[Englecturers] Workload Committee

[englecturers at lists.ucr.edu]

Dear All,

I know what we need for the report, and my comment about 
administrators wanting a purely "descriptive" report was 
meant to be sarcastic.  I don't think submitting papers to be 
graded, or writing narratives recounting "a day in the life 
of a lecturer," would be appropriate for what we need here.  
What I need, and now have, is just a straightforward account 
of how many hours we spend doing our jobs.  What I still 
need, is an account of how many hours we spend doing that 
which is not our job --writing letters of recommendation and 
the like.  

I intend to write this report over the week-end, and it will 
problably spill over into next week.  After that, it's done 
simply because we don't have any more time.  I'll send 
everyone a copy, and hope that you will trust Ben, Linda, and 
me to do the final report ppropriately.  This report will 
then be put forward for a motion by the whole committee to 
vote on a workload reduction.  If the whole committee doesn't 
agree to our recommendations for a reduced workload, then 
Ben, Linda, and I will submit our own report.  Katherine, I 
believe, will sign on to our report, if need be, or write her 
own report in addition to ours recommending a workload 
reduction to seven courses.    I will let everyone know what 
happens.

Just a quick aside:  as a student of the post-modern I am 
charmed by the way the reponses to the listserve take on a 
life of their own -- but I am not so charmed by the 
realization that the listserve, following its own post-modern 
raison d'etre, seems to wander at will off the lecturers' 
listserve -- or am I being too paranoid here, the curse of a 
true modernist?

I greatly appreciate all your help.  Thank you.

yours in solidarity,

Stephanie