCE Digital Library
   DigiDemos
 QBank
 SymMath
 WebWare

JCE Software
   Latest Releases
 Software & Video
 Downloads
 Support

Only@JCE Online
   JCE Online Store
 JCE HS CLIC
 JCE Discussion Forums
   Biographical Snapshots
 ChemEd Resource Shelf
 Featured Molecules
 Hal's Picks
 Project Chemlab
 Reviewed WWW Sites
 "Web-Ed" Articles

About JCE
   Features
 Publications
 Operations
 Outreach
 Contact Us


  Home > JCE Print > Journal of Chemical Education > Issues > 2000  > December  >
Chemical Education Today
Letters
What Does It Mean to Be a Professor? (about J. Chem. Educ. 1999, 76, 1610-1611)
Frederick D. Tabbutt
3224 Cove Lane NW, Olympia, WA 98502
Cover
December 2000
Vol. 77 No. 12
p. 1559
Full Text
I find Robert Lichter's commentary concerning faculty requests for compensation for curricular development worrisome (J. Chem. Educ. 1999, 76, 1610). Worrisome because I believe it indicates that he is out of touch with the situation of many in the teaching population that he has been hired to assess. Lichter deems requests for salary to redesign a course or integrate an instrument into the curriculum, as opposed to a major curriculum development, crass and out of step with the traditional view of the college teacher who accepts curriculum development as part of the job. That is certainly the view I saw and embraced as an undergraduate and in my early teaching career. While these views continue today, I suspect that they are held more by faculty at more affluent colleges where nine-month salaries for senior faculty approach $100K. For faculty at less affluent two- and four-year institutions where salaries are considerably lower, the choice of how to spend a summer may, by necessity, be more tied to income than to educational innovation. I suspect that if the choice is between teaching summer school and undertaking curricular development on one's own time, the needs that accompany a single family income for many younger faculty may decide the issue.

Perhaps I am the one who is out of touch. I hope so.

See Author's Reply

More Information
*  Citation
 Tabbutt, Frederick D. J. Chem. Educ. 2000 77 1559.
*  Keywords
 Administrative Issues; Teaching / Learning Aids
*  History
 Created:
Last Updated:		 November 3, 2000
April 15, 2005
<< Previous Article Table of Contents Next Article >>
  Home > JCE Print > Journal of Chemical Education > Issues > 2000  > December  > Page 1559


Subscriptions
 Subscription Info
 Order Forms

JCE HS CLIC

Our Secondary School editors work hard to distill all the JCE materials to produce a fraction of particular interest to high school teachers. We call it CLIC.
 JCE HS CLIC

Contributions Welcome
JCE welcomes your submission
 Contributors' Corner

Advertisers
In recent years we have worked hard to better match our advertisers with our readers. When shopping for chemistry education materials, visit our advertisers' WWW sites first.
 Recent Advertisers

Be An Ambassador
Take JCE along on your outreach missions. Copies of the Journal, guest access to JCE Online, our publications catalog, and more are available for your participants.
 Outreach with JCE

Comments to
jceonline@chem.wisc.edu		 Copyright © Division of Chemical Education, Inc., American Chemical Society.
All rights reserved.