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Since teaching may take time away from research needed to establish an academic reputation, the report also recommends allowing Faculty members to take two successive semesters with an overload of teaching, giving them one semester with a light teaching load to concentrate on research and writing...
Everybody worries about how big the tax load is. Isn't anybody worrying about how badly the tax load is distributed? Doesn't anyone think an unjust and unsound tax system might be the cause rather than the result of an economy sick with inflation and unemployment...
...professor teach students. To a large extent, professors work out their own responsibilities. "Full professors are generally expected to negotiate with the chairman," said Dwight H. Perkins, chairman of the Economics Department, many of whose professors do consulting work for outside firms. He added that a typical teaching load for a full-time professor is two full courses a year...
...public record of teaching agreements between professors and the University, and department chairmen are reluctant to discuss individual cases. The course catalog lists which professors teach what courses; but because some professors are only hired to teach half time, it is difficult to determine who teaches a full load...
...solution is not to reduce Social Security benefits but to slow their great growth, permitting private pensions and personal savings to carry more of the load. That will indeed occur, Feldstein is convinced, "because politicians and union members will recognize that Social Security is becoming a lousy deal for people who pay into the system today." True, it is now a good deal for beneficiaries because they paid in low taxes years ago and are now collecting hefty benefits. But Social Security taxes are scheduled to rise so fast - from a top of $1,071 this year...